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Not Actually A DOS Game looks like a retro delight
Do you love retro games (or just retro-styled) and you're a fan of dungeon crawling? Check out the recent release of Not Actually A DOS Game for your latest fix.
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GOG have one last free game during their sale with Iratus: Lord of the Dead
While the GOG Winter Sale shall be ending soon, they have one last freebie for you with the rather good turn-based tactical roguelike RPG Iratus: Lord of the Dead.
OpenRGB gets greatly expanded hardware support in the 0.7 release
Controlling all your fancy RGB lighting on Linux can sometimes be a hassle but OpenRGB thankfully can reduce that pain and a new release is out now with OpenRGB 0.7.
Heroic Games Launcher 2.0.0 brings a much improved login system for Epic Games
Ending 2021 with quite the bang, the unofficial Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher put up a big new release improving lots of features.
Canonical hiring a Desktop Gaming Product Manager for Ubuntu Linux
It seems Canonical, creator of Ubuntu, is finally looking to get serious and improve Ubuntu gaming with a new Desktop Gaming Product Manager job waiting to pull someone in.
OBS Studio 27.2 enters Beta with official Flatpak support
Ready for 2022, the OBS team is preparing a major new release of the free and open source livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio.
Steam ended 2021 with a slightly lower Linux user share ending the recent growth
After 7 months of seeing the Linux user share on Steam continue to grow, December saw 2021 end with it dropping slightly.
Orontes Games creator of DRAG gets acquired by iRacing
Seems DRAG from Orontes Games has been noticed as something special as iRacing has acquired the team.
Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GamingOnLinux
It's that time of the year again. 2021 is nearly over after what feels like the longest year ever so let's all hope for a better 2022 shall we?
Get I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream free on GOG for 48 hours
During the GOG Winter Sale they have another game giveaway and so you can grab the classic I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for free right now.
Skullgirls: Umbrella gets an Early Access release with the story mode
One of the best fighting games on PC is expanding again, with the latest character getting a full DLC that's in Early Access right now with Skullgirls: Umbrella.
Play some socially-distanced tabletop games with a new FoundryVTT release
FoundryVTT version 9 has been released, further improving many big parts of this excellent cross-platform virtual tabletop experience and it's looking awesome.
The classic Naev, a free and open source space sim version 0.9 released
Time to explore space once again? Naev is an absolute classic. It's free, open source and it continues to mature with some more modern features available in the new 0.9 release.
Watch Over Christmas is a sweet festive point and click adventure out now
Visit the elves with a younger audience perhaps? Looks like Watch Over Christmas could be a good family game for you.
Manjaro 21.2.0 'Qonos' is out, the Linux distro Valve suggests for Steam Deck testing
A fresh new release of Manjaro Linux is out now bringing with it tons of enhancements. Manjaro 21.2.0 Qonos comes in multiple editions with KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce desktops available.
The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live
The moment I'm sure plenty of our readers have been waiting for: the Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live.
Collabora's work on a Wayland driver for Wine is coming along nicely
To end the year the open source consulting firm Collabora, who often works with Valve, has written up a fresh post with a video to show off their Wayland driver for Wine.
Godot Engine received a fresh grant from Facebook / Meta for XR work
Seems that Blender isn't the only free and open source project pulling in attention from backers, with the Godot Engine team announcing today that Facebook / Meta have given them additional funding for VR / AR (XR) work.
2D open-world sandbox action-adventure Necesse released for Linux
A weird love-child mixture of games like Minecraft, Stardew Valley and Terraria we have Necesse that's currently in Early Access and a Linux version is now available.
- The original Pillars of Eternity is getting a turn-based mode Beta on November 5
- GE-Proton 10-25 brings fixes for Nioh 2, WoW, Rockstar Launcher and more
- Anti-grav racer BallisticNG brings new tracks, enhanced online play and more for the final update
- The Siege Update for Dwarf Fortress has arrived
- Chizha Mount Ling Dock for Steam Deck looks premium and it's fully featured but pricey
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