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Fanatical's Platinum Collection for July has Tails of Iron, Floppy Knights and more

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2023

Fanatical put up another good looking bundle with their newest Platinum Collection for July 2023, here's all the games and what compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

I've spent way too much time playing Lost for Swords

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2023

Lost for Swords is an in-development turn-based roguelike card game with a unique twist, playable in your browser via itch.io it has sucked away a fair amount of my time recently.

Amazon Games support is coming soon to Heroic Games Launcher

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2023

The Heroic Games Launcher currently supports GOG, Epic Games and manual side-loading but Amazon Games support is also being worked on.

SteamVR improves controller support in v1.26

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2023

SteamVR will now play better with various types of controllers, thanks to the release of SteamVR version 1.26 bringing with it automatic controller rebinding.

Multi-vendor RGB controller app OpenRGB v0.9 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2023

Cross-platform open source RGB controls continue getting better, with OpenRGB version 0.9 now available so here's what's new.

Free sandbox game inspired by Minecraft 'MineClone2' v0.84 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2023

MineClone2 continues getting better and better as a free and open source replacement of Minecraft, with version 0.84 out now. Here's a run over what's new and improved.

Fedora considering adding in 'privacy-preserving' telemetry

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2023

Quite a controversial topic currently floating around is that a change proposal has been made for Fedora Workstation 40 to have some "privacy-preserving" telemetry to "enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics".

Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2023

Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Gears 5, Overwatch 2, Phasmophobia

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2023

Valve released a fresh upgrade to Proton Experimental to get more games like Gears 5, Overwatch 2 and Phasmophobia working better on Linux and Steam Deck.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2023

Another biweekly release of the compatibility layer Wine is out now! As the developers continue the progress towards getting Wine working fully with Wayland in version 8.12.

MicroProse now publishing Dying Breed a retro RTS like Command & Conquer

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

Announced today, Dying Breed from Sarnayer that blends together the classic style and gameplay in the original Command & Conquer but with Zombies is now being published by MicroProse.

Steam Beta improves Openbox support and fixes focus issues with AMD / Intel

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

A fresh Steam Beta update was put out for desktop and Steam Deck, it comes with a whole bunch of little bug fixes and improvements. Especially nice on desktop if you have AMD or Intel GPUs.

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.

ChimeraOS 43 out now adding ASUS ROG Ally support

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2023

ChimeraOS 43 has been released today adding in support for running this SteamOS inspired Linux distribution on the ASUS ROG Ally handheld.

Fab retro-fuelled FPS 'Selaco' gets a demo upgrade for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2023

Selaco is one that really needs to be on your wishlist, a retro-fuelled FPS powered by GZDoom with some impressive world design and fantastic combat. The developers recently updated the demo too!

Black Dragon Mage is my kind of bullet heaven survivor-like insanity

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2023

Black Dragon Mage from developer Datablob Studio looks absolutely nuts! Taking inspiration from all the bullet heaven games like Vampire Survivors, Brotato and pulling in some elements from Path of Exile and even…Bomberman? Apparently so.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.1 improves Heroic Games Launcher support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2023

ProtonUp-Qt is the app that allows you to install the likes of GE-Proton, Wine-GE, Luxtorpeda and more for Steam, Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher and Boxtron.

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 14 years old today

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2023

You may have noticed the website acting up a little lately, well that's because it's well into its teens now. Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux, the tiny little site I thought no one would visit but here we are 14 years later.

Get a free copy of Prey with Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2023

Want another free game? If you have Amazon Prime you can now claim a free copy of Prey from Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks with their GOG partnership.