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The GoD Unit is a brain-tickling first-person physics puzzle game out now

By Liam Dawe, Mar 4, 2021

With the recent updates to Portal 2 I got a needy feeling for more first-person puzzle goodness and thankfully The GoD Unit seems to deliver on that.

AMD make switching between Vulkan drivers AMDVLK and RADV easier

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8, 2021

On Linux with AMD GPUs you can decide between the RADV and AMDVLK drivers for Vulkan API support, and it appears AMD want to make things a little easier for you.

Our top favourite Linux games released in 2020

By Liam Dawe, Dec 23, 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, here's a brief look over what games we personally thought truly stood out in 2020 that directly supported Linux.

Perspective puzzle game Superliminal is out now on Steam, along with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, Nov 5, 2020

Superliminal's timed exclusive period on the Epic Games Store is now up, and it has released on Steam along with Linux support with a port from Ethan Lee.

The GamingOnLinux Podcast returns, in a special Co-Op News Punch episode

By Liam Dawe, Oct 1, 2020

It's been a long time since a GamingOnLinux Podcast and we're coming back, with quite a different style to what we were doing before.

GOL Podcast

Futuristic, mysterious, full of physics and circuits - puzzle game The Long Gate is out

By Liam Dawe, Sep 22, 2020

Developer David Shaw has now released The Long Gate, a thoroughly mysterious puzzle game full of quantum physics and circuits set up as puzzles.

Quantum mechanics-based puzzle game The Long Gate launches in September

By Liam Dawe, Aug 20, 2020

Coming from the mind of indie dev David Shaw, The Long Gate looks like an incredibly promising puzzle game that touches on unique quantum-based puzzles.

Aethernaut looks like a great upcoming mind-bending puzzle room game

By Liam Dawe, Aug 6, 2020

Inspired by the likes of Portal and The Talos Principle, developer Dragon Slumber are working on and recently announced Aethernaut and it looks slick.

The 2020 Steam Summer Sale ends soon, here's some final picks

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8, 2020

Stuck for what to pick up? With the huge Steam Summer Sale ending tomorrow at 5PM UTC, here's a little helping hand for you on what's good.

You can build your own Devolver Digital bundle and save monies

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2020

If you're after some new games to kick-start your week, you should check out the Devolver Digital bundle over on Humble Store.

Serious Sam 4 announced for August, confirmed for Stadia (updated)

By Liam Dawe, May 20, 2020

Serious Sam 4 from Croteam and Devolver Digital finally has a release window with it announced for August. Note: updates at the bottom.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 up for testing with a Release Candidate - Street Fighter V playable

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2020

Valve and CodeWeavers continuing the long task of improving the Proton compatibility layer (based on Wine) for Steam Play, and today a new Release Candidate went up for some testing.

A look over all the goodies on sale (and free) for Linux gaming fans this weekend

By Liam Dawe, Apr 18, 2020

It's another weekend, although you will be completely forgiven for having no idea what day it is. I don't remember half the time right now as it's all blurring into one during lockdown. Here's a look over what you can get cheap and free right now.

The Humble Store Winter Sale is live, another FREE game is going too

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9, 2020

Another sale, time to pick up some cheap games if you missed some during other big sales last month. This time Humble Store have a big selection up and a free game to grab.

Humble are giving away Serial Cleaner free for their Fall Sale now live

By Liam Dawe, Nov 21, 2019

You have around 72 hours to grab Serial Cleaner completely free, along with the start of the Humble Store Fall Sale.

Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7, 2019

Here's a bit of interesting industry news for you on this fine Monday afternoon. Alen Ladavac, who helped to co-found the Serious Sam and Talos Principle developer Croteam has moved onto game streaming.

Accelerated OpenGL in a virtual machine is advancing with virglrenderer

By Liam Dawe, Aug 28, 2019

Collabora put out a fresh technical blog post today to talk a little about virglrenderer, with the latest version enabling a big leap for accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine.