Neon Drive, a slick looking retro inspired game that mashes styles together will come to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Neon Drive is a hard game to pick a genre for, one minute you're in a retro-future car and the next a spaceship. It looks cool and it's coming to Linux.

Jumpdrive sandbox space sim has first Alpha release in many months

By Liam Dawe,
Jumpdrive (previously known as Paragon), a pretty good looking sandbox space sim is alive again and the developers have released the first Alpha build in many months.

Defender's Quest DX launching this month, removes Adobe Air and upgrades rather a lot

By Liam Dawe,
Defender's Quest is a pretty decent Tower Defence/RPG hybrid that will be relaunching this month as Defender's Quest DX. It will have a bunch of systems and graphics upgraded, but the icing is that it will no longer use Adobe Air.

Rocket League for Linux & SteamOS getting close to a release window finally

By Liam Dawe,
Someone pinch me, I must be dreaming. It seems Rocket League may actually release sometime soon after a developer posted about it on their Steam forum.

An EVE Online developer has built an unofficial Linux launcher, game uses Wine

By Liam Dawe,
An EVE Online developer has created a native Linux launcher that will download a version of Wine built by the developer.

Hard Reset Redux is showing signs that it is coming to Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Hard Reset Redux is a beautiful looking FPS game from Flying Wild Hog and Gambitious Digital Entertainment that is now showing signs of coming to Linux/SteamOS.

Want to be a Youtube star? Well, Youtubers Life a new simulator game is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Yes, this is a real game. Since Grass Simulator nothing will surprise me any more. Youtubers Life is coming to Linux as confirmed by their twitter account in reply to someone. Soon you will be able to become the world’s greatest video blogger in history, in a game anyway.

Next month marks seven years of me running GamingOnLinux, how should we celebrate?

By Liam Dawe,
I need help, I want your bright ideas on how to celebrate running this corner if the web for seven years. The official GOL birthday is the 5th of July.

It's s Friday again, come watch the Friday Livestream at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
The past week has been a little bit busy for me but that's no obstacle for the Friday Livestream! Come and join the live Linux gaming shenanigans once again on our Twitch channel, where we occasionally play games and almost always talk garbage!

Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition now officially support Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is confusing, but still awesome. Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition supporting Linux/SteamOS is now 100% official.

Daedalic's Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes now available for Linux

By flesk,
According to a recent update on Steam, the sequel to Daedalic Entertainment's award-winning debut game is now available for Linux.

Point-and-click adventure game Demetrios released DRM-free and on Steam

By flesk,
Demetrios - The BIG cynical adventure is the remake of an unreleased adventure game, funded on Kickstarter last year, and is now available DRM free and on Steam.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare adds Steam Controller, Linux & SteamOS support in a big patch

By Liam Dawe,
I have been seriously wanting to try this out. The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare is a great looking Unreal Engine 4 title about plastic soldiers doing what they do best.

Substance Painter 2, a feature-filled 3D texture painting app comes to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Substance Painter 2 looks like an incredibly useful application for game developers to get to work on their graphics and you can now do so on Linux.

The PAYDAY 2 developers now own the franchise, ditching microtransactions, PAYDAY 3 looks like it's a thing

By Liam Dawe,
PAYDAY 2 and the franchise as a whole is now owned by the developers Starbreeze/OVERKILL and they are celebrating by removing the need to buy drills to open a safe.

Brigador stomps out of Early Access with such beautiful destruction, a must try on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Oh baby! Brigador is one game you cannot afford to miss out on. It has such beautiful design and destruction that I can't help but fall in love with it.

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite

By Liam Dawe,
Ars Technica has written up an article about Valve's Steam Machines and how they seem to have sold less than 500,000 units in around seven months.

Valve announce over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold

By Liam Dawe,
An awesome milestone for such an interesting device! Valve have stated in an update that the Steam Controller has sold over half a million units!

The most popular Linux & SteamOS gaming articles for May 2016, 161 in total

By gamingonlinux,
Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2016, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming!

Steam's latest Hardware Survey is out, shows Linux at 0.84%

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is now available and if you take it at face value it doesn't look so good for Linux. I am remaining positive as always about it.