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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.

Command the undead as shields and weapons in Millions of Minions

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

Millions of Minions: An Underground Adventure is a brand new dungeon crawler that recently released into Steam Early Access, giving a slightly unique take on it.

FMV mystery thriller 'Jessika' will launch on August 25

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2020

Assemble Entertainment and Tritrie Games have confirmed that Jessika, a full-motion video mystery-adventure will be launching with Linux support on August 25.

Charming dungeon crawling adventure 'UnderMine' launches August 6

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2020

After about five years in development and close to 120,000 players later, UnderMine is getting ready to leave Early Access on August 6 to have you dig deep for gold.

Godot 4.0 will get SDF based real-time global illumination

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2020

While we already briefly mentioned SDF based real-time global illumination was coming in our post on the recent Godot Engine 3.2.2 release, Godot's Juan Linietsky has now explained the upcoming feature in more detail.

Papercraft styled tactical RPG 'Wildermyth' adds Legacy campaigns

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jun 2020

Wildermyth is a seriously great in-development character-driven tactical RPG, with a fantastic papercraft style and it just got a great boost to the story.