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Rocket Rumble is an upcoming racing party game with animals in rocket suits

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2020

PixelNAUTS Games who released LOST ORBIT: Terminal Velocity back in 2019 have announced Rocket Rumble, a frantic action-racing game with a cast of animals in rocket suits smash and bash their way across the finish line.

Intense top-down racer Bloody Rally Show gets random daily challenges and big upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2020

While art of rally showed off how strikingly beautiful a top-down racer could be, the earlier Bloody Rally Show showed the opposite with how brutal it can be.

Valve rolls out Steam Playtest to devs, new Steam Beta up with Linux improvements

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2020

Valve announced last night that they're beginning the proper roll-out of Steam Playtest, a system that allows developers to bring in testers without messing with beta keys. Additionally, a new Steam Client Beta is up.

Explore space and do some shady deals in Avorion - Black Market out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

Avorion - Black Market is the first full paid expansion to the excellent open-world space exploration and building sim and it looks great.

GOverlay app adds support for the Linux instant-replay tool ReplaySorcery

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2020

GOverlay is the super useful user interface for managing overlays like MangoHud and the vulkan post processing layer vkBasalt. Now though, it's been extended to be even more useful.

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

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

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.

Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack is out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2020

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.

A look back over some popular articles for October 2020

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2020

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!

Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11

By Liam Dawe, 28 Oct 2020

Collabora have been doing presentations during the Open Source Summit, with one particular talk from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi on the "State of Linux Gaming" being quite interesting. Plus Collabora are hiring.

Avorion - Black Market expansion is due on November 2, has a new trailer up

By Liam Dawe, 27 Oct 2020

The huge open-world space sandbox Avorion has the first expansion releasing on November 2, along with plenty more details revealed and a trailer.

A reminder of some recent Linux game releases - October 2020 edition

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2020

Despite this feeling like the longest year ever, time continues moving on and there's been a number of great games released with Linux support in the last few months.

Try not to lose your head in a world full of colour in GONNER2 out now

By Liam Dawe, 23 Oct 2020

Art in Heart and Raw Fury have released GONNER2, an intense procedurally generated action-platformer with a very bizarre and colourful world.

Valve have released the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest schedule, sales and livestreams

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2020

With the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest coming up between October 21st through 26th, Valve have now put up the schedule so you can make space for some fun events.