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Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.

Through the Woods no longer coming to Linux due to platform-specific technology


By Liam Squires-Hand
This is really annoying. 'Through the Woods', a very promising psychological horror is no longer coming to Linux and was only announced two weeks before release due to platform-specific technology.

Steam to get a massive update soon, Asia revenue increased nearly 500% since 2014 and more


By Liam Squires-Hand
More information courtesy of all the developers at SteamDevDays. Steam will apparently be getting a massive update/refresh soon and the amount of games releasing on Steam has been increasing by a lot.

Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made


By Liam Squires-Hand
Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.

Recursed, a mind bending puzzle platformer that's actually rather good is now out for Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Recursed, is a new indie puzzle platformer that might just warp your mind a little bit. I've been playing it and don't let the graphical style fool you, it's quite good.

Looks like VR support for Linux will be shown off at SteamDevDays this week, about time


By Liam Squires-Hand
VR support for Linux has been lacking and the communication around it has been pretty damn poor by Valve and HTC, but it seems this is about to change at SteamDevDays.

AMD Zen looks like it will release at CES in January 2017


By Liam Squires-Hand
In January 2017 it looks like AMD will finally release their brand new clean-sheet (it's a new design) Zen CPU architecture, and damn it sounds exciting.

Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man released, brings major changes


By BTRE
Paradox Development Studio’s popular empire-building grand strategy game has gotten its latest expansion. Rights of Man and the plethora of free features in the accompanying patch do much to change the game.

Race cars with the worst handling ever made online in ForeveRacers


By Liam Squires-Hand
My god, ForeveRacers might be my new favourite stupid thing. It's an online racer where the cars are all top heavy physics wobbly things.

Earth Space Colonies released out of Early Access, features full Linux support, initial thoughts


By Liam Squires-Hand
For those who know me, they will know I love strategy and sandbox building games. Not only that but I love things based around space and other planets. So Earth Space Colonies deserved a try.

A look at Mushroom Crusher Extreme, a game all about fighting giant invading mushrooms


By BTRE
If you’ve ever fantasized about killing uncountable amounts of giant mushrooms invading your homeland, Mushroom Crusher Extreme is a game with arcade elements that lets you do just that. The game got day-1 Linux support and I took a look to see what it was like.

Parkitect, the cute theme park builder updated again with new rides, loans and more


By Liam Squires-Hand
Parkitect is coming along really nicely, and looks to be a great answer to having a theme park builder on Linux. The developers have put up a new build with new rides including bumper cars, and the ability to get a loan.

Superposition Benchmark, a new GPU stress-testing tool from UNIGINE


By Liam Squires-Hand
UNIGINE are building a brand new benchmark stress-test named 'Superposition Benchmark'. They have put out some more information on it, and they want to get it onto Steam.

Earthlock: Festival of Magic has a public opt-in Linux test build, no longer requiring an invite


By Liam Squires-Hand
Earthlock: Festival of Magic is a rather great looking adventure RPG inspired by some older JRPGs, the developers recently opened an invite-only Linux test, but they have decided to open it up to everyone.

Fun looking action RPG 'Dungeons & Robots' now has an official Linux version


By Liam Squires-Hand
Dungeons & Robots is currently in Early Access and it looks like a lot of fun, the developers have recently given the game an official Linux build.

Feral Interactive will be livestreaming the soon to be released Mad Max Linux port


By Liam Squires-Hand
On Thursday this week Feral Interactive will do a livestream of the soon to be released Linux port of Mad Max.

'AI War II' strategy game is real, needs funding on Kickstarter, Linux planned from day-1


By Liam Squires-Hand
'AI War II' from Arcen Games is real and is currently in need of funds on Kickstarter, with Linux fully planned as a day-1 release.

Stellaris 1.3 patch 'Heinlein' and Leviathans DLC will be released on the 20th of October


By Liam Squires-Hand
Get ready space fans, as Stellaris is soon to get a major patch and DLC. Paradox has announced they will release together on the 20th of October.

Testing out Brigador with the new control scheme, destroy everything


By Liam Squires-Hand
I have a real soft spot for Brigador, it’s a rather good-looking isometric mech action shooter, where you can destroy everything on the level. The new control scheme makes it so much more playable, it’s fantastic.

'Critical Annihilation', a twin-stick shoot 'em up made entirely out of destructible voxels has a Linux build


By Liam Squires-Hand
'Critical Annihilation' is a rather fun looking shoot 'em up that features destructible voxels. Linux users asked for a build and the developer has put up a beta.