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God of War is now on Steam and runs out of the box on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2022

Something that still doesn't quite feel right somehow is seeing the likes of a PlayStation logo on Linux. Anyway, the smash hit God of War is now on Steam and works right away on Linux.

SuperTux released free on Steam, an open source classic

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2022

Giving a nice boost to a classic free and open source game, SuperTux has now been released on Steam and it's free to download and play.

Heck Deck is a brilliant fusion of bullet-hell and a card game

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2022

What do you get when you cross a twin-stick bullet-hell with a card-game? Heck Deck. It's not a particularly long game but the idea is excellent.

Humble Bundle decides you need another launcher for parts of Humble Choice

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2022

Humble Bundle has announced changes are coming in February for Humble Choice, so let’s go over what they’re going to be doing.

DOOMED: Demons of the Nether turns Minecraft into modern DOOM

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2022

What do Minecraft and modern DOOM have in common? Not a lot but a modder decided to merge them together to create DOOMED: Demons of the Nether and it's pretty darn good.

Linux Kernel 5.16 is out now bringing the futex2 work to help Linux Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2022

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux Kernel 5.16, bringing with it the usual assortment of new hardware support and improvements everywhere. Plus, there's something big for Linux gaming fans.

Easy Anti-Cheat not as simple as expected for Proton and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2022

Even though Epic Games announced recently how they expanded support for Easy Anti-Cheat to have full support of native Linux, plus Wine / Proton (and so the Steam Deck), it seems it's not as easy as we hoped.

Mozilla looking to improve Twitch playback in Firefox

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2022

Do you love watching Twitch livestreams? I bet there's plenty amongst our readers! Well, it seems Mozilla are looking into making it better with Firefox.

Send help as I have discovered Bloons TD 6

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2022

Stepping slightly out of my comfort zone recently to try something different, I picked up a copy of Bloons TD 6 and I think I now may need help to tear myself away from it.

NVIDIA announce GeForce RTX 3050, RTX 3090 Ti and high-end laptop GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

CES 2022 continues with NVIDIA doing their presentation today where they announced more for their streaming service GeForce NOW, new monitors from parters with GSYNC and new GPUs.

AMD shows off new hardware at CES 2022

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

Today, AMD presented their 2022 Product Premiere at CES 2022 with a pre-recorded session hosted by Dr. Lisa Su.

A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

To begin 2022, let's take a fresh look at the current top 100 Steam games and see how well (or not) the run on Linux.

Keyboard and mouse mapping to gamepad tool AntiMicroX v3.2.1 out now

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

AntiMicroX is a great open source app that helps you map your keyboard and mouse to gamepad inputs. It's the continuation of the original AntiMicro project, which was abandoned.

Classic open source platformer SuperTux is coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

One we don't cover or hear about too often is SuperTux, a free and open source platformer that's been around for some time now and it's getting a Steam release.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2021

It's that time of the year again. 2021 is nearly over after what feels like the longest year ever so let's all hope for a better 2022 shall we?

Get I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream free on GOG for 48 hours

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2021

During the GOG Winter Sale they have another game giveaway and so you can grab the classic I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for free right now.

Play some socially-distanced tabletop games with a new FoundryVTT release

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2021

FoundryVTT version 9 has been released, further improving many big parts of this excellent cross-platform virtual tabletop experience and it's looking awesome.

The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

The moment I'm sure plenty of our readers have been waiting for: the Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live.

Death Stranding absolutely sold me and you should play it

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2021

I don't actually often play the big AAA games but for Death Stranding, I finally took the plunge and thanks to Steam Play Proton running it on Linux was a fantastic experience overall.