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The Mesa fixes needed for Dying Light and Dead Island Definitive Edition are now in Mesa-git

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light and Dead Island Definitive Edition were previously broken on Mesa, but as of today a patch has landed in Mesa-git to fix them both ready for Mesa 17.2.

Dying Light & Dead Island Definitive Edition might soon work on Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
There's some activity on the Mesa-dev mailing list with patches that will enable both Dying Light & Dead Island Definitive Edition (and it seems Dead Island Riptide Definite Edition too) to work on Mesa.

Techland claim to have finally fixed Linux co-op in Dying Light

By Liam Dawe,
Techland claim to have finally fixed the Linux co-op in Dying Light in a patch released today! Finally, I tried many times with various Linux gamers and it never worked.

Downward, an impressive first-person open-world Parkour adventure supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I've tested out Downward and I've found it to be a rather incredible open-world Parkour game and I love it.

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition released with Day-1 Linux support, my review

By Liam Dawe,
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition is another revamp of an old classic given new life by Beamdog, a game where death is not the end. You will end up becoming friends with death and get to know it rather well.

A look at how much RAM you might need as a Linux gamer

By Liam Dawe,
I had a chat on reddit about RAM use and it inspired me to check out multiple games to see just how much RAM you should be looking to have as a Linux gamer.

I finally completed Half-Life 2 on Linux and it was quite the experience

By Liam Dawe,
With all the games we have on Linux now, let’s not forget some of the defining classics like Half-Life 2 which I have finally finished.

Some nuts Black Friday deals for Linux gamers to make note of

By Liam Dawe,
I have done a little search and come up with some interesting stuff that you might want to look into for a good deal.

Games to play on Linux this Halloween, my top choices

By Liam Dawe,
So Halloween is fast approaching, and you want to play something scary, here’s some good ones to try out.

And so it begins, the Steam Summer Sale is here

By Liam Dawe,
Open up those wallets, as the Steam Summer Sale is now upon us. Already some cracking deals to be found.

So I Played… RymdResa

By Samsai,
Some time ago I ended up testing this little game called RymdResa on a livestream. Afterwards I decided to look into it a little bit more and I am now here to present my thoughts on the experience.

Editorial: Valve have not abandoned SteamOS or Linux, things are looking pretty good

By Liam Dawe,
Something I keep seeing repeated in our comments, forum and across other sites is people believing Valve have somehow failed already and are abandoning SteamOS. That's far from the truth of the matter.

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!

Hyper Light Drifter released, some thoughts

By BTRE,
The rather pretty action adventure game Hyper Light Drifter is now available after a lengthy development period. I dove in right away to see if it was any good.

Dying Light finally adds a Chromatic Aberration toggle in the latest patch

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light (oh sorry it's Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition now isn't it) is a pretty good game, even more so with the new The Following DLC. It's great to see them finally listen to the community and add in this much requested feature.

Balrum, a beautiful 2D RPG released for Linux, here’s some thoughts on it

By Liam Dawe,
I've been looking forward to trying out Balrum since seeing it on a crowdfunding site some time ago, and now it has had a day-1 release on Linux I got a chance to play with it.

The most popular Linux gaming articles for February 2016, 133 in total

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

Dying Light patch released

By Liam Dawe,
Just a heads up, a new Dying Light patch is now available. Sadly it broke the game for me on my main Ubuntu install

Dying Light hotfix released, should fix major texture issue on Linux, no co-op fixes yet

By Liam Dawe,
Well, looks like Techland are at least paying some sort of attention to their Linux port, not much mind. They just released a hotfix to Dying Light that should fix up the low resolution texture issue. See the update at the bottom too.

Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition now available for Linux, texture issues

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition is a big patch and DLC now available for Dying Light. I have tested it a bit and here's what I found.
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