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Narrative RPG 'Vagrus - The Riven Realms' enters Early Access on July 22

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2020

Vagrus - The Riven Realms is a currently in-development narrative-focused RPG that's currently doing a hybrid crowdfunding model on Fig and it's getting a wider release this month.

Rebuild the ecosystem in the latest Terra Nil update

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2020

Terra Nil is a city-builder that's about rebuilding the ecosystem and getting everything green, rather than painting the map grey with towers full of people.

Purism reveal their powerful privacy-focused Librem 14 laptop

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2020

If you're after a laptop that's both powerful and privacy respecting, you may want to take a look over at Purism with their newly launched Librem 14 laptop.

Hardware

Action-adventure 'Sparklite' adds Linux support in a big update

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

MergeGames, together with developers Red Blue Games have now released their action-adventure Sparklite on Linux along with a fresh content update.

Our quick-picks of the best Linux games of 2020 so far

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

We're half-way through the year already? Madness. Even with all the craziness of 2020 going on, lots of games still managed to get out of the door.

Kerbal Space Program 'Shared Horizons' is out with ESA missions and comets

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

Ready to spend another thousand hours building spaceships and now chasing comets? Take charge of the Kerbal Space Program once again in the latest free upgrade.

Dark sci-fi action RPG 'Hellpoint' launches July 30

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

Hellpoint from Cradle Games and tinyBuild is now set to officially release with Linux support on July 30.

The Linux market share appears to continue rising with Ubuntu winning

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

Take it with your usual dose of salt and scepticism but when looking over the Linux market share, at least on NetMarketShare it appears to continue rising.

A chat with the developer of the action-packed roguelike Burning Knight

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

Burning Knight is a recently released action-packed roguelike, featuring slick pixel-art and fantastic lighting along with plenty of over the top action and a little sprinkle of comedy.

Thief inspired FOSS stealth game The Dark Mod has a massive new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

The Dark Mod, a free and open-source first-person stealth game inspired by the Thief series has a huge new release up.

The 'Update of Plenty' has arrived for Dead Cells - revamping lots

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

The 19th update for Dead Cells is a bit of a big one, overhauling quite a lot of game mechanics and the overall difficulty.

Chrome OS appears to be edging closer to Steam support with Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2020

Looks like Linux gaming may get yet another boost, thanks to Google? Yes. Backing up previous information on Steam support coming to Chrome OS it looks like the project is still going.

FNA3D now has Vulkan support in Alpha, FNA 20.07 is out

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

FNA3D, the upcoming advanced graphics library for FNA has reached a new milestone on the way to full Vulkan support.

Sandbox vehicle building adventure 'TerraTech' gets some fun new tech

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

Although it already has tons of blocks to make crazy vehicles with, Payload Studios clearly aren't finished expanding TerraTech and this latest update looks fun.

11 years ago this month GOL was created, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

11 years ago this month on July 5, the GamingOnLinux website was created and what an absolutely insane ride it's been. It's truly difficult to fully comprehend how far Linux and Linux Gaming has come in this time.

Linux-powered Atari VCS ships for backers in October, full release by end of year

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

It seems the Atari VCS is not dead and will actually be seeing a launch this year, as Atari themselves have now confirmed.

Now crowdfunding - Neko Ghost, Jump! blends 2D and 3D puzzle-platforming

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

After a puzzle-platformer that's a little unique and challenging? Neko Ghost, Jump! blends together traditional 2D platforming and 3D modes to offer a fresh take.

Craft slick chiptune music for games or fun as FamiStudio adds Linux builds

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

FamiStudio, a pretty fun looking program designed for people making chiptune music and NES homebrewers recently had a big new release and it came with their first Linux build.

Stadia exclusive Crayta is out, plus more Stadia Pro titles and UI updates

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

Crayta, the promising looking multiplayer game creation tool is now available exclusively on Stadia and there's more Stadia news to cover today.

Open source OpenXR runtime 'Monado' expands with multi-application support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

Monado is the in-development OpenXR runtime for VR / AR on Linux and Collabora continue to make excellent progress on bringing it up to eventually support more platforms and features.