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Tech-noir musical tactics game All Walls Must Fall is now permanently free

By Liam Dawe,
Developer inbetweengames announced that their game All Walls Must Fall from 2018 is now permanently free.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Farlight 84, Shadow Warrior 2, video improvements for 32bit games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released their usual weekend upgrade of Proton Experimental for Linux desktop and Steam Deck, with an assortment of game improvements.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak adds English support plus Steam Deck upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak from Nihon Falcom, PH3 GmbH and NIS America, Inc. hit Steam back in March 2023. However, it was only supported for the Japanese language, now it's been updated in a big way with English language support and Steam Deck improvements too.

Comedy adventure 3 Minutes to Midnight set to release in August

By Liam Dawe,
After a good bit of silence, 3 Minutes to Midnight is pretty much done now with the developers noting they're reading it for release in August.

Humble Choice for July has Ghostrunner 2 and A Plague Tale: Requiem

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Choice has another fresh set of games available and it is once again a nice varied selection of titles. Here's your usual monthly run over the compatibly to see on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Factorio: Space Age and the 2.0 free update set for release in October

By Liam Dawe,
Factory building sim Factorio is getting a huge expansion with Factorio: Space Age set for release on October 21st along with a big free 2.0 update for everyone.

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today

By Liam Dawe,
Are those some spots I see in the mirror? Must be the teens. GamingOnLinux, the website, is another year older today and I'm still blown away by what we've achieved together. 15 years! I can hardly believe it.

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE released on GOG plus new giveaway

By Liam Dawe,
For the GOG fans amongst the GamingOnLinux readership, there's another big DRM-free release available with METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE. Plus, another giveaway.

GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin moves to a more rapid release cycle

By Liam Dawe,
The team behind the free and open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin have announced a big change to their plans, along with a new much more rapid release schedule.

All KINGDOM HEARTS games now Steam Deck Verified (plus more games)

By Liam Dawe,
Good news KINGDOM HEARTS fans. All of the titles currently available on Steam have now been tested by Valve and given the fancy green Steam Deck Verified tick.

#DRIVE Rally gets a new trailer to show off new gameplay and features

By Liam Dawe,
#DRIVE Rally is actually looking pretty darn good. A reinvention of classic 90s rally racing with a whole lot of content and features to be excited about.

Castle Come is a 'walking fortress roguelike' that sounds simply awesome

By Liam Dawe,
Now and then I come across a game and just think - I have to have it. Castle Come is one of those times, a roguelike where you control a walking fortress you build up as you go.

Here's how to fix the ELDEN RING 'inappropriate activity' issue on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
A new patch has been rolled out for ELDEN RING, and it's supposed to fix the inappropriate activity detected message from their anti-cheat with a bit of manual effort. Here's what to do.

The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

PSA: If you use Bazzite you need to do a manual fix to get updates

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that's great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.

Nexus mods want feedback from Linux / Steam Deck users on their new cross-platform app

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.

Magnificent chunky shooter Selaco gets a 'MEGA' update

By Liam Dawe,
Selaco is easily one of the biggest highlights of the year, with its mixture of over-the-top action and chunky retro visuals. Altered Orbit Studios also just pushed out a big upgrade for it.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' gets a Beta release

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' has a first Beta release available for testing, built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 it will be supported until 2029.

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster announced for Steam releasing September

By Liam Dawe,
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is real from CAPCOM and not only is it coming to Steam, it's releasing somewhat soon on September 19th.

Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not

By Liam Dawe,
While other vendors continually push out new handheld pc models, sticking similar internals into different shell designs and gradually bumping up RAM or the Processor, the Steam Deck just keeps selling like hot tasty cakes.
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