Category: Vulkan

If you're excited about F1 2017 coming to Linux with Vulkan here's a chance to get a glimpse of it before the release on Thursday.

After a few leaks, it’s now official! F1 2017 is coming to Linux and Feral Interactive are porting it. The plan is to release it on November 2nd (Thursday next week!).

Looks like the Beta of ASTROKILL went well, as the developer just pushed out a big update and with it comes official Linux support.

The cross-platform development library has seen the release of its latest version. Quite a few exciting changes this time around, including support for Vulkan and more types of gamepads.

Apocalypse: The Game, another survival game built with Unity will have Linux support. It's built by one developer and it will have Vulkan support.

SDL 2.0.6, the next version bump of the popular cross-platform development library has entered the pre-release stage. It looks to be a great release too!

War Thunder, the free to play cross-platform MMO may gain Vulkan support in "the near future" the developers have said.

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation recently gained Vulkan support in the 2.4 update along with tons of other new stuff. The interesting thing is that Linux is mentioned once again.

Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.17 which comes with some nice improvements to their handling of Vulkan.

Serious Sam Fusion is Croteam's Vulkan-powered game engine that covers many Serious Sam games and it seems they have some plans.

Epic Games have done a talk at SIGGRAPH 2017 and it turns out they're looking to make Vulkan the default API for exported Linux games.

Ashes of the Singularity is aiming to have Vulkan support in August, which paves the way for Linux support in future.

I think a lot of people were waiting on this one. Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available in the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan!

Ballistic Overkill, the fun and cheap online FPS that recently added Vulkan support now has an opt-in beta for you to try. The developers say it's aimed at improving performance. UPDATE: It's now out of Beta.

The awesome GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has officially dropped support for the D3D12 API in favour of going all-in with Vulkan.

In an impressive show of support, the post from the Stardock CEO asking for Ashes of the Singularity Linux version requests has more posts than reviews on Steam.

Breaking Point is an online survival game that blends survival realism with the gameplay of a modern military shooter. It was previously an Arma 3 mod, but now they're moving to Unreal Engine 4 with a Kickstarter and they plan Linux support.

For those who've been waiting to watch the videos from the UK Vulkan event, you will be pleased to know that the videos are now up on Youtube. This includes the videos featuring Feral Interactive and Croteam.

Recently Feral Interactive, Croteam and others spoke at an event in the UK about Vulkan. The slides are now available, but the videos aren't up yet.

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation will come to Linux if Stardock see enough requests for it. The CEO of Stardock has requested to see how much interest there is.