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Feral Interactive to livestream Dawn of War III on Linux the day before release

By Liam Dawe,
On June 7th at 5PM UTC (6PM BST) Feral Interactive will be livestreaming the Dawn of War III port on Linux. This is the first time the public will see the game on Linux, so it's pretty exciting.

Breaking Point, an Arma 3 mod is moving to Unreal Engine 4 with Kickstarter, Linux & Vulkan planned

By Liam Dawe,
Breaking Point is an online survival game that blends survival realism with the gameplay of a modern military shooter. It was previously an Arma 3 mod, but now they're moving to Unreal Engine 4 with a Kickstarter and they plan Linux support.

Early thoughts on Ravenfield, the single-player Early Access FPS

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to GOL follower 'archtoasty', I have been able to check out Ravenfield, the new battlefield-like single-player FPS that's now in Early Access.

Shotgun Farmers, a totally hilarious FPS where your bullets grow the guns is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
In Shotgun Farmers, your bullets actually grow additional guns and it's so weird it works. Been having an absolute blast with it!

Micro Machines World Series is being ported to Linux by Virtual Programming

By Liam Dawe,
It's now confirmed that Micro Machines World Series is coming to Linux and Virtual Programming are behind the port this time.

Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II, a fantastic point & click drama

By Liam Dawe,
Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II released for Linux recently, but sadly it got a little buried in my inbox. It's an interesting mix of a visual novel with a point & click adventure and I took a look.

The videos from the Khronos UK Vulkan event are now online

By Liam Dawe,
For those who've been waiting to watch the videos from the UK Vulkan event, you will be pleased to know that the videos are now up on Youtube. This includes the videos featuring Feral Interactive and Croteam.

Zombasite: Orc Schism expansion announced, scheduled for sometime this summer

By Liam Dawe,
Zombasite: Orc Schism is a newly announced expansion to the action RPG Zombasite, which isn't bad at all and this expansion will add quite a bit of content.

Some thoughts on 'Trigger Time', a story-driven top-down shooter featuring a gravity gun

By Liam Dawe,
I took a look at Trigger Time, a story-driven top-down shooter that released with Linux support this month and it went under the radar.

GOG adds a bunch of NEO GEO classics, some have Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have just added 15 NEO GEO classic titles and some of them have Linux support, here's a run-down for you.

The slides for the Vulkan presentations from Feral Interactive, Croteam and more are now up

By Liam Dawe,
Recently Feral Interactive, Croteam and others spoke at an event in the UK about Vulkan. The slides are now available, but the videos aren't up yet.

Pyre from Supergiant Games is coming to Linux, should be a day-1 release

By Liam Dawe,
Pyre, the next game from Transistor developer Supergiant Games is coming to Linux! The port is being done by Ethan Lee and it should see a day-1 Linux release.

The weekly GamingOnLinux versus Feral Interactive events will return with Dawn of War III

By Liam Dawe,
Something I hinted at recently was that the weekly GamingOnLinux versus Feral Interactive weekly events would return. I am pleased to confirm they will with Dawn of War III!

Wine Staging 2.9 released with improved support for anti-cheat and DRM

By Liam Dawe,
Sounds like this Wine Staging release is a very interesting one, as it comes with improved support for anti-cheat and DRM.

Taking a trip through Hell in 'Pinstripe', an adventure game not to be missed

By Liam Dawe,
Pinstripe is an adventure game that sees you venturing through Hell to rescue your daughter. It was created by one man and it's damn impressive.

Control a defective spaceship in space survival game 'Deep Sixed' now on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Sixed is a space survival game where you're given control of a defective spaceship with a mission to explore a large nebula, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it turns out.

Slime-san, an incredibly fast-paced platformer that takes place inside a worm

By Liam Dawe,
A bit overdue, but today I checked out Slime-san, an incredibly fast-paced platformer with a unique visual style. Can you escape the worm?

Questioning my life choices playing 'Grab the Bottle'

By Liam Dawe,
Grab the Bottle from developer Kamina Dimension is a really weird snake-like game about some weird mutant person with an extending arm.

Shadow of Mordor on AMD Ryzen CPU suffers from a performance hit due to non-optimal thread scheduling

By ghem,
While doing some comparative benchmarks between my RX 470 and GTX 1060 on a Ryzen 1700 CPU and an i7-2700k CPU, I encountered odd behaviour with Shadow of Mordor.

Stardock CEO asking to see interest in Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation on Linux with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation will come to Linux if Stardock see enough requests for it. The CEO of Stardock has requested to see how much interest there is.