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VRChat adds Easy Anti-Cheat, community not happy but Linux and Steam Deck work fine

By Liam Dawe, Jul 27, 2022

Despite the name, VRChat is not a VR-only space and it's incredibly popular. Recently though, they added in Easy Anti-Cheat and the community is currently very unhappy with it.

DIMENSIONAL SLAUGHTER is an absolutely wild sounding fast-paced retro shooter

By Liam Dawe, Jul 25, 2022

Have the need for speed and love a good retro first-person shooter? DIMENSIONAL SLAUGHTER is what you should take a look at.

Visit a new dimension in the Avorion - Into The Rift expansion

By Liam Dawe, Jul 20, 2022

Avorion - Into The Rift is a pretty big sounding expansion to the space sandbox game that will arrive in August.

Souls-like game Hellpoint: Blue Sun major expansion DLC is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jul 18, 2022

The thoroughly challenging Souls-like game Hellpoint has expanded with the Hellpoint: Blue Sun major expansion DLC.

Swirl W@tch is a blindly-vibrant upcoming stealth-action rogue-lite

By Liam Dawe, Jul 18, 2022

Sleeper Games have revealed their latest game with Swirl W@tch, a very colourful and bright stealth-action rogue-lite that will release later this year.

Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK version 1.10.2 is up with lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, Jul 13, 2022

DXVK is the translation tool used inside of Steam Play Proton that translates Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan and a new release is out now with version 1.10.2.

Void Scrappers is an upcoming space horde shooter inspired by Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8, 2022

Vampire Survivors has basically reignited the horde shooter genre now right? Developer 8BitSkull (Fates of Ort) has announced their next game with Void Scrappers.

Organ swapping FPS 'Wrought Flesh' gets a huge free update

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2022

Wrought Flesh is a game where you run around and pinch the organs of downed enemies to upgrade your body. It's pretty weird and a big content update is out now.

Proton Experimental sees fixes for Persona 4 Golden, Final Fantasy XIV, Black Ops II

By Liam Dawe, Jun 30, 2022

Valve put out a new upgrade for Proton Experimental on June 30th which brings some nice looking fixes to Linux desktops and Steam Deck.

Spaceship building game Reassembly goes 64bit, gets Linux and Steam Deck upgrades

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2022

Reassembly is a highly rated game that mixes spaceship building, exploration and intense combat. It's quite a little gem and has a big update out now.

Build cities on the back of a giant animal in The Wandering Village — coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2022

The Wandering Village, a city-builder set on the back of a giant animal is now confirmed to be having Native Linux support at the Early Access release.

Mixing action-adventure and tower defense, Dwerve is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2022

Dwerve is a bit of an odd one, blending together elements of a dungeon-crawling action adventure with tower defense and it's out now.

Steam Next Fest: June 2022 is live

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13, 2022

A celebration of upcoming games, Steam Next Fest: June 2022 is now live for you to smash that download button on various demos to see what you think.

Puzzle-room game Escape Simulator gets a Steampunk DLC

By Liam Dawe, Jun 10, 2022

The million-selling indie game Escape Simulator has expanded with a new Steampunk DLC now available to give you a lot more to play with.

Linux hardware vendor System76 is coming to Europe

By Liam Dawe, Jun 9, 2022

Are you wanting to get some hardware from Linux vendor System76 but they don't currently ship to you, or it's expensive to do so? Well, you're in luck! They're coming to Europe.

GOG Summer Sale now live with new releases from SEGA

By Liam Dawe, Jun 6, 2022

For readers who prefer to shop over on GOG, their Summer Sale has just started along with some new releases.

Endlanders is a glitchy RPG with real-time deck-building grid-based combat

By Liam Dawe, Jun 6, 2022

Endlanders and the prologue demo Endlanders : First Encounter have a graphics style that reminds me of Hyper Light Drifter and Resolutiion while offering rather different gameplay.

Gravitar: Recharged released from Atari revamping another classic

By Liam Dawe, Jun 6, 2022

Another remake of a classic has landed, with Atari's Gravitar from the 80s now being available on Steam with Gravitar: Recharged.

A quick round-up of what was popular during May 2022

By Liam Dawe, Jun 1, 2022

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2022, 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!