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Half-Life 2 & The Episodes Now Officially Support Virtual Reality On Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Half-Life 2's VR mode is now out of beta for Linux, so all of you with your fancy-pants head-gear can get swalled up by Half-Life 2's visuals like you are really there!

Valve's VOGL Debugger Makes It Even Easier To Debug OpenGL Games

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Peter Lohrmann has been working on Valve's VOGL debugger to make it easier to use for developers looking to it for help.

Dungeon Colony Now Available On Itch, A 2D Fantasy RTS For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Dungeon Colony, a 2D fantasy RTS in which you control a Dungeon Lord and his loyal minions is now available to buy on Itch.io, it's a good little game a previewed before.

The Interstellar Marines Developers Are Working On Their Linux Version Right Now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

The Interstellar Marines developers have been in touch to point out that their Linux version is currently in testing, but it may be months until we see a release.

Braveland Turn Based Strategy Gains A Survival Mode To Add To Replayablity

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Braveland is a beautifully drawn strategy game that has fully Linux support and a big new content update.

GOL On Advert Blocking, I Don't Hate You, But Please Don't Do It

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Now and then I do a little post to request that you don't block our adverts, or if you do then we offer you the option to support us without seeing any adverts and gain extra perks in the process!

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Paranautical Activity FPS Big New Release, Comes With Issues

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Paranautical Activity have been through their fair share of issues, but they have still managed to push out a new major content release for their FPS game that has native Linux support. It isn't without issues though.

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Earth 2140 Gold Edition Now Supports High Resolutions

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

Probably my biggest gripe with the Earth 2140 Linux release was the terribly low resolution making everything look a bit crap. Thankfully that has now been sorted with the latest version.

Highlighting A Blog Post For Developers Using Unity To Publish On Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jun 2014

One of the developers of Desktop Dungeons has written a blog post from a Windows user point of view about getting Unity games to play nice on Linux.

Open Source FPS/RTS Hybrid Unvanquished Alpha 28 Released

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2014

Unvanquished sure is one of the prettiest open source games around isn't it? Like clockwork they have released a new alpha with a bucket-load of changes.

Major Trine Update Should Be Released In The Next Few Months

By FutureSuture, 2 Jun 2014

Have you been missing the original Trine on Steam? Well, the wait will be over soon as Trine is getting a major update with a new Linux client in the coming months!

The Funding Crowd 33 (May 13th - June 1st)

By muntdefems, 2 Jun 2014

Greetings, fans of The Funding Crowd! We are back after our anniversary celebrations, with the usual load of crowdfunding news enough to quench your pledging desires.

GOL Cast: Being Part of the Bug Community in Hive

By Samsai, 2 Jun 2014

Working on these GOL Casts has allowed me to take a look at various games with different genres. Today we can add a new type of a game to the list as we check out this strategy game, which is originally based on a board game, called Hive.

Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution FPS Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2014

Do not adjust your screen that is a real headline. Crytek's CRYENGINE Powered Homefront The Revolution has been announced with full Linux support.

Kill Fun Yeah Is Insane, Here's A Video & My Thoughts On This Linux Game

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2014

Kill Fun Yeah has recently been released on Steam and after spending some time with it I have done a Linux game-play video and given you some thoughts on it.

SteamLUG June Linux Gaming Events

By Cheeseness, 2 Jun 2014

The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for June is up, featuring Awesomenauts, Planetary Annihilation, Hammerwatch, BattleBlock Theatre and more!

The Most Popular Linux Gaming Articles For May 2014

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2014

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2014, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux Gaming!

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Updated: Nuclear Throne Gets Smarter In The Latest Update For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2014

Nuclear Throne the excellent 2D procedural death labyrinth that becomes quite the bullet hell has been updated with alpha #29 with more weapons!

A Developer Of Unity3D Also Speaks Out About OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2014

Another day another developer speaking about OpenGL. This time around it's Aras Pranckevičius a developer of Unity.

Quest of Dungeons Now Officially Out For Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2014

Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.