• Quantum Replica, a game of fast-paced stealth and metroidvania action releases for Linux next year

  Quantum Replica [Steam], another game from publisher 1C Company, who've teamed up with developer ON3D will bring some fast-paced stealth and metroidvania action to Linux when it releases next year.

• Shotgun Farmers adds a 'Gromato Launcher' that launches exploding tomatoes

• Post apocalyptic open-world survival game 'Ashworld' launches on Steam

  Ashworld [Official Site] is the latest game from indie developer Orangepixel. It's a post apocalyptic open-world survival game and it's actually pretty good.

• The Journey Down: Chapter Three has officially launched to conclude the series

• There's so many Linux games on sale right now, it's a good time if you're skint

• Organics sighted, marking for destruction - Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn released along with a free patch

We’ve come a long way since SuperTuxKart, here’s my little listicle of interesting racing games available for Linux & SteamOS. All titles have been tested either by me, or someone else on the GOL team.

• Ostriv, a city-builder set in the 18th century will have Linux support

  Ostriv [Official Site] is a city-builder built by one developer and I think it looks reasonably impressive. The developer plans Linux support too.

• The Humble Very Positive Bundle 2 is an awesome deal

• Back to Bed, an interesting and slightly weird puzzle game is currently free on Steam

• Blowing everyone up in EVERSPACE, my thoughts

  After a long wait, EVERSPACE [Steam] arrived for Linux recently, here’s my thoughts of this rather intense space shooter. I personally purchased my copy, as space combat games are one of my original loves.

• Homestuck adventure game HIVESWAP: Act 1 releases without promised Linux support

  Looks like another possible Kickstarter disappointment. The game Hiveswap: Act 1, by Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie, set a fundraising record back in 2012, making a whopping $2 million when it only asked for $750k. Linux support was one of the early stretch goals, which was smashed on the very first day. The game was set to release in 2014.

  Over the following years the game saw setbacks, mostly due to the team contracted to work on the 3D graphics going off to work on King's Quest instead and leaving Hussie in the lurch. So he retooled, made a strategic alliance with Viz comics, and made a 2D adventure game instead. The game released today on Humble and Steam — with no Linux support.

• 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.