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News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By tmtvl, 21 Jan 2026 at 11:33 am UTC

Quoting: XpanderPeople still pre-order games?
That's quite a shame tbh to give money without having a product for couple of months. You will not be able to refund then afaik.
I pre-ordered Digimon Story Time Stranger based on two factors: Cyber Sleuth was awesome and the demo for TS was awesome. When a team I know will make a good product is working on a product I know I will love... I don't see why I wouldn't pre-order it.

Though on Steam (at least) you can just refund it if it turns out not to meet expectations (so long as you play less than 2 hours and ask for the refund within 2 weeks after launch).

News - French indie studio Accidental Queens are closing and delisting their games from Steam
By tmtvl, 21 Jan 2026 at 11:26 am UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawethe French indie studio Accidental Queens announced they're closing down.
Oh, that's unfortunate.

Quoting: Liam DaweThe developer confirmed in Steam announcements for each title that they will be gone on January 29th.
What the hell. Instead of doing the Helium Rain thing and making it gratis, or better yet: open sourcing it; they just go 'get it now or get fucked'? Well, it's their games, they can do whatever they want with them.

News - Obey the Insect God brings live-action digitized sprite weirdness to action platformers
By hardpenguin, 21 Jan 2026 at 9:42 am UTC

Pretty cool, like a love letter to the original Mortal Kombat games

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By Strapinski, 21 Jan 2026 at 8:30 am UTC

Quoting: JarmerNobody from the Bungie glory days are still around. The suits are running the show, and when this doesn't get instahit status, which it won't, they'll shut it down.

Nothing to see here, just a shambling corpse. Safe to move on.
Do you know where they went? I really played the game a lot and I still like many aspects of it. But over the last few years, you could just tell how little art, story, etc., mattered anymore. It became all about grabbing cash. But I’d at least be interested in seeing what the talented people who used to be at Bungie have put together now.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By Tares, 21 Jan 2026 at 8:23 am UTC

Quoting: pb
Quoting: PaldinoXit's highlighting a big game release that probably won't work for us.
So it's more like taunting than informing, lol. Now I think it's even more odd. ;-)
The only odd thing here is you.

I find this news very useful. I didn't even knew Bungie is releasing new game. Now I know it exists, it's a genre I don't like and it will not be running on linux.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By emphy, 21 Jan 2026 at 6:24 am UTC

On the upside, one can play the original trilogy, including multiplayer, via the native aleph one open source engine.

News - Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players
By Purple Library Guy, 21 Jan 2026 at 4:54 am UTC

Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleCopyright law is very outdated for current technology.
So is capitalism. But if we're going to insist on capitalism, then within that framework I'm not sure what's going to stop anyone who creates anything from starving without copyright. We can fix copyright if we fix the overall system it's in.

News - Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players
By wit_as_a_riddle, 21 Jan 2026 at 3:22 am UTC

I'd prefer AI models be allowed to retain any and all information from any library book, or be able to reference full texts at will. Copyright law is very outdated for current technology.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the copyright front, apparently researchers at Stanford tested the AIs from the main companies by prompting them with the first line of various books and asking them to continue the story verbatim. There were variants between engines on how sneaky they had to be with the query (Grok: not sneaky at all), but they pulled out 95% of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "The Hobbit" and so on. All those engines would just give you chapter after chapter. This matters because the AI companies had repeatedly claimed that they don't actually store the texts they train on in any way (originally they also claimed they didn't pirate actual copyrighted books, either, but that got found out so the fall back was that they sort of didn't keep them). There's copyright lawsuits going on, so it may matter that it turns out they totally do store those texts they stole.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By pb, 21 Jan 2026 at 2:53 am UTC

Quoting: PaldinoXit's highlighting a big game release that probably won't work for us.
So it's more like taunting than informing, lol. Now I think it's even more odd. ;-)

News - Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players
By wit_as_a_riddle, 21 Jan 2026 at 2:50 am UTC

When artists use AI to create code: 👍🏻
When coders use AI to create art: 😡

I find this amusing.

News - Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop
By wit_as_a_riddle, 21 Jan 2026 at 2:25 am UTC

Great coverage, Liam - this is something I'll expect Valve will pick up and run with.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By enigmaxg2, 20 Jan 2026 at 11:22 pm UTC

I prefer to spend my money on Antireal desk mats which are officially commissioned and not in this anti-Linux and full-on-theft company

News - tinyBuild are shutting down and delisting Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape
By enigmaxg2, 20 Jan 2026 at 11:18 pm UTC

Quoting: blindcoderFor a moment there I was scared you telling us that tinyBuild shuts down and not just one of their games. 😱😱😱
I was going to say the same!! thankfully it's not.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By Pyrate, 20 Jan 2026 at 7:17 pm UTC

Fuck. Bungie.

The good thing here is this plagiarising piece of trash is likely to fail miserably.

