AMD employee and Mesa developer Marek Olšák is at it again, proposing a series of patches that would boost performance for AMD GPUs running the open drivers.

Welcome to another Wednesday Madness here at GOL. Another quick look at some good deals you shouldn't pass up!

Another time to check out some crazy deals on Linux games. A little later than usual, but here we are!

Croteam have put out yet another stable build of The Talos Principle, which brings improvements for the Vulkan version. I did some fresh benchmarks and the difference is quite amazing.

Croteam are continuing to improve The Talos Principle with a brand new stable build that has Vulkan optimizations.

Croteam have put up a very nice blog post about all their games and it seems all of them are coming to Linux now and with Vulkan too.

2016 has been an absolute knockout year for Linux gaming, let’s have a little talk about what we have achieved.

Croteam have updated The Talos Principle today to move the last beta build over to the stable release.

This is one that’s heavy on the action and explosions. With over-the-top weapons and fast gameplay, 4Team is about seeing who the last man standing will be.

The Talos Principle is currently one of the two Linux games to use Vulkan right now, so it's great to see them keep updating it.

On this day, last year, Valve released Steam Machines onto the world, after the typical Valve delays. While the state of the Linux desktop regarding gaming has improved, Steam Machines have not taken off as a platform, and SteamOS remains stagnant. What happened with these projects from Valve? Why were they created, why did they fail, and what could have been done to make them succeed?

Topware Interactive have now put up a Linux beta for 'Battle vs Chess' that makes use of Wine. It's really cool to see them do this.

Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.

A pretty good milestone has been achieved with the open source Vulkan driver for AMD that Dave Airlie has been working on with Bas Nieuwenhuizen. It can now run Dota 2.

The developer of ChromaGun sent in a copy of the game for me to test out and while I found the idea rather cool, shooting paint around to solve puzzles it does have major issues on Linux.

Croteam have continued developing their Vulkan backend for The Talos Principle and have pushed the last beta to stable and released another beta with more Vulkan work.

A new cross platform strategy game that is seeking funds on Kickstarter and votes on Steam Greenlight.

AMD have released a nice video talking about Vulkan (and DirectX 12), it's also nice to hear Linux & SteamOS mentioned.

Croteam, who were the first game developer to put out a game with Vulkan (Talos Principle) have now put up their slides to their Vulkan talk.

Croteam are beating The Talos Principle with a hammer to bring out another stable version and a beta, both have even more Vulkan goodies.