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In a very surprising turn of events it appears that winter has arrived in Finland and I think that calls for a very specific type of a game. Enter The Long Dark, a survival game set in the cold, dark forests of Canada.

Creative Assembly aren't the best at communication, and it seems the Total War: Rome II Linux & SteamOS port was silently dropped.

Exciting news for FPS fans. The Arma 3 developers have updated everyone on what's happening with the Linux port, and it looks like they are even going to work on the BattlEye anti-cheat system.

Bound By Flame is an ambitious Action RPG developed by French development studio Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. It was originally released in 2014, but the Linux version was released out of the blue earlier this month. Thus far, it's the only title from the developer that's been released for our platform.

AMD has let the curtain fall on their new 14nm Polaris GPU architecture, and it sounds mighty interesting. I am especially interested in the lower power draw they claim.

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for 2015. It was a complete knockout year with surprise after surprise, but what did people read the most? Some added thoughts of my own at the bottom.

Itch.io has become a popular distribution platform among developers for its many and flexible tools for distributing and promoting games. We take a closer look at what they have to offer us Linux gamers.

It's been a while since I last dug up my 760 and did some benchmarking, so I decided that I would run some to celebrate the last days of 2015. I've picked some new games this time around to show the performance of both the open source and the proprietary drivers.

After release of stable version 1.8, Wine team opened a new development branch, 1.9. While it still doesn't include as many new features as previous development releases, there are 43 fixed bugs.

Developer WayForward has been developing games for consoles for well over a decade, and have now released their first game for Linux.

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition has finally released for SteamOS/Linux. I have picked up a copy, and I am downloading right now to give you some thoughts.

You might have heard about OpenMW, the open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine which, naturally, allows you to play Morrowind on Linux. Let's test it!

Bombernauts is pretty much bomberman on a year long diet of steroids, as it's insane. We should get a game of this going sometime.

Here's a chance to bag a shiny Alienware Steam Machine from Feral Interactive, you just have to draw up some winter themed Mordor art.

Khronos has given an official update on Vulkan, there's good news, and there's bad news. The year-end target release date for Vulkan will not be met. However, they are in the home stretch and the release of Vulkan 1.0 is imminent!

Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is a beautiful looking atmospheric puzzle platformer about finding the source of a never-ending blizzard. Looks like it will come to Linux now too!

While sites like STEAM and GOG are often the go-to for our gaming pleasure, there are still some indie gems hidden in the corners of the Internet that forgo these venerable platforms. One of those is Starsector, an open world space combat sim set in the distant future where civilization is slowly collapsing.

Read the latest in crowdfunding news for Linux in the last issue of The Funding Crowd this side of New Year's.

I'm not a big survival fan, but even I think Hurtworld looks pretty damned good. Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on deep survival progression that doesn't become trivial once you establish some basic needs.

Developer Matthew Brown's new game is similar in style to his popular Hexcells trilogy, and seems like another great buy for fans of Japanese style logic puzzles.