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 is now officially available for AMD GPU owners and it adds support for even more cards including GCN 1.0.
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.
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.
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.
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 2D roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer was emailed in by Sintineddu and wow, the art in this one is fantastic.
The developers of Puzzle Puppers have stated that a Linux version will be bumped up the list if there is real interest.
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!
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.
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.
Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.
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.
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 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.
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, 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.
I just got the announce email from the Wine team that Wine 2.0 is now officially available. It's an absolutely massive release!
This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.
It seems another porting company is starting to work on more and more Linux ports and the year has only just begun! Virtual Programming are working on Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers in addition to the already announced Putty Squad.
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