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Shadwen, the brand new stealth game from Frozenbyte looks like it will support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Feb 2016

Shadwen looks awesome, and I'm going to be honest I hadn't heard of it until it was sent it. Shadwen is a true stealth game where the only rule is to remain unseen. Stay hidden – or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight! Looks like it's coming to Linux too.

Layers of Fear, a psychedelic horror experience released on Linux thanks to Aspyr Media and Bloober Team

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2016

Are you ready to crap your pants? Layers of Fear has graduated Early Access to become a full member of the horror club.

Mad Max shows more signs that it's coming to Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2016

Mad Max the open world survival game from Avalanche Studios looks even more likely to be coming to Linux.

Darkest Dungeon will be available on Linux in March

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2016

Darkest Dungeon, a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG that's very popular should arrive on Linux in March.

GLFW, a platform-independent API for developers already supports Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2016

Good news developers, GLFW (an alternative to things like SDL) already supports Vulkan and it's available right now.

AMD blog post about Vulkan Renderpasses

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2016

AMD are doing some good work around Vulkan, and another blog post highlighting features has arrived. This time they are covering Vulkan Renderpasses.

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Nvidia release Linux beta driver with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

Well, this is awkward, Nvidia have also released a driver on Linux with Vulkan support. This leaves AMD to be the only desktop GPU vendor not to have one ready for testing on Linux.

The Talos Principle getting a Linux build using Vulkan in a few days

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

The Talos Principle is a very popular puzzle game from Croteam, and they already have a Windows build out that uses Vulkan. We Linux gamers will need to wait a few days, but it will be fun to see.

Nvidia releases an open-source Vulkan C++ API, it's now on github

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

Nvidia have been busy, they have released vkcpp which as a C++ API to work with Vulkan, as Vulkan itself is a C API.

Earth 2160 strategy game released for Linux, powered by Wine

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

To split up the Vulkan API news a little, here's a game! Earth 2160 the strategy game from 2006 is now available on Linux, and it's been bundled with Wine.

AMD state they will support Vulkan on Linux in an upcoming amdgpu driver, not ready yet

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

Considering AMD are in the middle of producing a brand new driver for Linux, it's not surprising they don't have Vulkan ready for Linux right from day one. Still, a shame for anyone on AMD hoping to test things out.

Qt Company joins Khronos Group and promotes Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

This is a pretty nice boost for Vulkan, as the Qt Company has officially joined the ranks of high profile groups now in the Khronos Group.

Intel now shipping Vulkan enabled drivers

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

Intel is now shipping Vulkan enabled drivers so those of you on supported chips can have a play with this brand new graphics API.

Get some cheap games on Games Republic with our discount code

By Liam Dawe, 15 Feb 2016

Games Republic have a big sale on right now, and we have an additional discount code for you for use in our little store.

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Street Fighter V will release on Linux & SteamOS this Spring time

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2016

The wait is nearly over to have Street Fighter V on Linux & SteamOS. The developers have confirmed it will be available for us this Spring.

XCOM 2 strategy game reviewed on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2016

XCOM 2 has been well reviewed for Windows, but exactly how is it on Linux? I spent many hours defending the earth to find out.

Dying Light hotfix released, should fix major texture issue on Linux, no co-op fixes yet

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2016

Well, looks like Techland are at least paying some sort of attention to their Linux port, not much mind. They just released a hotfix to Dying Light that should fix up the low resolution texture issue. See the update at the bottom too.

Nvidia pushes more OpenGL and Vulkan blog posts for developers

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2016

Nvidia have published two more blog posts about both Vulkan and OpenGL, "Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan" and "OpenGL like Vulkan".

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Sunless Sea looks like it may get an official Linux build, game looks creepy & awesome

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2016

I've been keeping an eye on Sunless Sea for a long time, as it looks really quite good. It has had an experimental Linux version you had the email the developers to get for a long time, but it looks like it's being added to Steam.

Xenonauts 2 being made, developer tells us should be on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2016

If XCOM just isn't enough alien vs human strategy for you, Xenonauts 2 is now also being created and the developer confirmed to us it should be on Linux.

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