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Hole Punch is an upcoming physics platformer where you cut up the environment

By Liam Dawe,
Using a powerful dash you're not just avoiding people in Hole Punch, you're smashing through the level itself to get around the challenges.

Fantasy RTS city-builder Songs of Syx has sold over 11 thousand copies

By Liam Dawe,
After a Kickstarter success back in May 2020, then an Early Access release on Steam in September 2020 - the fantasy grand-strategy city-builder Songs of Syx has continued to be a big indie success. Here's a look over it.

Social deduction game Untrusted launching free to play on January 29, 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the likes of Werewolf, Mafia and similar games Untrusted from evolvedlabs is ready to go out to a wider audience after releasing a few Alpha builds from their website.

Atari VCS games really are just plain Linux desktop builds

By Liam Dawe,
Now that the Atari VCS is out in the wild for plenty of IndieGoGo backers, we've seen plenty of reports of how it works and one GamingOnLinux reader gave us plenty of info.

Point and click dreamworld noir adventure 'Oniria Crimes' lands on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Oniria Crimes is a point and click noir adventure game from cKolmos Game Studios, originally released back in early December 2020 and they ported it to Linux not long after release.

Programming puzzler inspired by retro computing Comet 64 releases February 5, 2021

By Liam Dawe,
Find programming relaxing? Enjoy puzzle games? Comet 64 could be your next game, with a theme and visuals inspired by some early computing devices.

Feudal Kingdoms is a promising upcoming medieval grand strategy game

By Liam Dawe,
Need more grand strategy in your gaming time? Get ready to go medieval and expand with Feudal Kingdoms from developer Blood and Pixels.

Lightweight desktop Xfce 4.16 released with a visual refresh and fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe,
1 year and 4 months of work later, the sleek and simple Linux desktop Xfce 4.16 is out now along with plenty of visual upgrades and some big tech upgrades too.

Sony to officially support the PS5 DualSense on Linux with a new driver

By Liam Dawe,
Roderick Colenbrander of Sony Interactive Entertainment has sent in a brand new and official Linux driver for the PS5 DualSense for even better out of the box support.

The Humble Holiday in Space Bundle has a few nice picks

By Liam Dawe,
Another week another game bundle, a chance for you to build up that collection of games with the Humble Holiday in Space Bundle out now.

Make way for an $80 handheld that runs Ubuntu with the ODROID-Go Super

By Liam Dawe,
Looking for a little gaming on the go or perhaps something in bed? The upcoming ODROID-Go Super sounds like quite a useful little Switch-styled device.

Cooler Master and KFC team up to create a 'console' PC and now I've seen everything

By Liam Dawe,
Is this actually seriously real? I still have some doubts but I am beginning to get hungry. KFC and Cooler Master have properly announced the KFConsole.

A fourth Release Candidate is now available for Wine 6.0

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in a feature-freeze while as many lingering issues are solved as possible for the next big stable release, Wine has a fourth Release Candidate up now.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
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.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
The end of 2020 will shortly be upon us, so we wanted to offer our best wishes to all of our readers.

Our top favourite Linux games released in 2020

By Liam Dawe,
As 2020 comes to a close, here's a brief look over what games we personally thought truly stood out in 2020 that directly supported Linux.

Check out the new footage of ENCODYA a cyberpunk point and click adventure

By Liam Dawe,
The first title from Chaosmonger Studio with new publisher Assemble Entertainment looks to be shaping up well, and there's a new featurette trailer with chief developer Nicola Piovesan.

Free and open source 2D RTS 'Wyrmsun' 4.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
If you love classic 2D RTS games like Warcraft 2 and other similar titles, Wyrmsun is one you should take a look at because not only is it free and open source but it's seeing major upgrades too.

Open source Linux instant-replay tool ReplaySorcery has some major upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Need an easy way to capture those awesome moments when you're playing Linux games? ReplaySorcery is what you need, and the developer has been very busy with it.

Stadia Pro gets F1 2020 free in January 2021, all users can claim Crayta free right now

By Liam Dawe,
A few bits of big news to go over for Stadia followers on Linux, as there's new games released, free games, games on sale and a whole lot more.