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Flare, a free and open source RPG and game engine has a huge new 1.12 release

By Liam Dawe,
Flare is a name I've not heard for a while. It is both an RPG and a game engine for other developers to make their own games and a massive new release is out.

SkateBIRD gets delayed until September 16

By Liam Dawe,
You're going to have to wait a bit longer to do flips and things as a cute little bird, as SkateBIRD from Glass Bottom Games has been a bit delayed.

Vomitoreum is a FPS Metroidvania with a sprinkle of horror out now

By Liam Dawe,
Following the successful Kickstarter campaign, developer Scumhead has released their latest FPS with Vomitoreum.

Proton 6.14 GE-2 and Wine 6.14 GE-2 are out, easily update Proton GE with ProtonUp

By Liam Dawe,
Multiple updates to community-built versions of Proton and Wine, along with a very interesting bit of software to help you upgrade Proton GE called ProtonUp.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 6: A Lone Marine Battled

By Hamish,
In the same vein as Quake: The Offering, the next game in the series got a similar treatment for Linux with Quake II: Colossus from Macmillan Digital Publishing, containing Quake II as well as its two mission packs The Reckoning and Ground Zero.

Valve fires back in the lawsuit from Wolfire Games

By Liam Dawe,
We've been waiting to hear how the lawsuit from Wolfire Games (and others) would progress against Valve, and now we at least have word from Valve on what they think.

AMD and Valve working towards a new CPU performance scaling design for AMD CPUs

By Liam Dawe,
With the X.Org Developers Conference 2021 coming up, they've now announced that the initial program schedule is up and there's a fun sounding talk from AMD developer Ray Huang on working with Valve on new performance scaling design for AMD CPUs.

Typing adventure RPG 'Nanotale - Typing Chronicles' out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
This was a surprise to see. Nanotale - Typing Chronicles from Fishing Cactus, PID Games, 2PGames recently published an official native Linux build.

Orbiter Space Flight Simulator goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is a classic comprehensive 3D space flight simulator and the developer has recently made it open source as they've haven't had enough time for it.

Iron Gate tease more of what's coming to Valheim in Hearth & Home

By Liam Dawe,
Sounds like development on the co-op survival game Valheim is progressing well, with the first major upgrade Hearth & Home currently on schedule for release this quarter.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through July 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for July 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

Space sandbox game Avorion has a huge 2.0 Beta available now

By Liam Dawe,
Avorion is a single-player or online co-op space survival sandbox game, one where you construct your ships with individual blocks and go explore the galaxy.

Valve talk about learning from mistakes with the upcoming Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
As we all know the Steam Machines didn't go anywhere and Valve have clearly learned a lot from it, as they spoke about in a recent video from IGN.

Lutris game manager 0.5.9-beta1 is out adding Epic Games Store support

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a while since we had a new major release of Lutris, the free and open source game manager that allows you to bundle together all of your games in a single application.

Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again

By Liam Dawe,
The day I'm sure many have been waiting for, and just as many probably thought it wouldn't happen. Linux has finally hit 1% again on the Steam Hardware Survey.

You can get Delver, Tower of Time and more in the Humble RPG Heroes Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Humble Bundle are starting to ramp-up their game bundles again and they have another with the Humble RPG Heroes Bundle that has some great games inside.

Wine 6.14 released with Mono updates, more prep work for GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine hackers have today popped open another bottle to let it breathe for a bit, with the development build Wine 6.14 now available for testing.

Get a free copy of Wanderlust: Transsiberian on GOG with their publisher sale

By Liam Dawe,
Publisher Walkabout is having a bit of sale over on GOG.com and you can grab yourself a free copy of the travelling adventure Wanderlust: Transsiberian.

Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection coming from the team behind Half-Life 2: Update

By Liam Dawe,
With Valve's blessing, it seems the Half-Life 2 series is getting a full update from the team that made Half-Life 2: Update in the form of the Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection.

Humble has a pretty big Starfinder RPG bundle going with physical goodies

By Liam Dawe,
Yes, this isn't exactly Linux gaming (we do cover other geeky things…) but the Humble RPG Book Bundle: Starfinder is still thoroughly interesting with some physical goodies included too.