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Starmancer, the space station sim inspired by Dwarf Fortress is fully funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Mar 2018

I do love a good success story. Starmancer, the space station sim inspired by Dwarf Fortress has been successfully fully funded and it's coming to Linux.

Abstract adventure game Kingdom Ka is a visual treat

By Nezchan, 19 Mar 2018

For those searching for a bit of poetry in their games, Kingdom Ka from Carrot Cake Studios may satisfy that craving.

If you can, please support GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Mar 2018

Hello everyone, it’s been quite some time since we last asked directly for support and now we have a few more options for you.

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Surviving Mars already has a fix out for the Linux text problem, plus more thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2018

Surviving Mars launched with an unfortunate text rendering bug in the Linux version, which is now thankfully fixed. Plus more thoughts on it.

Varied shoot 'em up Dark Old Sun adds Linux support, lots of different enemies and upgrades to try

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2018

For those who can't get enough shoot 'em up action, Dark Old Sun recently added Linux support and it looks pretty varied.

Wine 3.4 released with more Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2018

Another Wine development release with Wine 3.4 that continues to add in more Vulkan support making another exciting release.

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Friday Livestream with Samsai at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 16 Mar 2018

Hey, it's Friday again and it's time to set up the weekly stream! So, get your snacks ready and point your browsers and whatnot to our Twitch channel for some live Linux gaming!

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The developer of One Hour One Life on keeping games code & assets open and not launching on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

The developer of One Hour One Life and The Castle Doctrine has made two interesting posts lately, one about not launching a game on Steam and one about keeping your game code and assets open to anyone.

Tropico 6 has a new trailer showing off some new gameplay features

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

Greetings wannabe dictators, El Presidente is back with another new trailer of Tropico 6 to show off some new features.

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case, the follow up to The Silver Case released with day-1 Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

That's right, The 25th Ward: The Silver Case the follow up title to The Silver Case which gained Linux support in an update to the remastered version last year. This time around, we saw day-1 support.

DayZ is not currently coming to Linux, but the developers are open to it

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

During a recent livestream, the DayZ developers mentioned Linux and a few people went wild. Sadly, they meant this in relation to dedicated servers, but the door remains open.

Space station building sim 'Starmancer' has smashed through some fun stretch-goals on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

It's certainly no secret I'm impressed with Starmancer, the Dwarf Fortress inspired space station sim. It has a Linux demo and the funding is still coming in, the stretch goals they've reached sound fantastic.

Kerbal Space Program: Making History Expansion is out expanding the game quite a lot

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

Kerbal Space Program: Making History Expansion is the first expansion for the amusing rocket-building sandbox game and it adds some pretty decent content.

Animal sim RPG 'Cattails' has a pretty great update letting you make your own colony

By Liam Dawe, 16 Mar 2018

The sweet and relaxing animal sim RPG Cattails just had a big update, with a highly requested feature to let you build up your own colony.

Croteam will have an interesting talk at GDC this year about game performance

By Liam Dawe, 15 Mar 2018

It seems Croteam will be doing a talk at GDC this year and it sounds like it's going to be quite interesting, with it being centred around getting games to perform smoothly. The talk will be presented by the Croteam CTO, Alen Ladavac.