For those of you who enjoy sandbox voxel games like Minecraft, check out Minetest which just had a major update.

Hello! It's the first day of December and best of all, it's Friday! So, let us have some fun in the form of a traditional Friday Livestream. Games, Linux, fails when attempting to play said games on Linux, we have it all! So, do check out our Twitch channel!

For those still playing Minecraft, you may know that Mojang is working on a new launcher that doesn't use Java (hooray!), but it might not run on Linux (boo!).

Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for the past week, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming!

Minetest is an open source game and game engine much like Minecraft and available for free. It has recently released a major new version.

Here is some Sunday reading for you from other gaming sites across the internet. Not much generally happens on a Sunday, so hopefully this will be a regular article.

In a move that will shock many, Mojang has finally confirmed the rumours. Microsoft is buying them out, and so Minecraft & Scrolls will be owned by Microsoft.

The second part in my articles on giving some limelight to open source games and engines, this time I have a completely different set to show you! How exciting!

Just a couple of days left to vote for the open source Linux game Project of the Month March 2014. GamingOnLinux supports this with the winner getting an image on the scrolling carousel for an entire month.