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They say a lightning doesn't strike twice, but the weekly livestream certainly does! Liam did a livestream yesterday but I will put together another one just for the hell of it, so strap yourself in for some live Linux gaming!

IndieDB is currently giving away 20 free Steam keys for platformer game Prison Run and Gun, a standalone expansion to Hot Guns.

Day of Infamy, the spin-off game from the mod of Insurgency that's been turned into a full game is now downloadable and playable on Linux & SteamOS.

Tower Defence fans rejoice as Kingdom Rush Frontiers is scheduled with the 1.1 updated due in the last week of August.

The indie MMO Albion Online is due to have the final beta version and they have revealed when each supporter will get access.

Really do love The Linux Gamer, his work is top quality and he has done his thing for the Linux version of Undertale.

The Unity game engine has release the next major version 5.4, the Linux builds have also just been updated to the 5.4 release.

Tonight I will be doing the weekly livestream as I am busy with pre-birthday stuff tomorrow (I turn 28 on Saturday) and my voice is back hooray!

Move or Die is an incredible, funny and fast paced party game with a lot of mods and funny mutators. You can play local or online with up to 4 players. Steam Workshop integration for user created maps and character skins are available for local play only, while playing online you can earn EXP to level up your profile to unlock skins, game mods and extras.

This is very sad to see from a previously very Linux friendly developer. Headlander from Double Fine Productions will not come to Linux due to their choice of graphics API.

The itch developers have been hard at work making their open source store app even better for you, and it's lovely.

God is a Cube: Nanomachines Rising sounds pretty fun for anyone who likes programming, puzzles and robotics. You control nanomachines to create AIs made of graphical symbols.

It has been a while as other things kept coming up, but I finally take a look at Empire TV Tycoon. I was not impressed.

Some good news! SWORDY has been given the green light to come to Linux & SteamOS by Microsoft, as the developer was a bit confused due to the Xbox One exclusive deal they have.

HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework that was used in the creation of Defender's Quest is needing a bit of funding on IndieGoGo.

For those still playing Minecraft, you may know that Mojang is working on a new launcher that doesn't use Java (hooray!), but it might not run on Linux (boo!).

Death Road to Canada is a brand new Linux game that released on Steam recently and a GOL user was kind enough to send me a copy to take a look. It's a randomly generated road trip with zombies with lots of encounters and annoying people to find.

The fourth episode for the GOL Podcast is finally here! New hosts, new material and it's time to grab a coffee and listen.

Thanks to PC Gamer we have been pointed to an interview that Tim Sweeney the founder of Epic Games did, and he's blasting Microsoft yet again.

Croteam have continued developing their Vulkan backend for The Talos Principle and have pushed the last beta to stable and released another beta with more Vulkan work.