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Dreamfall Chapters Book 4 Released Along With Engine Upgrade

| By Segata Sanshiro
Norwegian developer Red Thread Games has released Book 4 of Dreamfall Chapters, and along with it a massive engine update from Unity 4 to Unity 5 which intends on fixing many of the performance woes suffered by the game.

Feral about AMD driver support

| By Eike
Reading through the Feral Interactive Facebook page, I stumbled upon this post, which is the most elaborate about the topic by Feral I know of about AMD support.

Goat Simulator appears to be getting a new DLC, the trailer is good

| By Liam Squires-Hand
Goat Simulator, ahh what a strange game it is, stranger that people actually buy it and like it! Personally not a fan, as it's too stupid for me, but the new trailer caught my interest.

Garry Newman, developer of Rust & Garry's Mod on supporting Linux, possibly not for future games

| By Liam Squires-Hand
I may not like Garry Newman, or his games, but I know they are important to some people. I thought it was worth highlighting this.

A developer on Tesla Effect details why the Linux port never arrived

| By Liam Squires-Hand
Tesla Effect was a pretty interesting looking game, but sadly the Linux release never happened and not because the developer didn't try.

Third release candidate of Wine version 1.8 is out

| By sobkas
Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.

Friday Livestream Is Here at 6 PM UTC!

| By Samsai
There are many ways to describe a Friday and I'm obliged to do so nearly every week. To be honest, my imagination is slowly starting to run out of interesting ways to welcome you to the Friday Livestream so I'll keep it simple this time: you are invited to watch me play video games and talk about stuff for 2 hours. Welcome!

Double Fine has launched crowdfunding campaign to fund Psychonauts 2

| By flesk
The story-driven 3D platformer could get a most excellent sequel, as Double Fine has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fig to secure the funds needed to revisit one of their most beloved franchises.

Ruzar - The Life Stone, a first person dungeon crawler released for SteamOS & Linux

| By Liam Squires-Hand
Ruzar - The Life Stone is a well reviewed first person dungeon crawler (think Legend of Grimrock if you need a comparison) now on SteamOS & Linux.

Valhalla Hills, a rather unique city-builder strategy game now on SteamOS & Linux

| By Liam Squires-Hand
I only learnt about Valhalla Hills recently, as they stealth-added a Linux version just before the official release. GOG sent over a key for this interesting Unreal Engine city-builder strategy game, so I took a look.

Bound By Flame, an impressive looking action RPG now on SteamOS & Linux

| By Liam Squires-Hand
Great news, Bound By Flame an interesting looking action RPG from developer Spiders and publisher Focus Home Interactive. I asked for a port in 2014, and now it's here!

GRID Autosport releasing for SteamOS & Linux on December 10th

| By Liam Squires-Hand
Helmets at the ready, as GRID Autosport will be screeching onto our favourite SteamOS & Linux platform this December.

Basemark announced Basemark GPU Vulkan, a commercial benchmarking software

| By Liam Squires-Hand
I am very hopeful for Vulkan, and the future of it seems bright with lots of people already working with it. Another company named Basemark announced last month they will be release a commercial benchmarking tool for Vulkan.

Speculation: It looks like the Saints Row series will all launch together on SteamOS & Linux

| By Liam Squires-Hand
We all love a bit of speculation now and then (okay, some really don't, but I do), and to me it looks like the Saints Row series will all launch on Linux together.

GOL Cast: Saving Ancardia from Evil in Ancient Domains of Mystery

| By Samsai
There are lots of so called roguelites on Steam but recently a real roguelike classic called ADOM, or Ancient Domains of Mystery, made its way to Steam. Let's go check it out!

Linux is holding exactly where we thought it would in the Steam Hardware Survey

| By Liam Squires-Hand
We knew Linux wouldn't suddenly climb the ladder in Steam's Hardware Survey, as it's going to take a lot of time. The latest is out, and we are holding steady.

Total War: ATTILA looks like it's preparing a Linux & SteamOS version

| By Liam Squires-Hand
Total War: ATTILA has recently popped up on SteamDB with pointers towards a Linux & SteamOS version finally coming.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition for Linux & SteamOS is in testing

| By Liam Squires-Hand
The founder of Larian Studios has confirmed on twitter than the Linux and Mac versions of Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition are currently ready, and undergoing testing.

Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks Now Available

| By BTRE
The latest expansion for the popular grand strategy game, Europa Universalis IV, is now available. Hordes get a lot of shiny new features but there's a lot of new internal and diplomatic options introduced as well. It's been released alongside a massive patch that improves things for all players.

OpenMW 0.37 released, now with the new OSG renderer

| By Samsai
It seems to be the season for new versions of excellent open source gaming projects. OpenMW, the open source recreation of the Morrowind engine, has a new version which brings important rendering updates.