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Path of Exile adds a Vulkan Beta, another step closer to Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Path of Exile, the free to play online action RPG just recently released a huge update that adds in a Beta version of their new Vulkan API rendering system.

Deep Rock Galactic leaves Early Access, works well with Steam Play on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Rock Galactic from Ghost Ship Games has now left Early Access and thankfully it continues working very well on Linux when played with the Proton compatibility layer for Steam Play.

Halo 2: Anniversary on Linux with Steam Play Proton, single-player works well

By Liam Dawe,
Halo 2 is out on Steam now and much like Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo: Reach, the single-player works nicely on Linux thanks to the Proton compatibility layer for Steam Play.

Linux gaming overlay 'MangoHud' improves OpenGL support, better NVIDIA detection and more

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud has firmly filled a hole in tools available for Linux gamers, benchmarking and more. A handy HUD that works across OpenGL and Vulkan games and a fresh build went up.

Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too

By Liam Dawe,
VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.

Couch-based Linux 'GamerOS' shows how SteamOS could be done - with a new release up

By Liam Dawe,
While SteamOS had a nice idea to bring Linux gaming to the living room, it's currently on hold (although Valve may return to it). Now, there's another choice with the simply named GamerOS.

FOSS app 'GOverlay' for managing Linux gaming overlays adds early support for vkBasalt

By Liam Dawe,
GOverlay is fast becoming an incredibly useful free and open source Linux gaming application, giving you an easier time working with the MangoHud overlay and now the start of vkBasalt support too.

What have you been playing recently? Come tell us what you think about it

By Liam Dawe,
Every so often we like to have a chat with our readers, and find out what you've been really getting into lately on Linux.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-5 is out with updated OpenVR, Vulkan and fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve published Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play which includes some helpful additions and bug fixes, should help you play those Windows-only games while quarantined.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud and the GOverlay app for managing it both have new releases up

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud, the awesome Linux overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan games has another new release. GOverlay, the FOSS application designed to make configuring MangoHud easy has also been refreshed.

MangoHud, the excellent Linux overlay layer adds OpenGL support in addition to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
A huge update for the Linux overlay layer, MangoHud, as it can now work with OpenGL games in addition to Vulkan making it many times more useful and awesome.

GOverlay, the open source Linux app for managing overlays is progressing quickly

By Liam Dawe,
GOverlay, the open source Linux application which currently works to help you really easily configure MangoHud has progressed quickly since the initial release.

GOverlay - a new open source Linux app for managing overlays like MangoHud

By Liam Dawe,
With the Vulkan API making the creation of Linux gaming overlays like MangoHud easier, having a way to manage them without editing a configuration file would be sweet - enter GOverlay.

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary single-player works fine on Linux with Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary on Linux? Yes. It just today released on Steam, and thanks to Proton with Steam Play you can play this first-person shooter on Linux easily.

Vulkan overlay layer 'MangoHud' continues advancing quickly with a big new release

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud enables you to quickly and easily monitor FPS, temperatures, RAM, VRAM and do a little benchmarking too. A fresh release was just today put up.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.
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