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The Talos Principle beta updated, Vulkan performance improvements & optimizations

By Liam Dawe,
The Talos Principle developers have just released build 260210, the main feature for us is the improvements to their Vulkan rendering system. Also, the stable version now includes Vulkan as standard.

Transport Fever announced with Linux support, build a massive transport network

By Liam Dawe,
Transport Fever has been announced from the same developers as Train Fever. This time you will have access to trains, aircrafts, ships, buses, trams and trucks.

Doom & Destiny Advanced, an Early Access comedy RPG now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Doom & Destiny Advanced looks like a really nice 2D RPG, it's currently in Early Access and the Linux & Mac versions have recently been added.

GOL vs Feral Interactive at 10AM UTC/11AM BST today live on Twitch

By Liam Dawe,
After a two week break the weekly GOL vs Feral Interactive Company of Heroes 2 livestream is back! Today at 10AM UTC/11AM BST I will once again face off against Matt from Feral.

Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Remember Itch.io trying to get their client onto Steam through Greenlight? Well, Valve have killed their hopes of that for now.

You can now get access to the excellent Faeria for a lot cheaper, without booster packs

By Liam Dawe,
I love Faeria, a weird mix of strategy, card game, and a board game all in one. It's like Hearthstone on steroids, and it now has a cheaper option to be able to play it right now.

GOL Cast: Revisiting the trenches of Verdun

By Samsai,
It’s been some time since I shared my thoughts about Verdun and I’ve heard the game has changed in a positive way since then, so let’s check out how this WW1 multiplayer shooter does!

The Wine Stable Release 1.8.2 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today third stable release of their software. Version 1.8.2 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.

Thoughts on Retro-Pixel Castles after some major updates, a godlike village simulator on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I really liked Retro-Pixel Castles when I played it initially last year, and after trying it again now it has had some major updates I have some more thoughts on it.

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st

By Liam Dawe,
Prepare to fail at survival, as Don't Starve Together is officially being released this month on the 21st of April. Great game, do try it out.

Explore space in AuroraRL, now in Early Access for Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
AuroraRL is a space exploration game where our precious earth is in crisis, and it's your task to seek out alien life and make new friends.

Crypto Hex, an abstract puzzle game about spatial reasoning released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you like making your head hurt with puzzles be sure to check out Crypto Hex. It has a nice visual style, simple but challenging gameplay and it confused me quite quickly.

Open source Theme Hospital engine CorsixTH 0.60 Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe,
Greetings fans of Theme Hospital, the awesome open source engine CorsixTH has released 0.60 Beta 1 with new features and fixes.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator updated, now featuring Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe,
You can now expand your trucking simulators with community create mods in both Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator.

New Stellaris developer video brings on the hype

By Liam Dawe,
I am super pumped for Stellaris, it looks like everything I have wanted in a space strategy game and this new video really has me excited.

Survival game Rust adds female player models, assigns gender to Steam accounts at random

By Liam Dawe,
The survival game Rust from Facepunch Studios has been updated with a bit of a controversial change. They have added in new models, including female models, but you don't get to pick your gender.

There's an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver

By Liam Dawe,
If you didn't know already, there's actually an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver which could make it far more useful outside of Steam.

ARK: Survival Of The Fittest the free online survival arena is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
ARK: Survival Of The Fittest, the spin off from ARK: Survival Evolved is now available on Linux & SteamOS, it's free too.

Paws: A Shelter 2 Game & The Lonesome Fog both now available on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Paws: A Shelter 2 Game is a standalone, single player, adventure, platformer set in the world of Shelter 2. The Lonesome Fog is a living book that seeks to expand on the concept of storytelling and explores the plight of a young cub trapped in a cycle of fear, cowardice and uncertainty.

This Heroes of Newerth benchmark video shows SteamOS as the clear winner

By Liam Dawe,
It's always great to see when Linux/SteamOS performs really well, and this video shows Heroes of Newerth performing like a total champion for us. Note: Not our video.