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Selaco won IndieDB's 2024 Indie of the Year Award plus a big sales milestone was hit

By Liam Dawe,
The epic retro-fuelled shooter Selaco managed to win an award as IndieDB crowned it their 2024 Indie of the Year and it seems overall the game has done really well on sales.

Stardew Valley hits over 41 million sales with millions sold during 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Eric Barone "ConcernedApe", has updated the Stardew Valley website with some new figures showing the pixel-art farming life-sim has only continued to grow.

Grab some typing adventures and language learning in the latest Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
The first new Humble Bundle of games for 2025 is here, and it's starting you off with some typing and language adventures to sink your fingers into.

While Palworld enjoys a resurgence Valve dropped the rating to Steam Deck Unsupported

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Palworld is enjoying a nice resurgence after the release of the Feybreak major update with a huge increase in players. Going from around a regular 45,000 players online to around 200,000 concurrent players. However, Valve have dropped the rating the Steam Deck Unsupported.

Half-Life 3 rumours are about again after a teaser from G-Man's voice actor

By Liam Dawe,
2025 is shaping up to be potentially one of the most exciting in recent memory, with more rumours about Half-Life 3 being a very real thing.

Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024

By Liam Dawe,
While Steam continues to grow with it repeatedly breaking the concurrent online user counts throughout 2024, we also saw 2024 as the biggest in terms of game releases ever too.

Veloren the free and open source action-adventure RPG update 0.17 brings plenty new to explore

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by games like Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft - Veloren has a new release out now.

GE-Proton 9-22 released with lots of game fixes for Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The community-build of Proton, GE-Proton, was updated with a new version that updates various upstream components and adds plenty of game fixes for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Here's the winners of 2024 The Steam Awards with God of War Ragnarok the Best Game on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Another year is finished and so Valve have now put up the results of The Steam Awards for 2024. No surprises on most of them.

Linux user share on Steam ended 2024 on a high note

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have put up the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2024, which shows that the Linux share ended 2024 in December with a nice boost.

The most popular Linux gaming articles of 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Happy New Year! Here's a short look back over what the most read articles were on GamingOnLinux throughout 2024. An easy way for you to refresh your memory and prepare for 2025.

Proton Experimental updated with fixes for Marvel Rivals on Steam Deck / Linux and other game improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental, bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
From the team behind PC ports of other Nintendo games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a new PC port has arrived for Star Fox 64.

Open source evolution sim Thrive v0.8 brings more graphics improvements and new game mechanics

By Liam Dawe,
Thrive is an open source evolution sim built with Godot Engine, it's getting more impressive with every new release and there's another update out now for you to try out.

ScummVM 2.9.0 is out now for expanded retro gaming support

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM v2.9.0 has rolled out as a little holiday treat bringing expanded compatibility with various retro classic for you to play on modern systems.

Palworld - Feybreak v0.4.11 is out now and it's a huge update

By Liam Dawe,
Bringing with it a whole lot of new content to play through, the Palworld - Feybreak update is officially out now ready for your holiday time.

Valve released the Best of Steam - 2024 showing off the highest earners and most played games

By Liam Dawe,
Another year comes to a close and Valve have put up the Best of Steam - 2024, so you can go and check out what's the most popular.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
Hello there! It's coming up on Christmas now, and so GamingOnLinux will be starting to go into it's usual mostly hibernating state to take a little break.

For fans of Advance Wars there's a new demo up for Warside and new release window

By Liam Dawe,
Something for the weekend: you can now try out a brand new demo of Warside, a game very much inspired by the classic Advance Wars and it does look good.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 third Release Candidate out now

By Liam Dawe,
With the feature code freeze continuing, the Wine team had put up a third Release Candidate for the upcoming stable main release of Wine 10.0 coming in early 2025.