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Feral no longer porting A Total War Saga: TROY to Linux, citing less demand since Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Well, the writing was on the wall for some time but this confirms it - it seems Feral Interactive aren't likely to do more Linux ports with the official port of A Total War Saga: TROY for Linux cancelled.

Run your own talent agency in business sim Idol Manager out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Glitch Pitch and PLAYISM today released Idol Manager, a business strategy sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary.

Assemble Entertainment release an open letter on who they "don't want" as a customer

By Liam Dawe,
Catching up on some industry news, a statement from Assemble Entertainment's Founder and CEO Stefan Marcinek entered our inbox recently and it's quite a blunt one.

Upcoming free to play co-op WW2 zombie shooter Projekt Z gets a Steam page and new video

By Liam Dawe,
Projekt Z from 314 Arts is starting to really sound like it's shaping up nicely and we now know a bit more about the world, their plans for monetization and more.

Get a closer look at the Steam Deck's Trackpad and Gyroscopic controls

By Liam Dawe,
The news around the Steam Deck keeps on coming in, with a new video posted up by (surprise) IGN that checks out the Steam Deck's Trackpad and Gyroscopic controls.

Intel Accelerated - new roadmap, goodbye nanometer and hello new node naming

By Liam Dawe,
Intel did a press event yesterday where they announced Intel Accelerated, a whole new roadmap and they're doing away with nanometer naming with something a bit more bland.

Proton 6.13 GE-1 is out now with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Resizable BAR

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE, the community-made version of Proton with a bunch of enhancements has a new release out with Proton-6.13-GE-1 pulling in a bunch of advanced features and fixes.

An interview with Joshua Ashton, developer on the likes of DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and more

By Liam Dawe,
Time for another GamingOnLinux interview! This time, we have someone who many that follow Valve and Steam Play Proton will be familiar with - it's Joshua Ashton.

DXVK 1.9.1 is out for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
The DXVK project continues to mature its translation layer for Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan, something that can be used together with Wine and Proton (along with a few ports using it).

Closed Hands is a deep interactive fiction about a terror attack out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Passenger has announced that their interactive fiction game Closed Hands is now available with a native Linux version from itch.io.

Manage your Linux gaming overlays with the latest release of Goverlay

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh upgrade is out for Goverlay the open source application designed to help you work with the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery.

Hacking detective adventure Song of Farca is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Alawar Premium & Wooden Monkeys Studio have launched their hacking detective novel adventure Song of Farca with native Linux support included.

Alexis Kennedy of Weather Factory puts out open letter against Failbetter Games

By Liam Dawe,
Around two years ago Alexis Kennedy, a founder of Failbetter Games, was accused of abuse by multiple women which Kennedy has always denied. Now, Kennedy of Weather Factory has put out an open letter and the situation gets a bit murky.

Valve talks performance of the Steam Deck, Big Picture UI being replaced and Gamescope

By Liam Dawe,
Need even more information on the upcoming Linux-powered Steam Deck from Valve? We've got some more that has trickled through to talk about.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Well, Valve and Linux Gaming together have come a very long way since the early blogs posts about getting Left 4 Dead 2 running fast on Linux to the new Steam Deck. But just how far have they come? Let's do a little reminiscing.

The System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard is tiny, sturdy and very slick

By Liam Dawe,
System76 sent over a review unit a few weeks ago of their System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard, so here's what I thought about this tiny yet weighty device.

OpenRCT2 the reimplementation for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a fun update

By Liam Dawe,
Another wonderful open source game engine reimplementation has a major upgrade. OpenRCT2 is a modern game engine for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and it just got better.

itch.io waives fees for a day again, should work nicely on the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
For just today the game store itch.io is running another Creator Day where they don't take a cut from any sales. Their store should also work fine on the Steam Deck.

A chat with Joshua Strobl of the Solus Linux distribution

By Liam Dawe,
With Solus seeming to go from strength to strength along with a recent big release, it was time to sit down and have a chat with one of the team about the Linux distribution.