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Astro Colony is an upcoming space sci-fi exploration and automation game

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Taking inspiration from the likes of Factorio and Space Engineers, the upcoming Astro Colony will see you explore an endless voxel universe to gather resources and create an automated colony.

Heroes of Might and Magic II reimplementation sees a big AI improvement

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

fheroes2 is ensuring that the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II can never die, and with the latest version out now it's more interesting to play than ever before.

Humble Choice for July is up with a fresh set of games to pick from

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Humble Choice (formerly Humble Monthly) is the subscription service from Humble Bundle where each month they give you a fresh set of a games to redeem.

SteamVR 1.18 is out supporting async-reprojection with NVIDIA on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

After another while testing Beta versions, the latest SteamVR upgrade is out now although it's quite a small one with mostly minor improvements overall.

Beyond Sunset looks like a dreamy synthpunk retro sci-fi FPS

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

Need more retro-looking FPS goodness? Beyond Sunset is a recent discovery and it sure does look good.

Fun free party game Hammer Dongers gets a visual upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

In the free game Hammer Dongers up to four players run around small arenas attempting to take each other down, with the hook here that your hammers destroy the terrain around you.

Linux Foundation launches the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2021

This could be the start of something truly big for game development (amongst other things), with the Linux Foundation pulling together some huge names to launch the Open 3D Foundation and the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard. UPDATED.

RimWorld 1.3 now in Beta, Ideology expansion announced

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

Some huge things are coming to RimWorld and soon too, with Ludeon Studios announcing the major RimWorld 1.3 update is now available in a Beta and a big new Ideology expansion was announced.

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.