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OpenApoc, the open source engine for X-COM: Apocalypse shows impressive progress
9 May 2016 at 9:11 am UTC

Its a shame the game never got completed to its full extent, it was quite a novel idea back in the day having a whole city to protect and every building being a possible mission point, then the Alien city as the enemy.

I wasn't overly keen on the real-time combat as it became difficult to manage at times, I think it would have been better to have real-time UNTIL you encountered enemy then it went to turn based for easier management.

Feral Interactive officially confirm F1 2015 is coming to Linux
8 May 2016 at 8:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Feral should port Skyrim then/or Fallout4... just saying.

Stellaris preview on Linux, now available to watch on our Youtube
7 May 2016 at 5:45 am UTC

Just bought this on greenmangaming, they have a %25 off coupon "SPACE25", I got the NOVA edition.

Check out this new Shadow Warrior 2 gameplay video, coming to Linux & SteamOS
30 April 2016 at 3:31 am UTC

If you have AMD and want good performance and 4k capabilities then Vulkan will pretty much be the only way to obtain it for future games under Linux.

To put in perspective the real world performance of a AMD R9 390x and a older but nice looking game called Warthunder, with AMDGPU drivers (this is their main ones) I get 20-30fps on low-medium settings at 3840x2160 resolution, It also fails to render some effects like grass. NOW when I had my GTX980 I got 55-80fps on HIGH-MAX graphics settings with grass no problems at 4k! (that's like 9months ago now).

Benchmarks have shown that AMD cards can keep up with NVIDIA cards when it comes to Vulkan performance (requires yet to be fully release AMDGPU-PRO driver), so unless AMD does some MAJOR changes to their OpenGL driver framework then I doubt even their 22-24TeraFlop Polaris cards will do well with OpenGL for many games I play (which all seem to not work well with AMD drivers) -TO LIST A FEW-> Ark/ARMA3/Warthunder/ShadowOfM

If your interested in running finely optimized benchmarks like OpenArena/Tesseract/Xonotic/GPUTest then the AMDGPU drivers will do reasonably well.

PS. Shadow Warrior 1 runs OK at 4k with AMD hardware, hopefully SW2 is also just as good but I won't hold my breath!

Testing The Talos Principle OpenGL vs Vulkan again, now that Valve have fixed the Steam Overlay
20 April 2016 at 9:49 am UTC

Why is this site so anti AMD? I find that almost no1 mentions performance numbers with AMD cards here? They do have a Vulkan driver out, it works only on Kernel4.2 thought.

Dambuster reconfirm Linux is planned for Homefront: The Revolution, after Windows
15 April 2016 at 4:51 am UTC

Really I don't mind these games coming to Linux, be nice if COD and other such games came to Linux also (officially) because the more people we get using Linux the more effort will go into porting games over and making it a more enjoyable platform.

Linux still gets hugely trashed today for not having enough users to be viable, being way too hard to use etc etc....

ARK: Survival Of The Fittest the free online survival arena is now on Linux & SteamOS
11 April 2016 at 6:35 pm UTC

Last time I checked this didn't run very well at all for AMD hardware. I only tried main non-free game however, I REALLY hope they ad in Vulkan support in the future as it really needs it.

Enemy Starfighter, the seriously cool looking space shooter is no longer coming to Linux
10 April 2016 at 7:07 pm UTC

Well there is Limit Theory, that might make it to Linux and is basically this. Thought I think the developer has had some mental issues lately (probably common for people with VERY high IQ's like him).

Nvidia releases 364.16 Vulkan driver, improved Optimus support, improved multi-threaded scaling
10 April 2016 at 4:50 am UTC

Does Shadow of Mordor have Vulkan support? that would be awesome if it did!

Two Worlds: Epic Edition now available for Linux in beta form, uses Wine
9 April 2016 at 12:16 am UTC

If its optimized and runs seamlessly then I don't mind them using Wine, provided it shows up as a buy-able item under Linux Steam in the end. Then credit goes to Linux platform which needs less stat culling when it comes to active gaming data.