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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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Visual novel 'Higurashi When They Cry Hou' part 6 is now out

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2018

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi recently released as the sixth chapter in the series and they all have Linux support.

DXVK for Direct3D 11 over Vulkan in Wine has a new 0.60 release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2018

Summer heat got you parched? Why not wet your whistle with some Wine as DXVK has a fresh release out today.

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There's a new Linux beta of 'Black Mesa' that fixes it running on Linux, Xen levels nearly finished

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2018

For those who've been wanting to play Black Mesa, the fan-made recreation of Half-Life you're in luck as Crowbar Collective put up a Beta for Linux users.

The Atari VCS team aren't doing themselves any favours by accusing The Register of being professional trolls

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2018

It seems the Atari VCS team are burning bridges before they're even built, as they accused the well respected tech news site The Register of professional trolling.

The Linux version of Turok has left beta, available to everyone

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

Turok, the revamp of the 1997 shooter arrived in Beta for Linux back in May and now it's officially out.

Steam Summer Sale is up, free game from Humble Store & Fanatical sale too

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

There's quite a lot of sales and stuff going on right now, so I'm going to cram some into one article to give you an extra scoop with sprinkles and all.

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For The King is a really great strategic RPG you must try that just got updated

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

Strategic RPG 'For The King' is a game that constantly surprised me with some really great gameplay.

Stormy sailing game 'Make Sail' adds in sea turtles you can ride on

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

I'm still terrible at it but there's a lot of charm to Make Sail and the steady improvements have been impressive. This latest update is a rather nice one.

XENONAUTS 2 hit Kickstarter and it's already funded, hopefully coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

I've been having an internal debate with myself about covering this one, since I'm a huge fan of XCOM-like games but the developer of XENONAUTS 2 isn't yet fully committing to a Linux version.

Top-down sci-fi adventure 'Xenosis: Alien Infection' has been fully funded

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

As a huge fan of Xenosis: Alien Infection, the top-down survival adventure game from NerdRage Studios, I'm really happy to see it get funded.

Harebrained Schemes making 'good progress' on the Linux version of BATTLETECH

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2018

While the Linux version of BATTLETECH sadly didn't release with the latest patch, the developer did give it a clear mention.

Prime Mover, an open-ended puzzle game about designing circuit boards adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jun 2018

You all love your programming puzzle games right? Prime Mover is a puzzle game about designing circuit boards and it's now on Linux.

Reverse engineered source code for Diablo is now on GitHub

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jun 2018

This is a bit of a surprise! Someone going by the name 'GalaXyHaXz' has put up source code for the original Diablo that was apparently reverse engineered.