Linux 'fascinates and terrifies' the dev of DEAD LETTER DEPT. but they're supporting it anyway gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linu…

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Linux 'fascinates and terrifies' the dev of DEAD LETTER DEPT. but they're supporting it anyway

Mike Monroe / Belief Engine are approaching the release of DEAD LETTER DEPT., a thoroughly creeping looking typing game and it's coming with Linux support.

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Adventures of a Cat in Space is an upcoming musical adventure starring Arthur Darvill gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/adve…

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Adventures of a Cat in Space is an upcoming musical adventure starring Arthur Darvill

Adventures of a Cat in Space sounds like an exciting one to keep on your radar. An upcoming musical point and click adventure game starring Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Legends of Tomorrow and more).

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Paradox announce Stellaris 4.0 will be a big overhaul sometime in Q2 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/para…

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Paradox announce Stellaris 4.0 will be a big overhaul sometime in Q2 2025

Paradox Interactive have announced that a big Stellaris 4.0 update is coming later this year, and it's going to overhaul quite a lot.

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90s classics inspired adventure Splittown arrives on Steam and looks great gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/90s-…

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90s classics inspired adventure Splittown arrives on Steam and looks great

If you love classic point and click adventures then Splittown might be your next destination, as it's just arrived on Steam.

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Stable Steam Client update for Desktop and Steam Deck brings a whole lot of fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/stab…

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Stable Steam Client update for Desktop and Steam Deck brings a whole lot of fixes

Valve released a fresh stable update to the Steam Client this week bringing numerous bug fixes and improvements for Desktop and Steam Deck.

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Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 out now bringing Wayland and ARM64EC support, new FFmpeg multimedia back-end gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/wind…

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Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 out now bringing Wayland and ARM64EC support, new FFmpeg multimedia back-end

The big release is here! The Windows compatibility layer Wine version 10.0 is officially out now bringing lots of big new features.

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Don't miss the Fanatical Build your own Explosive Bundle as it's an awesome deal for FPS fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dont…

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Don't miss the Fanatical Build your own Explosive Bundle as it's an awesome deal for FPS fans

Another awesome deal for you here in the Fanatical Build your own Explosive Bundle. A chance to build up your collection of action-packed games and seriously cheap too.

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Cats vs Cthulhu is a weird and charming survivor-like with unique movement gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/cats…

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Cats vs Cthulhu is a weird and charming survivor-like with unique movement

In a genre full of clones and copycats, Cats vs Cthulhu is a very unique bullet-heaven survivor-like where you bounce around the arenas trying to avoid all the enemies while collecting everything to power up.

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Roll the dice to make crazy combos instead of collecting cards in the roguelike Die in the Dungeon gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/roll…

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Roll the dice to make crazy combos instead of collecting cards in the roguelike Die in the Dungeon

Build up a deck of dice in Die in the Dungeon, where all your dice have a different purpose that you stack up together to make crazy combinations.

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Indian mystery adventure game Detective Dotson arrives April 3 with a demo available gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/indi…

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Indian mystery adventure game Detective Dotson arrives April 3 with a demo available

Detective Dotson is a mystery adventure game set in a stylised rendition of modern-day India that puts players in the role of Dotson, a reluctant detective.

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Broken Alliance from the Death & Taxes dev is now in Early Access, a love-letter to Heroes of Might and Magic gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/brok…

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Broken Alliance from the Death & Taxes dev is now in Early Access, a love-letter to Heroes of Might and Magic

Placeholder Gameworks who made Death & Taxes just released Broken Alliance into Early Access with Linux support. An indie love letter to pixel art, old-school adventure games, mythical creatures and fantasy storytelling.

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THREAT VECTOR is an action sci-fi horror FPS coming from KillPixel Games gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/thre…

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THREAT VECTOR is an action sci-fi horror FPS coming from KillPixel Games

KillPixel Games, one of the dev teams responsible for WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, have announced their next game with THREAT VECTOR.

