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News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By AsciiWolf, 13 Jan 2026 at 8:04 pm UTC

Quoting: Vladimir-DimovSadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮
It's available as a Flatpak.

News - Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone
By Julius, 13 Jan 2026 at 7:59 pm UTC

Would be still nice if there was a Peertube mirror of this.

News - Goverlay for managing tools like MangoHud gets a major new release and it's finally on Flathub
By Lofty, 13 Jan 2026 at 7:45 pm UTC

Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.
I can't believe nobody suggested GOLverlay 😝

News - Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux
By Purple Library Guy, 13 Jan 2026 at 7:23 pm UTC

Quoting: rustynail
Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.
Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service
Not entirely. If the file format is open source, then other backends could be written and they would interoperate with the client side tools (you might have to change a little bit of stuff in those tools that currently just point to Canonical's back end, but presumably that part would be trivial). It's certainly not ideal though.

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By Vladimir-Dimov, 13 Jan 2026 at 6:50 pm UTC

Sadly, I have no way to get this game because it's unavailable on Steam. 🤮

News - Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realise AI is bad
By doragasu, 13 Jan 2026 at 6:19 pm UTC

Awesome, now we need his girlfriend to talk to Activision about CoD7.

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux
By GoEsr, 13 Jan 2026 at 6:02 pm UTC

It took about 3 months for Valve to rebase to Wine 10 (then another 7 months to release the stable version).

News - Hytale pre-orders have been so strong development is secured for two years
By RFSharpe, 13 Jan 2026 at 5:21 pm UTC

I was disappointed by the fact that the announcement for Linux/Mac support was a Twitter exclusive. I have never had a Twitter account and never will. But this faux pas in no way compares to the Epic Games CEO, Tim Sweeny's comment concerning "Politicians demanding gatekeepers selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism." Crony capitalism has been very good to old Timmy boy. Yet one more reason to avoid Epileptic Games.

News - Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date
By such, 13 Jan 2026 at 5:20 pm UTC

As a... tolerator of VOY who's also aware how unlikely it is for us to get anything close to that level of quality with how Star Trek is being mistreated and mismanaged... I'm reasonably excited for this. I'll give that demo a try.

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By RFSharpe, 13 Jan 2026 at 5:17 pm UTC

Downloaded the launcher last night so I was ready this morning to download the game. I initiated the download a couple minutes after the release time. I was expecting the servers to be overwhelmed, but this was not the case. The download took very little time and the game worked flawlessly. At this point in time I think Hytale Studio's approach to game development is to "way under-promise and way over-deliver."

News - The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026
By haobiantai, 13 Jan 2026 at 5:14 pm UTC

The comments about gaming distros are getting so old. Bazzite for example is part of the ublue project, by no means a small project or one that isn't contributing to the wider Linux community.

More importantly, these articles are read by users new to Linux, or just considering Linux. It is ridiculous to handwave away distros that take huge strides in removing roadblocks from those users, whether via their rolling nature, auto updating, immutability, Nvidia driver inclusion, etc.

There are countless posts *daily* on the linux_gaming subreddit from users with no Linux experience who install Kubuntu or Mint after reading an article like this, and then have nothing but problems because they don't know what they are doing. The attitude from Linux old-heads and their gatekeeping desire that new users "learn the ropes" is incredibly cringe.

News - Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone
By tfk, 13 Jan 2026 at 5:14 pm UTC

I'm seeing three beards in the thumbnail. Now I want one too. 😊

News - Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone
By grigi, 13 Jan 2026 at 4:50 pm UTC

My beard constantly starts due to laziness, but I either get remarks about needing to shave or it starts itching and I shave in any case 😅

Impressed that your partner prefers your (likely scratchy) facial fur 😆

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux
By mrdeathjr, 13 Jan 2026 at 4:46 pm UTC

This wine version in my case after a 1 year of wine 10 appear some inresting thing like:

-compiled wine up around 900mb more in my case around 5.3gb with wine 10 and 6.2 with wine 11
 
-files up too around 33.363 with wine 10 and now 35.531 with wine 11

Using NTsync work ok for many titles in my case, however using kernel 6.17 need activate ntsync module using this:

sudo modprobe ntsync

for verify if ntsync stay active can use lsmod, remember using lsmod after wine stay opened

if appear good ntsync must be appear in list with a number, this number dont can show 0 if appear in 0 dont stay active
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News - Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone
By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2026 at 4:37 pm UTC

