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Cities: Skylines to get a free Theme Editor, with way more map customization options

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Cities: Skylines looks like it's getting some really great support, and with a free update coming soon we will get access to a new Theme Editor. We also have a video with some of the Snowfall expansion gameplay.

The talk about Vulkan at FOSDEM by Jason Ekstrand from Intel now has a video up

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For those wanting to listen to the actual talk Jason Ekstrand from Intel did about Vulkan you can now watch the video.

Tempest, a good looking pirate ship combat game looks like it's coming to Linux

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Tempest is a pretty good looking naval warfare game involving pirate ships, and it looks like it's coming over to Linux.

BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved

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Everyone playing ARK: Survival Evolved on Linux can calm down now, as BattlEye now supports Linux and it's already live.

We Are Legion, indie strategy game with hundreds or even millions of units now on Linux

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We Are Legion is a small indie strategy game with no unit caps, so you could end up with millions of units going at it. Sounds fun, but the graphics are pretty low-res.

Vulkan webinar to take place this month, hour session talking about the API and SDK

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It's getting close to the launch of Vulkan, I can feel it! Khronos are doing a webinar on February 18th at 9:00am PT (17:00 GMT).

Steam Beta adds hardware accelerated encoding for Nvidia on Linux, Steam Controller major update

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A pretty major Steam Client Beta just landed, and with it comes hardware accelerated encoding for In-Home Streaming on Nvidia with Linux, and you can also now configure the Steam Controller for desktop mode (including using the big picture overlay when launching from the desktop client).

Amazon launches Lumberyard, a free game engine that will support Linux and have source access

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Amazon dropped a bit of a big one recently, they announced Lumberyard which will be a mix of code from CryEngine, Double Helix and you can get source code access with it too.

ARK: Survival Evolved devs throwing money at BattlEye for Linux support, good news for Arma 3 too

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Sad news for players of ARK: Survival Evolved as it now uses BattlEye for online play, but the great news is the developers of ARK have confirmed BattlEye is coming to Linux and they are throwing money to help it happen. This will also be good news for Arma 3 players.

Firewatch, a first person mystery adventure game released for Linux & SteamOS

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Firewatch looks awesome, for the style, the story and the gameplay. It's available day-1 for Linux and SteamOS.

GOL Cast: Killing mushrooms and spiders in Sproggiwood

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Roguelikes have a tendency to be really complex games with tons of depth and thick user manuals. Sproggiwood is a game that tries to do away with the complexity but still offer an enjoyable roguelike experience. Let's check it out!

Tweaking Performance in XCOM 2

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Experiencing performance issues or stuttering in Feral's excellent port of XCOM 2? These engine tweaks might be just what you're looking for.

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

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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.

Does Dying Light's Linux to Linux multiplayer fail for you? Please confirm it here

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I've heard reports far and wide that the Linux to Linux multiplayer in Dying Light is broken. Myself and Samsai tried to connect to each other many times and it failed every time, lets get it fixed.

Multiplayer indie action game 'Super Snow Fight' may get a Linux version if there is enough demand

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A developer of Super Snow Fight, a multiplayer action indie game, claims in its Steam discussion forum that if they receive enough requests to release a Linux version, they will take it into consideration.

GPUOpen has launched, AMD open up more to the community

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Sorry for the lateness, but GPUOpen from AMD is now officially open to the public. I really like the way AMD is going doing things like this.

XCOM 2 is so popular it has beaten the all time peak player count of a number of games

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This is awesome to see. XCOM 2 has beaten the all time peak player counter of some pretty high profiles games in only a few days.

Gas Guzzlers Extreme looks like it is going to come to Linux, porting starts soon

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Gas Guzzlers Extreme has an interesting history, but it looks like the developers are once again trying to bring it to Linux.

Valve rep mentions they will eventually survey Big Picture & SteamOS

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Currently Steam Big Picture mode and SteamOS don't get a hardware survey, so even if millions of people pick up a Steam Machine we won't currently see any changes in the Steam Hardware Survey, but that could change in future.

Dying Light's online modes get bigger with The Following, hopefully they actually fix it for Linux

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I do love the single player in Dying Light, and I am very much looking forward to Dying Light Enhanced Edition and The Following DLC both coming next week. The major annoyance is the co-op play for Linux to Linux nearly never works.