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FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets Steam Deck Verified ahead of release gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/fina…

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FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH from Square Enix arrives on January 23rd, and thankfully the developers have already managed to get it Steam Deck Verified ahead of the release.

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Impressive colony building sim Songs of Syx is getting ready to leave Early Access with a big new Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/impr…

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Impressive colony building sim Songs of Syx is getting ready to leave Early Access with a big new Beta

Songs of Syx is a deep and engrossing colony-building sim from Gamatron AB that has steadily improved with new updates since the 2020 release into Early Access but the 1.0 release is finally approaching.

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There goes the weekend - rogue-lite action-RPG Heroes of Hammerwatch II is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ther…

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There goes the weekend - rogue-lite action-RPG Heroes of Hammerwatch II is out now

Developer Crackshell have released Heroes of Hammerwatch II, a rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression.

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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/buil…

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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer

For a time the term "multimedia" was one of the hottest buzzwords in the computer software industry. A number of individuals and firms staked both their futures and careers on the creation of bespoke interactive experiences, often in the service of m…

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DXVK v2.5.3 released with more improvements for Windows games on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dxvk…

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DXVK v2.5.3 released with more improvements for Windows games on Linux

Developer Philip Rebohle has released DXVK version 2.5.3 bringing more improvements for this tool that translates Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan.

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Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/mine…

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Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta

Mojang have released the first Snapshot (a Beta) of the next Minecraft update, and with it there's a bunch of new features included for explorers.

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NTSYNC driver for improving Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton should finally land in Linux kernel 6.14 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsy…

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NTSYNC driver for improving Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton should finally land in Linux kernel 6.14

After waiting quite a while on it and some rewrites, it looks like the NTSYNC driver code to help Windows games running on Linux will be pulled in and enabled in the Linux kernel.

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Retro gaming Linux distro Batocera v41 brings expanded Wine support, better multi-screen, new hardware support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/retr…

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Retro gaming Linux distro Batocera v41 brings expanded Wine support, better multi-screen, new hardware support

For people who love their retro gaming and want a Linux distribution that's simple to use and fully featured, Batocera is a popular choice and a big new release is out with version 41.

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NonSteamLaunchers tool for installing popular game stores working on better Desktop Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/nons…

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NonSteamLaunchers tool for installing popular game stores working on better Desktop Linux support

NonSteamLaunchers gained popularity as one of the go-to solutions for installing more stores directly on Steam Deck, and the latest release has begun to improve how it works on normal Desktop Linux too.

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Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/even…

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Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere

We recently had the exciting news that Valve plans to expand SteamOS onto more devices, starting with supporting more handhelds, which caused plenty of people to be curious about the future of the popular SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux.

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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav adventure game from Daedalic added Linux / Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-…

#AdventureGames #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #SteamOS

The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav adventure game from Daedalic added Linux / Steam Deck support

The Night of the Rabbit wasn't the only classic Daedalic Entertainment adventure game to add Linux / Steam Deck support as another, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, also got the same treatment along with various upgrades.

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Thoroughly charming adventure game The Night of the Rabbit added Linux / Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/thor…

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Thoroughly charming adventure game The Night of the Rabbit added Linux / Steam Deck support

The Night of the Rabbit from Daedalic Entertainment originally released in 2013 and has some pretty glowing reviews, and recently Daedalic gave it a proper Native Linux / Steam Deck version too.

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VKD3D-Proton bug fix v2.14.1 released for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/vkd3…

#Proton #Linux #LinuxGaming #Steam #OpenSource

VKD3D-Proton bug fix v2.14.1 released for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation

VKD3D-Proton, the tool that Valve's compatibility layer Proton uses to translate Microsoft Direct3D 12 to Vulkan, has a new bug-fix release out now.

