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Steam Play Proton 4.11-3 is out, big changes for gamepads and new D9VK

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and CodeWeavers continue pushing Linux gaming along with another release of Proton for Steam Play with 4.11-3.

D9VK 0.20 'Frog Cookie' is out further advancing this great D3D9 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Joshua Ashton has just today released another build of D9VK code-named 'Frog Cookie', further polishing this D3D9 to Vulkan layer that was forked from DXVK.

Invisigun Reloaded, a revamp of Invisigun Heroes where everyone is invisible

By Liam Dawe,
After launching back in 2017, Invisigun Heroes had a great idea and some really fun gameplay with invisible characters but there just wasn't enough to give it a healthy online player-base. Enter Invisigun Reloaded with a revamped single-player campaign.

The emulation and media player front-end RetroArch just had a huge new release

By Liam Dawe,
Today is a big day for the emulation scene, as RetroArch have officially announced a big new release. While it's used for other things, RetroArch is most noted for making emulation a bit easier.

Eliza from Zachtronics is a Visual Novel that's worth your time

By Liam Dawe,
Eliza, not the usual type of game Zachtronics are known for but their puzzle games are always great so with the recent release of their Visual Novel game Eliza I was pretty curious about it.

Hexa Trains, an economic sim based on planets made from hexagons to release in October

By Liam Dawe,
Developed by Game Studio Abraham Stolk who previously made The Little Crane That Could, Hexa Trains is an economic sim that looks rather interesting with planets full of hexagons.

Resolutiion, a very stylish fast-paced action-adventure made with Godot now has a teaser trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Resolutiion, developed with the FOSS game engine Godot Engine is a very promising and stylish fast-paced action-adventure coming to Linux.

The creative action-platformer DASH where you make levels has a new lower price

By Liam Dawe,
After multiple updates and not too many sales, the developer of DASH: Danger Action Speed Heroes has decided to make the game a bit cheaper in the hopes of attracting more players.

OpenRA has a huge new testing release out with savegame support

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the open source game engine for classic RTS games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 has a brand new big testing release available.

Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE no longer coming to Linux after the successful Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
After a successful Kickstarter that planned Linux support and now being released on Steam, the developer of Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE has issued a post about platforms no longer happening.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Get ready to blow everything up in Smith and Winston, releasing on August 27th

By Liam Dawe,
Smith and Winston is a twin-stick shooter made entirely out of really small voxel blocks, it looks awesome and the destruction possible is also pretty amusing.

7 Billion Humans turns one year old, Tomorrow Corp put their games on sale to celebrate

By Liam Dawe,
Tomorrow Corporation are celebrating their puzzle game 7 Billion Humans turning a year old with a big sale on their games and they support Linux too.

What have you been playing this week and what are you clicking on this weekend?

By Liam Dawe,
Another week has almost finished, it's now the weekend and it's super hot here which means it's time to hide indoors and play games.

Roberta, a new Steam Play compatibility tool to play games with a native ScummVM

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from the Boxtron tool to run Steam games through a native Linux version of DOSBox, the same developer has now put out Roberta to do the same for ScummVM.

Void Spirit is another new Dota 2 hero coming, The International 2019 prize pool breaks 34 million

By Liam Dawe,
It's not enough to tease one new hero with Snapfire, as heroes now come in twos apparently. Void Spirit is another new hero coming to Dota 2.

alTrace, a new open source debugging tool for apps and games that use OpenAL

By Liam Dawe,
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has released a new open source tool today named alTrace, to help developers of games and software using OpenAL.

Mable & The Wood is a fairly unusual Metroidvania out now with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Featuring a sweet fairy-powered protagonist wielding a sword so big they can hardly move, Mable & The Wood certainly presents a healthy amount of charm.

The stable Wine 4.0.2 release is now available

By Liam Dawe,
If you prefer to walk on the calmer side of life, the Wine 4.0.2 release has been made available today.

Some more thoughts on Ion Fury, the FPS from Voidpoint and 3D Realms

By Liam Dawe,
Ion Fury (previously Ion Maiden) is true example of how you really don’t need to push graphics ever closer to realism to achieve something ridiculously good.
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