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Feral Interactive's Linux ports may come with Vulkan sooner than we thought (UPDATED)

By Liam Dawe, 27 Oct 2016

I didn't expect this so soon, but it looks like early next year we may have a Linux port from Feral Interactive that uses Vulkan. UPDATED with the actual full quote.

'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will support Linux as soon as possible

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2016

Good news Croteam and Serious Sam fans, as 'Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope' will come to Linux as soon as it's possible to do so.

Valve looking to contract experienced Mesa developers to work on the open source AMD driver for OpenVR

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

Valve are needing people to work on Mesa to prepare it for OpenVR, and they will be paying for the effort of course.

Steam VR will use Vulkan on Linux, demo shown off on Linux, new Vive controller being made

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

Well, news from SteamDevDays is starting to trickle into my feed and I will do my best to keep up with it all for you. First up is Steam VR which will finally support Linux and the big news is that it will use Vulkan to do it.

The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' has been merged into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2016

Something I entirely missed when writing about Mesa and OpenGL, is that the open source Vulkan driver "radv" has been merged into Mesa.

The Dolphin emulator for GameCube & Wii games merges in Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2016

This is awesome, Dolphin the big GameCube & Wii emulator has now merged in the code for official Vulkan support.

Unity have released a preview of the Unity editor with the Vulkan API

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2016

This is pretty exciting, Unity have released a preview update build of the Unity engine with the Vulkan renderer.

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The Talos Principle now renders correctly in 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2016

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 Unity developer is teasing the Vulkan API in the Unity engine

By Liam Dawe, 12 Sep 2016

This is very cool and quite exciting, Na'Tosha Bard, a developer for Unity has teased a little shot of Unity + Vulkan. Looks like it's running on Ubuntu too.

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The open source Vulkan driver for AMD can now run Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, 26 Aug 2016

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.

Ashes of the Singularity developers say Vulkan for their game is pretty far along, Linux after

By Liam Dawe, 23 Aug 2016

I've been keeping an eye on Ashes of the Singularity for a long time now, as the RTS game does look pretty cool. The developers have stated their move to Vulkan is pretty far along and Linux will be evaluated after.