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Team Fortress 2 update released to improve memory use on Linux, new charity event in May

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2019

Valve are keeping Team Fortress 2 alive for Linux gamers with the latest update making some welcome improvements. There's also going to be a TF2 charity event in May.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has new test builds out, also moving to Linux servers

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2018

The newer team behind Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has put out two new test builds, one built with newer modern tools and the other on their legacy toolchain. It comes packed with new features and updates too.

The Black Mesa team have pushed out a new Linux beta

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2018

Black Mesa, the fan-made recreation of Half-Life has a fresh brew available for Linux gamers that should make it a better experience.

The turn-based tactical RPG Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

After a few months in Early Access, the tactical RPG Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark has come along nicely and it's quite impressive.

Linux market share on Steam now at a 16 month high after a rounding error was fixed

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct 2018

As it turns out, the Linux market share reported in the hardware survey for September was higher than initially reported.

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Cosmic Star Heroine has a Linux version in beta

By BTRE, 1 Sep 2018

The RPG title has finally gone forward with its promised Linux support and now has an opt-in beta on Steam. I've had the chance to play a little and have enjoyed what I have seen.

DXVK for Direct3D 11 over Vulkan in Wine has a new 0.60 release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2018

Summer heat got you parched? Why not wet your whistle with some Wine as DXVK has a fresh release out today.

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Vulkan layer for Direct3D 11 & Wine 'DXVK' updated with fixes for Dark Souls 3, Overwatch & more

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2018

DXVK is such an incredible project to bring Direct3D 11 support to Wine using Vulkan and another exciting release is now out.

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The Steam Hardware Survey had some flaw causing cyber cafes to be over-counting users

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2018

Well this sure is interesting, Valve have announced some flaws in their Steam Hardware Survey that caused cyber cafes to over-count users.

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Feral Interactive have released an open source tool that’ll help get the most performance out of Linux games

By Liam Dawe, 10 Apr 2018

GameMode is a new daemon/lib combo for Linux that will allow you to optimize your PC for gaming. It's not magic, but it's something that will help.

OBS Studio 21.0.1 released with Luajit/Python3 scripting support and plenty more

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2018

OBS Studio 21.0.1 is a pretty big release and it sounds really quite exciting too, with the possibilities that come with Luajit/Python3 scripting support.

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The Talos Principle updated with Vulkan improvements, OpenGL fixes and more, plus some benchmarks

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2018

Croteam are continuing to be one of my favourite developers, as The Talos Principle has been patched with some goodies.

A new test build of OpenRA is out, with the full Dune 2000 Harkonnen campaign

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2018

OpenRA is a fantastic game engine, which enables you to play Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux. The latest test release is rather nice too.

Some reflections on radv, the first open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs

By BTRE, 30 Dec 2017

With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.