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Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

Frozenbyte being the developer behind titles like the Trine series, Shadwen, Has-Been Heroes and the upcoming Starbase talks a little about Proton and future native Linux support.

Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 is out with better performance, playtime tracking and more

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

The Heroic Games Launcher is a fantastic community effort to bring the Epic Games Store to Linux and Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 builds upon the foundation to provide a better experience.

Magical action-packed dungeon crawler Wizard of Legend gets lots of new goodies

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

Contingent99 just released a big surprise update to Wizard of Legend, their fast-paced dungeon-crawling action game about running around as a wizard.

Ray tracing with AMD RADV on Linux gets closer with the 'World's Slowest Raytracer'

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

While Ray Tracing has been available on Linux with NVIDIA for a long time now, the open source RADV Mesa driver for AMD GPUs is lagging behind but more work is progressing on it.

Splitgate gets an extended Beta, developers raise $10M

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

1047 Games has seen Splitgate blow away all of their expectations, so much so they had to take the game offline (it's back now) and extend the Beta.

PulseAudio 15.0 rolls out with new features and hardware support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

PulseAudio, the sound server for Linux systems has a big new release up that pulls in support for a number of new features and there's some new hardware support too.

Garry Newman of Facepunch mentions working with EAC for Rust on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2021

Back in 2019, survival game Rust was one of the more high-profile games to remove their native Linux version but it seems they're not done with Linux thanks to the Steam Deck.

Feral no longer porting A Total War Saga: TROY to Linux, citing less demand since Proton

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

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Well, the writing was on the wall for some time but this confirms it - it seems Feral Interactive aren't likely to do more Linux ports with the official port of A Total War Saga: TROY for Linux cancelled.

Run your own talent agency in business sim Idol Manager out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

Glitch Pitch and PLAYISM today released Idol Manager, a business strategy sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary.

Assemble Entertainment release an open letter on who they "don't want" as a customer

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

Catching up on some industry news, a statement from Assemble Entertainment's Founder and CEO Stefan Marcinek entered our inbox recently and it's quite a blunt one.

Upcoming free to play co-op WW2 zombie shooter Projekt Z gets a Steam page and new video

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

Projekt Z from 314 Arts is starting to really sound like it's shaping up nicely and we now know a bit more about the world, their plans for monetization and more.

Get a closer look at the Steam Deck's Trackpad and Gyroscopic controls

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

The news around the Steam Deck keeps on coming in, with a new video posted up by (surprise) IGN that checks out the Steam Deck's Trackpad and Gyroscopic controls.

Intel Accelerated - new roadmap, goodbye nanometer and hello new node naming

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

Intel did a press event yesterday where they announced Intel Accelerated, a whole new roadmap and they're doing away with nanometer naming with something a bit more bland.

Proton 6.13 GE-1 is out now with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Resizable BAR

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2021

Proton GE, the community-made version of Proton with a bunch of enhancements has a new release out with Proton-6.13-GE-1 pulling in a bunch of advanced features and fixes.

An interview with Joshua Ashton, developer on the likes of DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

Time for another GamingOnLinux interview! This time, we have someone who many that follow Valve and Steam Play Proton will be familiar with - it's Joshua Ashton.

DXVK 1.9.1 is out for translating Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

The DXVK project continues to mature its translation layer for Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan, something that can be used together with Wine and Proton (along with a few ports using it).

Closed Hands is a deep interactive fiction about a terror attack out now for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

Developer Passenger has announced that their interactive fiction game Closed Hands is now available with a native Linux version from itch.io.

Manage your Linux gaming overlays with the latest release of Goverlay

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

Another fresh upgrade is out for Goverlay the open source application designed to help you work with the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery.

Hacking detective adventure Song of Farca is out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

Alawar Premium & Wooden Monkeys Studio have launched their hacking detective novel adventure Song of Farca with native Linux support included.

Alexis Kennedy of Weather Factory puts out open letter against Failbetter Games

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

Around two years ago Alexis Kennedy, a founder of Failbetter Games, was accused of abuse by multiple women which Kennedy has always denied. Now, Kennedy of Weather Factory has put out an open letter and the situation gets a bit murky.