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You may remember recently I wrote about 'threaded GL dispatch' in Mesa possibly getting merged, after AMD's Marek suggested it and there was some backlash, well, it has continued.

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS from the Insurgency developers has a big update including new maps, updated game-modes, performance improvements and more.

Now that Aspyr Media have ported Civilization VI to Linux, it’s time to publish our interview! Grab a coffee and come learn some things.

Continuing my love for Croteam, today it was pointed out on reddit that the Croteam developers have been talking quite a bit more about Vulkan on one of their Steam forums. They also stated that Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter should have the Fusion update with Linux & Vulkan in 'weeks'.

The developer of Tinertia sent in some keys at user-request for us to take a look at this rather amusing twin-stick shooter.

Parkitect is one of those Early Access games that sits firmly at the top of my list to keep an eye on. It's really fun already and every alpha is a big boost for it.

It seems that Valve are going to continue their VR push as they have announced they have three more VR games in development.

The upcoming RPG and set in the distant future has a compelling new trailer that explains more about the background to the plot and where the player character comes in.

Aspyr Media have officially released the Linux port of Civilization VI and after testing it here’s some thoughts.

Vidar has a lot going for it even this early on, as a fan of 2D RPG, Adventure & Puzzle games it ticks a lot of boxes for me.

Another good game project that could use some help in the way of your votes: The Dark Mod. The developers are wanting to get the game onto Steam through Greenlight.

Wine-Staging has a big new update which brings in their CSMT (Command Stream Multithreading) support for DirectX 10 & 11.

Looks like everyone is going to be happy with this one. Feral Interactive have announced the system requirements for HITMAN ahead of the release next week. AMD & NVIDIA are supported.

Ethan Lee has another port available for us day-1, today we are graced with Bleed 2. It's described as a relentless action game and looks mental.

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.

Something that sadly got buried in my inbox is this video of David Airlie (Red Hat) talking about the Vulkan Graphics API.

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.

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.

'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.

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.