Another popular survivor-like roguelite has launched, with Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok leaving Early Access to the big 1.0.
The battle continues! The fallout is ongoing from the legal battle between Nintendo and yuzu that saw the yuzu team fold.
The Stellaris 17 from TUXEDO is a new refreshed (their sixth version) high-powered desktop-replacement notebook, with a high price and a tease of more models in this series to come.
Perimeter originally released back in 2004, and it's set to make a return from developer K-D Lab with the PERIMETER: Legate Edition. It's also open source!
Originally due to launch on May 23rd, the cinematic narrative adventure Until Then from Polychroma Games has been delayed.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/cinematic-narrative-adventure-until-then-delayed-a-few-weeks/
Jumping over from actual arcade machines, we have Armed and Gelatinous: Couch Edition now available with Native Linux support on Steam.
Although the Steam page for HELLDIVERS 2 has clearly stated since release that a PlayStation Network account is required, you actually haven't had to link them. That will change really soon.
Valve today released the first version of Proton 9.0, the newest stable version of the Windows compatibility layer to run games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.
Showing just how popular the Steam Deck is, NVIDIA are officially making it easier to get their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW on Steam Deck.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nvidia-make-it-easier-to-get-geforce-now-on-steam-deck/
Feral Interactive have now ported over all the changes from the Total War: WARHAMMER III v5.0 update, along with support for the new Thrones of Decay DLCs.
In Saviorless, you'll explore treacherous landscapes, fight nightmarish monsters, unravel a mysterious narrative and experience dynamic gameplay as three unique characters all while bathed in an ...
Okay, so what the heck is this then? Kaizen Game Works (Paradise Killer) recently announced Promise Mascot Agency and the setting sounds absolutely bizarre.
Developer melessthanthree has announced that Death of a Wish, their scribbly-art styled vicious hack-and-slash action-RPG, will be releasing a Linux version on May 9th.
In the market for a new laptop? Maybe TUXEDO have what you need, especially if you're wanting something with AMD.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/tuxedo-recently-revealed-two-more-amd-ryzen-laptops/
Well, here's another blow for the gaming industry. It's being reported that Take-Two Interactive are shutting down two studios.
Valve has now published the Steam Hardware & Software Survey: April 2024, and overall the movements are pretty small but there is a small dip for Steam Deck.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-survey-for-april-2024-shows-a-small-dip-for-steam-deck/
There's a new Team17 Humble Bundle live and it includes a pretty interesting selection of games for you to begin stocking up for May.
Valve have revealed the most played Steam Deck games for April 2024, and to no surprise you've all be playing a whole lot of Fallout haven't you? Yes you have.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-most-played-for-april-2024-has-plenty-of-fallout/
I've no idea how I missed Bye Sweet Carole being announced a good while ago, but maybe you did too and it deserves a look because it honestly looks pretty incredible. Created by Chris Darril of ...
Pocketpair's absolute smash-hit Early Access game Palworld is set to expanding, with some new Pals being teased that will be coming sometime this Summer.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/palworld-is-bringing-in-fun-new-pals-for-you-to-put-to-work/
Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers is an awesome free kart racing fan game, and not only is there a new release out but the Linux version is now ready to be downloaded and played too.
Poking a bit of fun at Ubisoft for calling Skull and Bones "AAAA", poncle have released a fresh free update to Vampire Survivors with the AAAA Laborratory update.
If you have half an hour free and fancy cozying up with a little something, check out the new free release of Clothes Line.
What could potentially be a The Sims killer, Paradox Interactive plan to finally launch Life by You into Early Access on June 4th after multiple delays.
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter is releasing with Native Linux support later in 2024, and it's looking really good! Odd Bug Studio just put up a new trailer show off plenty of gameplay.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/tails-of-iron-2-whiskers-of-winter-has-a-brutal-new-trailer/
Jackbox Games are finally doing a special little pack of games just for adults with the teased Jackbox Naughty Pack.
Towards the end of April, NVIDIA released the 550.78 driver and if you use a notebook with a RTX 4xxx series GPU you may want to update for this one.
