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Chooseco are getting indie games using 'choose your own adventure' taken down on itch.io

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Dec 2019

The creator of indie store itch.io has issued a warning to game developers, as Chooseco appear to be trying to take down anything using the 'choose your own adventure' phrase.

Aquiris Game Studio ending support for their online FPS Ballistic Overkill

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Dec 2019

Ballistic Overkill, an easy pick up and play first-person shooter from Aquiris Game Studio is now essentially being killed off.

The Sunday odds and ends Linux and gaming section

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Nov 2019

Blimey, where did Saturday go? It's Sunday already? Yes it is. A time for rest, relaxation and plenty of gaming. Time to go over a few random bits of news!

Godot Engine has a new Platinum sponsor with gambling game dev Interblock

By Liam Squires-Hand, 20 Nov 2019

Good news for Godot Engine, as they have another company supporting their work on the free and open source game engine.

Enjoy our daily news and updates? We would appreciate your support

By Liam Squires-Hand, 15 Nov 2019

For a long time now GamingOnLinux has been providing daily (and often on Weekends too) Linux gaming news, tips, reviews, interviews and more.

Epic Games acquires Quixel with its enormous library of 3D and 2D assets

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Nov 2019

Epic Games have reached down the back of the sofa and pulled up enough loose change to acquire Quixel.

Abbey Games announce they're going to let staff go in December as they "scope down"

By Liam Squires-Hand, 6 Nov 2019

Abbey Games, a developer known for titles like Reus, Renowned Explorers: International Society and most recently Godhood announced today things aren't going so well.

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Microsoft confirm their new Chromium-powered Edge browser is coming to Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand, 5 Nov 2019

Not Linux gaming related, sure but still very interesting news. During their Ignite conference, Microsoft confirmed their new Chromium-based Edge browser will release for Linux.

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The Sunday odds and ends Linux and gaming section

By Liam Squires-Hand, 3 Nov 2019

Sunday is a day to do the dishes, hoover the halls, wipe the decks and probably play a whole lot of video games. Here's our Sunday section of interesting things.

AMD has the highest quarterly revenue since 2005, Zen 3 is design complete

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Oct 2019

Things seem to be going quite well for AMD lately, as they just posted up their financial results for Q3 and thanks to 7nm Ryzen, Radeon and EPYC processor sales they're looking good.

Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section

By Liam Squires-Hand, 27 Oct 2019

Time for a good brew, some relaxation, perhaps a little gaming and our Sunday roundup of interesting happening within the Linux and gaming sphere.

Embark Studios, AMD and Adidas are all now supporting Blender development

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Oct 2019

The team behind the free and open source 3D creation suite, Blender, are once again celebrating as they've managed to secure even more funding from some interesting names.

The Children's Commissioner in England has called on the government to class loot boxes as gambling

By Liam Squires-Hand, 22 Oct 2019

Here could be the start of another nail in the coffin for loot boxes, as the Children's Commissioner in England has put out a new report after a little study was done.

Misc

Need an easy way to manage a Linux game server? LinuxGSM is great and recently passed 100 supported titles

By Liam Squires-Hand, 21 Oct 2019

A project that perhaps isn't as well known as it should be: LinuxGSM makes managing Linux game servers easy and they recently hit a fun milestone.

Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section

By Liam Squires-Hand, 20 Oct 2019

Sunday is a day mostly of rest, relaxation and kicking butt in some games. Before that though, let's have a little look at a few bits and pieces of missing news and what was interesting recently.

The Internet Archive website has added another 2,500 MS-DOS games

By Liam Squires-Hand, 15 Oct 2019

Another point scored for game preservation. The Internet Archive have added another 2,500 MS-DOS games you can play right in your browser.

Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section

By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Oct 2019

Almost time to begin another week full of news, before we do let's run over a few interesting happenings recently.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Oct 2019

It's reader question time here on GamingOnLinux, something we do infrequently to generate a bit of discussion.

Misc

Things are going downhill for the Atari VCS as Rob Wyatt quits

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Oct 2019

It's now confirmed that Rob Wyatt, someone who Atari made a big thing over joining them has quit citing non payment of invoices for at least six months.