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CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT

By Liam Dawe,
GOG is breaking off from CD PROJEKT with 100% of it now owned by one of the original co-founders, Michał Kiciński.

Here's our 2025 GOTY picks

By Liam Dawe,
The year is almost over and so it’s time to let you know what we enjoyed the most this year while gaming on Linux.
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Proton Experimental brings improvements for Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER and more

By Liam Dawe,
A little holiday update for Proton Experimental from Valve to improve Windows games on Linux, Steam Deck / SteamOS systems.

From Ruins – A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on

By Liam Dawe,
From Ruins – A Detective Adventure caught my eye recently with it's interesting premise and some pretty slick looking pixel-art for point and click fans.

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
We're just about to hit the full swing of the holiday season, and so GamingOnLinux will go into its usual holiday hibernation to spend time with family.

Siren is an awesome looking Aliens inspired Doom II conversion

By Liam Dawe,
Taking a slower approach with inspiration taken from the likes of Aliens, the Doom II conversion named Siren looks really awesome for retro FPS fans.

Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have done this pretty quietly, but they're discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model now with just the Steam Deck OLED remaining.

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released the latest stable update for Steam across Desktop, Steam Deck / SteamOS and we have all the changes here for you to see.

Free and open source Settlers-like, Widelands v1.3 is out with market trading and new maps

By Liam Dawe,
Widelands continues to grow as a great free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, with a brand new holiday release out now.

GE-Proton 10-27 brings fixes for Star Citizen, The First Descendant and more tweaks

By Liam Dawe,
The popular community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton version 10-27 is out now with the usual assortment of game fixes and other improvements.

Keep creatures fed in the deck-builder Hungry Horrors when it arrives January 19 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by British and Irish folklore, Hungry Horrors is a deck-builder with an unusual purpose - to have you feed the monsters to keep them away.

Hollow Knight: Silksong to get a free expansion, Hollow Knight getting a refresh upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Team Cherry just revealed some huge news for both Hollow Knight: Silksong and the original Hollow Knight with some free extras on the way.

Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'

By Liam Dawe,
The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

By Liam Dawe,
Just like Google plan with Chrome, Mozilla aren't sitting still on expanding Firefox into something resembling a web browser but with more AI.

Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes

By Liam Dawe,
Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up a Release Candidate for testing Proton 10.0-4, what will become the main version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux / SteamOS.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.13 has been released

By fheroes2,
Just in time for the holidays, we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 2 on modern systems.

Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta update that includes a useful tweak to its Xbox controller detection.

Evolution sim Thrive hits the 1.0 release completing the microbe stage

By Liam Dawe,
Thrive is an open source evolution sim that plans to add many different stages of life with the microbe stage now considered actually ready.