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Another Steam Beta Client update released, allows moving game location

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released another beta of the Steam client and the major change is that it will finally allow you to move games between your Steam Library folders.

A note about the sources of our information and how we really don't rip others off

By Liam Dawe,
It appears some people in the community just want to see me fail, but others just outright don't know what they are talking about. I want to put some claims about us ripping off others work to rest.

Here’s some interesting answers from Gabe Newell and Valve from the reddit AMA

By Liam Dawe,
Gabe Newell and others at Valve are doing a reddit ‘Ask me anything’ and I have compiled a list of some good stuff to read.

Gabe Newell of Valve is doing a reddit 'Ask me anything' soon

By Liam Dawe,
For those interested, Gabe Newell of Valve is doing a reddit 'Ask me anything' tonight and it starts really soon.

Sundered, a metroidvania with striking art made by Jotun's devs, is on Kickstarter

By BTRE,
This metroidvania with distinctive hand-drawn art is set to launch sometime in the middle of the year. Developer Thunder Lotus has decided to start a crowdfunding campaign to finance extra polish and get player input before launch.

Prison Architect broke the Geneva Conventions for the use of a red cross

By Liam Dawe,
This is, odd. The developers of Prison Architect have broken the Geneva Conventions (and British law) for their use of a red cross in the game.

Lost Eden, the 1995 adventure game released on GOG with Linux support thanks to DOSBox

By Liam Dawe,
Lost Eden, a classic from 1995 has been released on GOG and it has Linux support right away thanks to DOSBox.

The release of Mesa 17 has seen a bit of a delay, for all the right reasons

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 17, the next stable release of the open source graphics drivers on Linux has been a bit delayed, due to so much last minute work going on. Looks like Intel Ivy Bridge will get OpenGL 4.0.

Owlboy, the very popular 2D adventure game is seeking Linux testers

By Liam Dawe,
Heads up action and adventure fans, as Owlboy is coming to Linux soon using FNA and they require some testers.

Mini Thief, an interesting 2D game about robbing increasingly difficult houses

By Liam Dawe,
I’ve been testing out ‘Mini Thief’, a 2D game about robbing people and hopefully not getting caught. The question is as always: is it worth your bucks?

'Rise & Shine' a game where every level is a single, continuous work of art could come to Linux (updated!)

By Liam Dawe,
Well, Rise & Shine has certainly hooked me in with its rather awesome visuals and slick looking action! The developers have said they are investigating and testing Linux support. UPDATED.

Exploring a floating island in 'Pocket Kingdom', a very well done throwback to Amiga games

By Liam Dawe,
GOL follower hardpenguin sent over a copy of 'Pocket Kingdom' for me to take a look at, and as a fan of the Amiga I had to give it a go.

Farting on everyone in 'CropDuster Supreme' now available on Linux, it's actually hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
The aim of the game in 'CropDuster Supreme' is to fart on people, now you may think this sounds terrible — but it's actually quite amusing! I know, I'm shocked too.

The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
A commit that just landed in Mesa-git allows for 'radv', the open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to use multiple devices.

Intel Haswell now supports OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa-git on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
In another push towards Mesa finishing OpenGL for all vendors where possible, Intel Haswell chips now have support for OpenGL 4.5 with Mesa on Linux.

Building on up in Block'hood, my early thoughts on this cute neighbourhood-building sim

By Liam Dawe,
Block'hood is a neighbourhood-building sim that's currently in Early Access. I couldn't resist grabbing a copy when it released for Linux, so here's some early thoughts.

Phoning Home, the story of two robots trying to survive will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Phoning Home, which sounded a lot like the film WALL-E when I first heard about it will come to Linux.

Wine Staging 2.0-rc5 released, better support for Origin, GOG Galaxy and more

By Liam Dawe,
Wine Staging have released their 2.0-rc5 release which sounds like a pretty interesting release. Plenty of new stuff to play with.

Evolvation, an Unreal Engine online space shooter is now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've given Evolvation for a little spin, but right now it's still in development and it has issues to be aware of.

Rise to Ruins (previously Retro-Pixel Castles) has a major content update now out

By Liam Dawe,
The new official name 'Rise to Ruins' along with a big update to my favourite little village builder is now live.