Take out enemies from an attack helicopter using an FLIR camera in Chopper: Lethal darkness

Banshee Engine Planning For Linux Support In Q4

Banshee has been a promising C++14-written, multi-threaded open-source game engine featuring Vulkan support. When the Vulkan support was added at the start of the year the plan was to see the Linux support added to the game engine in Q2. Well, it looks like in Q4 we could see the Linux client finally materialize.

For those that have been wondering about the Linux support for Banshee, the engine's roadmap now reflects a plan to add Linux support in Q4. Meanwhile, the engine's 1.0 beta release is planned for early 2018.

RadeonSI OoO Rasterization Lands In Mesa 17.3 For RX Vega & VI GPUs

The RadeonSI out-of-order rasterization support for RX Vega "GFX9" and Volcanic Islands GPUs has now landed in Mesa 17.3-devel Git.

The out-of-order rasterization support should be able to boost the performance of these newer graphics cards in some Linux games. The support is enabled by default for now on Vega/VI GPUs while can be disabled with R600_DEBUG=nooutoforder.

Mir Now Has Initial Support For Wayland Clients

Quietly being added to the Mir display stack a week ago was initial support for Wayland clients.

Natively supporting Wayland clients within Mir has been a new goal for the remaining Mir developers at Canonical now that the original Mir plans were abandoned when Canonical did away with their grand vision for Unity 8. Mir is still being maintained at Canonical for some IoT use-cases while they hope some open-source projects will still decide to make use of their technology. With now at least having native Wayland client support, they stand some chance of Mir being useful to other groups.

Fugl – Meditative bird flying game should hopefully see Linux support

I've been keeping an eye on Fugl [Steam, Official Site], after seeing it on Twitter and decided to see if it would come to Linux. Seems quite likely actually!

Don’t Starve: Hamlet DLC announced, plus updates for Shipwrecked & Don’t Starve Together

The situation of 'RUINER' coming to Linux is so very strange, developers now asking for requests

I was excited about RUINER [Official Site], as I'm sure many of you were also. It was originally announced the Linux support and now it's just strange.

Prime Arena, a game inspired by MOBA and PUBG should see a future Linux released

What do you get when you cross a MOBA style game with PUBG (PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS), well Prime Arena [Steam] apparently. It should see a Linux release in future too.

WWI FPS 'Tannenberg' from the developers of Verdun to see day-1 Linux support

Tannenberg [Steam] is not only from the Verdun developers, it's also serves as a standalone expansion. The developers have announced the release date and platforms now too.

It will release on November 16th, although it will be in Early Access, it will have full Linux support.

Psychonauts is Currently Free on the Humble Store

I can’t think of a single Linux gamer who doesn’t own a copy of indie platforming hit Psychonauts. But if you happen to be that rare outlier this is you chance to grab a copy — and for free!

Mesa GL Threading Gets Flipped On For More Linux Games

The mesa_glthread functionality has now been whitelisted for more Linux games.

The Mesa GL threading work is driver-agnostic Mesa OpenGL multi-threading work that can help many games especially on lower-end multi-core CPUs but not all games, as shown by our recent benchmarks.

Arma 3 for Linux updated to 1.70, it’s now 64bit and solves the texture issue I had

The Linux version previously sat at 1.64 since December 2016, so this update is a pretty big one for us. Both in terms of the time it took to come out and what’s changed. We’re now at Arma 1.70, but we are still lagging behind the Windows version, so you might have trouble finding people to play with online.

Albion Online's next free expansion is due out September 27

Albion Online's "Joseph" update has been given a release date of September 27th and it does sound like a pretty good one.

This big update adds a bunch of notable features, my favourite of which is an Arena battle mode. This is where two teams of 5 battle for control points. If your team wins, you will gain Arena Sigils, which can be redeemed for vanity item rewards.

The 'Hurricane Relief Bundle' on itch has a few Linux games

Want to help people and buy games? The Hurricane Relief Bundle on itch will help you do just that. It has a few Linux games in it too. I think ideas like this are great, I couldn't imagine the stress and heartache from having my house destroyed by such furious weather.

There's quite a few games in it, some of which I've never heard of. However, there is a few goodies in there to be aware of. It has Automata Empire, Gunmetal Arcadia Zero, Maia and plenty of others.

RUINER, the Unreal Engine brutal action shooter has been delayed for Linux

For those eagerly awaiting RUINER [Official Site], prepare to wait a little longer. It was announced quite quietly on Steam that the Linux version is delayed.

A new Steam Client Beta is out with reduced CPU use, DPI fixes and more

Steam Should Now Have Lower CPU Usage In The Background, DPI Scaling

Valve pushed out a new Steam beta overnight and it's a bit heavier on the feature side.

First up, Steam should now have lower CPU usage and battery impact when Steam is running in the background. The background changes they made though to lower the impact were not mentioned.

Eat or be eaten in Tooth and Tail, a new strategy game with day-1 Linux support, my thoughts

As a big fan of real-time strategy games, I couldn’t pass up checking out Tooth and Tail [Official Site, Steam] from Pocketwatch Games.

Exciting looking customizable top-down shooter 'JYDGE' will be a day-1 Linux release

JYDGE [Steam, Official Site] looks like the nuts top-down shooter I've seen for a while and the great news is that it's arriving on Linux in October.

Knightfall, a reduced vision action RPG now has Linux support, developed live on Twitch

Want to play 'Duck Game' on Linux? Well, it's possible thanks to XnaToFna

Duck Game [Official Site] is a popular action game that's a little insane and it's actually possible to run it on Linux, thanks to developer "0x0ade".

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker is now officially available for Linux

The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker [Steam, Official Site], a Full Motion Video game about solving murder whilst dealing with the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker.