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Help GamingOnLinux beat Coronavirus, join us on Folding@home


By Liam Squires-Hand
Alright Coronavirus, this has gone on long enough. It's time to kick your arse. Want to help? We've made a team on Folding@home for you to spare your unused CPU/GPU cycles for research.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-5 is out with updated OpenVR, Vulkan and fixes


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve published Proton 5.0-5 for Steam Play which includes some helpful additions and bug fixes, should help you play those Windows-only games while quarantined.

Valve's card game Artifact is still being worked on for a big revamp


By Liam Squires-Hand
Artifact, the failed card game from Valve, released in November 2018 and within the space of only two months had lost almost the entire player-base. Valve don't appear to have given up, quite the opposite.

Get Tomb Raider and Drawful 2 to keep FREE, plus others to check out


By Liam Squires-Hand
Even more developers have begun to offer their games up for FREE. We now have Tomb Raider and Drawful 2 joining in.

Xbox One controller wireless on Linux gets better with 'xow' release 0.4


By Liam Squires-Hand
Xbox One wireless dongle and controller on Linux? Yes it's a thing, people use it and the xow project is making it better and easier than ever.

DXVK the D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer 1.6 update out


By Liam Squires-Hand
DXVK, the almighty translation layer that takes D3D 9/10/11 and spits out Vulkan, that paired up with Wine allows many Windows-only games to perform will on Linux has a new update out.

Free real-time strategy 'The Fertile Crescent' has a big update focused on overall quality


By Liam Squires-Hand
The Fertile Crescent, a (currently) entirely free to play real-time strategy that's a little like a retro Age of Empires just had a big update focusing on the overall quality.

Get Mable & The Wood free in the GOG Spring Sale for 48 hours


By Liam Squires-Hand
During the GOG Spring Sale, they've teamed up with Triplevision Games / Graffiti Games to offer their unique Metroidvania experience free for 48 hours.

Helms of Fury looks like a wonderful and colourful action rogue-lite coming to Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Helms of Fury from developer A Bit Awake was just recently announced as a dungeon crawling rogue-lite with a focus on fast combat, discovering items and combining runes to create insanely powerful builds.

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition has a big update out and new story DLC coming soon


By Liam Squires-Hand
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from Beamdog has been updated again, bringing some pretty huge improvements and a great sounding story pack is coming soon.

Dungeon Drafters will bring magical deck-building to Linux now it's funded


By Liam Squires-Hand
Dungeon Drafters is another Kickstarter success as Manalith Studios' campaign just ended, hitting well over their goal and so the game is coming to Linux.

Non-linear pixel art adventure Alwa's Legacy now launching a bit later


By Liam Squires-Hand
Alwa's Legacy from Elden Pixels appears to be facing a small delay, as they're no longer aiming for an April release but there's plenty of good news.

New Steam Client Beta up with Linux updates, Valve prepping Proton 5.0-5


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve have released a new Steam Client Beta which pulls in a couple of Linux improvements and they appear to be preparing a new Proton version with a tweak for Half-Life: Alyx.

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Master now available in Early Access


By Liam Squires-Hand
Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Master from Goblinz Studio enters Early Access today, letting you become the evil overlord of a dungeon. This isn't a Dungeon Keeper styled game though, it works like a turn-based strategy with some management elements.

Cities: Skylines Sunset Harbor expansion announced for March 26


By Liam Squires-Hand
Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order have announced Cities: Skylines Sunset Harbor, a brand new expansion for the massively popular city-builder to release on March 26.

Fast-paced arcade combat-racing with RC cars 'PocketCars' adds Linux support


By Liam Squires-Hand
Car racing of a miniature sort with RC cars is what's on the track in PocketCars, and it just recently enabled Linux support in their Early Access release.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud and the GOverlay app for managing it both have new releases up


By Liam Squires-Hand
MangoHud, the awesome Linux overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan games has another new release. GOverlay, the FOSS application designed to make configuring MangoHud easy has also been refreshed.

Death and Taxes goes open source after selling 'pretty well' to help others


By Liam Squires-Hand
Death and Taxes, a narrative game about choosing who lives and who dies as the Grim Reaper is now officially open source.

Imperator: Rome gets more religious in the 1.4 "Archimedes" update due on March 31


By Liam Squires-Hand
Imperator: Rome, the grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios about the classical world will soon have a little more depth to the religion features in the 1.4 "Archimedes" update now due on March 31.

Dodge Roll confirm 'Exit the Gungeon' is coming to Linux once the launch has settled


By Liam Squires-Hand
Exit the Gungeon from Dodge Roll/Singlecore and Devolver Digital is a small, spin-off 'dungeon climber' immediately following the adventures in the excellent Enter the Gungeon.