I don't cover too many crowdfunding projects, but Pixel Princess Blitz does look pretty entertaining. It also features full Linux support with no stretch goal.

Stellaris is going to get a bit more feature-heavy with the next updated and DLC going by Paradox latest updates. They have detailed 'Tradition trees' which will be free and 'Ascension Perks' which will be in the next DLC.

Mesa is continuing to progress rapidly, as of today Haswell should now support OpenGL 4.2 ready for the next release of Mesa.

For fans of the awesome itch games website, the client has been updated once again with a number of bug fixes.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has updated to include some free content for all owners of the game, which is a nice gesture from the developer and publisher.

Samuel Pitoiset (Valve developer) just put some fresh work into Mesa-git that enables OpenGL 4.3 with nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above.

Worms W.M.D has a new major patch out that allows Linux gamers to play with anyone cross Windows, Mac and Linux.

Go grab DiRT Showdown for free and check out some other cheap games in the Humble Store winter sale.

Sleeper games announce

If you are using Mesa (FOSS OpenGL/Vulkan drivers on Linux), you can be in situation when it introduces some new features upstream, but it didn't make it into your distro yet and it can take quite a long time for that to happen. A guide to compiling it yourself.

If I may have your attention for a few moments, I would like to inform you that today is Friday and that there's a livestream to go with it. So, hammer your routers into shape and point the antennas towards our broadcast of live Linux gaming!

Rust, from Facepunch Studios is another game to add to the list that use Vulkan, although it's only on the pre-release version right now.

Thanks to a Twitter tip we have word that it looks as if SteamVR support for Linux might finally be close.

I have done a small update tonight and wrote up a new page for the site. This new page will display a list of people who have set their Twitch or Youtube address in their profile. It will also tell you if someone is live on Twitch.

Wine 2.0 has a fifth release candidate to fix up more bugs to make Wine 2.0 truly as stable as possible.

Streets of Rogue, the rather excellent open-world roguelike has been updated again. Two major new features for the online mode are NAT punch-through and automatic port forwarding to make connections easier.

Something I forgot to write up, was that the latest Steam survey is out. Linux dropped by 0.08% according to the figures.

Day of the Tuxacle #linux

Squad, the FPS game from Offworld Industries is showing signs that it might be coming over to Linux.

The new official name 'Rise to Ruins' along with a big update to my favourite little village builder is now live.

I've given Evolvation for a little spin, but right now it's still in development and it has issues to be aware of.