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A fresh NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.34.01 is out with GeForce RTX 3070 support

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have now updated their super special Vulkan Beta Driver branch adding in support for the latest GPU release with the GeForce RTX 3070.

Gabe Newell of Valve is launching Gnome Chompski into space (yes really)

By Liam Dawe,
As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, today a press mail from Valve Software entered our inbox because Gabe Newell, president of Valve, is getting a garden gnome sent into space. No this is not Kerbal Space Program.

Grab a free copy of Kingdom: Classic from Humble Store

By Liam Dawe,
Consider this your weekly quick tip! Humble Store are currently doing a free game giveaway with Kingdom: Classic, you will need to act fast on this one.

Yuppie Psycho expands with an Executive Edition free upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe,
The dark work-horror comedy Yuppie Psycho from 2019 got a nice surprise upgrade for everyone with Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition available now as a free upgrade.

Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Become one with death in the Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack, the latest smaller expansion to the grand space strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios.

Meet the Raspberry Pi 400, a complete setup inside a tiny keyboard

By Liam Dawe,
The folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have done it again, they've managed to launch a product I really don't need but absolutely want with the Raspberry Pi 400.

Half-Life re-imagining Black Mesa has a Definitive Edition available in Beta now

By Liam Dawe,
As promised by the team at Crowbar Collective around the 1.0 release, a Definitive Edition of Black Mesa is coming and there's now a Beta.

Intel announced Iris Xe MAX Graphics as their first Xe-based discrete GPU

By Liam Dawe,
Intel did something of a surprise this weekend, especially on a Saturday: they announced their first Xe-based discrete GPU with the Iris Xe MAX Graphics.

Get building in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Dawe,
Build up and maintain an amusement park in the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in the free and open source modern game engine OpenRCT2.

Steal the sun in Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash out now

By Liam Dawe,
Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash is the second season to the visual novel/mech brawler and it's out now.

Testing integer scaling with Valve's gamescope micro-compositor for Linux

By Linas,
Gamescope from Valve developer Pierre-Loup A. Griffais is described as a micro-compositor that can spoof a virtual screen with a desired resolution and refresh rate and control/resize the output as needed. Here's a few early scaling tests taken.

Even More Disc Room, a few gems from the recent Game Jam

By Dennis_Payne,
To promote the release of Disc Room, Devolver Digital sponsored a Game Jam. Here are some of the gems I've found in the entries.

A look back over some popular articles for October 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for October 2020, 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!

Amnesia: Rebirth 1.1 is out, along with major rendering fixes for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Frictional Games have released Amnesia: Rebirth 1.1 which is a very important upgrade for Linux fans as it fixes up some major problems.

Monochrome RPG is channelling 1920s animation into a comedy adventure

By Liam Dawe,
This is seriously cool. Monochrome RPG is an upcoming comedy adventure about a lone comedian with an art and animation style that looks like a 1920s animation.

Difficult retro platformer Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe out now

By Liam Dawe,
Leaning heavily into nostalgia and something of a parody, the very difficult platformer series Angry Video Game Nerd has been re-released as a enhanced Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe.

The Sacrifices is an upcoming collection of seven interconnected stories set in Britain

By Liam Dawe,
Game dev studio Far Few Giants have announced The Sacrifices, a set of seven narrative adventures set in Britain.

Awesome 3D emulator for the NES '3dSen PC' adds more iconic game support

By Liam Dawe,
Still can't believe my eyes as I try out games with 3dSen PC, with it converting classic NES games into 3D and it just feels like magic.

This Halloween the Diretide event has finally returned to Dota 2

By Liam Dawe,
Live now until December 22, Valve have finally revived and refreshed the big Diretide Halloween event for Dota 2.

Atari VCS seeing supply shortages, not expecting full production until early 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Here we go again, how many delays have we seen now? This time the Atari VCS team are saying that it's so popular they don't have enough components.