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News - The Story-Rich Megabundle on Steam is amazing value not to be missed
By Linux_Rocks, 6 May 2025 at 1:50 am UTC

NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD is great.

News - Road trip management RPG Keep Driving added controller support, working on being Steam Deck Verified
By Eri, 5 May 2025 at 9:59 pm UTC

This game got my curiosity when it was released, not it has my attention.

News - Junkyard Space Agency is a 'scrappier, multiplayer version' of Kerbal Space Program
By Talon1024, 5 May 2025 at 9:52 pm UTC

Wishlisted! Because I think gaming needs more studios which embrace open source.

News - Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
By manuelboe, 5 May 2025 at 9:13 pm UTC

I won't purchase anything from them until they show support for Linux. They don't have to port their stupid Launcher to Linux since I won't use them anyway(would still be nice for new users and Linux in general though) but I won't buy games from a Platform that might pull support for the only OS I use.

Just allow Dev's to Publish Linux games to your Platform, is it so hard, sweeney?

News - Stellaris: BioGenesis and free 4.0 "Phoenix" update out now
By Vidrax, 5 May 2025 at 6:49 pm UTC

Anyone remember the days when patch notes used to be text, which you could read in a minute or less?

For text, try patch notes in the official Stellaris Wiki: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_4.0

And I don't think anybody was ever able to read the patch notes to any major Stellaris update in a minute or less.

News - Stellaris: BioGenesis and free 4.0 "Phoenix" update out now
By Kimyrielle, 5 May 2025 at 6:30 pm UTC

Get an overview of the 4.0 update in the below video

Anyone remember the days when patch notes used to be text, which you could read in a minute or less?

News - The Story-Rich Megabundle on Steam is amazing value not to be missed
By kaiman, 5 May 2025 at 5:42 pm UTC

Sable alone justifies getting the bundle :-).
Citizen Sleeper is okay, quite gripping at the start, actually, but I found it's one of those games where success begets more success, and failure begets more failure.
NORCO I've never got to properly work under Wine, though I haven't tried in a while.
A Space for the Unbound is still on my wishlist.

Can't say much about the rest, but Genesis Noir seems to be quite the spectacle.

News - Here's the most played Steam Deck games for April 2025, Balatro still top but Oblivion Remastered sneaks in second
By Corben, 5 May 2025 at 12:59 pm UTC

I'm currently mostly playing on Deck (or ROG Ally with Bazzite), and my games are:

  • Fall Guys (playing the dailies for about an hour)
  • No Man's Sky (finished the relics expedition)
  • The Gunk (got it on sale)
  • World of Goo 2 (thanks 2D boy for the additional Steam key)

My PC is only used for gaming once a week or for VR... crazy how the Deck has changed my gaming habits. And I like it!

News - Horse Runner DX is a wholesome endless-runner where you play as a herd of different horses
By MatMakesGames, 5 May 2025 at 12:26 pm UTC

Thanks again for the kind write-up back in January! Just wanted to drop by and share that Horse Runner DX officially launched on March 6th and the full version has grown quite a bit since the original demo. There's now an online leaderboard, unlockable bonus horses, improved camera, new CRT shaders and of course, the native Linux support is still going strong 🐧🐴

I've been playing it a lot on my own Steam Deck, where it runs perfectly at a smooth 60fps with pixel-perfect visuals. There is now also support for higher refresh rates. Always happy to hear from fellow Linux gamers about how it runs on different setups. Thanks again for checking it out!

PS (about the comments):
You're not wrong! 😅 But it's less dramatic than it sounds... No broken legs, I promise! When a horse drops out, they peacefully fall behind - probably to go snack on a pixelated apple off-screen 🍎😌

News - Junkyard Space Agency is a 'scrappier, multiplayer version' of Kerbal Space Program
By nullterm, 5 May 2025 at 12:26 pm UTC

Heya! Thanks for writing about our project. Actually, just this morning we published a video with some real gameplay of this first alpha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETzWEOYhMMM

News - Borderlands 4 release date now set for September 12, plus a new trailer and deep dive are out
By Grimfist, 5 May 2025 at 12:09 pm UTC

Because of their recent changes to ToS 2K / Gearbox can go f**k themselves. Will never buy of them again.

News - Check out the demo for no brake no gain, a precision-driving game where skill outshines speed
By Pyrate, 5 May 2025 at 9:09 am UTC

Interesting concept ! I must say, not a big fan of the name, however.

Will keep an eye out. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

News - The UPERFECT UColor O2 is a brilliant portable monitor
By Chrisznix, 5 May 2025 at 6:59 am UTC

Wow, we could really need something like this in service, perhaps with built-in batteries to troubleshoot headless clients. Thanks!

News - Steam Survey for April 2025 results available, Linux sits at 2.27%
By tuubi, 5 May 2025 at 5:56 am UTC

@Cyba.Cowboy
Whatever happened to the statistics on this website? Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to find the option anymore... Ditto for the forums.

There's apparently no dedicated article or FAQ entry to refer to, or maybe I just didn't find it, but here's a quote from Liam's recent "March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support":
Additionally, our Forum was closed in December 2024 due to the UK's new wide-reaching Online Safety Act. Not many at all actually used it as most of the community is on Discord, but it's still a shame. There's been a few other smaller changes in comments and profiles to keep us out of scope of the law to hopefully not have any issues. No changes are up for discussion on that. This does not affect our regular news posting at all.

The statistics (and PC info) aren't mentioned here, but the reason is the same. Ditto for DMs etc.

