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IndieGameStand blog post on Steam key reselling, plus my thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
12
It's always a shame to hear about scammers, especially when it comes to indie developers and smaller stores. IndieGameStand has written a blog post about it and it doesn't paint a pretty picture.
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Star Citizen update, they are considering Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
25
Chris Roberts has done his usual video update on Star Citizen, and he mentions that they are looking into Vulkan.
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SteamOS stable updated to 2.64, brings Vulkan to the stable users

By Liam Dawe,
9
For those not keeping track: SteamOS was recently updated to include the changes from the recent 2.64 beta and it brings Vulkan for Nvidia amongst other changes.
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CrossCode, an epic looking 16-bit SNES-style RPG is now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
8
I totally didn't forget to write about this. CrossCode is a rather intriguing RPG that has a style from the SNES era with obvious improvements.
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Want to make an RPG game? Looks like RPG Maker MV may be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
23
I've somewhat followed the RPG Maker program over the years to see it evolve into a tool some decent games have been made from, and now it looks like RPG Maker MV will come to Linux.
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DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
37
What a day to be a Linux gamers! DiRT Rally is also now showing signs that it will be ported to Linux. Another great racing game I have wanted to play, and our first proper Rally game.
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Life Is Strange looks like it will come to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe,
34
Another game I have really wanted to play, but didn't think it would come to Linux. Life Is Strange is a well reviewed story game based on based choice and consequence.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and expansions look like they are coming to Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
25
Wow this I did not expect. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II and the expansions are showing signs that they will come over to Linux & SteamOS!
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A chat with AtomicTorch Studio about their Linux sales with Dinocide & VoidExpanse

By Liam Dawe,
29
I had the pleasure of speaking with another developer today about their Linux sales, and this time it was Lurler from AtomicTorch Studio.
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StarDrive 2, the pretty good 4X strategy game to get a big expansion

By Liam Dawe,
2
I was pretty impressed with StarDrive 2 and how it felt like a new generation of Master of Orion 2, so it's great to see it will get an expansion. Check out the video.
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Balrum, a beautiful 2D RPG released for Linux, here’s some thoughts on it

By Liam Dawe,
1
I've been looking forward to trying out Balrum since seeing it on a crowdfunding site some time ago, and now it has had a day-1 release on Linux I got a chance to play with it.
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I am launching a Patreon campaign to support me and GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
45
After researching it properly, talking to friends and family who have given their support I have decided based on feedback to launch my own personal Patreon campaign to fund me and the GamingOnLinux website.
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Police Infinity, an interesting looking FPS coming to Early Access & Linux soon

By Liam Dawe,
7
Police Infinity claims it isn't "yet another Unity FPS" and it has my hopes up a little bit. It doesn't look too bad, and the animations in first person look quite nice too. It's due to enter Early Access soon.
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A chat with the developer of Quest of Dungeons about their Linux sales

By Liam Dawe,
15
I asked on twitter for developers to get in touch about their games, and first up is Quest of Dungeons from Upfall Studios. A turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look.
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Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II look set for Linux ports soon

By Liam Dawe,
16
Our friends over at Virtual Programming are hard at work on porting Overlord, Overlord II and Overlord: Raising Hell to Linux. They left a funny little message for us on SteamDB too.
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GOL Cast: Growing space potatoes in Sol 0: Mars Colonization

By Samsai,
2
This time around I am taking a look at a game I picked up some time ago for a Friday Livestream simply because it was cheap. So, let's go to Mars in Sol 0: Mars Colonization!
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Linux usage on Steam is better than people think

By Liam Dawe,
48
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out, and as usual some websites are claiming the death of SteamOS. We are here with a better outlook. We also just recently crossed over 1900 Linux games on Steam!
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Did you buy the latest Humble Bundle? Keep an eye on your emails for a new Sunless Sea key

By Liam Dawe,
11
It seems a bit of "human error" happened with the latest Humble Indie Bundle and Sunless Sea. Humble were accidentally selling "Lifetime Edition" keys which gives access to all future DLC when it was supposed to be normal keys.
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Nvidia release another new Vulkan beta driver with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
13
Nvidia are keeping up their great support of Vulkan with yet another new build of their Vulkan driver which supports Linux.
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SpeedRunners now in open beta for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
5
SpeedRunners is a rather popular Early Access multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other. There's been a lot of people asking for a Linux version, and they have begun to deliver.
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