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AMD will be hosting a reddit 'ask me anything' and giving away 14 RX 480 graphics cards

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2016

AMD are doing something pretty amazing, they will be doing a reddit AMA with the chance of anyone who comments to win one of fourteen of their brand new RX 480 graphics cards.

Stellaris patch Asimov 1.2 released, it's a good one

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2016

I've been scared to click that play button on Stellaris recently, as it sucks up so much time it's crazy. The patch named Asimov has been released!

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2016

I love emulators, I think they are a fantastic way to keep old platforms alive. Even with the grey area around roms I think they are really interesting. Dolphin is now working on a Vulkan backend.

Anima Gate of Memories, the good looking third person action RPG should be on Linux soon

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2016

The developer of Anima Gate of Memories has stated that they expect the Linux version to be out in around 15 days time.

Deep Silver confirm Homefront: The Revolution is still in the works for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jun 2016

Good news for FPS fans as Deep Silver have confirmed again that Homefront: The Revolution is still in the works for Linux.

Desktop Environments have been added to the user statistics graphs

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2016

If you would be so kind as to update your PC Info once again, there is now a Desktop Environment picker as requested.

Announcing the GamingOnLinux wallpaper competition

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2016

I need a new wallpaper, and I would very much like one that in some way has GamingOnLinux branding on it. Here's your chance to shine and win something.

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The Wine Development Release 1.9.13 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 24 Jun 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.13 has many small changes including 34 bugfixes.

FORCED SHOWDOWN now available on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2016

The developers of FORCED SHOWDOWN have emailed in to let us know that the deck building action twin-stick game is now available on Linux.

Two Worlds Epic Edition openworld action RPG now on GOG for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2016

GOG have now added in a Linux build for Two Worlds Epic Edition that requires Wine in order to function.

Nidhogg, the fencing action game is heading to Linux with a Beta

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2016

Nidhogg is a rather popular little action gaming about what look like stick figures doing some fencing.

Join me at 7:45PM UTC for the weekly Linux gaming livestream, also helpers needed

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2016

As announced previously by Samsai he is temporarily leaving us for his mandatory army training, so I will be taking the livestream bull by the horns.

The future of the Friday Livestream and my other GOL work

By Samsai, 24 Jun 2016

Just to make sure that everyone is getting an unreasonable amount of big announcements today, I am making one of my own concerning the Friday Livestream and the So I Played... (previously GOL Cast) articles.

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The work to bring Banished over to OpenGL is still going on

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2016

The developer of Banished has written up another blog post about porting Banished to OpenGL for the Mac and Linux ports, and it sounds like the Mac OpenGL implementation was holding things up.

And so it begins, the Steam Summer Sale is here

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2016

Open up those wallets, as the Steam Summer Sale is now upon us. Already some cracking deals to be found.

Europa Universalis IV celebrates Midsummer and a million copies sold with a free music DLC

By BTRE, 23 Jun 2016

The Linux-friendly Swedish developers are celebrating a million copies of Europa Universalis IV sold with a collection of traditional music that they’re giving away. Be sure to claim it before July 4th!

The Long Dark survival game updated with a new skills and feats system

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2016

The Long Dark is probably one of the nicest survival games available on Linux right now, it's cold, it's harsh, but it's beautiful.

After a truly long time, the level editor for the sadistic 'Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number' is ready!

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 23 Jun 2016

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number finally has the level editor that was supposed to come with it at release!

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Escape from a relentless horde in 'SWARMRIDERS', a FREE cyberpunk twin stick shooter, some thoughts

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 23 Jun 2016

SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.

The Wardrobe: A pop culture point & click adventure game for Linux

By Fabio Viola, 23 Jun 2016

The Wardrobe is a 2D point & click game inspired by the great 90s classics such as 'Monkey Island', 'Day of the Tentacle', 'Tony Tough' and 'Sam & Max: Hit the Road'.