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A developer from Dontnod Entertainment has created a UE4 hack to compile HLSL shaders on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you using Unreal Engine 4 on Linux, you may be interested to know about the d3d4linux project. The d3d4linux project allows developers to compile HLSL shaders on Linux using the Microsoft DirectX compiler DLL.

Heroes of Loot 2, an arcade style dungeon crawler released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
I'm going to be honest, I was not a fan of the original Heroes of Loot as I foundnd it too repetitive, bland and easy. Heroes of Loot 2 thankfully has improved pretty much everything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hybrid Beasts adds Linux support for its beta

By BTRE,
The cutesy artillery game has added Linux support in its ongoing beta test. Development apparently still has a ways to go which makes this early support extra nice.

Recursed, a reality twisting platformer made on Linux needs help on Steam Greenlight

By Liam Dawe,
Always happy to give a shout out to games made entirely on Linux. Recursed was emailed in by the developer, as it's developed on Linux using open source tools.

Point-and-click adventure game Demetrios released DRM-free and on Steam

By flesk,
Demetrios - The BIG cynical adventure is the remake of an unreleased adventure game, funded on Kickstarter last year, and is now available DRM free and on Steam.

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite

By Liam Dawe,
Ars Technica has written up an article about Valve's Steam Machines and how they seem to have sold less than 500,000 units in around seven months.

The most popular Linux & SteamOS gaming articles for May 2016, 161 in total

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Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2016, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming!

Steam's latest Hardware Survey is out, shows Linux at 0.84%

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is now available and if you take it at face value it doesn't look so good for Linux. I am remaining positive as always about it.

GOG Connect announced, add certain Steam games to GOG for a limited time

By Liam Dawe,
I was wondering if GOG would ever do something like this and it's really cool to see them finally dip their toes in it. For a limited time using GOG Connect a few Steam games can be redeemed on GOG for fully DRM free builds.

The Way of Life, a short and interesting single-player experience, released on Steam for free with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
The Way of Life sees you relive different experiences using three characters at different ages. It sounds like a cool idea and it's free so why not give it a go?

New set of GPU benchmarks and adventures in OpenGL 4.3

By Samsai,
Quite recently there have been quite a few advancements on the open source side of GPU drivers so I figured it would be the perfect time to talk about these changes and run some updated benchmarks.

Legends of Eisenwald being ported to Linux by Codeweavers, will use Wine

By Liam Dawe,
Legends of Eisenwald an adventure game with tactical battles, RPG and strategy elements is finally coming to Linux thanks to help from Codeweavers and Wine.

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on Linux, uses Wine

By Liam Dawe,
Topware Interactive are continuing their promise of putting their older titles on Linux and Two Worlds Epic Edition is now available on Steam. It uses Wine, but that's not as bad as you may think.

Want to make Terraria on Linux faster? FNA creator Ethan Lee has a script to help with that

By Liam Dawe,
Terraria on Linux uses Ethan Lee's FNA project, but the most recent update did not update FNA which Ethan has pointed out is a bit sad. Thankfully, he has a script to do it for you.
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