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2015 has come and gone and it's time to welcome the year 2016. It was quite the coincidence that the first day of 2016 happened to be a Friday so we get to celebrate it almost immediately with the GOL Friday tradition.

Prison Architect is easily one of the best games available on Linux, and it's great to see it get big updates after release.

Sunken is a rather pretty looking action RPG that has random monsters and loot, permanent death and crafting of course.

I hope everyone has a good night partying, playing games, watching films or whatever you do. It's nearly 2016 now, so here's to another great year, cheers!

Well this is pretty interesting news for players of Albion Online. The closed beta which you can buy into has been extended, and it won't be free to play after release now.

For those waiting and hoping for Ori and the Blind Forest to come to Linux, your wait may be longer than expected.

The Linux version of Carmageddon: Reincarnation promised during the Kickstarter has been completely MIA for some time, but they say they are still planning to do it.

I'm a big fan of FNA, as the quality of the ports made with Ethan Lee's project are really quite awesome. Ethan announced recently that FNA has now had its first official release.

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for 2015. It was a complete knockout year with surprise after surprise, but what did people read the most? Some added thoughts of my own at the bottom.

Just a heads up about some changes to our Login system and the cookies we set. You can now stay logged in on more than one device.

The OpenRA development team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and they are proud to announce the Christmas 2015 release of OpenRA.

Itch.io has become a popular distribution platform among developers for its many and flexible tools for distributing and promoting games. We take a closer look at what they have to offer us Linux gamers.

It's been a while since I last dug up my 760 and did some benchmarking, so I decided that I would run some to celebrate the last days of 2015. I've picked some new games this time around to show the performance of both the open source and the proprietary drivers.

After release of stable version 1.8, Wine team opened a new development branch, 1.9. While it still doesn't include as many new features as previous development releases, there are 43 fixed bugs.

Hello, you holiday penguins! The festivities are slowly starting to come to an end but I figured I would still brighten your monitors with a Friday Livestream! Yes, even Christmas Day festivities aren't able to come between me and the GOL Friday tradition!

Developer WayForward has been developing games for consoles for well over a decade, and have now released their first game for Linux.

We announced back in February that the developers of Republique were working on a Linux port, but needed some middleware to add Linux support. However it seems like this never happened, and the efforts to bring the game to Linux have been abandoned.

I know everyone doesn't celebrate the same occasions and holidays and what-not, so I will simply say Happy Holidays and wish you all the very best.

Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition has finally released for SteamOS/Linux. I have picked up a copy, and I am downloading right now to give you some thoughts.

This is the first of five planned episodes in a retelling of the story of Eliot Ness—the agent who brought down mob boss Al Capone.