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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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Codemasters have announced DIRT 5 and it will be available on Stadia in early 2021

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Codemasters have announced the first 'next-gen' racer with DIRT 5, and the good news for Linux fans is that they've already confirmed a Google Stadia release so you can stream it in early 2021.

As Stellaris prepares to turn 4, Paradox have a big free update ready for this month

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Engage hype number one! Stellaris, the awesome grand strategy space game from Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive turns four years old soon and it's getting a big free update.

Free to play MMO 'Albion Online' is going very strong with 500K monthly players during April

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Not many popular MMO games have Linux support but Albion Online does and it appears that in terms of player population overall they're doing well.

Awesome looking adventure 'BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION' should now look great on AMD & Intel GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION the latest game from THE BROTHERHOOD (CAYNE / STASIS), has been updated for Linux and it now appears to work great across AMD and Intel GPUs with the open source Mesa drivers.

Slavic fantasy exploration adventure 'The End of the Sun' is up on Kickstarter now

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Time travelling slavic fantasy adventure, The End of the Sun, is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter and they plan to have full Linux support.

Channelling inspiration from Zelda, the open-world 'Adventure In Aellion' launches on July 22

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Adventure In Aellion is an upcoming drop-in / drop-out co-op adventure game, which the developers claim 'evokes the spirit of Legend of Zelda'.

CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience does a good job to highlight issues and it's out now

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Delve Interactive recently released CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience, a game that aims to let players experience what it's like to actually be homeless.

Castle Game Engine looking to improve gamepad support thanks to SDL2

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Castle Game Engine might not be as well known as other free and open source game engines, however it does look rather useful and the developers continue to pull in improvements.

Get immersed in a classic MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with Mudlet

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2020

Open source, free and cross-platform is what we like to see here. Sometimes we cover some real classic gaming too and today we're talking a bit about entering a MUD with Mudlet.

Re-Logic detail the new 'Journey Mode' for Terraria 1.4 that lets you do basically anything

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

Terraria is set to come to a close with the almighty Journey's End update coming out on May 16, with that comes a huge new game mode with Journey Mode.

Epic city-state simulator 'Songs of Syx' fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

Songs of Syx blends quite a lot of genres together. It's part city-builder, real-time strategy, grand strategy and more. Thankfully it's also been funded with a successful Kickstarter.

The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.

UnderMine gets a final big content update with the Golden Core before leaving Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

Thorium Entertainment along with publisher Fandom have announced the final major update to UnderMine, an action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in, before it leaves Early Access.

RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.

Steampunk first-person, base building survival game 'Volcanoids' gets co-op on May 20

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

Volcanoids is a fantastic idea for a survival game, that lets you build and customize a great big moving drill and this month on May 20 it's getting online co-op support.

Bullet Express seems like an amusing upcoming 2D action-RPG loot shooter you can try now

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

LazyGemsGames are working on Bullet Express, a new 2D action-RPG shooter where you level up and merge guns together to create their ultimate form.

Steamdolls - Order of Chaos will bring brutal steampunk metroidvania to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

Steamdolls - Order of Chaos was announced recently from developer The Shady Gentlemen, giving a metroidvania a steampunk style with some brutal action.

According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big

By Liam Dawe, 6 May 2020

It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.

Steam has a huge indie game sale for The Indie MEGABOOTH live now

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2020

The Indie MEGABOOTH, a team that have supported indie game developers for a long time through events are now running a huge sale on indie games on Steam and there's some awesome stuff.

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