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Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.

One Dreamer: Prologue, a narrative adventure about a failed VR game developer needs some Linux testing

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Gareth Ffoulkes is currently working on One Dreamer, a narrative story adventure about an indie game developer suffering burnout. There's a Prologue and it now has a Linux Beta that needs some testing.

xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve

By Liam Dawe,
Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.

Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes

By Liam Dawe,
While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows

By Liam Dawe,
Today Valve made quite a big announcement about the future of VR, including an entire platform being dropped.

Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR

By Liam Dawe,
Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.

Total Mayhem Games drops Linux support for We Were Here (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Total Mayhem Games have announced that We Were Here, a co-op puzzle game series, will no longer support Linux. UPDATED 25/06/20.

It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.

Humble 2K's Game Together Bundle went live with a few Linux games

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Bundle has a new set of games ready with the Humble 2K's Game Together Bundle, there's a few nice picks for Linux gaming fans in it and more if you use Steam Play Proton.

UNIGINE 2 Community is a new edition of the powerful cross-platform game engine that's free to use

By Liam Dawe,
Are you a game developer or an enthusiast looking to use a cross-platform and powerful game engine? UNIGINE 2 is now available in a 'Community' edition that's FREE to use.

Google announces three more games coming to Stadia including Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom

By Liam Dawe,
Now that the Linux-powered game streaming service Stadia is open to everyone with two months of Stadia Pro free, Google has announced another three games coming.

Valve and CodeWeavers now offering test builds of Proton before release with Proton 5.0-6 RC1 up

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like Valve and CodeWeavers are switching up how Proton is released, with a series of test builds now being provided before a new stable release in the hopes of seeing fewer issues.

Valve have a new Beta installer for the Linux Steam Client for the brave tester

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to push Linux gaming forward and today they have a new Beta installer available to try for the Steam Client.

New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
While Half-Life: Alyx isn't on Linux (yet—it's coming), Valve are still trying to get it working as good as possible with Steam Play Proton and a new update for SteamVR is up.

Half-Life: Alyx arrives today (Linux should come later) and CS:GO gets Alyx cosmetics

By Liam Dawe,
As Half-Life: Alyx arrives today, just a reminder that it should hopefully be coming to Linux in a post-release update. On top of that, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive got some fancy cosmetics for it.

Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue rapidly iterating on SteamVR, as they attempt to push the limits of what VR can do both on the hardware and software side with SteamVR 1.10 out now.

Valve make some needed improvements to the Steam Search

By Liam Dawe,
After testing out a bunch of changes to the way Steam Search works in a Steam Labs experiment, Valve has now rolled it out for everyone with new features.

Open source XR runtime (VR/AR) 'Monado' sees a first release

By Liam Dawe,
With the Khronos Group launching the OpenXR specification last year, their aim was to unify Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) development while Collabora worked on their open source implementation of Monado.

Canonical need a little testing hand for a newer Steam package on Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe,
With Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" being released in the next few months, the team over at Canonical are looking for a little help testing their updated Steam package.
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