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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can also follow my personal adventures on Bluesky.

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Thrive, the free and open source evolution sim has a fresh release with save support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

After moving over to Godot Engine as the base for Thrive, the team behind this free and open source game of evolution have a new and important update available.

A System76 engineer is porting coreboot to newer AMD Zen systems

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

System76 have begun providing more AMD based hardware for Linux enthusiasts, and the next step in their plan to be as open as possible appears to have begun.

KDE Plasma 5.20 will properly support screen recording on Wayland and more

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2020

The KDE team working on the Plasma desktop environment are busy pushing ahead for the 5.20 release due later this year and it's sounding great.

Synergia is a vibrant cyberpunk visual novel that stands out and it's available now

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Admittedly, the Visual Novel genre is not one I go to often but I couldn't resist with Synergia because of the incredible atmosphere and wonderful design work that went into it.

ReplaySorcery is an open source instant-replay solution for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Need a project to easily capture the last 30 seconds of action? ReplaySorcery might just be the open source project that you're looking for.

The 'Old World' update for ScourgeBringer adds a whole new realm

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

From the developers of NeuroVoider which also supports Linux, ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer that's seriously fun and it's had a huge upgrade.

GOG have a 'Grand RPG Sale' going on with tons of good games going cheap

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

DRM-free store GOG have today launched a Grand RPG Sale and they've filled their store full of sales on some top RPGs, from smaller indie titles to big hitters.

Ron Gilbert, developer of Thimbleweed Park is switching to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Ron Gilbert is a name most in the game industry will know from the likes of Thimbleweed Park, and earlier works like The Cave while at Double Fine and they were even the producer on my all-time favourite RTS Total Annihilation. It appears Gilbert is attempting to switch to Linux.

Mixing together Minesweeper with a roguelite, DemonCrawl is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Therefore Games have announced that their popular roguelite puzzler DemonCrawl is coming to Linux, and it's currently in Beta with a release due in a few weeks.

Looks like Steam is getting a 'Playtest' feature for some developers

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Valve are always upgrading the Steam store and it appears another new feature has begun rolling out, at least in a limited form with official playtests.

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3D rail shooter 'Ex-Zodiac' is a Kickstarter success and coming to Linux PC

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

With inspiration coming from classics like Star Fox, the in-development 3D rail shooter 'Ex-Zodiac' managed to get quite a bit of funding with the Kickstarter now complete.

Strange Brigade, Sniper Elite 4 and SUPERHOT: MCD coming to Stadia

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Google have confirmed even more games coming to Stadia, their Linux-powered game streaming service that works on Linux in a Chromium / Chrome browser.

You can now get the enhanced SpaceChem Community Edition on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

SpaceChem, the classic Zachtronics design-based puzzle game not only got a sweet update recently to improve the tech behind the game, it's also now super easy to grab the updated community version.

Wonderful adventure game Jenny LeClue - Detectivu is now fully voiced

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2020

Originally launching in September 2019 after a successful Kickstarter campaign, the mystery adventure Jenny LeClue - Detectivu just got a huge upgrade.