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Nvidia are really pushing hard on their Vulkan driver, and it's great to see them push out updates so quickly. We now have the 364.16 Vulkan driver ready for download.

The developer behind Banished, a city builder/survival game coming to Linux has written up their thoughts on Linux. It does make for an interesting read.

The developers behind Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure sent word in that their comedy point 'n click game is now on Kickstarter. It has a Linux demo right now, so it's good to see a project that is able to deliver on Linux even this early on.

Someone emailed in asking me to check out Bullshot, so I did, and It's easily one the stupidest games I've played to date. The graphics really are quite awesome though.

Consortium: The Tower looks like a pretty incredible FPS/RPG that is seeking funding (and it looks like it will easily hit it) on Fig. They are promising day-1 Linux & Mac support too using Unreal Engine 4. Although I do have concerns about their Linux plans. (Post updated)

As per usual, the Friday Livestream will happen once again today. Make sure you are tuned to the Twitch channel for some live Linux gaming orchestrated by the chaos master himself, me that is.

I've been waiting for The Kindred to be updated to a point where it's properly playable, and now that it is I was sent keys to this interesting looking town building sim to check out.

I don't normally cover Kickstarters, but The Wild Eight not only looks like a decent survival game, the game is planned for Linux day-1 too.

Trench Run is another 2D action game from Transhuman Design and it looks like a blast to play. Make friends, and then blow them to bits.

The developers at Itch.io have certainly built a decent webstore, and their new desktop client is pretty slick too. The Itch app is now on Greenlight, which is getting them lots of free publicity, as well as being quite amusing.

NeuroVoider has probably one of the most amusing license agreements around, and the game looks great too. It's a slick new twin-stick shooter RPG, and the developer sent me a key.

Today I had a chance to look at SKYHILL, an interesting looking 2D survival game about escaping from the top floor of a hotel.

7 Days to Die recently released Alpha 14, and with it came broken graphics for Linux gamers. The developers are asking for logs to help them narrow down what's causing it. It sounds very familiar to me.

Two Worlds: Epic Edition continues Topware Interactive's push into Linux with their older titles. It is now available in beta form, and it uses Wine.

Thanks to our friends at Games Republic, I was sent a key to take a look at NO THING a brand new minimalistic surreal action game that has day-1 Linux support.

Parkitect is already a pretty fun game, and it certainly feels like an evolution from the classic Theme Park. It already supports Linux, and it's coming to Steam Early Access on May 5th.

Interesting, Feral Interactive are teasing us all again with a new port coming with a new clue posted on their radar.

Good news everyone, it looks like the SteamDB info from before might actually be true about Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II coming to Linux. The latest information points to it being from Feral Interactive.

Darkest Dungeon has had two Linux beta updates since the recent release, and it looks like most of the major bugs are out of the way.

RimWorld is an extremely cool colony builder with Prison Architect inspired graphics. The latest update has been in the oven for a while, and it's big.