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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire announced, has crowdfunding campaign
Obsidian has announced a sequel to their original RPG, Pillars of Eternity. This direct sequel will have plenty of technical improvements and will take in a whole new region of the world of Eora.
Civilization VI has entered final testing for Linux, could release soon, should be on sale too
It has been pointed out in our Telegram chat group (thanks Kithop) that Aspyr Media have said on Steam that Civilization VI has entered final testing for Linux.
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 released for Linux, adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0
AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 is now officially available for AMD GPU owners and it adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0.
Jonathan Blow states he is open to a Linux port of The Witness with Vulkan, but never with OpenGL
For those of you interested in seeing The Witness on Linux, it seems Jonathan Blow mentioned it again recently in a livestream in response to a viewer question. It's hard to argue with what he's saying.
Enter the Gungeon gets loads of new content in its latest update
The very shooty and fast-paced dungeon crawler has gotten a free update called “Supply Drop”. It adds plenty of new guns, rooms and other things for players to find in their playthroughs.
Shadow of Mordor patch released for Linux, fixes issue with NVIDIA cards and more
The patch we have been waiting on for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is finally live and fixes a major graphical bug on NVIDIA drivers.
Iron Sky: Invasion, the Wine-port from Topware Interactive is out of Beta and on sale
The Linux Wine-port of Iron Sky: Invasion is now officially out of beta and it's on sale with 80% off for another few days.
Dead Cells, a roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer looks amazing and heading to Linux
Dead Cells, a 2D roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer was emailed in by Sintineddu and wow, the art in this one is fantastic.
Puzzle Puppers, a really cute puzzle game could come to Linux with enough support
The developers of Puzzle Puppers have stated that a Linux version will be bumped up the list if there is real interest.
Wine Staging 2.0 available, also new on the state of Vulkan, DX11 and more
The Wine Staging team has release their 2.0 release and they have also written up a blog post detailing work on Vulkan, DX11 and more. Seems a number of DX11 games now work!
A note about security after a possible security issue was discovered
Tonight my family time was interrupted by notifications that a possible security issue had been discovered in our code. This is a full disclosure to let you know what happened.
Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate now available
In addition to Mesa 17 getting a new release candidate, we also today have a Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate which should be released on Friday.
Mesa 17-rc2 released, stable version still expected next month
Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.
Portal 2 has been patched to fix broken textures
For quite some time Portal 2 had broken textures on Linux and Windows. I reported the issue to Valve in April 2016 and they have now finally fixed it.
Timothee Besset is working on fixing the long 'hangs' Mesa users get in Rocket League
Game porter Timothee Besset, who did the Rocket League port, has posted on the bug report about Rocket League freezing up a lot on Mesa to note that he has started working on the issue.
Avorion, a procedural co-op space sandbox is now on Linux and it looks awesome
Avorion promises to give you a big open galaxy to explore fight, trade and construct spaceships in. They claim to remove a lot of micro-management which has me excited and it looks really slick.
Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.
Ballistic Overkill major update released, new huge map and private servers
Ballistic Overkill, my favourite online FPS right now has a new update and it's quite a biggy. It includes a big new map and other goodies.
Wine 2.0 is now officially available
I just got the announce email from the Wine team that Wine 2.0 is now officially available. It's an absolutely massive release!
- It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
- Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is now Steam Deck Verified with a big update
- Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 on Linux, D7VK has a 1.0 release out now
- NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX
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