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Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter now supports VR on Linux using Vulkan, but Croteam is now waiting on Valve updating SteamVR to work on Linux.

Every Wednesday, I shall highlight some deals you might be interested in if you’re running a little low on funds.

Nyheim is an indie single-player digital board-game, you're tasked with rebuilding after a deadly pandemic has swept the globe, but is it any good?

Corben wrote in to let us know that Diluvion, a deep-sea exploration game with RPG elements looks like it might be coming over to Linux.

An indie puzzle platformer, where you must control the world around you with words, by the name of Typoman: Revised has made its way onto Linux via Steam.

There’s been a fair bit of talk recently about attempting to multi-thread using OpenGL so I thought I’d write a bit more about what “multi-threading” an OpenGL game is, what’s normally done, and how it compares to multi-threading in Vulkan. Here's an attempt to explain it a little.

Valve have finally announced what they suggested they would do at the first SteamDevDays, Greenlight is being thrown out. It will be replaced by 'Steam Direct', which may still require a payment from developers.

River City Ransom: Underground, the crowdfunded follow-up to the original will see a delay in the Linux version.

You may remember recently I wrote about 'threaded GL dispatch' in Mesa possibly getting merged, after AMD's Marek suggested it and there was some backlash, well, it has continued.

The developer of Tinertia sent in some keys at user-request for us to take a look at this rather amusing twin-stick shooter.

Parkitect is one of those Early Access games that sits firmly at the top of my list to keep an eye on. It's really fun already and every alpha is a big boost for it.

It seems that Valve are going to continue their VR push as they have announced they have three more VR games in development.

Aspyr Media have officially released the Linux port of Civilization VI and after testing it here’s some thoughts.

This year's GDC sounds like it might be quite interesting! AMD, NVIDIA, Khronos, Unity, Croteam and more have announced they will be doing a bunch of talks and some of them will be about Vulkan.

Just a note to not get overly excited about threaded OpenGL in Mesa. While it's true it could help a bunch of games, there's also games it likely won't help or even make worse. Feral Interactive's ports already do it, and I'm sure others do too.

Hearthlands is a game I've been following for a long time and now this city builder has finally released.

More possible good news today. It seems Knockout Games might be doing the porting work of Killing Floor 2 for Linux.

The developer of Ellipsis sent in a key for us to check out what they call an Avoid ’Em Up and it's surprisingly good.

Aaaand I'm back again. Liam took over the Friday Livestream for a moment but I have most definitely returned to reclaim the glory. So, prepare yourselves for some more live Linux gaming with me, Samsai, as your host. Enjoy!

The developer of Avorion accepted my request for a key, so I took Avorion for a spin. It’s in Early Access, so keep that in mind.