I wouldn't be surprised actually if, out of desperation, they enabled Linux support for the brownie points.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By PaldinoX, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:52 pm UTC

Quoting: pbWhat an odd piece of information to publish on GamingOnLinux.
This is the exact opposite of odd info, it's highlighting a big game release that probably won't work for us. That's valuable info on what games people should ignore or not.

News - Monster taming adventure Stories of Somnia is one to keep an eye on
By Purple Library Guy, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:25 pm UTC

Somnia? Bet I could master this game in my sleep!

News - Giving some Undertale and OMORI vibes, the strange looking Immortal Boy gets a new trailer
By Purple Library Guy, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:22 pm UTC

Weird and interesting, but I feel like no matter what genre you're really not into, this game will have enough of it to stop you playing.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By Verglas, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:22 pm UTC

Somewhere, somehow, someone will always find something odd.

Personally, I think it IS a valuable piece of information, even though I would not play this particular game, since I decided to boycott Bungie (not that I have a choice on Linux) for the way they have treated their employees.

Also this game looks a bit too "GenZ" for me, style-wise, but that's just the personal preference of a boomer.

News - Survive an elevator trying to eat you in co-op horror KLETKA when it releases February 19
By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:20 pm UTC

Quoting: Cley_FayeIs that a new info box at the bottom of posts? Nice.
Not new exactly, but the visual style was recently tweaked to look a lot nicer.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By pb, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:15 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweI'm just at a loss as to what is "odd" about it. The entire purpose of the website is to highlight gaming on Linux, working or not.
There is no gaming on Linux if it doesn't work.

News - Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop
By wheaney, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:09 pm UTC

Quoting: LoftyInteresting they work with Xreal glasses ? I thought they were just two screens made to look like one big one. How is it working as VR ?

for me VR headsets are just that, a headset. Im interested in XR/AR glasses with 3D support not requiring a 3rd party dongle and Mac / Andriod only software support. The form factor is more appealing for just chilling in bed, couch and looking at a giant screen (in 3D with the right software) But if the XR glasses work in a VR-like manner on KDE plasma id like to try that out.
Breezy Desktop on KDE and GNOME can do multi-display now. So it's not limited to just one ultrawide, you can launch as many virtual displays as your hardware will be able to handle. Most supported glasses are only 3DoF, so you can look around but not move around. It's not VR, though, as the virtual displays are intended to just replace physical monitors and allow you to work as usual, so you use your keyboard and mouse to control just as you typically would.

Breezy also works with 6DoF, though only with one pair of glasses or with OpenTrack + NeuralNet at the moment. This actually allows you to lean in/away or move about the virtual displays in a more VR-ish way, but it's still controlled by keyboard and mouse, still not intended to be a VR experience.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:07 pm UTC

Quoting: pb
Quoting: Liam DaweThis is normal stuff for us. There is nothing odd about it. This is what we do.
That's totally fine. But I will keep finding it odd.
I'm just at a loss as to what is "odd" about it. The entire purpose of the website is to highlight gaming on Linux, working or not.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By pb, 20 Jan 2026 at 6:03 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweThis is normal stuff for us. There is nothing odd about it. This is what we do.
That's totally fine. But I will keep finding it odd.

News - KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature
By sa666666, 20 Jan 2026 at 5:57 pm UTC

Quoting: PJI'd be more happy if the KDE team had finished remote desktop support (RDP etc) on Wayland, so there would be a way to login to session, not access one that is already running.
Supposedly this is coming after the SDDM login manager is dropped, and Plasma Login Manager starts being used.

News - Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
By ElamanOpiskelija, 20 Jan 2026 at 4:38 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: pbWhat an odd piece of information to publish on GamingOnLinux.
What's odd about it? It's an article informing readers about a title that could be the next big popular multiplayer game, and how it will likely not work. This is pretty standard stuff for us.
That's right, exactly why we're here, exactly why we appreciate this site, (besides your coverage of RTS of course).

Quoting: eggroleWasn't this game the one where they literally stole art? Not even AI bullcrap, but flat out stole it?

I don't know all the details about how it ended up, but I'd imagine the anti-AI crowd here would be *way* more upset of outright theft of art.
Yeah Bungie, the studio which is already in trouble anyway, because the last demo of Marathon went so bad and they know it, Bungie, some of whose former members made a little offshoot studio called Firewalk and a little game called Concord. At this point, how damn good Marathon has to be, not to be ridiculed into oblivion...

News - tinyBuild are shutting down and delisting Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape
By blindcoder, 20 Jan 2026 at 4:31 pm UTC

For a moment there I was scared you telling us that tinyBuild shuts down and not just one of their games. 😱😱😱

News - Ghostship is a new Super Mario 64 PC port from HarbourMasters
By ElamanOpiskelija, 20 Jan 2026 at 4:31 pm UTC

But does your Mario 64 port run on Sega Saturn, though?

https://github.com/jnmartin84/mk64-dc