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Ubisoft renews their funding commitment to Blender

By Liam Dawe,
The good news for the open source application Blender just keeps flowing, after Unity announced their support for funding Blender only recently, now Ubisoft will be continuing with their funding as they've renewed their relationship with Blender.

The Linux port of fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds is coming along

By Liam Dawe,
The Mane6 development team have posted a short but slightly amusing update on the upcoming Linux port of the fighting game Them's Fightin' Herds.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword now runs in RPCS3 emulator

By Liam Dawe,
The people working on RPCS3 sure do some amazing work, this PlayStation 3 emulator is truly the stuff of dreams for game preservation and another big title is now playable.

GOG have a huge 'Harvest Sale' with Serious Sam: TFE free for 48 hours

By Liam Dawe,
If you need to start your week off with some new games, you should take a look at DRM-free store GOG.com as they have a pretty huge sale going on.

Children of Morta adds Linux support and a new animal charity DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Coming up on a year since the original release, Children of Morta from developer Dead Mage and publisher 11 bit studios has now formally added Linux support.

Amusing co-op game Unrailed! to get 1.0 release on September 23

By Liam Dawe,
Unrailed!, the brilliant bit of co-op train-track building fun from Indoor Astronaut and Daedalic Entertainment now has an actual release date.

Draft of Darkness adds a little survival horror to deck-building roguelikes

By Liam Dawe,
Whatever will developers come up with next for deck-building card games? Survival horror, as it turns out. Draft of Darkness was announced and it's coming to Linux.

Rocket Shipment is an upcoming fresh-take on classics like Lunar Lander & Thrust

By Liam Dawe,
Much like the upcoming Gravity Ace, we have another new take on the classic gameplay found in the likes of Lunar Lander & Thrust with Rocket Shipment.

Team Fortress 2 has a new update out with a Summer 2020 Cosmetic Case

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have realised again that Team Fortress 2 is actually still online and have done a fresh update, although only minor it does add in a new Summer 2020 Cosmetic Case.

Blender pulls in another funding partner with Unity

By Liam Dawe,
Joining many other companies that seemingly woke up to actually supporting free and open source software, Unity has now pledged funding towards Blender.

NVIDIA and accelerated Xwayland gets closer with code that 'sounds unpleasant'

By Liam Dawe,
Red Hat developer Adam Jackson has opened a new merge request for the Mesa project, with what they're calling GLX Delay, to bring accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver.

Baldur's Gate engine remake GemRB celebrates 20 years with a new release

By Liam Dawe,
GemRB, a fine example of an open source game engine reimplementation for the Infinity Engine that powered the classic RPGs including Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment games celebrates two big things.

GOL asks: what are you playing? Come chat

By Liam Dawe,
As another week comes to a close it's time to have a chat with the GOL readership about what you're all playing lately, come and let us know.

Fantastic 2D action-RPG 'Chronicon' has now released

By Liam Dawe,
Chronicon is an example of pure dedication, as Subworld developed this excellent 2D action RPG over the course of over five years and it's now left Early Access.

Airships: Conquer the Skies hits 100K sales, new update live too plus interview

By Liam Dawe,
One man band David Stark has managed to hit quite a milestone, with their game Airships: Conquer the Skies hitting over 100K sales.

Chunky pixel first-person dungeon crawler Delver is now up on itch.io

By Liam Dawe,
Something for the weekend perhaps, as the excellent first-person dungeon crawler Delver has been released DRM-free on the indie game store itch.io.

Commandos 2 - HD Remaster due for Linux PC support 'this Winter'

By Liam Dawe,
Like a lot of things across this year, the actual Linux PC version of Commandos 2 - HD Remaster has been pushed back to this Winter.

For the People is a political management visual novel out now

By Liam Dawe,
Mixing up the visual novel genre with a little management and plenty of politics, For the People from Brezg Studio is out now with Linux PC support.

The Long Dark will not see Episode 4 until next year

By Liam Dawe,
Hinterland Studio have given an update on the progress of the next episode of the single-player story for the survival game The Long Dark.