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Happy Holidays

By Liam Dawe,
For anyone who celebrates anything this time of year or to those who just have some time off, Happy Holidays from us here at GamingOnLinux. Here's to another awesome year on the Linux desktop! Bring on 2011!...

Dead Cyborg

By Rustybolts,
I found this trailer while searching the internet this morning. At the moment there is not much information available. It is a 3d adventure game that has a graphical style in my opinion to be very much like Machinarium, it will be released in episo...

Humble Indie Bundle 2 Extra Bundle

By Rustybolts,
For those that have already purchased Humble Indie Bundle 2 you will now find the first Humble Indie Bundle on your download page. For those that haven't you have 3 days left to purchase 10 great games for any price you wa...

Corsix-TH (Open-Source theme hospital!)

By Liam Dawe,
For those who remember Theme Hospital i would like to let you know about Corsix-TH, which is an open source remake of the engine to run it! Quote

Alien Arena 2011

By Rustybolts,
QuoteAlien Arena 2011 version 7.50 has been released today for windows and linux users! The latest version(7.50) of the open sourced, freeware deathmatch shooter features a host of updates and features. We have also implemente...

Dofus 2.3 update

By Rustybolts,
Dofus 2.3 update has brought a hefty list of changes which can be viewed in the below link. http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg-community/updates Also w...

True Combat:Close Quarters Battle

By Liam Dawe,
Many of you are no doubt fans of the freeware game True Combat Elite who recently celebrated it's 10th birthday! While I have said for a long time we don'...

Humble Indie Bundle 2

By Rustybolts,
The second Humble Indie Bundle is here!! A pay what you want bundle with as much of the proceeds as you decide going to charity. What games are in the bundle?- Braid, Osmos, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Revenge of the Titans

Steel Storm Episode 2 Christmas Sale

By Rustybolts,
Kot-in-Action is having a 70% off sale for their game Steel Storm Episode 2, now priced at a paltry $2.95. The game is not completed at the moment, but buy now and you get to play the bet...

Interview with a M.A.R.S. developer!

By Liam Dawe,
So GOL has it's first interview, first up is a developer of the frantic arcade shooter M.A.R.S So first question: [Q] Tell our readers a bit about yours...

M.A.R.S 0.6.1 Released!

By Liam Dawe,
A new release of the fantastically frantic arcade shooter is upon us! QuoteWe proudly present a new version of M.A.R.S., containing some exciting new features! A New Weapon: Fist Of Ali This is a short ra...

The Clockwork Man 2 [Ultimate Edition]

By Rustybolts,
Clockwork Man 2 is now available on Linux in 8 different languages priced at $19.95 DRM free. QuoteGame Features Explore breath...

Fancy winning a game of your choice?!

By Liam Dawe,
Okay it's time for the December competition, even though the last one was a flop i have decided to give competitions another go! I asked on reddit earlier what games people are interested in and it gave me an idea - since no one can ever...

SuperTuxKart 0.7 release candidate 1

By Liam Dawe,
QuoteAfter a burst of changes and fixes in the last few days we have finally released a first release candidate for 0.7: http://sourcef...

Osmos hopefully coming to Ubuntu Software Centre

By Liam Dawe,
I like probably a fair few others tend to lurk around the Hemisphere Games website/Forum hoping they will release another awesome Indie game. I have found out via their forum

Apalia HD

By Rustybolts,
From Omni-Arts Coming to your PC 20th December 2010, iPhone/iPad release Christmas 2010 and January release for Android, Mac and Linux. (Can't seem to find any prices quoted as yet). Quote"In Apalia HD...

M.A.R.S

By Liam Dawe,
M.A.R.S an arcade space shooter has recently seen some new activity with a new release (0.6c "Edward"). QuoteThis is a first attempt to create a game in OpenGL with SFML. It is a game for two players, flyin...

Sorry for things breaking

By Liam Dawe,
Today you may have noticed at times certain parts of the website being down/giving off random errors. I am currently still integrating the new forum platform, but it's going well and everything will be back to normal momentarily!...

New Forum Up!

By Liam Dawe,
Well we now have a new forum powered by Xenforo instead of phpbb which allows me to customize the community a lot more to suit our needs...not to mention the software being far more up-to-date with what the web can do nowadays. New url is

Gaming on GNU/Linux: Ryzom MMORPG Goes Native!

By Liam Dawe,
Gaming on GNU/Linux: Ryzom MMORPG Goes Native! PARIS, FRANCE, November 30th, 2010 -- Winch Gate Properties Ltd has announced the release of the official native GNU/Linux client for the massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playi...