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Mixing real-time battles with turn-based strategy, Total War: SHOGUN 2 is FREE right now

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is now FREE to grab until May 1st on Steam. This is not a free week or weekend, this is your chance to grab an entirely free copy of the game.

Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe,
While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.

Filament is out now and might be my favourite puzzle game of 2020

By Liam Dawe,
Filament, a stylish narrative puzzle game set aboard a seemingly abandoned spaceship has officially released along with Linux support from Beard Envy and Kasedo Games.

You can now play the chaotic train-track building game Unrailed! in single-player

By Liam Dawe,
Unrailed! is a fantastic local and online co-op experience, one where you will be shouting and screaming with laughter at your partner and now you can play it in single-player too.

Open-source graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' has a major new release up

By Liam Dawe,
OGRE, a classic open source graphics rendering engine has a major new release available and the first big release in some time.

Skullgirls is getting improved online play, plus updated sound code for Linux in a Beta up now

By Liam Dawe,
Skullgirls, the seriously good fighting game from Lab Zero Games that released originally in 2013 is still being updated and a major improvement is in testing.

Open source PS4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' major release up with VA-API support

By Liam Dawe,
Giving you another way to enjoy your games from various sources on Linux, the free and open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' has a new major update.

Seriously scary game Alien: Isolation hits an all-time low price for Alien Day

By Liam Dawe,
A quick tip for you this morning! Alien: Isolation, one of the scariest games I've ever played has hit an all-time low price.

Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia released with Xfce, KDE and GNOME editions - Snap and Flatpak support included

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia has been released today, as the latest major refresh for this Arch Linux based distribution.

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.

Wine 5.7 is out with more WineD3D Vulkan work, a start on a USB device driver

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine compatibility layer has another development release out today with Wine 5.7 adding in some new features.

LudoNarraCon digital festival starts today on Steam with a sale and livestreams

By Liam Dawe,
LudoNarraCon has returned, with another digital event now live on Steam to celebrate narrative games.

NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out with some important Linux fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Last week NVIDIA released a new Vulkan Beta Driver which came with some issues, a new build has gone out today fixing some of the most pressing.

Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

By Liam Dawe,
As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.

Dark fantasy turn-based tactical roguelike RPG 'Iratus: Lord of the Dead' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Iratus: Lord of the Dead from developer Unfrozen and publisher Daedalic Entertainment has now left Early Access, with it full Linux support is now also up.

It appears that Valve are preparing Half-Life: Alyx for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's return to the Half-Life franchise in VR-only form released for Windows last month and it appears they're now preparing a Linux version.

Verdant Village puts a high-fantasy spin on Stardew Valley styled gameplay - try it free

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development with it classed as being in an "alpha state", Verdant Village seems like a sweet and promising high fantasy alternative to Stardew Valley with some new themes.

You can play XCOM 2 free until April 30 and you definitely should try it

By Liam Dawe,
XCOM 2, likely one of my absolutely all-time favourite strategy games can be played for free until April 30.

Simple local-multiplayer PvP real-time strategy title 'Rover Wars' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Rover Wars strips down the RTS genre to some of the basics and makes it a competitive local multiplayer game, it's actually pretty darn fun and it's out now.

New release of Steam Audio and the next Steam Labs project is up focused on game searching

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to improve Steam at quite a rapid pace lately. Recently, they not only released a new beta of Steam Audio but they also put up a new experiment.