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The Programming Games Humble Bundle is another sweet deal worth grabbing gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-…

#Gaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #Programming #PCGaming

The Programming Games Humble Bundle is another sweet deal worth grabbing

New Year, New You: Programming Games is a fresh Humble Bundle with 7 rather great indie games worth picking up. All of the games included have Native Linux support too which is rare for Humble nowadays.

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You can get Against the Storm, Jagged Alliance 3 and Blasphemous 2 in Humble Choice for January 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/you-…

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You can get Against the Storm, Jagged Alliance 3 and Blasphemous 2 in Humble Choice for January 2025

Humble Choice for January 2025 has a pretty darn nice selection of games, so here's what's in it and the compatibility expected for Steam Deck / SteamOS and Desktop Linux.

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Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode launches January 23, plus Beta 28 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dwar…

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Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode launches January 23, plus Beta 28 is out now

Bay 12 Games / Kitfox Games have announced that Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode is set for release on January 23rd, and there's a big Beta update out now.

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Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets expanded NVIDIA support in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/bazz…

#Bazzite #SteamOS #Linux #NVIDIA #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta

If you're wanting something similar to SteamOS right now that has much wider hardware support for your gaming handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally, GPD, Ayaneo or even your laptop / desktop then Bazzite is likely one of the best choices…

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OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux now due out in Q1 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/oran…

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OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux now due out in Q1 2025

While announcements on the OrangePi Neo gaming handheld that will ship with Manjaro Linux have been a bit quiet lately, it's still coming and they've updated their launch plan for it to be available in Q1 2025.

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Monster Hunter Wilds will have two more open Beta test dates in February gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/mons…

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Monster Hunter Wilds will have two more open Beta test dates in February

Giving you a chance to see how well Monster Hunter Wilds will run on your Steam Deck or Desktop Linux system, there's going to be two more open Beta tests during February.

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SMITE 2 gets a free to play launch date for January gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/smit…

#SMITE2 #MOBA #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

SMITE 2 gets a free to play launch date for January

Titan Forge Games have announced that SMITE 2 is going free to play on January 14, after their paid-for Early Access period comes to a close.

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Horse Runner DX is a wholesome endless-runner where you play as a herd of different horses gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/hors…

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Horse Runner DX is a wholesome endless-runner where you play as a herd of different horses

Taking elements from the likes of Alto's Adventure, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Dino Run, Canabalt and others we have a new wholesome looking endless-runner with a twist in Horse Runner DX.

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Our article on SteamOS for more devices was updated, to note a small tweak Valve did to the announcement text: gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valv…

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Valve confirms a public beta of SteamOS is coming as 'SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck'

With the announcement of the Lenovo Legion Go S as the first third-party SteamOS device, Valve have now officially announced that SteamOS Linux is expanding beyond the Steam Deck.

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Project Zomboid - Build 42 Unstable is out with lots new for testing gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/proj…

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Project Zomboid - Build 42 Unstable is out with lots new for testing

One missed from last month is the massive update to survival game Project Zomboid is now available as an Unstable Beta for testing.

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The Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle is a good deal not to be missed gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-…

#SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #Gaming #PCGaming

The Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle is a good deal not to be missed

Another great deal here for you with the Speedrunning with Awesome Games Done Quick Humble Bundle. Some good compatibility across Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

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Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valv…

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Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems

It's been a strange few days for Palworld on Steam Deck. Originally it was rated Steam Deck Playable, then after the major Feybreak update Valve set it as Steam Deck Unsupported and now it's back to Steam Deck Playable again.

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Slavic fantasy story-driven mystery adventure The End of the Sun releases January 29 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/slav…

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Slavic fantasy story-driven mystery adventure The End of the Sun releases January 29

The End of the Sun is an upcoming Slavic fantasy story-driven mystery adventure that sounds interesting and it's ready for release on January 29.

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Grab some typing adventures and language learning in the latest Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/grab…

#Gaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck #PCGaming

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

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.

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Valve saw a record-breaking 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valv…

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

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.

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