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A few months after entering Early Access, Daedalic put their RTS 'A Year Of Rain' on hold

By Liam Dawe,
Daedalic Entertainment announced their in-development real-time strategy game A Year Of Rain is now officially on hold.

Top down strategy and tactics returns with Door Kickers 2

By Liam Dawe,
KillHouse Games have now re-announced Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, the sequel to their excellent 2014 tactics game.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux.

The sad case of Unreal Engine 1 on Mesa and Linux in 2020

By Hamish,
Community support for Unreal Tournament was able to breath some new life into the game, even with the limitations of the closed binary. By 2018 however the game was no longer launching for Mesa users. For an engine with such a pedigree on Linux this outcome is still disappointing.

Hellpoint, dark sci-fi action RPG launching on April 16 with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Three years after the Kickstarter campaign, the great looking dark sci-fi action RPG Hellpoint from Cradle Games and tinyBuild is confirmed for launch with Linux support on April 16.

Something Ate My Alien combines digging, puzzle solving and a little platforming - out in April

By Liam Dawe,
Rokabium Games recently announced that Something Ate My Alien will be releasing this April, with Linux support.

Pioneer, the classic open-source space sim has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the classic Frontier: Elite II, Pioneer is a free and open source space adventure sim. Open-ended exploration, allowing you to do whatever you want and there's a big release out now.

KARLSON - an upcoming FPS infused with Parkour, a little slow-motion and something about Milk

By Liam Dawe,
I come across a lot of really weird games, sometimes though they're the right kind of weird which is the case with KARLSON.

Might & Delight confirm their TMORPG 'Book of Travels' will enter Early Access in October

By Liam Dawe,
Book of Travels has to be one of the most intriguing games releasing all year. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Might & Delight have now confirmed their TMORPG (Tiny Multiplayer Online RPG) will go into Early Access.

Fast-paced competitive party game 'Armed and Gelatinous' releasing later this year

By Liam Dawe,
Three Flip Studios have announced their local/online competitive multiplayer party game Armed and Gelatinous is releasing with Linux support in Q3 this year.

Try out the latest demo for the upcoming FPS 'ULTRAKILL' - it's pretty wild

By Liam Dawe,
ULTRAKILL, mentioned briefly here on GOL recently is an upcoming retro-inspired FPS that's about violent machines powered by Blood and there's a brand new demo.

Developed in Rust, the open-world and open-source voxel RPG 'Veloren' has a big new release

By Liam Dawe,
Veloren, inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft this new and in-development open-world RPG certainly has a lot to live up to and a lot of promise.

NVIDIA driver 440.59 released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The first stable driver release of 2020, yesterday NVIDIA put out the 440.59 driver for Linux users.

Trese Brothers Games reveal Cyber Knights: Flashpoint - a tactical RPG that looks like a flashy XCOM

By Liam Dawe,
Trese Brothers Games (Star Traders: Frontiers, Templar Battleforce + more) have revealed their next game. Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, a tactical RPG that plunges you and your team of hackers, mercs and thieves into the neon-soaked future of 2231.

Stuck for a new game? Here's over 50 great games released for Linux in 2019

By Liam Dawe,
I know how it is, you look at your list of games and think "I need something new!" and then you click around Steam, GOG, Humble, itch and more and end up going back to the safety of what you already know. Here to help with that!

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe,
Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.

The fantastic deck-builder Dicey Dungeons has a big bug-fix update, plus a new modding tool is out

By Liam Dawe,
Dicey Dungeons is easily one of the best indie games released with Linux support last year, a success for the developer and it's continuing to get better.

Want to make a 3D adventure game? There's now a full template project for Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
Say hello to GOAT (Godot Open Adventure Template), a new open source project template for Godot Engine aimed at helping developers to create 3D adventure games.

Isometric university management game 'UniverCity' development stops - goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
UniverCity from Matthew Collins sadly didn't sell too well and now the developer has a new job, so they decided to fix it up a bit - add some extra modding support and open source the code.

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre wrote another of their monthly progress reports on how Linux Mint and their Cinnamon desktop are doing and it's all great news.