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To end the week, here's the latest episode of the chilled-out Linux Gaming News Punch, keeping you up to speed on some interesting topics this past week.

Just as an update to our previous article talking about Valve's new VR headset the Valve Index, I contacted Valve to get some bits cleared up.

Another week has come and gone and as usual you're struggling to follow everything, so here's another episode of the Linux Gaming News Punch.

While details are extremely light, we now know Valve's VR headset is called the Valve Index and more details are coming soon.

This is quite an exciting release for Steam Play, as Valve just put out a brand new release of Proton.

No Man's Sky from Hello Games had a pretty iffy launch, with many not happy with it but Hello Games stuck at it and continued expanding it. They’ve announced more huge free updates coming and it works very well on Linux with Steam Play.

The Khronos Group recently announced a provisional specification of OpenXR, a royalty-free open-standard aimed at unifying access to VR and AR (collectively known as XR) devices. Also, Collabora announced Monado, a fully open source OpenXR runtime for Linux.

DXVK, the excellent project that Valve has been funding has a fresh brew out to continue the exciting progress made.

Valve may be gearing up for an interesting few years, as it seems Erik Wolpaw who helped write Portal, Half-Life: 2 episodes and more is now back at Valve.

Now that 2018 is coming to a close, let's have a little look over some of what we think are the top Linux games released this year.

Valve released some interesting lists today which show off some top games, these lists show some interesting details about Linux games.

For those who miss the glory days of Wipeout, take a look at BallisticNG which just left Early Access.

The day I'm sure many have waited for has arrived, a new Steam Play beta has been officially released today which includes the important FAudio project. On top of that, even more titles have entered the Steam Play whitelist.

News in the last week, heck, in the last few weeks and months have the potential to shake up the games industry significantly. It certainly may have huge repercussions for Linux gaming. It’s also been a little hard to follow sometimes, so I decided to explain many of the developments of the past few months and put them within an easy-to-understand context.

Serious Sam Fusion, the game hub that allows you to play Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Serious Sam 3: BFE along with the VR version finally has an update.

ZED, the adventure and puzzle game whose team includes some of the creative forces behind Myst and many other popular games that was funded on Kickstarter has a brand new trailer and publishing partnership.

It appears Valve are truly getting more serious about Virtual Reality as they appear to be making their own headset. On top of that, apparently a new Half-Life VR game is coming.

With the talk of some big players moving into cloud gaming, along with a number of people thinking Valve will also be doing it, here’s a few thoughts from me.

This is pretty sweet! Locomancer, a Virtual Reality game about building a model train set has added Linux support.

Valve are moving fast with Steam Play updates! Just today they've released the Steam Play 3.16-1 beta which is a pretty big deal.