For those of you who played XCOM, you may remember the mod 'Long War' which expanded the game in many ways and made it a much larger experience. Well, it seems Pavonis Interactive (previously Long War Studios) are working on Long War 2 for XCOM 2.

The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.

No More Room in Hell 2 is not just a sequel, it's going to be running on an entirely different game engine. The developer have said will be doing a Linux version, but their wording has been iffy.

Valve have been busy, as the latest Steam Beta Client makes some important improvements to the Linux client. The Steam Controller has also seen some improvements.

Statistics generated from the users of the GamingOnLinux website

Feral Interactive are celebrating their Steam group for 'Mac & Linux multiplayer' reaching over 1K people by hosting a multiplayer event and they will be livestreaming it.

I recently pointed out that Marek sent in patches to the Mesa list which could improve Deus Ex: Mankind Divided performance on RadeonSI around 70%, well all of the patches are now in Mesa git.

I’ve been playing Albion Online on and off since November 2015 and since then it has evolved into something much bigger.

After the mess that was our multiplayer livestream of 30th of December, we return back to normal programming of Linux gaming brought to you solely by myself. So, strap yourselves to your comfy sitting surfaces and let's go for a ride!

Wine 2.0-rc4 has been released with 28 bug fixes. It's a pretty quiet release with no new features as they are in a code freeze to prepare the big 2.0 stable release.

A GOL follower sent word that Alienware are giving out limited keys to a Disgaea 2 demo test. The good news is I got one and it seems the demo already runs on Linux.

If you’ve been feeling like fighting hordes of goons alone or with friends, the new beat ‘em up 99Vidas might be right up your alley. It released late last month with day-1 Linux support.

Tonight for your amusement I shall be attempting to play some Portal 2 live on Twitch. I hate Samsai for making me do this.

Good news for Linux fans, as multiple big websites showing off statistics have shown Linux is on the rise!

Linux gaming fun with Liam! (I hate you Samsai)

Divinity: Original Sin is one game that the open source Mesa drivers currently cannot run without hacks, but it looks like the Mesa team has been testing it.

Steam has officially hit a new high for concurrent users online, with over 14 million people being online today.

Avenger Bird, a pretty nice looking retro inspired side-scroller is now available on Steam with Linux support.

As promised, Topware Interactive have released a Linux beta of X-Blades on Steam that uses Wine to make it easy for you.

If you had tried playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown (not to be confused with XCOM 2) on radeonsi and had it crash constantly, the good news is that this should now be fixed as of Mesa 13.0.3.

Mesa has another patch that will be interesting for Linux gamers. This is actually a two-part fix as it was re-worked. The Witcher 2 should have a lot less black flickering with this latest patch.