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Humble has a new RPG Maker bundle up, with some nice Linux stuff included

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2018

There's games, software and more included in the latest RPG Maker bundle from Humble and some good stuff for Linux too.

Lutris 0.4.21 is out to help you manage all your gaming needs on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Oct 2018

Lutris, the 'open gaming platform' that acts as a front-end to help you manage various games on Linux has a fresh release out.

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Lutris 0.4.20 is now out, to help you manage all your games plus some Overwatch testing

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2018

I have to admit, the game manager Lutris has come along quite a bit since I last used it. Today, version 0.4.20 was made available.

PlayOnLinux has a new alpha release out with an overhaul of the interface

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2018

PlayOnLinux, a program which helps Linux users manage games run in Wine has a new release out aimed at giving the project a new life.

SC Controller driver and UI version 0.4.5 is out, last release for a while

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2018

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The amazingly useful SC Controller project, a third-party open source driver and user interface for the Steam Controller has a new release out. Sadly, the last for a while.

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Drivers

The beta of the new and improved itch app is out for testing

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2018

Game store itch have a revamped desktop client coming and a beta is now available for users to test and report back.

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Itch.io

The Paradox Launcher is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2018

Thanks to a hot tip from our Telegram Group, we've been notified that the Paradox Launcher is now available on Linux.

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The developers of game launcher 'Launchbox' on porting it to Linux, due to Windows 10 privacy issues

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2018

Launchbox, an application that aims to be a one-stop shop for launching all your games may see proper Linux support if there's enough interest, with some of the work already done.

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Livestreaming and recording tool OBS Studio 20.0 released with a modular UI and more

By Liam Dawe, 11 Aug 2017

OBS Studio, the best way to livestream on Linux has a fresh release out and it's a bit of a big one.

Paradox are now doing their own game client for downloads, cloud saves, statistics and so on

By Liam Dawe, 10 Aug 2017

Apps, apps everywhere! It seems Paradox are doing their own client now too. I have no idea how long it's been a thing, but it appears it will support Linux too.

Apps

Game engine 'Construct 3' has come along well during the Beta

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2017

I've been playing with Construct 3 on and off during the beta and I have to say I'm really impressed with it.

GNOME Twitch releases a major update with notifications, offline channel searching and more

By Liam Dawe, 4 Apr 2017

GNOME Twitch recently released a major new version of their open source desktop Twitch client and it's a beauty.

Apps

SC Controller, the stand-alone Steam Controller driver and UI has an important bug-fix release

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2017

I've been using a lot of SC Controller to play games with my Steam Controller outside of Steam, but it did have a major issue. I reported the issue and it has now been solved.

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Snoost, a new cloud gaming service has opened with Linux support, uses Steam's in-home streaming

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2017

This is an interesting one, Snoost, a new cloud gaming service powered by Amazon AWS supports Linux. It uses Steam's in-home streaming with your own games library.

GNOME Twitch is a rather slick desktop Twitch viewer

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2017

Today I tried out GNOME Twitch, a native desktop application for watching Twitch streams and it's really quite amazing.

Apps

SDL2 Gamepad Tool, an alternative to Steam Big Picture configurator

By Liam Dawe, 9 Mar 2017

Today I was sent a link to SDL2 Gamepad Tool from Seru on Discord, it's described as an alternative to the Steam Big Picture configurator for gamepads.