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It has been a while since we officially spoke to Feral Interactive about their Linux ports, with the last time being in June 2014. It’s time to get reacquainted and see where things stand right now.

So it looks like after Vulkan for desktop and mobile, the web may be getting a low-level API for interactions with the GPU. They are calling it Obsidian right now (temporary name) and they state it's not a specification just yet, as they are looking to gather feedback.

Entroware have updated their Linux laptop line-up again with the Kratos-3000 and it's a little beast for sure.

Race Online is a fun little 2D racer that reminds me of my days gaming on Amiga. It's in Early Access and it just had a huge overhaul. Don't be fooled by the name, it's not an online-only game.

Previously Yaakuro worked to make Unreal Engine 4 work with SteamVR using OpenGL on Linux, but now he's moved onto making it work with Vulkan!

We saw signs of RPG Maker MV coming to Linux early last year, but now it's official. RPG Maker MV now has a Linux version and it can export Linux games.

Jack Orlando: Director's Cut, an adventure game published by Topware is the latest game of theirs to get a Wine-port on Steam.

Valve have put out a small Dota 2 update that aims to improve performance on the new Ryzen processors from AMD.

I am a massive fan of 'Avorion' as this Early Access space sandbox has a lot going for it and it just got a major update. I am also considering setting up a GOL server for it!

Serious Sam Fusion 2017 the massive update from Croteam is now available for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter.

I was sent a link to Eitr, as it's an action RPG with some really fantastic art and fun looking combat. I think you will like the look of this too and it's due for release sometime this year.

RadialApps, with blessing from the original developer, has ported over all of the Aveyond 2D RPG titles to Linux.

Overload is another new six-degree-of-freedom shooter on Steam. It's currently in Early Access, but even so it's already very impressive.

I've spent some time playing the strategy game 'Codex of Victory' now it's fully released and it's quite surprising.

A Mesa developer wrote up a blog post about the conformance of the open source Mesa Vulkan driver 'radv' for AMD.

A developer of Star Citizen has commented on their forum to state that the game will go with Vulkan and eventually drop DirectX.

The Kerbal Space Program developers Squad have announced a big expansion named 'Making History' and it sounds rather splendid.

Croteam are being awesome as usual, as Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter should get the Fusion update that includes Linux and Vulkan support early next week on Monday or Tuesday.

Sumoman is confirmed to be coming to Linux and after watching the trailer I'm officially sold on it. We do have a great variety of platformers, but the physics at play here looks hilarious.

Wine 2.4 has been officially released and the developers are still plugging away at their Direct3D command stream work to improve Wine performance.