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Block-matching puzzle battler 'Aloof' has a demo up ahead of the Steam Festival

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired in parts by Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo and Puyo Puyo Tetris with its own unique spin on block-matching battles, Aloof has a demo up now.

Funny physics-based goblin-slaying puzzler 'Sword Slinger' is out on October 20

By Liam Dawe,
Sword Slinger is a unique physics-based puzzle game about slaying goblins by controlling a sword with magical behaviours. You'll combine chains of magical behaviours together to create complex and original solutions.

Economic management tower-defense puzzler 'Rip Them Off' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Rip Them Off is a fresh puzzle game that in a small way resembles tower defence, with you trying to make as much money from people passing by as you can.

Dying Light - Hellraid gets its first major post-release update with Lord Hector's Demise

By Liam Dawe,
Lord Hector's Demise is the name of the first major free update to Dying Light - Hellraid, the dungeon-crawling DLC for the open-world zombie smasher from Techland.

Zombie Panic! Source gets a huge overhaul with Linux support really soon

By Liam Dawe,
After being in Beta for quite some time now, the team behind Zombie Panic! Source are almost ready to push out the big overhaul with Linux support into the stable version for everyone.

Steam has a Digital Tabletop Festival starting October 21

By Liam Dawe,
Love your digital adaptions of board games, or those that got turned into some form of real-life board game? Well, Valve are going to run a festival dedicated to all that.

A look back over some popular articles for September 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for September 2020, 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!

OBS Studio adds in better noise suppression thanks to RNNoise in the 26.0 release out now

By Liam Dawe,
Free and open source video recording and live streaming software OBS Studio version 26.0 is out now.

A bit like Stardew in space, One Lonely Outpost is fully funded and on the way to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Space, sci-fi and farming - what more could you want? One Lonely Outpost is like Stardew Valley for fans who want something a little bit more out there.

Great news for Transport Fever 2 fans as Vulkan support is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Transport Fever 2 is a much loved transport sim released with same-day Linux support in December 2019, and it's only going to keep getting better.

Episodic horror novel Scarlet Hollow sees a free first episode, Kickstarter soon for more

By Liam Dawe,
Black Tabby Games recently released the first episode of Scarlet Hollow, a horror visual novel and choice-driven adventure game set in the mountains of Appalachia.

Get an early look at the Million Dollar Highway in American Truck Simulator - Colorado

By Liam Dawe,
SCS Software will be launching the American Truck Simulator - Colorado DLC at some point and while work goes on they've released a new teaser. Plus, a big new truck is coming too.

Grand strategy empire builder 'Arcane Fortune' has a new release and it went open source

By Liam Dawe,
Arcane Fortune is a game we briefly highlighted at the start of August as one that is inspired by the likes of Civilization, SimCity and Dwarf Fortress and it's getting bigger again.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

Dead By Daylight with cross-play releases free for Stadia Pro on October 1 - plus more

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh set of games have been announced as either newly coming to Stadia or being added to Stadia Pro. One of the exciting titles is Dead By Daylight with full cross-play.

Since release Crusader Kings III has seen over 18 million murders - huge patch out now

By Liam Dawe,
The latest grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios with Crusader Kings III seems to have been a big success and a new rather large patch is out.

Songs of Syx appears to be an early success brewing on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
After releasing into Early Access on Steam on September 21, 2020 - it appears that the grand strategy city-builder Songs of Syx is seeing some early success.

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing gets a major upgrade with new Unity game engine and Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing, a popular drone racer that's enjoyed by many users on Steam just recently had a massive free upgrade released.

Lenovo announce the sleek ThinkPad X1 Nano that ships with Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe,
Lenovo announced the ThinkPad X1 Nano, a new premium laptop offering which like the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is one of the first to get Intel EVO branding - meaning it's really top stuff.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest in open source graphics drivers has released with Mesa 20.2.0, although you should wait on it if you're after a stable experience.