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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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Abandon Ship, the naval combat and adventure game is still heading to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2019

It's been quite some time since I checked on Abandon Ship, the naval combat and adventure game that hooked me in with the art inspired by old naval oil paintings.

The developer of AuroraRL, a 2D space exploration game has thrown in the towel

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2019

The difficulties of game development and Early Access have hit another developer, with Sun Dogs throwing in the towel with AuroraRL. It's not all bad news though.

Outwarp 50S is the new devilish hard shoot 'em up from Bearded Giant Games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

Some of you may recognise the name Bearded Giant Games, as they made a little splash recently with their "Linux first initiative" and they've now revealed a new game called Outwarp 50S.

King under the Mountain, a settlement-building strategy game now has an alpha up on itch.io

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

After a mildly successful Kickstarter, King under the Mountain, a fantasy settlement-building strategy game now has an alpha available on itch.io.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare now has official Linux support once again

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare, a third-person shooter where you take on the role of a toy soldier is once again supported on Linux.

RivenTails: Defense, a mix of a 3D puzzle platformer with Tower Defense will come to Linux this year

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

RivenTails: Defense from developer Kivano is a rather sweet and colourful looking game blending two rather different genres together.

FoxTail, the sweet in-development point and click adventure has a second chapter out now

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

For those who love their classic inspired point and click adventures, take a look at FoxTail which now has a whole second chapter available.

Six years later, the horror adventure ASYLUM should hopefully release this year with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

It's been a long wait for the horror adventure 'ASYLUM' to finally release, with 2019 looking more likely and Linux support is still confirmed.

The free and open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has a third 3.1 beta out

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

No need to wait for Godot, the third beta of Godot Engine 3.1 is officially out for you to break it apart and report issues.

Lutris has the first release candidate available for 0.5 which needs testing

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2019

Lutris, the excellent bit of software that allows you to bring together your scattered game library is closing in on a final release of the 0.5 overhaul.

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SteamOS got updated recently, previous beta promoted to stable with a new beta for security fixes

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2019

SteamOS, Valve's Linux distribution aimed at a more console-like big TV experience actually saw some small updates recently.

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DXVK 0.96 is now officially out with CPU & GPU overhead improvements plus plenty more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2019

Hot on the heels of Wine 4.0, the excellent DXVK project has another fresh release available this weekend.

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Talking point: What are you playing this weekend?

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2019

It's nearly the end of January already, feels like the year is going rather quickly! With all the releases we've had lately along with some excellent games last year, what are you clicking on this weekend?

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Kingdoms and Castles had another wonderful update to expand the city builder recently

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2019

While this Kingdoms and Castles update isn't the one to include rival kingdoms (it's coming), it does lay-out some of the groundwork towards that.

X4: Foundations to come to Linux with one of the next major updates

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2019

Entering my inbox recently was an update on the roadmap for X4: Foundations, Linux is still in their plans but that date isn't too firm yet but we now have an idea of when it might be.

Some information on why Wine is not going to be using DXVK

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2019

It seems things aren't all rosy between CodeWeavers and DXVK, as developer Henri Verbeet has written into the Wine Development mailing list to give more details.