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Thanks to PC Gamer we have been pointed to an interview that Tim Sweeney the founder of Epic Games did, and he's blasting Microsoft yet again.

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.

Moirai is a very lightweight and short mini-game (only 13 MB and lasts 10 minutes) with an incredible twist at the end.

Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II are all now available on Steam for Linux. Overlord II is also a brand new port today!

Controlling a party of adventurers, exploring dungeons and fighting weird magical creatures is an RPG tradition as old as the genre. Expect all that and more in this modern iteration of the classical dungeon crawler.

Human: Fall Flat is an open-ended physics player with an optional local co-op mode, available now on Steam for Linux.

Stardew Valley is now in Beta, good job they did a Beta too and it won't even run properly for me and others right now.

Auto-Staccato is a new action rhythm game coming to Linux and it's trying to get on Steam. Think of Audiosurf with swords and magics, it looks amusing.

I'm a little late on reporting this due to being ill, but Quake has been ported to Vulkan and it's open source of course.

FOX n FORESTS, a 16-Bit style action platformer that has adventure and puzzle elements is on Kickstarter, it looks good and promises Linux support, so I asked about the status of the Linux version.

Beat Cop is a rather interesting looking 80s inspired pixel art adventure game due out later this year, and it finally has a fresh trailer.

Kalypso Media really are getting Linux friendly aren't they! Vikings – Wolves of Midgard has been announced as a new action RPG that will launch in early 2017.

The Battle for Wesnoth is probably one of the all time great open source games. It's been around for a long time, it's well polished and now it's looking to get on Steam.

Since I am sick with Tonsillitis I decided to take a quick break from news and work on something else. Today I have updated the User Statistics Page and here's what's new.

Following on from Day of the Tentacle Remastered's Linux release, GOL editor Cheese has published 11,000 words on porting games to Linux, supplemented with thoughts and perspectives from other Linux game porters. Read on for a summary and some excerpts!

I don't have a freaking clue what's going in the teaser trailer for Sinner's Sorrow, but wow am I interested.

I'm going to be honest, I had never heard of openFrameworks until today. It claims it's a C++ toolkit that glues together several commonly used libraries to help you work quickly. They are working on a Vulkan backend that now supports Linux.

On the github pull request to bring in the Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator, it now reads as feature complete.

Dave Airlie has been working on an open source AMD Vulkan driver and he's ready to show it off a little bit.

A pretty incredible milestone for open source graphics, as it appears that Mesa along with the Intel driver has hit OpenGL 4.5.