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Retro-styled RPG Knights of Tartarus to leave Early Access on April 19th

By Liam Dawe,
More wonderful retro-styled gaming for you here, as the indie RPG Knights of Tartarus is leaving Early Access soon.

Creature-building action and survival game 'Sipho' had a huge update, we have keys to give away

By Liam Dawe,
Sipho from developer All Parts Connected is a very interesting action and survival game, one where you create a creature from blocks inspired by Siphonophorae.

Looks like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 may be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Recently announced by Paradox Interactive, it looks like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 might actually get Linux support.

Cyber Shadow published by Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight) looks awesome & it's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Cyber Shadow from developer Aarne “MekaSkull” Hunziker and publisher Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight) looks seriously good and the good news is that it will come to Linux.

CodeWeavers on how Proton (Steam Play) helped improve Wine 4.2

By Liam Dawe,
CodeWeavers, specifically developer Andrew Eikum, has written a blog post giving a little more detail on how working with Valve on Proton (Steam Play) has helped shape Wine.

The truly excellent roguelike card-game 'Slay the Spire' is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
For those who've been wanting to try out Slay the Spire but prefer DRM-free builds outside of Steam, now is your chance as it just released on GOG.

Football Story now has an actual trailer and it does look quite good

By Liam Dawe,
Bundling together a mix of competitive online multiplayer with a single-player narrative campaign, Football Story sounds pretty unique and now we can finally get a good look at it.

With violent and "complex" 2D brawler-like combat Infected Shelter looks good and it's coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Infected Shelter from Dark Blue Games does look very over the top and pretty fun too. It's coming to Linux later this year.

Bloody Rally Show looks like a fun 2D racer coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Originally named Bloody Rally Simulator, the developer has decided to change it to Bloody Rally Show to avoid any confusion about the "Simulator" part and align the name with the story. It's also looking pretty good for a 2D top-down racer.

One Step From Eden, the deck-building action game now has a Linux demo and it's damn good

By Liam Dawe,
After a very successful Kickstarter campaign which included Linux support, One Step From Eden inspired by MegaMan Battle Network now has a Linux demo available.

ATOM RPG had another large update recently continuing to make it a better game

By Liam Dawe,
I'm really quite shocked by the commitment to ATOM RPG by the developer on this one, as it continues to see some pretty large updates.

You can now filter out specific article tags from the GamingOnLinux homepage

By Liam Dawe,
Something I have been meaning to do for some time is finally live, you now have a little more control over the news GamingOnLinux presents to you.

Valve just released a big Steam Play update with Proton now based on Wine 4.2 & more

By Liam Dawe,
This is quite an exciting release for Steam Play, as Valve just put out a brand new release of Proton.

The Humble Hot Date Bundle is out with a number of Linux games included

By Liam Dawe,
Not quite the bundle I was expecting, although I'm sure there's plenty of people who will enjoy it. The Humble Hot Date Bundle has arrived!

No Man's Sky runs very nicely on Linux with Steam Play, huge online feature update and VR support coming

By Liam Dawe,
No Man's Sky from Hello Games had a pretty iffy launch, with many not happy with it but Hello Games stuck at it and continued expanding it. They’ve announced more huge free updates coming and it works very well on Linux with Steam Play.

The arabian-themed cyberpunk rogue-lite FPS '1001st Hyper Tower' is out, not running well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1001st Hyper Tower from developer Toster12D3 is out on Steam in Early Access, it seems to have some interesting action and the developer provided me with a key to check it out.

The latest teaser for the open-world action adventure game 'Pine' has me needing more, coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
You will be forgiven if you've not heard of Pine before or you forgot about it, I haven't kept track of it since the Kickstarter and it's releasing later this year!

Hedon, another retro FPS using the GZDoom game engine is officially out

By Liam Dawe,
Hedon, a completely original fantasy FPS using the open source GZDoom game engine is now officially out.

Prodeus is another epic looking retro inspired shooter that will be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Seriously loving this revival of retro-looking first-person shooters coming out lately, with Prodeus being another that's now on Kickstarter and it does look very impressive.

The 2D indie platform fighter 'Super Powered Battle Friends' is now on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Super Powered Battle Friends from developer Cache Grab Studios is now on Kickstarter to help push it past the finishing line.