Albion Online the MMO from Sandbox Interactive has now formally opened the gates for Europe and MENA (Middle East and North Africa) with their brand new server.
Manor Lords is currently another 2024 release smashing through the charts on Steam! Coming from developer Slavic Magic and publisher Hooded Horse, it's certainly impressive.
Here we go again, I am about to be suckered into yet another survivor-like game. You love all of these as well right? Vampire Survivors, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor and more can move over and mak...
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz is once again blogging about working on the Zink driver, and this time a nice optimization is on the way for startup times.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/zink-driver-startup-time-squashed-with-new-patches/
Lightfoot Bros Games recently revealed their new point and click adventure Sleepytime Village, a "creepy AF" classic-style point & click adventure game about learning to rediscover both your inne...
Oh damn, this is quite exciting as an Alien fan and might be a reason to pop my VR headset back on again. Alien: Rogue Incursion is coming sometime in late 2024.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/vr-game-alien-rogue-incursion-releases-late-2024/
Bazzite 3.0 has been released with the internals upgraded to Fedora 40, which brings with it numerous improvements for gamers looking to get Linux on their PC or handheld gaming device like a Ste...
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/bazzite-30-out-now-with-steam-deck-oled-support-nearly-ready/
A game engine upgrade across a major version is quite a big thing, and it initially proved a little problematic for the open source evolution sim Thrive but it is done.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/open-source-evolution-sim-thrive-gets-upgraded-to-godot-4/
Grab your friends and play something resembling Golf in the latest free update to Golf With Your Friends, which adds in a new rather funny looking Speed Golf mode.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/golf-with-your-friends-adds-a-hilarious-new-speed-golf-mode/
Komodo is hosting a big Golden Week Game Fest sale on Steam right now, and there's some really fantastic deals going if you're needing some more.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/golden-week-game-fest-has-some-awesome-deals-on-steam/
Three sets of Steam Beta updates this weekend across SteamVR, Desktop and Steam Deck so here's all the details for you in one place.
Valve has pushed out what they're calling Proton 9.0 (Release Candidate 2), with a whole bunch of improvements for gaming on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.
Just recently we had the Fallout 4 "next gen" update, which came with some issues. Thankfully, Valve are on the case with Proton Hotfix.
Factorio from Wube Software currently has an expansion and big update on the way, with regular blog posts going over all that's coming. The latest has some fun behind the scenes info on their Lin...
All you Lefties out there can finally get properly represented, in Counter-Strike 2 that is, as there's now the ability to swap your weapons into the other hand.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/lefties-unite-counter-strike-2-now-lets-you-swap-hands/
An absolute indie gem released in 2022 is Dome Keeper from developer Bippinbits that has you mine underground for resources, while you also defend your dome above land from aliens. It's good fun ...
To celebrate Alien Day, one developer decided to make a fan game with Aliens: Redacted now available on itch.io.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/check-out-the-free-spooky-fan-game-aliens-redacted/
Developer Faith Ekstrand has written up a fresh blog post on Collabora which goes over implementing two extensions in NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver, and how it ended up fixing actual ...
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-gets-more-enhancements/
More open source surprises for you today, coming from Microsoft too which is always interesting to see as they've now open sourced MS-DOS 4.0.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/microsoft-open-sources-ms-dos-40/
Another surprise from NVIDIA here. On top of one developer contributing to Nouveau, we have another developer now contributing to NVK.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/nvidia-developer-contributing-to-the-open-source-nvk-driver/
Another big Linux distribution release is upon us. Ubuntu 24.04 is a new long-term support release from Canonical available today.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-is-now-available/
If you love building sims with a sprinkle of management you should take a look at the new Create, Automate & Manage Humble Bundle.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/create-automate-manage-in-this-humble-bundle-of-games/
After two recent Preview releases of SteamOS for Steam Deck, Valve has now put out the latest Stable update for everyone with SteamOS 3.5.19 code-named "Grey Park Seagull".
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/steamos-3-5-19-for-steam-deck-out-now-for-everyone/