Now that 2018 is coming to a close, let’s go over what’s happened this year. It’s been incredibly interesting to follow, things haven’t been this lively for some time.

The developer of VK9, another rather interesting compatibility layer has advanced further with the announcement of another completed milestone.

The Valve-funded DXVK project, which kicks over D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan for use with Wine has another fresh brew available.

The day I'm sure many have waited for has arrived, a new Steam Play beta has been officially released today which includes the important FAudio project. On top of that, even more titles have entered the Steam Play whitelist.

News in the last week, heck, in the last few weeks and months have the potential to shake up the games industry significantly. It certainly may have huge repercussions for Linux gaming. It’s also been a little hard to follow sometimes, so I decided to explain many of the developments of the past few months and put them within an easy-to-understand context.

Finally, after waiting for a few months NVIDIA has released a new mainline driver which includes Transform Feedback support.

For those of you using Intel and AMD (and some older NVIDIA cards) Mesa 18.3.0 was officially released today.

After NVIDIA updated their beta Vulkan drivers recently, it came with a pretty big issue they've now corrected.

For those interested, NVIDIA have now updated their special Vulkan beta drivers with 415.18.02 so they're a little less behind.

If it wasn't enough that a new version of DXVK has been released, Wine itself also recently released the latest development build.

Take a little Wine, sprinkle over some Vulkan and you get DXVK. Part of what makes Steam Play do its magic, it has another fresh release out today.

There I am, in bed about to fall asleep when my phone lights up as I forgot to put it on silent. Thankfully so, as it turns out Valve just expanded the Steam Play whitelist and that's always a bit exciting.

DXVK, the excellent Vulkan-based D3D11 and D3D10 implementation used together with Wine that forms part of Valve's Steam Play has a fresh brew ready.

For those who need a hand managing Linux games across Steam, Wine, DXVK and so on. Lutris is here to help and a new release is now available.

DXVK continues to progress helping Linux fans play some of their favourite Windows only games with the 0.91 release now available.

Another exciting set of changes for Valve's new Steam Play system. This time the Proton beta 3.16-4 includes some really good stuff.

It seems users trying out SOULCALIBUR VI in Steam Play ended up with a major issues in both Linux and Windows due to a bug in Steam Play's Proton. Valve have now given out a statement.

Lutris, the 'open gaming platform' that acts as a front-end to help you manage various games on Linux has a fresh release out.

Valve are moving quickly based on feedback during the beta period, with Steam Play's Proton now having a 3.16-3 beta available.

Valve are continuing to polish the next version of Steam Play's Proton with an update to the beta channel.