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Move over Sonic, Surge has arrived with Open Surge - a game engine and retro platformer

By Liam Dawe,
4
I grew up playing the early Sonic games so Open Surge really speaks to me. A retro Sonic-inspired platformer (that's actually quite polished already) and a game engine for others to create with it.
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Google plan over 120 Stadia games this year, 10 coming to Stadia before other platforms

By Liam Dawe,
25
In their latest community update, the Stadia Team have given a small insight into what's coming to the Linux-powered game streaming service Stadia across 2020. Another Stadia round-up post is here!
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The Humble Australia Fire Relief Bundle is up with 100% going to charity

By Liam Dawe,
13
Humble are back with a new bundle, although this is a 100% charity bundle to help deal with the sad situation in Australia.
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A Long Way Down blends together Slay the Spire card combat with maze building - now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
1
One thing is for sure, Slay the Spire truly has kicked off a deck-building indie game revolution of sorts. More and more are releasing with deck-building and A Long Way Down seems like one of the better ones so far.
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Open-world puzzler 'Bonfire Peaks' has you climb mysterious ruins and set fire to your belongings

By Liam Dawe,
0
Arriving with Linux support on May 5, from the developer of Pipe Push Paradise and Hiding Spot is the open-world puzzle game Bonfire Peaks.
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When Kickstarter goes wrong for indie games: Drift Stage

By Liam Dawe,
8
A lot of the time Kickstarter (and other crowdfunding) for indie games goes well, in fact the vast majority of the time all is fine. Sometimes though, everything breaks down as is the case with Drift Stage.
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Core Defense aims to mix up the Tower Defense genre with deck-building and randomness - out now

By Liam Dawe,
0
Core Defense, available today in First Access on itch.io is a Tower Defense game that's trying to be a little different. Throwing out predefined waves and rewards, in favour of a little random generation.
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Chaotic platformer with a curved gameworld 'CreatorCrate' getting a demo next week

By Liam Dawe,
0
You've played plenty of platformers before, but have you played a platformer where the entire world is a great big spinning space station with variable gravity? CreatorCrate has a fun idea.
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The Frictional Games strange teaser appears to be growing

By Liam Dawe,
4
Frictional Games, the team that craft some very interesting horror experiences like SOMA and Amnesia are teasing something and it appears to now be growing. What horrific thing will chase us next?
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Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
36
Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. After writing about it yesterday here on GOL, they've now given some more info on what it actually does.
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Action-packed drone building game 'Nimbatus' has a huge update, we have 3 copies to give away

By Liam Dawe,
47
We've teamed up with Stray Fawn Studio again to give away three copies of their space drone construction game, Nimbatus, plus there's a massive update out now.
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Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up

By Liam Dawe,
13
Today, The Khronos Group has released the next big update the Vulkan graphics API specification with Vulkan 1.2 now available.
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Apocalyptic fantasy RPG strategy 'Vagrus - The Riven Realms' new build out, passed $50K on Fig

By Liam Dawe,
1
Vagrus - The Riven Realms, an incredibly engrossing in-development narrative blend of fantasy RPG and strategy mechanics has a fresh build up.
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Paradox to focus on smaller and more frequent updates to Imperator: Rome this year

By Liam Dawe,
6
Paradox Development Studio have given their first 2020 update on the roadmap for the struggling Imperator: Rome.
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3D party action game 'Aeolis Tournament' is on Kickstarter promising some chaotic fun on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1
Beyond Fun Studio are raising a little funding to complete their crazy party game, Aeolis Tournament, which is planned to release with Linux support this Spring.
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Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe,
6
Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.
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Valve continue working behind the scenes for Linux gaming with 'Gamescope'

By Liam Dawe,
25
Valve are definitely up to something. For a little while, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has been tweaking steamcompmgr, the SteamOS session compositing window manager.
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DOOM Eternal coming to Stadia on March 20, plus other Stadia news - a round-up

By Liam Dawe,
29
Time for another little roundup of what's going on with Google Stadia lately. First up, let's talk about games.
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Steam Play Proton 4.11-12 is out

By Liam Dawe,
7
The first Steam Play Proton release of 2020 is now available with 4.11-12 which is mainly a cleanup.
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Slay the Spire patch 2.0 is out, bringing in The Watcher as the fourth character

By Liam Dawe,
4
As if I needed more reasons to dive into the Spire once again, Slay the Spire 2.0 is out which brings quite a lot of changes in addition to the fourth character.
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