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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly.

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Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8, 2023

Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Gears 5, Overwatch 2, Phasmophobia

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8, 2023

Valve released a fresh upgrade to Proton Experimental to get more games like Gears 5, Overwatch 2 and Phasmophobia working better on Linux and Steam Deck.

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8, 2023

Another biweekly release of the compatibility layer Wine is out now! As the developers continue the progress towards getting Wine working fully with Wayland in version 8.12.

MicroProse now publishing Dying Breed a retro RTS like Command & Conquer

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2023

Announced today, Dying Breed from Sarnayer that blends together the classic style and gameplay in the original Command & Conquer but with Zombies is now being published by MicroProse.

Steam Beta improves Openbox support and fixes focus issues with AMD / Intel

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2023

A fresh Steam Beta update was put out for desktop and Steam Deck, it comes with a whole bunch of little bug fixes and improvements. Especially nice on desktop if you have AMD or Intel GPUs.

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2023

Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2023

Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.

ChimeraOS 43 out now adding ASUS ROG Ally support

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2023

ChimeraOS 43 has been released today adding in support for running this SteamOS inspired Linux distribution on the ASUS ROG Ally handheld.

Fab retro-fuelled FPS 'Selaco' gets a demo upgrade for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jul 5, 2023

Selaco is one that really needs to be on your wishlist, a retro-fuelled FPS powered by GZDoom with some impressive world design and fantastic combat. The developers recently updated the demo too!

Black Dragon Mage is my kind of bullet heaven survivor-like insanity

By Liam Dawe, Jul 5, 2023

Black Dragon Mage from developer Datablob Studio looks absolutely nuts! Taking inspiration from all the bullet heaven games like Vampire Survivors, Brotato and pulling in some elements from Path of Exile and even…Bomberman? Apparently so.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.1 improves Heroic Games Launcher support

By Liam Dawe, Jul 5, 2023

ProtonUp-Qt is the app that allows you to install the likes of GE-Proton, Wine-GE, Luxtorpeda and more for Steam, Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher and Boxtron.

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 14 years old today

By Liam Dawe, Jul 5, 2023

You may have noticed the website acting up a little lately, well that's because it's well into its teens now. Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux, the tiny little site I thought no one would visit but here we are 14 years later.

Get a free copy of Prey with Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe, Jul 5, 2023

Want another free game? If you have Amazon Prime you can now claim a free copy of Prey from Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks with their GOG partnership.

Character-driven tactical RPG 'Arcadian Atlas' releasing July 27th

By Liam Dawe, Jul 5, 2023

If you love your turn-based tactical RPGs with an interesting story to follow, anything perhaps like Final Fantasy Tactics and the like you'll want to take a look at Arcadian Atlas.

Humble Choice for July 2023 has The Outer Worlds, TemTem, Yakuza 4 Remastered

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4, 2023

The latest Humble Choice seems to have a pretty nice set of headline games, so here's what to expect for July 2023 and what compatibility you'll see on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

7 Days to Die gets another huge overhaul in Alpha 21

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4, 2023

7 Days to Die has surged in popularity thanks to a huge new upgrade coming amount, with developer The Fun Pimps bringing some pretty surprising stuff to the game.

Samurai Survivors gets Steam Deck Verified with gamepad improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4, 2023

Samurai Survivors is another in the somewhat long list now of bullet-hell horde styled games, that exploded thanks to Vampire Survivors. It has Linux support and now it's Steam Deck Verified too.

Morrowind modern game engine OpenMW 0.48 is readying to release

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4, 2023

OpenMW is a modern free and open source game engine for Morrowind, and it's really getting close to a release of version 0.48 now with another Release Candidate ready for more testing.

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms - the huge OpenRA mod adds more missions

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4, 2023

Easily one of my favourite game packs made with OpenRA is Command & Conquer - Combined Arms, bundling together the Allies, Soviets, Nod, GDI and the Scrin. A new release is out in v0.91 expanding the content a fair bit.