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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 follow me personally on Mastodon [External Link].

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Stylish and tough rogue-lite shooter 'Danger Gazers' released

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

ShotX Studio (Kontrakt, Riskers) recently released Danger Gazers, a very stylish rogue-lite shooter with a lot to like about it.

Shadow & The Blade DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II is out now for Linux, plus a big new patch

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Today the porting studio Feral Interactive have managed to get The Shadow & The Blade DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER II out for the Linux version.

Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.

Quake II RTX updated with a new fancy Photo Mode

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA continue advancing Quake II RTX, which seems to be turning into an FPS playground of new features built on the classic game.

The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU has been announced and new Ryzen CPUs coming

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Announced just now during CES 2020, AMD have revealed their Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards aimed at being the "ultimate 1080p gaming experience".

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City-state building sim Songs of Syx is looking good in latest free build to try

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Songs of Syx could be a sleeper hit, currently available as a tech demo for an Early Access releasing coming later this year it's promising to be a pretty huge city-building strategy game with a grand design.

The Good Time Garden is short, free and completely hilarious as it's so freaky

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Searching through the gold mine of bizarre, slightly weird and downright surreal games buried on itch.io I recently came across the free adventure exploration game The Good Time Garden.

Frictional Games (SOMA, Amnesia) begin teasing something new

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Frictional Games, the developer behind some scary games like SOMA, Penumbra and Amnesia seem to have started teasing that a new game is coming.

FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.

Action survival game 'Sipho' where you create a creature opens up the sandbox Aquarium mode

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Sipho is a little favourite of mine to keep an eye on, a game where you create a creature from parts inspired by real-life sea creatures (zooids) and attempt to survive against the many other types.

Portal could have had a prequel called F-STOP/Aperture Camera, as a new documentary shows

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

LunchHouse Software have announced a sort-of documentary focusing on a cancelled Valve game, apparently it was going to be called F-STOP/Aperture Camera and it was a prequel to Portal.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.1 is out with tons of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of the open source gaming space has a fresh new release out with version 1.1.

Steam for Linux was started by ex-Microsoft developers

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

How about we start Monday off with an interesting little titbit? According to a former Valve staffer, Steam for Linux was started up by ex-Microsoft employees.

Slay the Spire's fourth character to be released on January 14

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Slay the Spire, a fantastic deck-builder roguelike that's one of my personal favourites released last year is finally getting the fourth character out.

Grave Days brings fast-paced survival rogue-lite action to the Zombie Apocalypse

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Inspired by the likes of some great games including Streets of Rogue, Death Road to Canada and Project Zomboid we now have Grave Days.

A fourth release candidate is out for Wine 5.0

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

With a full release expected a bit later this month, Wine 5.0 has a fourth release candidate up to get in some last testing.

Police Stories gives you more chances to practice your tactics with custom missions

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Mighty Morgan keep improving their tactical top-down shooter Police Stories, with an update landing last month adding in a Custom Mission mode.

The Humble Choice bundle is up for January with 12 games to pick from

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) has a new set of games up for January and this time there's 12 to pick from.

Some of our most anticipated games for Linux in 2020

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

A new year has arrived, so let's have a quick look over some of the most promising titles to be coming to Linux across 2020. There's plenty to be excited about.