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Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Divinity: Original Sin is one game that the open source Mesa drivers currently cannot run without hacks, but it looks like the Mesa team has been testing it.

Multiple statistics have shown Linux market-share doing better than ever

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for Linux fans, as multiple big websites showing off statistics have shown Linux is on the rise!

Join me tonight at 8:30PM UTC for some Portal 2 live

By Liam Dawe,
Tonight for your amusement I shall be attempting to play some Portal 2 live on Twitch. I hate Samsai for making me do this.

99Vidas, a fun-looking beat 'em up, is now available

By BTRE,
If you’ve been feeling like fighting hordes of goons alone or with friends, the new beat ‘em up 99Vidas might be right up your alley. It released late last month with day-1 Linux support.

If you act fast you can grab a key for the demo of Disgaea 2 and it runs on Linux already

By Liam Dawe,
A GOL follower sent word that Alienware are giving out limited keys to a Disgaea 2 demo test. The good news is I got one and it seems the demo already runs on Linux.

Wine 2.0-rc4 released, fixing 28 bugs to make sure the final release is solid

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 2.0-rc4 has been released with 28 bug fixes. It's a pretty quiet release with no new features as they are in a code freeze to prepare the big 2.0 stable release.

Friday Livestream today at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
After the mess that was our multiplayer livestream of 30th of December, we return back to normal programming of Linux gaming brought to you solely by myself. So, strap yourselves to your comfy sitting surfaces and let's go for a ride!

My thoughts on the MMO Albion Online on Linux, many months later

By Liam Dawe,
I’ve been playing Albion Online on and off since November 2015 and since then it has evolved into something much bigger.

Mesa git has pulled in the patches from Marek to improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I recently pointed out that Marek sent in patches to the Mesa list which could improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided performance on RadeonSI around 70%, well all of the patches are now in Mesa git.

Feral Interactive are hosting a Company of Heroes 2 livestream and multiplayer event

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive are celebrating their Steam group for 'Mac & Linux multiplayer' reaching over 1K people by hosting a multiplayer event and they will be livestreaming it.

The latest Steam Beta Client fixes a nearly 4 year old Linux issue, fixes other Linux issues

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have been busy, as the latest Steam Beta Client makes some important improvements to the Linux client. The Steam Controller has also seen some improvements, like supporting configurations for XBox 360, Xbox One, and Generic X-Input controller configurator support.

No More Room in Hell 2 has a new teaser, should come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
No More Room in Hell 2 is not just a sequel, it's going to be running on an entirely different game engine. The developer have said will be doing a Linux version, but their wording has been iffy.

Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes

By Samsai,
The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.

Long War 2 mod announced for XCOM 2

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you who played XCOM, you may remember the mod 'Long War' which expanded the game in many ways and made it a much larger experience. Well, it seems Pavonis Interactive (previously Long War Studios) are working on Long War 2 for XCOM 2.

Pizza Tycoon, another classic from my childhood is now available on GOG with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
I am a Pizza addict and now I think I finally realize why. I played a lot of Pizza Tycoon when I was younger and I think it had an effect on me. It's now available on GOG with Linux support.

Heroes of Dire, a turn-based combat MMO is available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Heroes of Dire is an interesting one, as it's an MMO featuring turn-based combat where you can borrow fighters from friends or a guild.

Airships: Conquer the Skies, a game about building steampunk pixel airships is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have yet another game available that's in-development with Linux support. Airships: Conquer the Skies, a rather good game I've enjoyed a good few hours in.

Intel Haswell now has support for OpenGL 4

By Liam Dawe,
The Mesa developers are as usual continuing their effort to get the open source Linux graphic drivers up to scratch. Intel Haswell (gen7) now has support for OpenGL 4.

Voxeliens, a game I covered back in 2012 has gone open source

By Liam Dawe,
Voxeliens, a game I haven't seen much on since I wrote about it back in 2012 has officially gone open source a few days ago. It's a retro-style arcade shooter and it's essentially a 3D voxel-based version of Space Invaders.

Try Hard Parking, an infuriating top-down parking game that actually looks hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
Try Hard Parking, is a new indie game from developer gearspecs that promises a rage-inducing 80s styled parking game.