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Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has announced today that their hotly anticipated handheld, the Steam Deck, has been delayed until 2022.

Proton Experimental gets Age of Empires 4 working out of the box on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Want to play Age of Empires 4 on Linux? Now you can. Another update for Proton Experimental has gone live.

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed details Steam Deck support, shows a quick video

By Liam Dawe,
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is another developer who will be ensuring their games works nicely with the Valve Steam Deck.

Bohemia Interactive are 'looking into' DayZ for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
One tough uphill battle currently facing Steam Play Proton and the Steam Deck is still anti-cheat. While there has been improvements, it's still not an ideal situation but at least one more developer is looking into it with Bohemia Interactive for DayZ.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 6.21 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
More fixes and new features are ready for another development release with Wine 6.21 going out, the compatibility layer for Windows games and applications.

9 years ago Valve put out a Beta of Steam for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
9 years to the day, Valve officially put up a limited Beta release of the Steam Client for Linux. It's safe to say it's been a rather bumpy but exciting ride.

Supporting Linux / Proton and the Steam Deck with BattlEye is just an email away

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we had announcements from both Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye in regards to Linux, specifically for the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer and the Steam Deck and now BattlEye are making it easier.

Proton Experimental gets Disgaea 4 & Mafia II working plus CEG startup improvements

By Liam Dawe,
More quick fixes coming in recently for Proton Experimental to get even more Windows games to play nicely on Linux with this compatibility layer. - Improve startup time of games using CEG DRM.

Valve upgrades Remote Play for Linux in the latest Steam Client Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released another update to the Steam Client Beta and they continue improving Remote Play for Linux players, likely for the upcoming Steam Deck support.

Humble Choice for November has Project Wingman, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin plus more

By Liam Dawe,
The latest bundle of games is now available for the subscription service Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) and it seems like quite a varied selection.

Steam Play compatibility tool Luxtorpeda gets controller support, new tooling

By Liam Dawe,
Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play compatibility tool (like Proton) that allows you to run games from Steam using various different game engines and reimplementations.

Proton Experimental gets more CEG DRM fixes, new fsync code

By Liam Dawe,
Recently Valve upgraded Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton that pulls in advancements first with support for their older CEG DRM and another new build is up.

Linux has now seen 4 months of being above 1% on the Steam Hardware Survey

By Liam Dawe,
Something magical appears to be happening on Steam. Not only is Linux above 1% for another month but we've now seen 6 months of it continuing to rise.

Valve hosting a Steamworks Virtual Conference for the Steam Deck on November 12

By Liam Dawe,
As we approach launch for the Steam Deck in December, Valve has begun ramping up their info for developers with the announcement of a Steamworks Virtual Conference.

Enjoy our news? Please support us if you're able to

By Liam Dawe,
It has again been some time since we reached out to the community, so here's a reminder: we are completely funded by readers and we need your support.

Linux Kernel 5.15 released, futex2 work to help Linux gaming going into Kernel 5.16

By Liam Dawe,
Two major bits of news for the Linux Kernel today as not only has Linux 5.15 been released with lots new, we're also likely to finally see the futex2 work from Collabora in Linux 5.16.

A look over what was popular on GamingOnLinux during October 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for October 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!

Pick up some more games in the Aspyr 25th Anniversary Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
More games to end your weekend? Why not. Humble Bundle has a fresh one up with the Aspyr 25th Anniversary Bundle.

Valve adds support for games using CEG DRM through Steam Play Proton

By Liam Dawe,
If you have the latest version of Proton Experimental, Valve just recently put up a new Steam Client Beta too which allows playing Windows games on Linux that make use of their older CEG DRM.

Steam and GOG both have their big Halloween Sale live

By Liam Dawe,
You have money left from all the previous sales right? Well, prepare your wallet (again) for even more sales from two of the biggest stores around.
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