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As per tradition, I am holding the usual Friday Livestream and you are welcome to join in on the madness as I play some Linux games and talk about various (usually gaming related) topics which you can participate in via the Twitch chat.

Ah goodie, it's update day for the Itch app, this is becoming one of my favourite days. I love the effort put into it, and this release is no different with it now translated to 30+ languages.

Eyes up developers! The Unity Game Engine has been updated for Linux, and it's now built upon the newer Unity 5.3.1.

In a very surprising turn of events it appears that winter has arrived in Finland and I think that calls for a very specific type of a game. Enter The Long Dark, a survival game set in the cold, dark forests of Canada.

Good news Rocket League fans, as it seems the game will be out on SteamOS & Linux before the Xbox One version, and it's looking like it will be end of January to early February.

Here's an interesting thing I stumbled upon while I was looking up ioquake3 stuff. QuakeJS is a port of the ioquake3 engine to Javascript and WebGL and it plays original Quake 3 maps.

Creative Assembly aren't the best at communication, and it seems the Total War: Rome II Linux & SteamOS port was silently dropped.

Natural Selection 2 has been updated again, and this time some essential parts of the game have been improved.

Exciting news for FPS fans. The Arma 3 developers have updated everyone on what's happening with the Linux port, and it looks like they are even going to work on the BattlEye anti-cheat system.

We have covered Hand of Fate before, but since release it has gained four major free content updates, so I took it for a spin.

Greetings Linux gamers, our GOTY award is now open for voting. We have multiple categories to vote in this year, as requested.

Planetary Annihilation has a rather interesting history, and John Comes the Design Director at Uber Entertainment did a write up on it all.

Bound By Flame is an ambitious Action RPG developed by French development studio Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. It was originally released in 2014, but the Linux version was released out of the blue earlier this month. Thus far, it's the only title from the developer that's been released for our platform.

AMD has let the curtain fall on their new 14nm Polaris GPU architecture, and it sounds mighty interesting. I am especially interested in the lower power draw they claim.

The open source app for installing games from Itch.io needs your help with translations. I am in love with this little app.

The Infinite Bundle from Bundle Stars is a cracking deal, all 12 games support Linux and it costs barely anything.

I came across a rather interesting video today about DoubleFine and Psychonauts 2. To be clear this isn't our video, but it's worth a watch. My trust in DoubleFine was already very low after Spacebase, and now I'm really not sure what to think.

I am a Drox Operative, captain of the Diffraction, a Reaper Light Destroyer along with my ragtag crew, Molder: my Reaper tactical officer, Phyllojackswing: my dedicated Marine and Kozak: a dragon-man responsible for our helm. We are on an ongoing mission in the Tanar galaxy by order of the Drox Operative Guild.

Computer, Open That Door! A very interesting game about being a self-aware AI that is trying to kill off the crew of a spaceship.

It seems the last article on this stirred up some heat, and the developer is back with a meaty reply about why a Linux port of Ori and the Blind Forest would be up to Microsoft.