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Games: Steam, OpenMW, Electronic Arts (EA) Taken Over, Splatterbot, and More
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam Autumn Sale 2025 is live now with tons of discounts
The Steam Autumn Sale 2025 is now live and with it you can get lots of games heavily discounted, one of the best times to stock up. And, the Steam Deck LCD 256GB is still on sale with a 20% discount until the end of the sale too. Easily the best value PC handheld you can get.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
OpenMW is the best way to play Morrowind on modern systems, so here's your full guide to getting it installed on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
Well, there it is. It's now official after earlier reports that EA (Electronic Arts) is being sold off to an investor consortium.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Pull the lever to gamble and break the machine in CloverPit, a slot machine with horror vibes
CloverPit from Panik Arcade and Future Friends Games has released bringing you the true horrors of a slot machine rogue-lite as you try to save your life. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Nexus Mods app 0.17.2 brings early work on a built-in downloads page and performance improvements
Work is ongoing on the new cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app to support more games, and a smaller release is out now for more testing.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Cronos: The New Dawn gets performance improvements and a Linux HDR fix
Cronos: The New Dawn is the latest horror game from Bloober Team, and with the latest update it should work a lot better for everyone. It has a Native Linux version and Valve rated it Steam Deck Verified, although the Steam Deck verification uses Proton by default for it.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Blood: Refreshed Supply announced from Nightdive Studios
Arriving in December, Blood: Refreshed Supply has been revealed by Nightdive Studios as the true definitive remaster of the 1997 cult classic PC game.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Splatterbot is a quality family-friendly party game about making a big mess
Need a new game to play with friends and family? Splatterbot is a good choice and it's a great laugh if you're a bit competitive. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ You're on colossal cleaning duty in Kaiju Cleanup
Clearly the developers at Brightrock Games are big fans of Kaiju No. 8, with the reveal of Kaiju Cleanup at the Tokyo Game Show. Brightrock Games previously made War for the Overworld and Galacticare so now they're trying their hand at something quite different.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind has a first Release Candidate with gamepad support and a gamepad UI
An exciting release for the Morrowind game engine OpenMW is coming, with the first Release Candidate out for version 0.50.0 bringing some big changes. This free and open source cross-platform game engine is the best way to play Morrowind, and it's about to get even better!
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Open source strategy shooter Unvanquished gets a big new release with SDL3
Unvanquished is a free and open source cross-platform humans versus aliens strategy shooter, with a big new release out now that features SDL3.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ EA reportedly to be sold off for "roughly $50 billion" to go private
Update 29/09/25 14:31 UTC: this deal is now confirmed.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ The Indie Horror Showcase returns with more games on October 23
Ready for some spooky vibes? The Indie Horror Showcase has been announced to return with much to show off on October 23rd.
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Sonic Racing Crossworlds, Mars First Logistics and Silent Hill f - 2025-09-27 Edition
Between 2025-09-20 and 2025-09-27 we selected 17 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. This is a pretty big week ! Sonic Racing Crossworlds appears to be one of the best arcade racing games ever made, you get a new Silent Hill as well, Hades II comes out of Early Access, and Mars First Logistics brings Lego-like robot building on Mars.
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Hackaday ☛ Playing DOOM In Discord With A Special Image URL
Can you play DOOM in Discord? At first glance, that may seem rather nonsensical, as Discord is a proprietary chat service and neither a hardware device nor something else that may seem like an obvious target for being (ab)used for demon-shooting points. That is, until you look at Discord’s content embedding feature. This is where [PortalRunner]’s Doomcord hack comes into play, allowing you to play the entire game in a Discord client by submitting text messages after embedding a very special image URL.