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Iron Sky: Invasion, the Wine-port from Topware Interactive is out of Beta and on sale

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

The Linux Wine-port of Iron Sky: Invasion is now officially out of beta and it's on sale with 80% off for another few days.

Dead Cells, a roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer looks amazing and heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

Dead Cells, a 2D roguelike and castlevania-inspired action-platformer was emailed in by Sintineddu and wow, the art in this one is fantastic.

Puzzle Puppers, a really cute puzzle game could come to Linux with enough support

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

The developers of Puzzle Puppers have stated that a Linux version will be bumped up the list if there is real interest.

Wine Staging 2.0 available, also new on the state of Vulkan, DX11 and more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2017

The Wine Staging team has release their 2.0 release and they have also written up a blog post detailing work on Vulkan, DX11 and more. Seems a number of DX11 games now work!

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A note about security after a possible security issue was discovered

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Tonight my family time was interrupted by notifications that a possible security issue had been discovered in our code. This is a full disclosure to let you know what happened.

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Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate now available

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

In addition to Mesa 17 getting a new release candidate, we also today have a Mesa 13.0.4 release candidate which should be released on Friday.

Mesa 17-rc2 released, stable version still expected next month

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Emil Velikov has announced the second release candidate for Mesa 17, the next stable version of the open source graphics drivers on Linux.

Portal 2 has been patched to fix broken textures

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

For quite some time Portal 2 had broken textures on Linux and Windows. I reported the issue to Valve in April 2016 and they have now finally fixed it.

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Timothee Besset is working on fixing the long 'hangs' Mesa users get in Rocket League

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Game porter Timothee Besset, who did the Rocket League port, has posted on the bug report about Rocket League freezing up a lot on Mesa to note that he has started working on the issue.

Avorion, a procedural co-op space sandbox is now on Linux and it looks awesome

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2017

Avorion promises to give you a big open galaxy to explore fight, trade and construct spaceships in. They claim to remove a lot of micro-management which has me excited and it looks really slick.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux, 25 Jan 2017

This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Ballistic Overkill major update released, new huge map and private servers

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

Ballistic Overkill, my favourite online FPS right now has a new update and it's quite a biggy. It includes a big new map and other goodies.

Wine 2.0 is now officially available

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

I just got the announce email from the Wine team that Wine 2.0 is now officially available. It's an absolutely massive release!

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Mesa now has a patch to enable a shader cache for radeonsi (AMD)

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

This will probably be to the delight of many AMD graphics card owners who use the open source Mesa graphics drivers: A patch has been sent into the Mesa-dev mailing list for radeonsi to 'Add disk shader cache'.

Virtual Programming are porting Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2017

It seems another porting company is starting to work on more and more Linux ports and the year has only just begun! Virtual Programming are working on Arma: Cold War Assault and Frog Climbers in addition to the already announced Putty Squad.