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Nintendo blocked Dolphin emulator release on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Back in March the plan was announced for the Wii and GameCube emulator Dolphin to release on Steam, along with some useful Steam features but now that seems unlikely to happen.

Stone Age farming life-sim Roots of Pacha has returned to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
After a messy situation with their publisher, Soda Den has now split from Crytivo and Roots of Pacha has returned for sale on Steam.

Valve upgrades Proton Experimental with a number of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Today there's a new build of Proton Experimental available for Steam Deck and desktop Linux gamers, with it Valve has given us a bunch of bug fixes.

Many years later Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is still getting better

By Liam Dawe,
Originally released in 2002 and then later as Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from Beamdog, many years on it's still getting major upgrades including a new Toon shader and loading speed improvements.

Highly rated colour-changing puzzle adventure 'Hue' free to keep until June 8th

By Liam Dawe,
Need a free game? You're in luck as Hue from Fiddlesticks Games and Curve Games is currently free to keep on Steam until June 8th.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War is free to keep until June 1st

By Liam Dawe,
Get your 4x Warhammer strategy gaming on, as Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War from Proxy Studios and Slitherine Ltd is free to claim and keep until June 1st.

If You Like... Left 4 Dead

By scaine,
What’s this? An entirely new genre, you say? Well, arguably that’s exactly what Valve presented to the public in 2008 with the original Left 4 Dead, and its superlative sequel the following year. But was it really a new genre?

Modrinth make their own launcher for Minecraft modders

By Liam Dawe,
Modrinth, the open source modding platform that's gaining popularity, has now announced the first Alpha build of their own launcher to make modding easier for Minecraft fans.

Wine and Wayland take another step closer with more code merged

By Liam Dawe,
The ongoing work bit by bit to get Wine and Wayland to fully work together on Linux has taken another step, with a third big merge request accepted.

Fedora Onyx voted in as a new official Fedora Linux immutable variant

By Liam Dawe,
Much like Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Fedora Sericea there's going to be a new immutable version of Fedora coming called Fedora Onyx.

Help fund Fish Folk, an ever-growing bundle of open source multiplayer games

By Liam Dawe,
Fish Folk is an in-development and constantly growing bundle of multiplayer games. All open source and they want your help to grow bigger and better.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is the public 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. Also a good reminder of our stats system for people who don't know about it.

Halls of Torment is out in Early Access - a great fusion of Diablo and Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe,
What do you get if you combine classic Diablo with Vampire Survivors? Well one developer decided to show you with an unholy combination in Halls of Torment.

Exil is a post apocalyptic fusion of Hollow Knight & Cuphead

By Liam Dawe,
Hollow Knight and Cuphead fused together in a post apocalyptic setting? Yes please. Exil not only sounds good but it looks the part too.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 announced for $269 with 8GB VRAM

By Liam Dawe,
Even with all the talk about 8GB VRAM simply not being enough now for all the new games coming out, we're still seeing multiple launches with it. Now with the AMD Radeon RX 7600 priced at $269.

HDR and Colour Management for AMD / Steam Deck and KDE Plasma coming along

By Liam Dawe,
With all the work going on right now to get Linux to properly support HDR, another patch set has landed to hopefully get some of it hooked up.

This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited

By Liam Dawe,
There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch.

Comet is an open source implementation of GOG Galaxy SDK that needs testing

By Liam Dawe,
One sticking issue with GOG currently is GOG Galaxy, and how it has no support for Linux. Now the Comet project aims to bridge the gap.

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is absolute boomer shooter joy

By Liam Dawe,
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun has released on Steam and it works out of the box on Steam Deck and desktop Linux thanks to Proton 8.

Total War: PHARAOH announced - Linux port from Feral Interactive (UPDATE: incorrect)

By Liam Dawe,
SEGA and Creative Assembly officially announced Total War: PHARAOH today for release in October 2023, and as usual Feral Interactive will be doing their Linux and macOS ports.