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Homestuck universe adventure HIVESWAP: Act 2 releases November 25

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for your next adventure? The second part of HIVESWAP with HIVESWAP: Act 2 has been announced that it's finally releasing on November 25.

Typist.pk3 is a brilliant mod for Doom engine games turning them into typing adventures

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love a challenge? How about typing games that need quick thinking and quick typing? Enter Typist.pk3.

Multiplayer arena fighter 'Mighty Fight Federation' has Linux support on the roadmap

By Liam Dawe,
Mighty Fight Federation is a multiplayer arena fighter with a focus on "fighting game fundamentals" that recently launched officially for Windows in Early Access but Linux is in their plans.

Help out with FOSS as the Budgie Desktop team need translations help

By Liam Dawe,
Ever tried or heard of the Budgie Desktop? It's a modern and feature rich Linux desktop environment from the Solus Linux team and they need a little help.

Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens goes Early Access in December and it's wild

By Liam Dawe,
Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens is probably one of the biggest surprises that I tried out during a previous Steam Game Festival and it's going live soon.

A year later Stadia has messaging, user profiles and possibly new countries coming

By Liam Dawe,
Stadia, the Linux-powered game streaming service from Google is just about to coming up on the one year mark since it originally went live for early backers. They're now releasing new features again and talking about the future.

2014 point and click adventure A Golden Wake gets updated with fresh Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Love your point and click adventures? A Golden Wake is one you might have missed from all the way back in 2014, and it's still being upgraded.

Grab a free copy of BUTCHER during the GOG Made in Poland Sale

By Liam Dawe,
GOG are doing their annual celebration of Polish game developers with the launch of the Made in Poland Sale, along with a FREE copy of BUTCHER you can grab.

Beyond All Reason aims to revive the RTS style of Total Annihilation

By Liam Dawe,
Total Annihilation is still to this day, one of the best RTS games ever made. I'll engage in fisticuffs with anyone who disagrees and Beyond All Reason is pursuing the ideal of Cavedog's classic.

Pushamo is a challenging and award-winning arcade push-em-up out now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Love block pushing puzzlers? Have fond memories of Tetris and want something a bit more complex? The arcade push-em-up Pushamo is out now and you can support charity with it.

80s terminal PC styled turn-based tactics game Mainframe Defenders has a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
With a seriously great looking 80s terminal PC style that you need to see in action to appreciate, the hidden gem Mainframe Defenders has seen a big update recently.

The classic Driver 2 has a new reverse engineered open source game engine

By Liam Dawe,
Any of our readers remember Driver 2? I remember spending absolutely hours driving around in this classic PlayStation game and now maybe you can relive it or experience it for the first time.

Open source game manager Lutris sees the big 0.5.8 release out now

By Liam Dawe,
Keeping your games together from different services and stores can be a breeze with the likes of Lutris, a free and open source game launcher and manager.

The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 24

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a little while since the last episode, so it's time for a fresh set of ranting and discussion in the GamingOnLinux Co-op News Punch Podcast.

Valve dev clarifies what some of their upcoming and recent Linux work is actually for

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are committed to Linux and Linux gaming with Steam, that much is currently clear. They're working with so many contractors on various things, and it seems not everything is as people think.

Go sight seeing in the American Truck Simulator - Colorado expansion out now

By Liam Dawe,
SCS Software continue to expand where we can go trucking with the American Truck Simulator - Colorado expansion out now and it looks like it has some good sights to see.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Craftworld Aeldari expansion is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Craftworld Aeldari is the latest expansion to the first turn-based 4x strategy game in the Warhammer universe.

Check out Linux porter Ethan Lee show off how Linux games are built and packaged

By Liam Dawe,
You've heard a lot about various packaging systems on Linux from deb to rpm and the next generation with Snap and Flatpak, but what about how games get built and packaged up?

Collabora give an overview of their work with Valve at the Linux App Summit 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in all the work the open source consulting firm Collabora are doing with Valve to help improve Linux gaming? We've got you covered.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-2 compatibility layer is out now with improved Direct3D 12 support

By Liam Dawe,
The Proton compatibility layer used with Steam Play on Linux has a brand new release out with Proton 5.13-2.