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Minesweeper inspired game DemonCrawl gets an auto-sweeping online Arena mode

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

It's Minesweeper, but not as you know it. DemonCrawl was already unique with the roguelite dungeon-crawling styled placed on top of the classic Minesweeper gameplay and now it's got a brand new mode.

Comedy physics-based heist game The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time is out now

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

Available now in Early Access is the rather long-named The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time, a heist game with Penguin characters and some dubious looking physics but apparently it's quite amusing.

Nightdive Studios show off new System Shock footage

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

Five years after the Kickstarter campaign and the System Shock remake from Nightdive Studios is starting to come together with new footage out now.

12 years ago we appeared online, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

12 years ago on July 5, the GamingOnLinux website was created. Who would have thought it would still be going this long, in the face of overwhelming odds. Happy Birthday to us!

Game manager Lutris 0.5.8.4 out as a small fix-up before the next major release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

The free and open source game manager Lutris has a fresh release up, although it's mostly a fix-up release as work is ongoing for the next major release due soon.

DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging both had new releases lately

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

Running DOS classics? Well, there's plenty of ways to choose from with multiple projects looking to speed up the development on DOSBox with both DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging seeing new releases.

Wine 6.12 is out now with theme work, Network Store Interface beginnings

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

The Wine 6.12 development release is out now, containing plenty more new features and bug fixes to help run Windows games and applications on Linux.

Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.0 'Arlong' is out now and goes multi-platform

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Not only does the alternative open source Epic Games Store client Heroic Games Launcher have a new release out with 1.8.0 'Arlong' it's also gone multi-platform.

NVIDIA puts out a new release of their open source NVAPI interface

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

With the absolutely huge NVIDIA 470 driver release now out the door, NVIDIA has just put up a fresh release of their open source NVAPI interface.

Gorgeous adventure-puzzle game The Lightbringer gets a Linux demo

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Interested to try out a fresh demo? The Lightbringer looks pretty great and the developer seems keen to support Linux with it too and they've put out a demo.

Massive scale city-builder Songs of Syx gets a new world map, Total War styled conquests

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

After the initial Early Access success where Songs of Syx managed to quickly shift over 11,000 copies the developer has been toiling away on a massive update that's now in Beta.

Albion Online continues to see big player counts, with lots more to come on the roadmap

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

After a successful launch on mobile which saw player numbers explode, the cross-platform Albion Online is getting some more big upgrades.

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms blends many factions into one big package

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Love your classic RTS games? I sure do and thanks to the power of the OpenRA game engine reimplementation you can try out Command & Conquer - Combined Arms which bundles many factions from different C&C games together.

Explore a new world in Sea of Roses a heartwarming free adventure out now

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Free Game Friday! Sea of Roses is an award winning adventure from Portuguese team Crescent Tea Studios and it's out now with Linux support. Best of all, it's free.

The SteamOS-like Linux distribution GamerOS becomes ChimeraOS with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Getting a console-like big-screen experience with Linux gaming was a thing with SteamOS until Valve stopped updating it, then came along GamerOS to carry the torch which has evolved again with a new name of ChimeraOS.

Humble Bundle confirms changes coming mid-July to add a minimum payment for Humble

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Humble Bundle announced back in April they would be making changes to the purchase sliders based on (much hated) testing, then backpedaling in May, they've announced again some changes are coming to always give Humble a cut.

A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through June 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for June 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover!

Dark detective hacking adventure Song of Farca releases on July 21

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

In the upcoming detective hacking adventure Song of Farca from developer Wooden Monkeys and publisher Alawar Premium you sees you hack into crime scenes, look over evidence and sends you down a dark a brutal rabbit hole.

Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1) is now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Love some quirky comedy? A few months after releasing for Windows, Cyanide & Happiness - Freakpocalypse (Episode 1) is now available for Linux too.

The popular board game Brass: Birmingham gets the digital treatment

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

Brass: Birmingham, a popular board game that had a big and successful crowdfunding campaign which was the sequel to Martin Wallace's original game Brass has now been made into a digital game.