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Dell set to introduce beefed up Steam Machines

By Liam Dawe,
According to PCWorld who spoke with Chris Sutphen, the senior marketing manager at Alienware, Dell are pushing out two new Steam Machine models.

Ballistic Overkill adds Linux support, a pretty good looking online class-based FPS

By Liam Dawe,
Ballistic Overkill, an online class-based FPS recently released Linux support, but it was another we totally missed. I picked up a copy and took a look.

Want to play Morrowind natively on Linux using OpenMW? Well it's on sale on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
OpenMW is the open source game engine for Morrowind that is really quite amazing. If you've been wanting to try it out but you don't own Morrowind, now is a good time. GOG has it on sale for cheap.

Razer announces the HDK2 VR headset, will support OSVR and SteamVR

By Liam Dawe,
The HDK2 from Razer will use their OSVR ecosystem - an open source ecosystem supporting multiple types of hardware brands.

Stardew Valley for Linux should be ready very soon

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of Stardew Valley has stated in a fresh news post that the Linux version should be ready very soon.

Croteam's Vulkan presentation slides from Reboot Develop conference are now online

By Liam Dawe,
Croteam, who were the first game developer to put out a game with Vulkan (Talos Principle) have now put up their slides to their Vulkan talk.

An interview with Eagre Games about their new game, ZED

By BTRE,
I arranged an interview with Eagre to talk about ZED and their experiences with Linux and our community, including the decision to change support from a stretch goal to a base funding goal. ZED is an upcoming adventure puzzle game built with Unreal Engine 4 that’s currently on Kickstarter.

CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release

By Liam Dawe,
CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.

Clockwork Empires developer reaffirms Linux support will come one day

By Liam Dawe,
I was pretty sad to see that the new game from Gaslamp (developer of Dredmor) Clockwork Empires didn't have a Linux version, but the developer has said again it will.

Cities: Skylines - Match Day, a free DLC to add a Stadium to your city

By Liam Dawe,
Cities: Skylines has a new free DLC named Match Day which adds the ability to add a Stadium to your city.

Crea, a 2D ever-expanding sandbox RPG now fully released with Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
I've kept my eye on Crea for quite a while and while it may seem a lot like Starbound and Terraria it's actually quite different.

Colony building simulation Maia has a major new update

By Liam Dawe,
I absolutely love the style of Maia and it's pleasing to see this gorgeous colony building sim progress. This new update is pretty decent too.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive adjusts full screen modes for Linux to help with performance

By Liam Dawe,
One of the complaints recently for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been the Linux performance, so Valve have changed how fullscreen works to help.

SteamWorld Heist launched with day-1 Linux support, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
SteamWorld Heist is the follow up title to the indie hit SteamWorld Dig. A very different game, but it has the charm of the original and then some.

The Talos Principle updated, 32bit support for Vulkan and more Vulkan optimizations

By Liam Dawe,
Croteam are beating The Talos Principle with a hammer to bring out another stable version and a beta, both have even more Vulkan goodies.

Things I feel Valve need to address to help SteamOS really be something fantastic

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have a lot of work to do to bring SteamOS up to full speed and actually show that they regard it as an important platform. And it has to be not just important to them, but be truly useful to us.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.12 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.12 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

The Stream of the Friday starts yet again at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Ah, I do love me some Fridays and, as per usual, we celebrate this great weekday with another video stream of a live nature. Games will be played, bad jokes be made and fun might be had. Just in case that happens, you better strap yourself in and fire up your video player.

Valve has a problem brewing with user reviews and bots

By Liam Dawe,
Spotted by SteamSpy, it seems Valve is having an issue on Steam with bots giving out good reviews of games.

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut is having a free weekend and big sale on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
If you have passed up on Wasteland 2: Director's Cut before you may want to take a look now, as it's having a free weekend on Steam.