Despite still showing 0.4.8 as the current version on the official website, the repositories already got the version 0.4.9 of Lutris.

This new version contains the following fixes and new features:

lutris (0.4.9) zesty; urgency=medium

For the open-world-game Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles the Patch 1.0.1 has been released on Steam for Linux.

This patch fixes a lot of the problems of the base game:

Today a Steam Blog-Post revealed, that from now on there are extreme changes on how gifts work on Steam.

These changes seem to be a try to reduce the amount of grey keys sold by key-resellers like G2A:

STEAM GIFTING CHANGES
4 MAY - KRISTIAN

About one month after the first introduction in AGK2 for Windows, the Linux-version of AppGameKit (aka AGK2) now also gains the long awaited plugin-support with the recently released version 2017.04.24 of AGK2.

You can now write/develop your own libraries (.so on Linux, .dll on Windows) in any language you like and include them as plugins in your AGK-programs.

OpenRA, the free implementation of RTS classic games C&C (Tiberian Dawn), C&C: Red Alert, and Dune 2000 has almost to the day half a year after their last stable release published another full release.

It contains many improvements concerning the balancing but also a lot of changes behind the scenes.

The Game Creators have published their Roadmap for 2017 regarding the further development of AppGameKit.

The AGK-Community have been asked in a survey, which features they would like to see in the next versions, and they have been heard:

AppGameKit Roadmap 2017

The second birthday of the city building simulation game Cities: Skylines brings a special present for all players: the free DLC Pearls From the East.
It contains three new buildings: Shanghai Pearl Tower, Panda Zoo and Chinese Temple.

Despite the DLC not showing the SteamOS/Linux-icon on the Steam-page, it installs without problems on Linux.