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Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 14 years old today

By Liam Dawe,
You may have noticed the website acting up a little lately, well that's because it's well into its teens now. Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux, the tiny little site I thought no one would visit but here we are 14 years later.

Get a free copy of Prey with Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Want another free game? If you have Amazon Prime you can now claim a free copy of Prey from Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks with their GOG partnership.

Character-driven tactical RPG 'Arcadian Atlas' releasing July 27th

By Liam Dawe,
If you love your turn-based tactical RPGs with an interesting story to follow, anything perhaps like Final Fantasy Tactics and the like you'll want to take a look at Arcadian Atlas.

Humble Choice for July 2023 has The Outer Worlds, TemTem, Yakuza 4 Remastered

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Humble Choice seems to have a pretty nice set of headline games, so here's what to expect for July 2023 and what compatibility you'll see on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

7 Days to Die gets another huge overhaul in Alpha 21

By Liam Dawe,
7 Days to Die has surged in popularity thanks to a huge new upgrade coming amount, with developer The Fun Pimps bringing some pretty surprising stuff to the game.

Samurai Survivors gets Steam Deck Verified with gamepad improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Samurai Survivors is another in the somewhat long list now of bullet-hell horde styled games, that exploded thanks to Vampire Survivors. It has Linux support and now it's Steam Deck Verified too.

Morrowind modern game engine OpenMW 0.48 is readying to release

By Liam Dawe,
OpenMW is a modern free and open source game engine for Morrowind, and it's really getting close to a release of version 0.48 now with another Release Candidate ready for more testing.

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms - the huge OpenRA mod adds more missions

By Liam Dawe,
Easily one of my favourite game packs made with OpenRA is Command & Conquer - Combined Arms, bundling together the Allies, Soviets, Nod, GDI and the Scrin. A new release is out in v0.91 expanding the content a fair bit.

Half-Life Alyx NoVR continues to impress and evolve

By Liam Dawe,
Half-Life Alyx NoVR is really coming together and a fresh update is out now to make the experience even better for those without a VR kit.

Skullgirls got review-bombed on Steam after some art changes

By Liam Dawe,
Skullgirls 2nd Encore from Hidden Variable Studios and Autumn Games is having some community issues lately, with it getting review-bombed after a recent update.

Quantum: Recharged from Atari gets a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Ahead of the upcoming release of Quantum: Recharged, the latest in the series of retro remakes from Atari and SneakyBox, a new trailer is live now.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 29: The Odyssey

By Hamish,
It was one of my regular readers, Grzegorz Budny, that let me know about the driving simulation Odyssey by Car first released by the German independent developer Oliver Hamann back in 2001. The stylized vector looking graphics lend a timeless quality, leaving it a shame that more players will not get to experience the odyssey.

Nearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for June 2023, and it shows just how much the Linux share is now influenced by the Steam Deck.

Fanatical's latest Trinity Bundle has some quality indie hits

By Liam Dawe,
You somehow need even MORE games? Okay well here's the newest Fanatical Trinity Bundle with some indie gems.

Evolution sim Thrive v0.6.3 gives a glimpse of the future

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and scientific! Thrive is an in-development evolution sim, with a new release out now adding in some more big prototypes for later-life stages.

BattleBit Remastered is good fun but anti-cheat for Steam Deck & Linux is concerning

By Liam Dawe,
BattleBit Remastered is the current game climbing the ranks on Steam, made by a tiny team of only 3 people it has regularly seen tens of thousands of players. It works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux but the anti-cheat may turn into a big problem.

Multiplayer voxel RPG 'Veloren' v0.15 is out adding the first world boss

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and continuing to expand! Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Version 0.15 is out now and sounds fun.

GE-Proton 8-6 is out now fixing up more games for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton has another release available (two actually) so here's a run over what's new for this community-maintained translation layer.

Reminder: Update your PC info for our statistics page

By gamingonlinux,
This is the public once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated around the start of each month. Also a good reminder of our stats system for people who don't know about it.

Here's the top Steam Deck games for June 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Another month down and Valve has announced what's been popular over the last month, so let's take a look at the top Steam Deck list for June 2023.