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Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME

By Liam Dawe,
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.

OpenGL vs Vulkan in Mad Max, re-tested

By Liam Dawe,
Since Feral Interactive have fixed up the OpenGL renderer in the Mad Max Beta, here are some fresh OpenGL vs Vulkan tests.

Some notes and benchmarks about a performance regression in Mad Max's OpenGL rendering

By Liam Dawe,
In an effort to make things as clear as possible, I decided to do some additional testing with Mad Max. More specifically, in OpenGL for Mad Max at release vs the beta.

Unity 5.6 is now available with full Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
The Unity game engine has put out their big 5.6 update which is a very exciting release, it now includes full Vulkan support!

Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons

By Liam Dawe,
Mad Max from Feral Interactive has been updated with a public beta as the Linux version is now able to use Vulkan and it brings some mighty performance changes.

Strategy game 'Cossacks 3' will have a Linux beta on Friday and I have a key for one lucky person

By Liam Dawe,
Even though it was supposed to be delayed until April, GSC Game World have announced that there will be a public beta of the Linux version on Friday. We also have a spare key to throw at you!

Unreal Tournament updated, weapon animations overhauled and AI improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Unreal Tournament has been updated with much better weapon animations, AI improvements, map updates and more. Here's how to get it running on Linux.

Snoost, a new cloud gaming service has opened with Linux support, uses Steam's in-home streaming

By Liam Dawe,
This is an interesting one, Snoost, a new cloud gaming service powered by Amazon AWS supports Linux. It uses Steam's in-home streaming with your own games library.

Tiles, a simplistic action-puzzle game with local multiplayer is now out for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Tiles is a simple looking action-puzzle game with 90 levels of ever-increasing difficulty and it's now out for Linux.

The open source itch client is a little smarter on Linux now

By Liam Dawe,
With the latest release of the open source itch store client, you can now stop your computer going to sleep when using a gamepad.

Installation 01, a fan-made Halo game plans Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
As a big fan of the older Halo games myself, Installation 01 sounds like it could be pretty interesting. It also plans full Linux support due to using the Unity game engine.

Cheese Talks: Star Wars Games

By Cheeseness,
After four months researching Star Wars games, Cheese has released a big interactive timeline and writeup. Here's an excerpt covering the games available for Linux!

Guns N' Boxes plans Linux support, testers requested

By Liam Dawe,
Guns N' Boxes a game that promised a Linux version during the Greenlight campaign is now looking to put it out after many months waiting. They've asked for willing testers to help out.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
There's an interesting issue with certain Linux CPU governors that will actually bring down performance in Vulkan games.

Interview with Feral Interactive about their ports and Mesa drivers, Steam keys offered for Mesa developers

By Liam Dawe,
It has been a while since we officially spoke to Feral Interactive about their Linux ports, with the last time being in June 2014. It’s time to get reacquainted and see where things stand right now.

Yaakuro shows off SteamVR on Unreal Engine 4 using Vulkan on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Previously Yaakuro worked to make Unreal Engine 4 work with SteamVR using OpenGL on Linux, but now he's moved onto making it work with Vulkan!

Jack Orlando: Director's Cut now has a Wine-port on Steam for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Jack Orlando: Director's Cut, an adventure game published by Topware is the latest game of theirs to get a Wine-port on Steam.

Serious Sam Fusion 2017 (beta) for The First Encounter is now available, with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Serious Sam Fusion 2017 the massive update from Croteam is now available for Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter.

Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually

By Liam Dawe,
A developer of Star Citizen has commented on their forum to state that the game will go with Vulkan and eventually drop DirectX.

The open source itch store client has gotten smarter about 64bit and dependencies on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Okay, so this makes me love the open source itch client even more! The client has been updated to 23.3.0 which include some pretty smart updates.
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