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We've scheduled some more Rocket League tournaments, come join

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As this keeps getting requested, we've scheduled some more official GamingOnLinux Rocket League tournaments!

The Albion Online 'Merlyn' update has some interesting new PvP features with a factions system

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The next big update for Albion Online named Merlyn is coming soon and it will introduce an interesting new faction system.

Parkitect Beta 7 is out with improved performance, a new ride and more

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Parkitect, the Early Access park building sim is getting closer to the full release and this latest Beta is quite exciting.

Rocket League to get a Jurassic World themed DLC pack, Salty Shores arena update is out

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Rocket League has gone to the beach as the Salty Shores arena update is out and there's a new Jurassic World themed DLC pack coming later this month.

Aragami: Nightfall expansion for the stealth-action game released

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The rather good stealth-action game Aragami just got an expansion with Aragami: Nightfall and it sounds pretty good.

Play It Now - Flamebreak

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Welcome to this new series of reviews, called Play It Now. With PIN, I’ll cover amazing games that you might have missed. They’re not big titles, they’re not all that recent, and maybe they just didn’t get the limelight they deserved. They’re all great games that I’ve either enjoyed playing, or that I’m still passionate about today. Here, we'll look at Flamebreak.

The Humble Daedalic Bundle 2018 is a good deal for Linux gamers

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Humble are doing a pretty good bundle once again with the The Humble Daedalic Bundle 2018 that has some good Linux games.

Scoundrel looks like a damn fun 2D stealth game

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Scoundrel is a 2D stealth game with rogue-lite elements from developer Bullish Games and it looks surprisingly sweet.

Gladiabots, the robot arena fighting game where you construct their AI is heading to Steam

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Gladiabots is a rather interesting game I took a look at earlier this year. You setup a team of robots, construct their AI and hope for the best. It's coming to Steam now too.

Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia releases for Linux on Thursday, will use Vulkan

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Feral Interactive have announced today that Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia will officially release for Linux on Thursday, June 7th. It will be another port powered by the Vulkan API.

The RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is to live on with a new team

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Uber Entertainment have said that they're going to continue working on the RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with a new team.

The excellent six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' is now on GOG

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After a slight delay, GOG now has the damn good six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' on their store along with the Linux version.

OpenGL to be deprecated in the next macOS release, could mean interesting things for Linux gaming

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With news doing the rounds about the latest update to macOS, it turns out they're finally admitting they're doing nothing with their support of OpenGL and it's to be deprecated.

The Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online, including the one from Feral Interactive

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For those wanting to view them, the Vulkanised 2018 event videos are now online including one with a Feral Interactive developer talking about porting with Vulkan.

A new Rise of the Tomb Raider patch is out for the Linux version

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Feral Interactive aren't just hard at work porting more awesome games to Linux and showing off new teasers, they're also patching up Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for some loose change

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You've probably seen all the rumours and now it's official with the Microsoft announcement, they're acquiring GitHub.

The GOG summer sale is now live

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It's hot outside, meaning you all want to stay in and play games right? GOG have you covered with their summer sale.

Unworthy is a hardcore combat-focused Metroidvania without jumping that's coming to Linux

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Think you're tough? Unworthy might test that theory of yours with a promise of a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania experience.

PPSSPP emulator now uses Vulkan by default, OpenGL now multithreaded

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The PSP emulator, PPSSPP, recently had a pretty big release which now defaults to Vulkan as the main renderer.

Oxygen Not Included will expose the surface in a new update that's now in beta

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Oxygen Not Included, the fantastic space-colony sim from Klei Entertainment is set to get even more interesting in the Cosmic Upgrade that's now in beta.