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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check 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.

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Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ comes to PC, works on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

SEGA decide to drop out of nowhere Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ on Steam. The good news is that thanks to Proton, it works out of the box on Linux and Steam Deck.

Modern twin-stick cave-flyer 'Gravity Ace' is out now and it's great

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Remember the days when games were a lot simpler, and you had various attempts at cave-flying? Well, I do and the new release Gravity Ace brings back some fun memories while making a modern spin.

Corsair driver and UI for Linux ckb-next version 0.5.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Have some fancy Corsair hardware that you want to tweak on Linux? You need the ckb-next project, which has a new release out with version 0.5.0.

Get some classics working better on Steam Deck with Luxtorpeda upgrades

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play tool (like Proton) but for running various Native Linux games engines. A fresh update is out, further improving Steam Deck support.

Valve say they will look into fixing up the bot problems in Team Fortress 2

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Finally, after multiple years of problems, Valve seem to be getting back on the horse for Team Fortress 2 development to deal with the big bot problem.

Proton Experimental gets V Rising and MechWarrior Online working for Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

The latest changes are now out for Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton for playing Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux that you can try that has more features before they roll out to the stable versions. The update landed on May 27th.

SteamOS 3.2 out for Steam Deck — better fan curves, refresh rate switching

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

Valve has released a huge Stable update for SteamOS with version 3.2 now available for updating on your Steam Deck. Here's what's new.

Beautiful musical puzzle-adventure Sonority is out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

Musical puzzle-adventure game Sonority is out now from Hanging Gardens Interactive and Application Systems Heidelberg. I took a look so you know what to expect.

Nora: The Wannabe Alchemist is a fresh time-management visual-novel hybrid

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

A mixture of point & click, time-management and a visual-novel all blended together is what you get with Nora: The Wannabe Alchemist.

CRSED: F.O.A.D. is like PUBG with powers, now on Linux and Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

We may not have PUBG supported on Linux / Steam Deck yet but we do now have CRSED: F.O.A.D. (previously called Cuisine Royale), a Battle Royale game that looks quite a bit like PUBG but sprinkles in some powers.

Morrowind gets shiny in OpenMW with post-processing shaders coming

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

OpenMW, the free and open source game engine reimplementation of Morrowind is about to get a lot better looking, with post-processing shaders coming in the next release.

ProtonUp-Qt adds support for Wine manager app Bottles

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

ProtonUp-Qt, the fantastic tool to help you install various community builds of Wine and Proton like GE-Proton or Wine-GE on Linux and Steam Deck just added support for the Bottles application.

Bomber Crew is free for keeps on Steam until June 2nd

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

A quality game from 2017, Bomber Crew can now be grabbed free on Steam for a limited time so don't miss out.

Serious Sam 4 gets Steam Deck support with a small but 'notable' update

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Serious Sam 4 gained a Steam Deck Verified rating recently, which is in part thanks to the developer pushing out a small but significant patch for the game.

The Cities: Skylines - Colossal Collection Bundle is up and an awesome deal

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Want to complete your Cities: Skylines collection or get started with pretty much everything you need? Check out the new Cities: Skylines - Colossal Collection Bundle.

The Battle of Polytopia gets a huge diplomacy update

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

The Battle of Polytopia, a very highly rated turn-based strategy game that hopped over from mobile to PC back in 2020 is still expanding with a whole new diplomacy mechanic.

Super Animal Royale gets Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

There's a Battle Royale for everything now of course and Super Animal Royale puts 64 furry things in an arena and makes them fight until the end. Oh, it also now has Steam Deck support.

Pixel-art people-sim Tiny Life adds gamepad support, works on Steam Deck too

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

It's like The Sims but pixel-art and comes from an indie developer, what's not to love about this? Tiny Life has you take care of a family, build up their home and try not to kill them.

Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo gets a fresh demo and relaunched Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo is a thoroughly wonderful looking 3D adventure about a dead snake that wakes up in Limbo.

After a long wait, Psychonauts 2 has an official Linux version now

By Liam Dawe, 5 days ago

Psychonauts 2 was originally crowdfunded via Fig back in 2016, and now near a year after the Windows release the Native Linux version is now available.

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