Happy New Year! Here's a short look back over what the most read articles were on GamingOnLinux throughout 2024. An easy way for you to refresh your memory and prepare for 2025.

Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental, bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

From the team behind PC ports of other Nintendo games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a new PC port has arrived for Star Fox 64.

Bringing with it a whole lot of new content to play through, the Palworld - Feybreak update is officially out now ready for your holiday time.

With the feature code freeze continuing, the Wine team had put up a third Release Candidate for the upcoming stable main release of Wine 10.0 coming in early 2025.

Firaxis Games and 2K are releasing Sid Meier's Civilization VII on February 11, 2025 and now we know what power you're going to need to run it on Linux Desktop systems.

The last open source graphics driver update before the holidays is here, with Mesa 24.3.2 now available for you to upgrade.

Another bug fixes release is out for DXVK (v2.5.2), the project that translates Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11 to Vulkan. It's a big part of what makes Proton able to run Windows games on Steam Deck / Linux so nicely.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl from GSC Game World has a huge patch out now, that attempts to fix up a lot of the disappointments and bugs with their A-Life system and other AI issues.

A small Proton Experimental update was released today for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gamers ahead of the coming holiday season. Here's all that's new.

Witch-tech? That's a new one. Crescent County has a really fun idea and some lovely visuals too. It's a delivery life-sim where you move to a witch-tech island and explore its painterly open world on the back of your scrappy, souped-up motorbroom.

I quite enjoyed the first initial demo of Tempest Rising, a classic RTS like Westwood used to make (Red Alert, Command & Conquer) only a lot shinier and now it has a release date along with a new trailer.

A Game About Digging A Hole sounds like it might actually be somewhat amusing. As the name suggests, it's all about digging down deep where you might find some secrets.

No More Robots and Teenage Astronauts recently revealed Little Rocket Lab, a cozy take on the production-line automation genre and it looks lovely.

While they're finishing up work on the final bits of The Long Dark, Hinterland recently revealed the next game with BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2.

With the Windows compatibility layer Wine now in a code freeze, they're focusing purely on bug fixes and not new features ready for the Wine 10.0 release early next year.

VKD3D-Proton v2.14 is now available bringing various improvements to the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer that's used by Valve's Proton for running Windows games on Linux.

Turok: Origins was announced by Saber Interactive and this time it's a third-person shooter, with an optional co-op element where three people can team up to take on the dinosaurs and some new alien threat.

GE-Proton 9-21 has been released as the community-maintained version of the Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

Helldivers 2 just dropped a colossal update that sees the return of the Illuminate faction, a bunch of powerful aliens that like to destroy colonies and take over the minds of your fellow humans.