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The latest Humble Bundle brings a few scary looking treats, plus an indie hits sale

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2022

Need a few new games to add to your collection? Perhaps readying up for the Steam Deck that should be launching next month? The Humble Dead of Winter Bundle is live - as is a nice sale on indie games.

Godot Engine received a fresh grant from Facebook / Meta for XR work

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

Seems that Blender isn't the only free and open source project pulling in attention from backers, with the Godot Engine team announcing today that Facebook / Meta have given them additional funding for VR / AR (XR) work.

wxrd thumbnail - standalone Wayland compositor

Collabora announce wxrd, a standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2021

Working with Virtual Reality and Linux just got a lot more interesting, with the clever hackers at Collabora announcing their new standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop called wxrd.

New Humble Choice and multiple Humble Bundles are live

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2021

A fresh month has arrived and so it brings with it a new Humble Choice, the curated monthly bundle along with a few other game bundles to go over. Here's a roundup of how they all work on Linux.

XWayland gets DRM leasing support for helping VR on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 8 Dec 2021

A big improvement has been merged into XWayland called DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) Leasing, which should allow good VR support under Wayland. Something we've been waiting on!

November marked 7 months of Linux rising on Steam & 5 months above 1%

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2021

I think we can now firmly say that we are the 1%? Another month is down as so the latest Steam Hardware Survey numbers are out and it continues being very positive for Linux gaming.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall VR Game

VR-exclusive Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall is out, works on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2021

Ready to sweat a little? Jump into the bleak fantasy world of the VR-exclusive Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall.

Here's some of what we've learned about the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 13 Nov 2021

We're getting more and more excited about the Steam Deck, even though Valve has delayed it at least until February 2022 we do now have quite a few more fun details thanks to the recent Steamworks Virtual Conference.

A look over what was popular on GamingOnLinux during October 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for October 2021, 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!

Prepare your wallet for the next confirmed Steam Sale dates

By Liam Dawe, 26 Oct 2021

You may want to set aside some money and fill up that Steam Wishlist, as the next couple of big sale events now have their dates confirmed.

Qualcomm, Valve, AMD and more team up for Wi-Fi Dual Station

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct 2021

Wi-Fi Dual Station is the name of what appears to be quite the leap for latency-sensitive gaming where a wired connection remains top but for how long? Probably forever but the gap is getting shorter.

The upcoming No VR Mod for Half-Life: Alyx shows off amazing progress

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2021

I consider Half-Life: Alyx played in VR to be one of the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had but for a lot of people it's just not possible and so the No VR Mod is in progress.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-7 is out now, Proton Experimental gets DLSS for DX12 games on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2021

Two big bits of news for Steam Play Proton today with two new versions getting released so let's take a look and see exactly what's new for the Windows compatibility layer.

'Deckard' is apparently the codename for a possible standalone Valve VR headset

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2021

Back in June we reported on a patent from Valve that indicated work progressing towards their next VR headset and it appears the codename is Deckard.

Humble has some co-op treats in the Dream Teams Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2021

Need more games to start your week? Humble recently put up the Dream Teams Bundle and all the games should work reasonably well on Linux too.

Looks like Valve sent out quite a lot of Steam Deck developer kits

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2021

You probably heard recently that Valve was readying up Steam Deck developer kits and now we can see that quite a lot of developers have received one.

A first Release Candidate for Proton 6.3-7 is up with more games working

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2021

Time for a weekend of testing for many of you? A fresh version of Steam Play Proton is on the way, with a CodeWeavers developer on GitHub announcing a Release Candidate build of Proton 6.3-7.

Valve answer questions about the Steam Deck in a new FAQ, anti-cheat for all Linux systems

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2021

After gathering questions from pretty much everyone, Valve has put up a new official FAQ page for the Steam Deck that answers some pretty important questions and it's good news.

Free and open source flight sim FlightGear is working on VR support

By Liam Dawe, 20 Sep 2021

While it's a little while off yet it seems the developers behind the free and open source flight sim FlightGear have been working on adding VR support.