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GDC sounds like it will be fun this year with AMD, NVIDIA, Khronos, Unity & Croteam all talking Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
16
This year's GDC sounds like it might be quite interesting! AMD, NVIDIA, Khronos, Unity, Croteam and more have announced they will be doing a bunch of talks and some of them will be about Vulkan.
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Watch this video of David Airlie (Redhat) talking about Vulkan and other bits

By Liam Dawe,
3
Something that sadly got buried in my inbox is this video of David Airlie (Red Hat) talking about the Vulkan Graphics API.
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The developers of Heavy Gear Assault say that supporting Linux is a 'top concern'

By Liam Dawe,
14
The Early Access release of Heavy Gear Assault came and went and they had quite a number of issues with the Linux version, but they have made serious attempts to fix it.
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Quetoo, a free and open source FPS is looking to get on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
8
Here's one I've not heard of before! Quetoo (originally Quake2World), a free and open source FPS that's currently in Beta is asking for votes on Steam Greenlight.
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'Action Half-Life 2' version 3 released with a Linux version, here's how to install it

By Liam Dawe,
3
'Action Half-Life 2' version 3, a source-based modification aimed at simulating the experience of being in an action movie has released and it now has Linux support.
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XCOM 2 updated by Feral to support Long War 2

By Liam Dawe,
10
That didn't take long, ideal! XCOM 2 for Linux has been updated to support the huge Long War 2 mod! This mod is massive, seriously massive.
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Croteam say all Serious Sam games are on their way to Linux with Vulkan, also VR on Linux teaser from Valve

By Liam Dawe,
37
Croteam have put up a very nice blog post about all their games and it seems all of them are coming to Linux now and with Vulkan too.
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GOG is having a weekly retro sale with six titles from the late 80's and 90's with Linux support

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
8
In its current Weekly Sale, GOG is featuring a couple of games with Linux support from the late 80's and 90's. You have until Monday to buy them.
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Threaded OpenGL in Mesa will not help Feral's Linux ports and probably others too

By Liam Dawe,
9
Just a note to not get overly excited about threaded OpenGL in Mesa. While it's true it could help a bunch of games, there's also games it likely won't help or even make worse. Feral Interactive's ports already do it, and I'm sure others do too.
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HITMAN for Linux officially announced, port by Feral Interactive and arriving this month

By Liam Dawe,
130
Feral Interactive have officially announced their next Linux port and it's going to be 'HITMAN'. Another awesome game for our platform.
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Block’hood, the upwards focused neighbourhood-building simulator is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
5
If you have been missing out on another building game, never fear, GOG is near! Block’hood is now available on GOG.
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Hearthlands, the cute city builder has a final release and it's great

By Liam Dawe,
11
Hearthlands is a game I've been following for a long time and now this city builder has finally released.
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The Linux port of Banished is still alive, the developer plans their next game to launch cross-platform on day-1

By Liam Dawe,
24
It seems the Linux port of Banished isn't dead, far from it in fact. The developer just so happens to be working on other stuff at the same time.
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Looks like Killing Floor 2 may be coming to Linux from Knockout Games

By Liam Dawe,
18
More possible good news today. It seems Knockout Games might be doing the porting work of Killing Floor 2 for Linux.
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DiRT Rally system requirements revealed ahead of the Linux release next month, NVIDIA & AMD supported

By Liam Dawe,
34
Feral Interactive have released the specifications required to run DiRT Rally that will release on March 2nd for Linux.
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Early Exclusive: Civilization VI to release February 9th for Linux with a discount, NVIDIA only for now

By Liam Dawe,
47
Civilization VI is being ported to Linux by Aspyr Media and I’m seriously excited for the release. I’m able to confirm a little early for you that it will release on February 9th.
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The Battlefield-like single player FPS 'Ravenfield' will have a paid version; a Steam Greenlight page is now live

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
10
Shortly after reaching the milestone of one million downloads on December 12th, 2016, the single developer of Ravenfield announced that a paid version of the game is being prepared, and right now a Steam Greenlight page is already up.
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Mesa developer Marek is looking to finally sort out threaded GL dispatch

By Liam Dawe,
9
Marek, the Mesa developer from AMD posted a message to the public Mesa-dev mailing list asking to merge the threaded GL dispatch code and get it cleaned up to help with the high CPU overhead of Mesa.
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Albion Online gives more details on the 'Expeditions' PvE mode

By Liam Dawe,
2
Albion Online will introduce some beefed-up PvE content in the upcoming update. One such feature are the revamped 'Expeditions'.
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Super Pilot, a cool futuristic racing game could get a Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
5
If you like your fast-paced futuristic racers, you may want to know that Super Pilot could gain a Linux version with enough support.
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