Valve has announced a Steam sale simply titled ”STEAMOS SALE” with interesting games that are already available and games that they claim are heading over to the platform. The list seems to include some quite big titles too!

Since earlier yesterday and till next Friday a new Insomnia Promo is taking place at GOG.com, the first one since this store started supporting Linux.

The sequel to the brutally fun Hotline Miami is set to be released on the 10th of March. More importantly, it seems that we'll have a same-day release on Linux.

The developers of Cities: Skylines are doing a reddit "ask me anything", and they kindly responded to my question about Linux pre-orders so far.

One downside of GOG is the smaller library of games, and it looks like they are trying to make it easier for indie developers to get in touch about it.

I decided to write down some thoughts on Steam Machines, and Linux Gaming in general as I've seen quite a few articles on other publications about the imminent demise of Steam Machines and Linux Gaming that are rammed full of annoyances from writers who seem to want it to fail.

Techland have release a bigger patch this time around to fix lots of issues, but the game is still damn awful on Linux.

Artifex Mundi has had a strong presence on Steam for Linux since they got through Steam Greenlight last year. Last month they published their 14th game on the digital store, and as usual it was a same-day release for Linux on Steam.

Here is the Steam Hardware survey for January 2015, starting the year with not many changes as expected.

Lords of Xulima has just release the Linux version of their fantasy RPG and it looks fantastic, we decided to give it a go and tell you what we think.

Thanks to GOL reader Fedso, we now have month-by-month comparisons for the survey as well as an automated program which takes the raw survey data and makes graphs. This is pretty exciting stuff since now one of the main goals of the survey project has been achieved and we can observe trends over time.

Aspyr Media, who are one of our favourite developers, has noted on reddit that they are getting close to breaking even on their Linux ports.

Here's the latest Steam Hardware survey for December 2014, and Linux actually increased, but not by a lot.

Warhammer Quest is a new mix of strategy and RPG action based on the tabletop board-game. It comes with Linux support, but sadly the reception so far isn't the best.

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for 2014, it was a seriously crazy year for us here, and for everyone in Linux gaming, so let's see what happened.

Not something we cover very often, but it seems the EU is introducing new rules that could really ruin things for indie developers. It could also cause price changes across many stores.

If you are a regular visitor of this site, you probably want your Steam purchase to be counted as a Linux sale. But how does Steam actually consider you to be a Linux buyer? It's trickier than you think.

It's that time of year again to hold onto your wallets before they get sucked into your computers. The Steam sales have arrived.

An editorial talking about what you can do for Linux gaming. Including when to buy games, and what distribution to use to make sure you get support.

It's always sad to read things like this. The developer of Frozen Synapse Prime has spoken out about why there's no Linux port, and the news for us isn't exactly peachy.