What have you been playing on Linux recently and what do you think about it?
Today GOL asks: what have you been playing on Linux, and what do you think about it? So many games, so little time!
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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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Neon Drive, a slick looking retro inspired game that mashes styles together will come to Linux
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition now officially support Linux & SteamOS
Well this is confusing, but still awesome. Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition supporting Linux/SteamOS is now 100% official.
The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare adds Steam Controller, Linux & SteamOS support in a big patch
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
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
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
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
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
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!
Steam's latest Hardware Survey is out, shows Linux at 0.84%
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.
Stellaris patch 1.1 "Clarke" is now available, includes beta UI scaling option
The first major Stellaris patch 1.1 code-named "Clarke" is now available and brings plenty with it. I'm looking forward to diving back in.
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS major patch released, features built-in mod manager
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has been updated with a rather large patch that brings in a number of new goodies. There were a number of test releases, but they have all come together for an official stable patch.
GOG Connect announced, add certain Steam games to GOG for a limited time
I was wondering if GOG would ever do something like this and it's really cool to see them finally dip their toes in it. For a limited time using GOG Connect a few Steam games can be redeemed on GOG for fully DRM free builds.
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