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Feral have patched the Vulkan Beta of Mad Max again, another look at performance with benchmarks
Feral Interactive have pushed out another Mad Max patch for the Vulkan Beta, they claim to have improved Vulkan further, so I took a look.
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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.
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Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps adds Linux support with a Beta
Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps, a mech combat game on Steam now has a Beta available with Linux support baked-in.
The Signal From Tölva, the new open-world FPS from Big Robot may still come to Linux
I wrote about The Signal From Tölva back in August of last year as it looks amazing. It has now been released on Windows and the developers are still fully open to getting it on Linux.
Need more Serious Sam? Serious Sam's Bogus Detour arrives this summer
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour is another Serious Sam title, but this one is a top-down manic shooter for up to 12 players.
First-person puzzler 'Quern - Undying Thoughts' now available on GOG with a Linux build, some thoughts
Quern - Undying Thoughts, a first-person puzzler inspired by the likes of Myst and Riven has been released on GOG and they have a Linux build too.
Open source game engine for Morrowind 'OpenMW' to gain 'Distant terrain' in the next release
One thing I totally forgot to write about is that in the next release of OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind, will finally have the 'Distant terrain' feature.
Man O' War: Corsair, the Warhammer naval battler has a release date
Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles only added Linux support back on March after I poked the developer and now they have a final release date set.
Inner Chains, yet another Kickstarted title to delay Linux support
Inner Chains is a rather dark FPS powered by Unreal Engine 4 and it does look incredible. The problem is, the release date has been set with no Linux release in sight.
An interview with Beamdog about Linux gaming, they say it’s worth it
I had the pleasure of speaking to two different teams at game developer and publisher Beamdog, notable for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and the soon to be released Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition.
Pray for Death, a classic fighting game has been packaged up with DOSBox on GOG
Linux gamers can now easily play the classic fighting game 'Pray for Death', as GOG have packaged it up with DOSBox.
AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver released
AMD have released their AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver which includes a few important fixes as well as official support for Ubuntu 16.04.2 64bit. It should also fix a Mad Max Vulkan issue.
Lose your castle and sell some weapons in 'Weapon Shop Fantasy', now on Linux
Well that's a fancy title isn't it. Weapon Shop Fantasy is a new 2D mix of an RPG and a weapon-shop simulator wrapped up neatly together and it was recently released for Linux.
Feral Interactive have released a new teaser for a Linux & Mac port to come
Yup, it's teaser time again! Feral Interactive are teasing another new Linux & Mac port on their infamous teaser radar.
Shroud of the Avatar major update, also free to try for a few days
Shroud of the Avatar, the RPG that has single-player and selective online modes has a big new release out. You can also try it for free for a few days to see if you want to buy it. I tried it again and have some thoughts for you.
Hyperspace Dogfights, the roguelike air combat brawler is now available on itch
Hyperspace Dogfights, a new in-development air brawler is available on itch. The game is already quite impressive in many ways.
Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME
I have been debating writing about this since we are mainly a gaming news site (I should really setup another site for all the other Linux news I want to write about!), but Canonical switching back to GNOME on Ubuntu is very big news for everyone.
Key reseller G2A is being told to clean up their act, or lose AAA publishing deals
Ah key resellers, a topic that always generates a lot of heat. A lot of it usually directed at me for 'telling you what to do', but this might help clear some things up.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
Based on their Pascal architecture, NVIDIA has announced their top-end GPU the 'TITAN Xp' and it's an absolute monster of a card.
The Great Whale Road, a story-driven turn-based tactics game with RPG elements, my review
The Great Whale Road, a game with turn-based tactical battles and RPG elements where you build up a settlement has released. I took a look to see if I could be a good jarl.
Stellaris: Utopia expansion released, some thoughts on the game as a whole now
Stellaris: Utopia is the big content expansion I have been longing for, but is it worth picking up? I take a look at what the game feels like now.
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