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It's s Friday again, come watch the Friday Livestream at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai, 3 Jun 2016

The past week has been a little bit busy for me but that's no obstacle for the Friday Livestream! Come and join the live Linux gaming shenanigans once again on our Twitch channel, where we occasionally play games and almost always talk garbage!

Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition now officially support Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2016

Well this is confusing, but still awesome. Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition supporting Linux/SteamOS is now 100% official.

Daedalic's Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes now available for Linux

By flesk, 2 Jun 2016

According to a recent update on Steam, the sequel to Daedalic Entertainment's award-winning debut game is now available for Linux.

Point-and-click adventure game Demetrios released DRM-free and on Steam

By flesk, 2 Jun 2016

Demetrios - The BIG cynical adventure is the remake of an unreleased adventure game, funded on Kickstarter last year, and is now available DRM free and on Steam.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare adds Steam Controller, Linux & SteamOS support in a big patch

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

I have been seriously wanting to try this out. The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare is a great looking Unreal Engine 4 title about plastic soldiers doing what they do best.

Substance Painter 2, a feature-filled 3D texture painting app comes to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

Substance Painter 2 looks like an incredibly useful application for game developers to get to work on their graphics and you can now do so on Linux.

The PAYDAY 2 developers now own the franchise, ditching microtransactions, PAYDAY 3 looks like it's a thing

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

PAYDAY 2 and the franchise as a whole is now owned by the developers Starbreeze/OVERKILL and they are celebrating by removing the need to buy drills to open a safe.

Brigador stomps out of Early Access with such beautiful destruction, a must try on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

Oh baby! Brigador is one game you cannot afford to miss out on. It has such beautiful design and destruction that I can't help but fall in love with it.

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

Ars Technica has written up an article about Valve's Steam Machines and how they seem to have sold less than 500,000 units in around seven months.

Valve announce over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2016

An awesome milestone for such an interesting device! Valve have stated in an update that the Steam Controller has sold over half a million units!

The most popular Linux & SteamOS gaming articles for May 2016, 161 in total

By , 2 Jun 2016

Here is a look back at the 15 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2016, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming!

Steam's latest Hardware Survey is out, shows Linux at 0.84%

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

The latest Steam Hardware Survey is now available and if you take it at face value it doesn't look so good for Linux. I am remaining positive as always about it.

The Wine Staging Team has released their patch-set for Wine 1.9.11

By sobkas, 1 Jun 2016

Wine Staging 1.9.11 has been released this weekend. This release is a small update containing only a few improvements targeting different applications.

Stellaris patch 1.1 "Clarke" is now available, includes beta UI scaling option

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

The first major Stellaris patch 1.1 code-named "Clarke" is now available and brings plenty with it. I'm looking forward to diving back in.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS major patch released, features built-in mod manager

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has been updated with a rather large patch that brings in a number of new goodies. There were a number of test releases, but they have all come together for an official stable patch.

GOG Connect announced, add certain Steam games to GOG for a limited time

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

I was wondering if GOG would ever do something like this and it's really cool to see them finally dip their toes in it. For a limited time using GOG Connect a few Steam games can be redeemed on GOG for fully DRM free builds.

Tumbleweed Express, trains mixed with guns in the wild west now on Steam with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

Tumbleweed Express looks like quite a cool action game where you're defending a train from airships and other trains with Borderlands styled graphics.

The Way of Life, a short and interesting single-player experience, released on Steam for free with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

The Way of Life sees you relive different experiences using three characters at different ages. It sounds like a cool idea and it's free so why not give it a go?

Simutrans, the open source transportation simulation game is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

Simutrans is a bit of an oldie in the open source gaming world, but it's pretty good and it has now found its way onto Steam.

Life Is Strange is coming to Linux & SteamOS by Feral Interactive

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

Feral Interactive have updated their teaser radar to show that Life Is Strange is coming to Linux/SteamOS and Mac. The only official announcement for now is Mac App Store, but it is now confirmed to be coming to Linux.