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Control a defective spaceship in space survival game 'Deep Sixed' now on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, 29 May 2017

Deep Sixed is a space survival game where you're given control of a defective spaceship with a mission to explore a large nebula, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it turns out.

SteamVR updated with experimental Linux support for SteamVR Home

By Liam Dawe, 26 May 2017

Valve have pushed out another update to SteamVR, this time Linux has been given experimental support for SteamVR Home.

Planet Nomads officially lands into Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2017

Planet Nomads, the rather fancy looking sandbox survival game has now officially launched into Early Access and it's looking pretty good.

Parsec is another game streaming service, now with Linux support and it's blown me away

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2017

I've been chatting to the founders of Parsec, a new game streaming service that allows you to stream games from any cloud machine to your desktop. They just released Linux support and apparently it even works on streaming to a Raspberry Pi.

Lightspeed Frontier, another ship-building sandbox experience, impressive

By Liam Dawe, 22 May 2017

I'm an absolute sucker when it comes to spaceship building and combat games. Avorion is a good one I put some thoughts up on, but Lightspeed Frontier is also quite impressive.

The developer of EVERSPACE makes it clear it's not just NVIDIA problems holding the port up, making progress

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2017

EVERSPACE is still coming to Linux and the developer has made it clear that it's not just problems with NVIDIA holding the Linux port back. They also made a little progress.

EVERSPACE to launch without Linux support, NVIDIA driver bugs are part of the problem

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2017

EVERSPACE, the gorgeous space shooter that's supposed to get a Linux version is launching soon, but sadly, there will be no Linux support for now.

Ballistic Overkill updated as promised with Vulkan, but it's now completely broken (UPDATED with temp fix)

By Liam Dawe, 16 May 2017

Confirmed by others as well, the latest Ballistic Overkill that adds in Vulkan and many other things, has completely broken the Linux version. UPDATED with a temp fix.

Haemimont Games & Paradox announce 'Surviving Mars', a management strategy game

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2017

Surviving Mars, from developer Haemimont Games and publisher Paradox is a brand new management strategy game about colonizing the red planet.

Limit Theory, an ambitious space game, is still being developed and has quite a few beautiful screenshots to show off

By BTRE, 11 May 2017

Originally crowdfunded nearly five years ago, it’s taken a long time for Limit Theory to shape up. Development is cruising along now and there’s more news of what the developers are up to.

Stellaris turns one year old today, gets free DLC and a patch in celebration

By BTRE, 9 May 2017

The grand strategy space game by Paradox has just gotten some more love. The update brings changes that should make running your empire more interesting.

Shallow Space development is not quite dead

By BTRE, 9 May 2017

Following a few months of no updates and general silence from developers of the space RTS, a GOL reader asked us to look into the current state of the game. We got a reply and it’s positive.

Hellpoint, the dark future action RPG has been fully funded

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2017

With not many hours to spare, Hellpoint, a dark future action RPG that will fully support Linux has been funded on Kickstarter.

Stellaris is the new early unlock for the Humble Monthly bundle

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2017

Here's your chance to get Stellaris for cheap, as it's the new early unlock for the next Humble Monthly bundle.

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Oxygen Not Included, from Klei heading to Early Access, Linux version will come later

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2017

Oxygen Not Included, the next game from Klei Entertainment will hit Early Access this month. The Linux version is confirmed, but for a later date.

Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2017

Everything is a hard game to describe, it could be called a life simulator, as you can explore so much. Just today they put out a Linux version!

Mesa 17.1 will use a set 1GB size for the shader cache

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2017

The Mesa developers have been plugging away to get Mesa 17.1 into shape for release, one feature in particular has seen a lot of attention: the shader cache. It will no longer use a percentage of available disk space.

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There's going to be a Vulkan event in the UK, Feral Interactive & Croteam will be attending

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2017

On May 25th there's a Vulkan event happening in the UK. Organised by Khronos UK, there will be a number of interesting talks including Croteam and Feral Interactive.