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Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for August 2016, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming! If you wish to keep track of these overview posts you can with our Overview RSS.

We published a total of 166 articles last month!


Editorial: I ditched SteamOS in favour of a normal Linux distribution for my gaming - 29 August 2016 at 4:54 pm UTC - Views: 23,909
I have been debating writing this up for a while, but here I am. I have completely ditched SteamOS in favour of Ubuntu Mate.



Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks like it may be getting a Linux & SteamOS release - 23 August 2016 at 4:25 pm UTC - Views: 23,808
Woah! Holy Sh...Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks like it may be getting a Linux & SteamOS release which has literally blown my tiny little mind.



Speculation: It's looking like Rocket League may finally arrive on Linux in September - 28 August 2016 at 6:06 pm UTC - Views: 20,555
Rocket League is way overdue, we all know that, but honestly I am fully expecting it to arrive with the patch due in September named the 'Rumble Update'.



Project Cars official twitter confirms to me there are no plans for it on Linux now - 7 August 2016 at 10:15 pm UTC - Views: 18,048
Well this is confusing and aggravating, it seems the Linux version of Project Cars is officially never going to happen.



Stardew Valley now DRM free for Linux on GOG, we have a bunch of keys to give away! - 3 August 2016 at 4:10 pm UTC - Views: 15,794
Stardew Valley is the very sweet genre mashing game involving farming, falling in love, exploring a dungeon and more. It's now DRM free for Linux on GOG and we have a few keys to give away.



State of Mind, a fantastic looking futuristic thriller game built with Unreal Engine that's coming to Linux - 26 August 2016 at 6:48 pm UTC - Views: 14,358
State of Mind was pointed out in the GOL IRC (thanks qptain_Nemo!) and wow, this looks quite amazing.



A look at Planet Nomads now it's in closed alpha and available on Linux - 25 August 2016 at 8:30 pm UTC - Views: 14,017
Good evening explorers, today I took a look at Planet Nomads a very early build of what could be a very interesting space survival game.



Humble Indie Bundle 17 released - 16 August 2016 at 9:31 pm UTC - Views: 13,525
Humble Indie Bundle 17 has released into the wild featuring some interesting games, some first on Linux too.



Planet Nomads looks incredible and it's officially coming to Linux this month - 15 August 2016 at 7:33 pm UTC - Views: 13,366
Planet Nomads looks like the survival game to really get me interested in the genre, the developers emailed in to let me know that the game is coming to Linux and will release in alpha form this month on the 25th of August.



Aspyr Media are teasing something to come in three days time (updated) - 16 August 2016 at 1:23 pm UTC - Views: 12,745
This may be Linux related: Aspyr Media the porting team behind Linux titles like Borderlands 2 are teasing something new to come.



No Man's Sky has been shown to work rather well in Wine on Linux - 16 August 2016 at 9:36 pm UTC - Views: 12,245
Not my usual sort of topic, but since it's proving popular it's probably worth highlighting. No Man's Sky the brand new survival sim from Hello Games works rather well in Wine on Linux.



Shadow Warrior 2, the awesome looking FPS is due out in less than two months - 15 August 2016 at 6:00 pm UTC - Views: 12,077
Shadow Warrior 2 looks incredible and it's releasing a lot sooner than I expected. The developers tweeted out that it's due in less than two months!



A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress - 18 August 2016 at 4:51 pm UTC - Views: 10,390
Marek Olšák has recently sent word to the AMD mailing list that they have found a reason for some games performing poorly using Mesa. Another developer noted that a patch is already in progress.



Godot Engine 2.1 released, open source game engine - 10 August 2016 at 5:18 pm UTC - Views: 9,518
After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvelous Godot Engine 2.1. Just like 2.0, this version focuses almost exclusively on further improving usability and the editor interface.



Arma 3 Linux beta has been updated - 9 August 2016 at 4:36 pm UTC - Views: 8,604
The Linux beta version of Arma 3 (which still isn't officially supported) has been updated once again.


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