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Brigador: Up-Armored Edition adds new levels and mod tools, a quick Linux how-to

By Liam Dawe,
The neon-soaked destruction-heavy game Brigador: Up-Armored Edition just recently got updated, bringing in some new content and allowing everyone to jump in to make mods and maps with the Community Reinforcements Update.

A simple guide to Steam Play, Valve's technology for playing Windows games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Looking to test the waters with Linux gaming and don't want to lose access to your favourite Windows games? Here's a simple no-nonsense guide to actually using Steam Play.

Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux Gaming (Part 2: Wine & Steam Play)

By LordDaveTheKind,
Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux (distr. Ubuntu 18.10), and decided to elaborate my experience a little better, and share my results and observations with you all.

Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux Gaming

By LordDaveTheKind,
Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux, and decided to elaborate a little better about my experience, and share my results and observations with you all.

How to enable Steam Play (Proton) directly in SteamOS

By The_Linux_Gooroo,
How-To: Enable Valve's Proton Compatibility Tool in SteamOS, since the option isn't actually included directly in SteamOS yet.

There's another (better) workaround for the Unity graphical glitches with NVIDIA on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, I wrote a post about Unity games when playing on NVIDIA having some major graphical glitches with a workaround. Here's another one, that might work better.

Have graphical distortions in Unity games with NVIDIA? Here's a workaround

By Liam Dawe,
It seems a lot of Unity games upgrading to later versions of Unity are suffering from graphical distortions on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU. There is a workaround available.

The Steam Controller on Ubuntu 18.10 (and other distributions using Linux Kernel 4.18) needs a quick fix

By Liam Dawe,
After updating to Ubuntu 18.10 today I noticed that a lot of games were either crashing, not detecting my Steam Controller or detecting it as a second player. Here's a fix.

If you have trouble with keyboard input in some Unity games, there is a workaround (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
I'm sure many of you will be aware by now that the Unity game engine has suffered problems with Linux support lately. One of those issues to do with keyboard input does actually have a workaround. UPDATE: See the bottom.

Playing Prey on Linux in 2018

By Hamish,
Continuing on from my previous articles on how to get both Doom 3 and Quake 4 running on modern Linux systems, I felt the time was right to look at Prey, another id Tech 4 based game with a native Linux port. It did not take me long to discover that the main issue people were likely to run into with Prey had nothing to do with the game itself.

OBS Studio NDI Plugin for Linux, send video from one Linux PC to another

By RedneckonLinux,
NDI for OBS is a plugin that allows you to send video from 1 PC that has OBS installed to another PC running OBS with the plugin installed.

Playing Quake 4 on Linux in 2018

By Hamish,
Having already gone to the trouble of getting the original Doom 3 binary working on my modern Arch Linux system a few months back, it made me wonder just how much effort it would take to get the closed source Quake 4 port up and running again as well.

Tibia is a free to play MMO that has supported Linux for a long time, fix included for Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe,
Looking for an MMO to play on Linux? Well, Tibia has a Linux version and it's been around for quite a long time.

Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017

By Hamish,
With the release of the source code to both Doom 3 and the later BFG Edition, there now exists three options for Linux users wanting to play the game. Having gone through Doom 3 again, I decided it was time for me to compare them and give my thoughts on both the game and which of the three versions are best for Linux users in 2017.

Here's a way to fix the broken water in ARK: Survival Evolved on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The water in ARK: Survival Evolved is broken on certain maps, instead of water you see some horrible plain brown texture. It seems the developers have finally acknowledged it and here's a temp fix.

Setting a primary monitor for launching games in a dual monitor rig

By scaine,
If you have two monitors, launching games can be a bit hit or miss as to where they end up. Here's a way that you might take some of the pain out of simple gaming on a dual monitor set up.

Need to get the data files from a Windows game on Steam? steamget from Icculus can help

By Liam Dawe,
Sometimes you might need the Windows game files from a game on Steam, possibly for running it in an open source game engine that supports Linux. It can usually be tricky, but a little script called "steamget" from Icculus can help.

A bunch of Feral Interactive Linux ports may be broken on Arch and others, here's a possible workaround

By Liam Dawe,
It seems an update of glibc has caused a bunch of Linux ports from Feral Interactive to be broken. Here's a possible workaround for now.

Verdun is yet another Unity title with broken fullscreen on Linux, here's a quick fix

By Liam Dawe,
Sadly another game that updated to a version of Unity that had the fullscreen bug on Linux is Verdun, so here's a reminder of the quick fix.

Streets of Rogue is another Unity title that's broken with fullscreen, here's a quick fix

By Liam Dawe,
Like other games that have updated their version of Unity, Streets of Rogue will now get no input in fullscreen. Here's a quick fix you can do.
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