It's a stupid (and stupidly vague) law. I don't see how opt-in collection of information about our hardware for anonymous statistics endangers anyone's online safety. That said, Liam just can't risk a potential fine.

News - Steam Survey for April 2025 results available, Linux sits at 2.27%
By Cyba.Cowboy, 4 May 2025 at 11:18 pm UTC

Whatever happened to the statistics on this website? Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to find the option anymore... Ditto for the forums.

News - The UPERFECT UColor O2 is a brilliant portable monitor
By Stella, 4 May 2025 at 3:49 pm UTC

Isn't the Deck GPU way too weak to render at this high resolution though?

News - EA / Respawn now block Apex Legends from running on Linux and Steam Deck
By marcin1509, 4 May 2025 at 9:08 am UTC

Please make petition so some EA games work with proton wine,BattlEye,Easy Anti Cheat is good, i want to get into apex legends
I bought ea wrc sports but i get error with ge proton 18

Unfortunately the game wasn't officially supported so they have argument on their side.
EA don't listen to players or anybody, petition won't work here.
IMHO kernel level anticheats should be banned and it would help in fixing compatibility. This AC is not about cheaters, they wanted to save microtransactions and disable modding. They could give another server for steamdeck players/Linux, but what for? It's better to block.

News - Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos
By el1x, 4 May 2025 at 7:08 am UTC

This looks very interesting. For the small
amount being asked for the game, i couldn't help but hit the buy button. This should make for a nice ‘couch’ game.

News - Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
By WMan22, 4 May 2025 at 6:12 am UTC

@eggrole

I DO want a competitive market, this is why I use itch.io, gamejolt, and GOG as well as steam. I want that competition to succeed, not Epic, with the rare exception of Epic clapping Apple's ass in court which I am 100% in approval of in a very "Enemy of my enemy" fashion.

But those other places have things that actually benefit me as an end user, instead of holding games at gunpoint and going "Use our badly made store with no linux support outside of a 3rd party launcher like Heroic or you don't get to play this" while itch and gamejolt host fangames, experimental projects, and mods, and GOG has DRM free games to entice me. Epic just has a whiny CEO pretending (outside of the victory against apple, that was pretty cool of them) to be hero of the industry and Fortnite which I'm too old to be the target audience of.

But speaking of demographics, You know what I am the target audience of? Unreal Tournament. And they did not treat the franchise their engine's namesake comes from with any level of dignity since UT4 got cancelled and they delisted the entire franchise, so there's that chip on my shoulder about Epic too.

Contrary to what Tim Sweeney has directly said, Consumers decide the store wars, not publishers.

News - Wine 10.7 released with an interesting loading time performance improvement
By mrdeathjr, 4 May 2025 at 3:52 am UTC

If you need wii cursor theme can see here:

https://www.gnome-look.org/p/999959


News - Wine 10.7 released with an interesting loading time performance improvement
By Cloversheen, 4 May 2025 at 3:06 am UTC

Love the Wii-pointer there mrdeathjr

News - Wine 10.7 released with an interesting loading time performance improvement
By mrdeathjr, 4 May 2025 at 2:21 am UTC

​Is really nice when found a newer game have DX11 renderer and dont appear in pcgamingwiki (in my case occur same thing with lollipop chainsaw some time ago)

lumen ilumination has been disabled because is very heavy in my igpu

clair obscur 33 expedition

https://i.imgur.com/XwgKIWN.png

https://i.imgur.com/hCbzGyC.png


News - Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
By ElectricPrism, 4 May 2025 at 12:33 am UTC

@dziadulewicz - "EPIG. Never have, never will support this scum. Even if Epig started to support Linux; too little too late. Tim Sweeney? Nothing but pants"

I don't think you have to Worry, I don't think Tim Sweeney knows how to dismount a tiger.

It actually makes it really nice, because you know upfront the whole store is going to be a huge fail for consumers, and therefore don't need to waste money feeding the tiger before it's meal time.

News - EA and Codemasters no longer making WRC (World Rally Championship) or any other rally games
By marcin1509, 3 May 2025 at 11:10 pm UTC

pity because they had experience and gave us a lot of good racing games. But it's bought by EA, so they kill them because numbers are not too big. EA Sports WRC won't get any new updates, but they should remove that shitty anti-cheat and leave that game alone.

News - Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
By dziadulewicz, 3 May 2025 at 7:35 pm UTC

EPIG. Never have, never will support this scum. Even if Epig started to support Linux; too little too late. Tim Sweeney? Nothing but pants

News - Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos
By Purple Library Guy, 3 May 2025 at 6:34 pm UTC

I might wishlist this, sounds like fun. But I suspect one reason it's being overlooked is the graphics are more rudimentary than Pong.

News - The UPERFECT UColor O2 is a brilliant portable monitor
By Purple Library Guy, 3 May 2025 at 6:27 pm UTC

It's kind of the way laptop computers tend to cost more than desktops even though they have dinky screens and lousy little keyboards and not much power under the hood.

News - The UPERFECT UColor O2 is a brilliant portable monitor
By Mountain Man, 3 May 2025 at 6:20 pm UTC

@numasan
You are paying for the convenience in having a portable monitor that fits in a bag. Probably worth it for people in the market for this.
That's a heck of a markup for convenience.

News - Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store
By jarhead_h, 3 May 2025 at 4:38 pm UTC

"Announced in a blog post on May 1st, Epic will take a 0% store fee for the first $1 million revenue developers make per app per year."

In other words, Valve is still winning.