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The 2026 Carnage Collection from Humble Bundle brings some fun games to begin the year

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh new Humble Bundle to begin 2026 with some quality games and they're highly rated too, and they should all work on Linux / SteamOS.

D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The D7VK project for providing Direct3D 7 support on Linux with Wine / Proton has expanded in the version 1.1 release to add experimental Direct3D 6 support.
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Epilogue reveal the SN Operator to play real SNES cartridges on various platforms

By Liam Dawe,
Much like Epilogue did with the GB Operator for playing actual Game Boy cartridges, they've recently revealed the SN Operator for the SNES.

Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.

Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental"

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh update on the upcoming game Hytale which will no doubt be quite popular, and it will have what they now say is "experimental" Linux support.

Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025

By Liam Dawe,
The very popular gaming-focused Bazzite Linux has a fresh release out that ended 2025 with a little spring cleaning, and I've finally joined the ranks.

River City Ransom: Underground is getting delisted from stores

By Liam Dawe,
Another loss for game preservation and history, River City Ransom: Underground is being delisted from stores.

GE-Proton 10-28 brings fixes for Duet Night Abyss, World of Tanks, games with spatial audio and more

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh release of the community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton, bringing fixes for some popular games and an issue with spatial audio.

Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19%

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025, bringing with it a fresh look at how Linux / SteamOS are doing on Steam.

Mesa 25.3.3 released with more Linux graphics driver bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The first bug fix release of 2026 for the open source graphics drivers Mesa is here with Mesa 25.3.3 out now.

CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT

By Liam Dawe,
GOG is breaking off from CD PROJEKT with 100% of it now owned by one of the original co-founders, Michał Kiciński.

Proton Experimental brings improvements for Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER and more

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
A little holiday update for Proton Experimental from Valve to improve Windows games on Linux, Steam Deck / SteamOS systems.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
We're just about to hit the full swing of the holiday season, and so GamingOnLinux will go into its usual holiday hibernation to spend time with family.

Here's our 2025 GOTY picks

By Liam Dawe,
The year is almost over and so it’s time to let you know what we enjoyed the most this year while gaming on Linux.

Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion

By Liam Dawe,
Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.

Keep creatures fed in the deck-builder Hungry Horrors when it arrives January 19 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away.

Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes

By Liam Dawe,
Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps

By Liam Dawe,
Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now.

GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks

By Liam Dawe,
The popular community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 10-27 is out now with the usual assortment of game fixes and other improvements.