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HITMAN for Linux officially announced, port by Feral Interactive and arriving this month
7 February 2017 at 8:21 pm UTC

Quoting: ellie_feralTo clarify, we haven't announced what our first Vulkan game will be, nor a timescale of spring. We're aiming to get a Vulkan game out in the first half of this year.

If you got Vulkan tangled up with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, that's because we talked about Vulkan during a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided live stream. Which was nice and confusing, woo.
True, true, sorry for mixing it up. I was on the Twitch chat during that stream but I don't remember the exact words.

Here's the GOL source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactives-linux-ports-may-come-with-vulkan-sooner-than-we-thought-updated.8418

P.S.
First half of the year and Spring are kinda the same since the first day of Summer is June 20 :P

HITMAN for Linux officially announced, port by Feral Interactive and arriving this month
7 February 2017 at 5:01 pm UTC

Quoting: lejimster
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)

I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.
They already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).

EDIT:
Seems like I was vastly inaccurate about that (sorry!), here's the GOL source on the subject:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactives-linux-ports-may-come-with-vulkan-sooner-than-we-thought-updated.8418

Steam Beta Client updated, finally fixing the notification spam when you login and group notifications
1 February 2017 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Valve- Fixed Steam Video Player failing to load correctly when using non-latin characters in your Windows user name
I like how these two things seem unrelated, yet were a cause of a bug :)

Some thoughts on 'imprint-X', the button pushing puzzle game that had day-1 Linux support
29 January 2017 at 10:34 pm UTC

A fact: this is a game from Mordondag, the creators of RymdResa, a roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated world:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/269690/

Shadow of Mordor benchmarks old vs new on Linux
27 January 2017 at 12:11 pm UTC

So, more stable and more fluent on average. Good job!

Jonathan Blow states he is open to a Linux port of The Witness with Vulkan, but never with OpenGL
26 January 2017 at 11:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Not sure why he cares so much because surely it won't be him doing the port (Knockout Games was hired to port The Witness to Xbox One).

Of course I realise that offering technical and monetary support for the potential Linux port for years to come might be somewhat problematic.

I respect Jonathan Blow and his work a lot so obviously if one day he will decide to release his latest game to Linux, I will be glad to buy it!

Imperium Galactica II: Alliances released for Linux & SteamOS, seems native too
19 January 2017 at 11:01 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawelibGLEW.so.1.13
Installed by default on Ubuntu 16.04, Mr Antergos Man :P

Site update: Content bookmarking system now live
19 January 2017 at 10:54 pm UTC

Although I use external system for bookmarks, I think this is a dope feature!

Exploring a floating island in 'Pocket Kingdom', a very well done throwback to Amiga games
17 January 2017 at 8:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdaweGOL follower hardpenguin
That's me! Omg, I'm famous! :D

I'm glad you liked it, Liam. I also think the game is seriously underrated and I enjoyed it from the beginning to end :)