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

The remastered version of the classic adventure game, Full Throttle, was released on Linux last week. I’ve had some time to play through the fuel-injected experience and have a few thoughts on the game.

Here's a bit of positivity for you today! According to the statistics gathered by the netmarketshare website, in July the percentage of people using Linux on the desktop hit an all time high.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done this, but here’s part 5 in the series of me talking to developers about how their games have been selling on Linux.

I was recently sent an interesting little script that will compare a downloaded list of your Steam games, with the Wine AppDB to show you a list of what you can expect to be able to play with Wine.

The Darkside Detective, a supernatural point & click adventure recently released with day-1 Linux support and it looks good.

Helium Rain is a single-player space simulation title that's due to release on Steam on August 18th, in Early Access. The game looks good and it's being built on Linux using Unreal Engine and open source tools.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI has been updated again with the 'Summer 2017 Update', as usual the Linux (and Mac) versions are a little behind.

Pyre is the third game from Supergiant Games, the developers that previously released Bastion and Transistor, both games that were well-received and I personally would rate them as some of the best games I’ve played. Let’s see how Pyre compares, shall we?

Pressure Overdrive is an interesting mash-up between driving and shooting with your customizable steambuggy.

EVERSPACE is still coming to Linux, but sadly it's taking a lot longer than anyone had hoped. They've been working through the issues and have given an update.

Bounty Battle is a fighting game taking characters from many other popular indie games like Darkest Dungeon, Awesomenauts, Guacamelee (and many more). It's crowdfunding on Fig and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it.

Trains & Things has been announced as a multiplayer focused economic strategy game, it's built on Linux with open source tools and sounds pretty interesting.

Harold Halibut is an interesting sounding adventure game set in a spaceship that's stuck under sea. It seems it will be getting Linux support and it's currently on Kickstarter.

Another day, another journalist claiming that Valve is killing SteamOS (amongst other things mentioned) and it couldn't be further from the truth. I'm going to be pretty blunt in this one, because it needs to be.

Tangledeep, a dungeon crawler inspired by classic 16-bit RPGs has been announced as having a release next week and it will include Linux support.

Geocore, an Early Access six degrees of freedom shooter has Linux support and it was recently updated to include Vulkan too. Before getting excited, keep in mind this it's £1.99, so don't expect much from it.

Studio Wildcard seem to repeatedly mess up Early Access for ARK: Survival Evolved. First with a DLC for an unfinished game and now this new eye watering price.

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker sees you as a psychiatrist trying to solve a murder. The unique thing here is that the game is played out through various actors using FMV (full motion video).

EVERSPACE, the gorgeous looking space shooter may eventually come to Linux, but it seems it won't be any time soon due to Unreal Engine issues.