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The Steam Winter sale is now live, prepare your wallets
22 Dec 2016 at 8:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

Somehow these landed in my library :whistle:
Door Kickers
Broforce
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
XCOM 2
TW:Attila - Age of Charlemagne

Should keep me going for a few months. Long live linux gaming (Yeah) !!!

Realm of the Wood Elves DLC now available for Total War: WARHAMMER on Linux
21 Dec 2016 at 4:18 pm UTC

Did someone say Wood Elves? Time for breakfast boys - WAAAGH!

Crap, I think this game's turning me into a Warhammer fan... :huh:

Steam Winter Sale confirmed for December 22nd
20 Dec 2016 at 1:28 pm UTC

After being luxuriously entertained by Feral's hectic release schedule in the last months, this sale will be my ticket to pickup some indie gems from my humble wishlist (cough!).

Humble as in modest, not Humble Store.

EGOSOFT planning two new space simulation games, 'X Rebirth VR Edition' using Vulkan and also X4
20 Dec 2016 at 10:06 am UTC

How is X Rebirth now with latest patch and all DLC? The reviews are so mixed on Steam, it's hard to know what to think about it.

32-bit Linux distributions are no longer supported by Steam, Steam Web Browser disabled
16 Dec 2016 at 2:57 pm UTC

Quoting: Faalagorn
Quoting: FredOIf i'm not completely mistaken, the Steam client uses Chromium as its browser backend. Chrom(ium) dropped support for 32bit in about version 46-48(?), so maybe Valve doesn't have much choice in the matter if they keep using Chromium.
Chromium v55.0.2883 browser works fine on my wife's Asus Eee 901 32-bit Arch (the CPU don't support 64-bit at all), which actually is funny as the patch log says that they upgarded to "CEF v55.0.2883" (CEF = Chromium Embedded Framework), so the same browser core that works fine standalone.
Can't say anything about the official Chromium team's support though, but at least it works fine :)
You're right, it looks like CEF still has 32 bit builds, so this is Valve's decision alone. Only MAC has 64 bit only:

http://opensource.spotify.com/cefbuilds/index.html [External Link]

32-bit Linux distributions are no longer supported by Steam, Steam Web Browser disabled
16 Dec 2016 at 9:23 am UTC Likes: 1

If i'm not completely mistaken, the Steam client uses Chromium as its browser backend. Chrom(ium) dropped support for 32bit in about version 46-48(?), so maybe Valve doesn't have much choice in the matter if they keep using Chromium.
On the other hand I might just be talking a whole lot of nosh, in which case just grab another coffee and be happy :-)

Edit: Chromium not Chrome.

The Talos Principle stable build updated, includes the latest improvements for Vulkan (updated)
12 Dec 2016 at 3:23 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: BeamboomDo we have to do anything special for it to run on Vulkan instead of OGL?
You can choose the API in the graphics setting in game, or add this command line option:
+gfx_strAPI "VLK"

The Talos Principle stable build updated, includes the latest improvements for Vulkan (updated)
12 Dec 2016 at 12:49 pm UTC Likes: 13

It runs just a "bit" better with Vulkan ;-)

OpenGL: 71.8 Ave FPS
Vulkan: 157.2 Ave FPS

Vulkan can't come fast enough to Linux gaming!

Total War: WARHAMMER - Realm of The Wood Elves DLC will come to Linux soon
8 Dec 2016 at 1:56 pm UTC

The Wood Elves look awesome - nice new content indeed! What's with the Grey and Jade Wizards, can we expect them on Linux too?

Rocket League gets a big update called ‘Starbase ARC’, adds a lot of new free goodies
8 Dec 2016 at 8:12 am UTC

From a quick test I can say that they "may" finally have fixed the random crash when entering a new offline match. Also I can use the Pillars arena for the first time ever without it crashing. Can anyone else confirm this? There's no mention of Linux specific fixes in the release notes.

Edit: No problem with performance so far.