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Heroic Games Launcher for the Epic Store on Linux gets some essential fixes

By Liam Dawe, 7 Sep 2021

For those of you wanting a simple way to get your games from the Epic Store running on Linux with the Wine compatibility layer, the Heroic Games Launcher continues to roll out upgrades.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through July 2021

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2021

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!

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

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2021

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.

Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 is out with better performance, playtime tracking and more

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

The Heroic Games Launcher is a fantastic community effort to bring the Epic Games Store to Linux and Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 builds upon the foundation to provide a better experience.

Manage your Linux gaming overlays with the latest release of Goverlay

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

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

Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.0 'Arlong' is out now and goes multi-platform

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Not only does the alternative open source Epic Games Store client Heroic Games Launcher have a new release out with 1.8.0 'Arlong' it's also gone multi-platform.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games sees a small bug fix release ahead of the big 1.8

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2021

Heroic Games Launcher is an application built on top of the a command-line client called Legendary, and Heroic has a fresh bug fix release out to help ahead of a major release.

Grab a coffee and come read the latest Sunday Section - May 30

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2021

Time to round-up some of the smaller items we unfortunately didn't get time to go over this week, grab a coffee and relax with a short read of some good stuff.

Heroic Games Launcher for running Epic Store titles on Linux 1.7.0 release is out

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2021

As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux with their store, the Heroic Games Launcher picks up that slack and it has a new release now available for you.

Steam Play Proton gets a few quick fixes in the 6.3-4 release out now

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2021

Valve / CodeWeavers have releases another update to the current stable Proton series with the 6.3-4 release.

Resident Evil Village gets better on Linux with the latest Proton Experimental

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2021

Valve and CodeWeavers have once again updated Proton Experimental, bringing with it a needed fix for Resident Evil Village running on Linux.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux version 1.5.8 is out fixing a critical bug

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2021

Have plenty of games on the Epic Games Store? The Heroic Games Launcher continues maturing to allow you to download and play them on Linux through a native application.

The Sunday Papers - Linux and Gaming odds and ends

By Liam Dawe, 18 Apr 2021

It's Sunday, a time for coffee, a sit in the sun and perhaps a little gaming? Time for a small round-up of some missed bits we wanted to go over recently.

The open source Epic Games client for Linux, Heroic Games Launcher can now run offline

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2021

The open source Heroic Games Launcher is a game launcher that currently works with the Epic Games Store, providing Linux users with an easy way to manage it and play games.

The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 26

By Liam Dawe, 15 Feb 2021

The first GOL Podcast episode of 2021 is here, come get it while it's hot and ranty as we cover a range of weird and wonderful topics in Linux, open source, gaming and more.