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For those that don't already know, HexDSL, myself, Osirez, Jake and sometimes others have joined together for a monthly Linux chat show. Last night was episode 2, which is now up on Youtube for your viewing pleasure.

I'm sure plenty of you will be happy with this, as Mesa now has the shader cache enabled by default in Mesa-git to allow for wider testing. It may be turned off for Mesa 17.1, if wider testing shows issues with it.

It seems Razer have been getting a lot of requests for Linux support on their 'Razer Blade' laptop line, so they are looking for feedback.

Unexplored, a roguelite action rpg was emailed in as the developers have stated they will be doing a Linux version.

I had a chat on reddit about RAM use and it inspired me to check out multiple games to see just how much RAM you should be looking to have as a Linux gamer.

Wine 2.3 has officially released today and the developers are continuing their work to improve Wine performance and work on Shader Model 5.

With all the games we have on Linux now, let’s not forget some of the defining classics like Half-Life 2 which I have finally finished.

Friday has arrived and, as always, that means the arrival of the Friday Livestream. Once again we will fire up OBS and blast gameplay and associated commentary into the air for it to be caught by a telecommunications tower and be delivered to your monitor. So, grab your snacks and prepare for more live Linux gaming!

It seems that the experimental Linux version of Arma 3 is going to get the 64bit version in a coming update.

I might be just a bit late with these numbers but I figured I’d share them nonetheless. Let’s check out how well DiRT Rally runs on my Radeon hardware!

Well how's that for a headline? Lazy Bear Games (who developed Punch Club) & tinyBuild have announced their latest game called Graveyard Keeper and it sounds highly amusing.

The developers Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation have stated that Linux support is still coming and it looks like it could be soon.

Munch VR, a casual VR gamed aimed at a wide audience now has an experimental version which supports Linux.

One for developers here, as Substance Designer 6 the '3D Material Authoring and Scan Processing Tool' has seen a day-1 Linux release.

Towards The Pantheon was emailed in by the developers and it looks like a fantastic 2D RPG. The good news is that it has been greenlit so it will be coming to Steam.

The developers of Codex of Victory emailed in to let me know that their turn-based strategy with real-time base building elements will release this month with day-1 Linux support.

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.

DiRT Rally is one game a lot of Linux gamers have been looking forward to, so here’s my port report and review.

The Khronos Group have announced a '3D Portability Initiative' to enable 3D applications that are portable across Vulkan, DX12 and Metal.

The 'System Shock' remake being done by Nightdive Studios has switched to Unreal Engine and they have said that Linux support 'is not in question at all'.