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Developer of 'Steam Marines' talks sales, Linux represented 2% over the lifetime of it

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of the game 'Steam Marines' has been talking about sales of the game, and Linux represented 2% of the total.

Linux overall market-share percentage falls on Steam in October

By Liam Dawe,
You know the drill by now, it's up and down all the time and I don't think we should really pay much attention to the Steam Hardware Survey any more, regardless of it going up or down.

New user statistics refresh, come check out the new data from Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
Our user statistics page has been updated again, and it should now happen at the end of every month automatically.

The developers of 'Can't Drive This' will donate all Linux revenue from October to charity

By Liam Dawe,
The game 'Can't Drive This' only recently came to Linux, and the developers have decided that 100% of October's revenue made from Linux sales will go to a penguin charity.

Valve expects to sell 1 million Steam Controllers by early 2017, will allow configs for other controllers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have given out updated numbers for their Steam Controller and they expect to sell 1 million by early 2017. They are also planning to allow configuration of other gamepads, with the PS4's Dualshock 4 coming first.

Just a heads up, PAYDAY 2 is currently broken again on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
For the second time in only a few months, Overkill has managed to push out an update for PAYDAY 2 that has completely broken the Linux version.

A general guide for the best practices of buying Linux games

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a number of people have asked me to talk about where to buy Linux games, how to make sure developers are supported and so on, so here I am.

Steam now has above 2,500 Linux & SteamOS games available

By Liam Dawe,
I've seen some posts on reddit and across the wider net about Steam hitting around 2,000 games for Linux. The truth is the number is actually quite a lot higher.

'SOMA' from Frictional Games sales figures released, Linux accounted for around 1.1% of sales

By Liam Dawe,
Frictional Games, the developers of 'SOMA' have released their sales figures. The game sold about 450,000 copies of which 5,000 was from Linux gamers. So that's around 1.1%.

Some thoughts on 'Siralim 2', the never ending monster battling RPG

By Liam Dawe,
Siralim 2 certainly caught my interest with being able to control monsters and battle with them, as it's a type of game I've wanted on Linux, so is it any good?

User Stats Page updated with new features and fresh data

By Liam Dawe,
I have done another bunch of work on the User Stats Page to make it hopefully even more interesting.

GOL Podcast Episode 05: Porting and Game Sale Numbers

By darkone778,
Hello, to all the fine folks who call Linux their home for PC Gaming! Your GamingOnLinux co-hosts and I bring to you a new episode of the GOL Podcast.

Valve have made some big changes to the Steam Reviews system

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have made some steps towards trying to improve their reviews system, so let's take a look. It should cut out people gaming the system, but it's not great news for developers in reality.

Parkitect alpha 5 released, has some fun medieval props, more stats tracking and better performance

By Liam Dawe,
The super cool theme park builder Parkitect has reached alpha 5, it seems like a smaller release overall as it's laying the foundation for future updates.

The developers of Armello are facing a bit of a backlash over the DLC not coming to GOG

By Liam Dawe,
I really do like the game Armello, but sadly the new DLC is not coming to GOG. The reasons are quite odd.

Paradox have teamed up with a modder to create the Cities: Skylines Art Deco DLC coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
Cities: Skylines Art Deco DLC is a collaboration between Paradox and modder Matt “Shroomblaze” Crux.

Monsters and Monocles, a new co-op top down shooter enters Early Access, some early thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Come in, have a cup of tea to replenish that mind and let me tell you about Monsters and Monocles a stylish new co-op shooter that’s now available for Linux.

Slime Rancher updated, hits 300K sales and I asked the developer about their Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Slime Rancher is a damn cute game, it's high on my list to play hours of when it has some fleshed out content to it. It has hit over 300K sales so I caught up with the developer on the Linux side of it.

Experience the harsh cold in Near Death, now out on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Near Death is an interesting attempt at a survival game that doesn't class itself as one. After your plane crash-lands in Antarctica, you find yourself stranded and alone at an abandoned research facility in the midst of a deadly blizzard.

Latest Steam Hardware Survey shows Linux has grown, by a tiny amount (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out and for the first time in a while the Linux figure seems to have grown.
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