Ray tracing seems to be all the rage at GDC this year, so AMD has announced Radeon-Rays, an open source ray tracing SDK.
For those interested, Khronos Group has today announced the release of the Vulkan API version 1.1 and NVIDIA already have a beta driver ready.
Speaking on their official blog, Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky writes about how the open source game engine will be getting Vulkan API support.
Not exactly Linux news, but still interesting since Vulkan is what will likely power many Linux games in future and having Vulkan on Mac could result in easier ports to Linux.
Many asked, now Feral Interactive have answered. Rise of the Tomb Raider is officially on the way to Linux!
Helium Rain is a gorgeous space sim and the developers have been really supportive of Linux, this update is a real juicy one too.
LunarG has now officially rolled out 'DevSim', a rather fancy tool for developers to test their Vulkan games and applications against many different configurations.
For those who noticed Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III was a bit broken on the NVIDIA 384 driver series, Feral has now fixed it.
In late December last year, the developer of the VK9 project emailed us about hitting another milestone with their project to get Direct3D 9 applications to run with Vulkan.
A bit of Croteam news to start the day with and there's multiple interesting items to go over in regards to their games.
With recent commits that fix bugs and allow newer Vega cards to pass tests for official conformance, development for radv continues apace. It’s a good time to look back and talk about just how far the driver has come in such a short time.
Typical really, the day after I do a review of 2017 and mention how AMD announced they would finally release it, but still didn't, they then go and do it today.
If you're excited about F1 2017 coming to Linux with Vulkan here's a chance to get a glimpse of it before the release on Thursday.
After a few leaks, it’s now official! F1 2017 is coming to Linux and Feral Interactive are porting it. The plan is to release it on November 2nd (Thursday next week!).
Looks like the Beta of ASTROKILL went well, as the developer just pushed out a big update and with it comes official Linux support.
The cross-platform development library has seen the release of its latest version. Quite a few exciting changes this time around, including support for Vulkan and more types of gamepads.
Apocalypse: The Game, another survival game built with Unity will have Linux support. It's built by one developer and it will have Vulkan support.
SDL 2.0.6, the next version bump of the popular cross-platform development library has entered the pre-release stage. It looks to be a great release too!
War Thunder, the free to play cross-platform MMO may gain Vulkan support in "the near future" the developers have said.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation recently gained Vulkan support in the 2.4 update along with tons of other new stuff. The interesting thing is that Linux is mentioned once again.