Quoting: KoopaWhat has changed since the first reunion when the steam deck released?
Everyone now has a hipster beard!! 😂
Hipster?! I'll have you know mine started from laziness and now I'm not allowed to shave it off. The fiancée would not be happy 😆

News - Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone
By Koopa, 13 Jan 2026 at 4:34 pm UTC

What has changed since the first reunion when the steam deck released?
Everyone now has a hipster beard!! 😂

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By AsciiWolf, 13 Jan 2026 at 4:28 pm UTC

Great! I already have the supporter edition pre-ordered and looking forward to play it soon. :-) Also looking forward to see the official launcher on Flathub. ;-)

News - Budgie 10.10 finally makes the Wayland jump as development moves to Budgie 11
By amatai, 13 Jan 2026 at 4:20 pm UTC

I love technical article on Linux. I understand maybe half the words used, but I still get the feeling of the unstoppable march of progress.

News - Goverlay for managing tools like MangoHud gets a major new release and it's finally on Flathub
By Brokatt, 13 Jan 2026 at 3:45 pm UTC

Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.
I always thought the 'G' stood for Gaming. TIL :) Now that it's more of a collection or gathering of tools maybe a name change is prudent? I would probably keep the G to keep it a little recognizable.

- GCore
- GAssembly
- GCentral
- GCentre
- GMachina

Good luck and thanks for all you work :)

News - Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realise AI is bad
By ROllerozxa, 13 Jan 2026 at 3:08 pm UTC

That girlfriend, if she is real and was really the reason for doing this, seems to be a keeper for her strong marketing skills. Now this game has become a limited edition release everyone is talking about and can't wait to get before the end of the month, when it comes an exclusive collector's piece.

News - MicroProse recently revealed the first-person mecha sim Steel Bounty
By neolith, 13 Jan 2026 at 2:34 pm UTC

I really need to replay MW2 before this comes out! 😆

News - ARC Raiders hits over 12.4M sales - new patch out with weapon nerfs, a free gift and a darker Stella Montis
By Xpander, 13 Jan 2026 at 2:20 pm UTC

Amazing game. 100 hours played now. Still enjoying it.
About the AI things.. Personally i don't care if its done in a way it doesn't annoy me. I didnt even know voices were made with that, but there hardly are any voiceactors anyway in this game. Just Few mission messages and couple of cinematics.

edit:
If their AI tools help the team of their size make a fun game of this calibre then i dont really have much to complain.
Compared to companies that trying to milk the most out of their players with sloppy AI art

News - Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realise AI is bad
By tfk, 13 Jan 2026 at 1:53 pm UTC

Was this girlfriend an AI girlfriend by any chance? Maybe the algorithm told her to break up with him and that made him realize AI is not your friend?

News - Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realise AI is bad
By Nezchan, 13 Jan 2026 at 1:49 pm UTC

The bit about brainwashing in universities is kind of a red flag, so it's no surprised he was gullible enough to buy the AI hype. Good that he's backing off on this at least, but I doubt I'd be interested in anything he makes going forward.

News - ARC Raiders hits over 12.4M sales - new patch out with weapon nerfs, a free gift and a darker Stella Montis
By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2026 at 1:13 pm UTC

Quoting: AL2009manWait, you aren't supposed to be covering Arc Raiders due to its GenAI usage?

Then again, [51% of Japanese developers already uses it](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/51-of-japanese-game-makers-use-generative-ai). Pandora's Box is opened I guess?
I touched on that in the article. Anyway, I cover whatever I see that fits based on my own personal choices and the industry at large. In this case, it's too big too ignore - especially so as a huge game that has the anti-cheat enabled for Linux. And personally speaking again - I see their use of generative AI as vastly more ethical than most other uses. They hired and paid people for the voices used. Not that it really adds anything to the game, bit silly really. They really didn't need AI for it.

News - ARC Raiders hits over 12.4M sales - new patch out with weapon nerfs, a free gift and a darker Stella Montis
By AL2009man, 13 Jan 2026 at 1:00 pm UTC

Wait, you aren't supposed to be covering Arc Raiders due to its GenAI usage?

Then again, [51% of Japanese developers already uses it](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/51-of-japanese-game-makers-use-generative-ai). Pandora's Box is opened I guess?