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Pillars of Eternity: The White March - Part II is now available

By BTRE,
14
The second expansion to the very successful Pillars of Eternity has been released. Not only does the expansion conclude the story but a large patch has come out alongside it, bringing new free content for all owners of the base game.
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Funklift, a party game with disco lights and forklifts, has a Linux demo available.

By BTRE,
1
Mixing funk and forklifts in an unusual combination, Funklift is a local multiplayer game still under development. Due to friendly prodding, the developers have also released alpha builds for Linux.
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Mad Max shows more signs that it's coming to Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Squires-Hand,
18
Mad Max the open world survival game from Avalanche Studios looks even more likely to be coming to Linux.
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Darkest Dungeon will be available on Linux in March

By Liam Squires-Hand,
2
Darkest Dungeon, a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG that's very popular should arrive on Linux in March.
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GLFW, a platform-independent API for developers already supports Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
10
Good news developers, GLFW (an alternative to things like SDL) already supports Vulkan and it's available right now.
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AMD blog post about Vulkan Renderpasses

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
AMD are doing some good work around Vulkan, and another blog post highlighting features has arrived. This time they are covering Vulkan Renderpasses.
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A brief look at Majotori, a trivia game with something of a story

By BTRE,
0
It’s not everyday you see witches and trivia being mixed up and affecting story outcomes. Majotori is a slight departure from most indie offerings and challenges players on their knowledge of video games, anime and more.
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Thoughts on first-person exploration game ESSENCE prototype, Linux crowdfunding roundup

By flesk,
2
ESSENCE is a surreal first-person exploration adventure which had me mesmerized when I first saw it on Kickstarter last year. It's back on the crowdfunding platform with a prototype, and there are also a few other campaigns there worth a look.
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Nvidia release Linux beta driver with Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
34
Well, this is awkward, Nvidia have also released a driver on Linux with Vulkan support. This leaves AMD to be the only desktop GPU vendor not to have one ready for testing on Linux.
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The Talos Principle getting a Linux build using Vulkan in a few days

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
The Talos Principle is a very popular puzzle game from Croteam, and they already have a Windows build out that uses Vulkan. We Linux gamers will need to wait a few days, but it will be fun to see.
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Nvidia releases an open-source Vulkan C++ API, it's now on github

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
Nvidia have been busy, they have released vkcpp which as a C++ API to work with Vulkan, as Vulkan itself is a C API.
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Earth 2160 strategy game released for Linux, powered by Wine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
18
To split up the Vulkan API news a little, here's a game! Earth 2160 the strategy game from 2006 is now available on Linux, and it's been bundled with Wine.
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AMD state they will support Vulkan on Linux in an upcoming amdgpu driver, not ready yet

By Liam Squires-Hand,
17
Considering AMD are in the middle of producing a brand new driver for Linux, it's not surprising they don't have Vulkan ready for Linux right from day one. Still, a shame for anyone on AMD hoping to test things out.
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Qt Company joins Khronos Group and promotes Vulkan

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
This is a pretty nice boost for Vulkan, as the Qt Company has officially joined the ranks of high profile groups now in the Khronos Group.
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Intel now shipping Vulkan enabled drivers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
9
Intel is now shipping Vulkan enabled drivers so those of you on supported chips can have a play with this brand new graphics API.
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Vulkan 1.0 specification and SDK have been released

By Samsai,
78
The specification for the long awaited Vulkan graphics API has now been released by Khronos. An SDK by LunarG has also been released which contains validation and debugging tools for Vulkan applications.
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First act of noir point-and-click adventure The Slaughter reviewed for Linux

By flesk,
1
A look at the first act of the crowdfunded point-and-click adventure game; now available on the Humble Store and Steam.
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Get some cheap games on Games Republic with our discount code

By Liam Squires-Hand,
10
Games Republic have a big sale on right now, and we have an additional discount code for you for use in our little store.
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Street Fighter V will release on Linux & SteamOS this Spring time

By Liam Squires-Hand,
36
The wait is nearly over to have Street Fighter V on Linux & SteamOS. The developers have confirmed it will be available for us this Spring.
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XCOM 2 strategy game reviewed on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
19
XCOM 2 has been well reviewed for Windows, but exactly how is it on Linux? I spent many hours defending the earth to find out.
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