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

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2020

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, 4 Feb 2020

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, 4 Feb 2020

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, 4 Feb 2020

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, 4 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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, 3 Feb 2020

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.

Distro News

Be a mad scientist and grow creatures in a lab in Test Tube Titans - coming to Steam in March

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

Test Tube Titans has been in First Access on itch.io for a while and it was promising even from the first build. It's come a long way and a Steam release is approaching.

Steam hits a new all-time high for users online, Linux share rises

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2020

Two quick bits of Steam news to cover this wonderful Monday morning. As expected, Steam does still appear to be growing.

Post-processing layer 'vkBasalt' new release up - can now use some ReShade shaders

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2020

Another fresh release of a wonderful open source project for Linux is here, with the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt continuing to advance.

Wine 5.1 is out - the first development release of the year

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2020

The Wine hackers never stop pushing compatibility forwards, with the first development release of 2020 now available with Wine 5.1.

OpenRA has a new release for classic Westwood real-time strategy - massive upgrade also in testing

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

The team working on OpenRA, the game engine that keeps classic Westwood real-time strategy games alive have pushed out a new release. Plus there's some real exciting advancements coming.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now open for voting

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

Get ready to cast your votes, as the Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now open for business. After some time to let people nominate games, we've done a bit of cleaning up and it's ready.

GOTY

The Linux version of Starcom: Nexus is now officially live and out of Beta

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

Ready for a new space adventure and a little action? Starcom: Nexus, an open-world sci-fi game with some RPG elements is now properly out and supported on Linux.

Descent 3 returns to Linux (and macOS) with an official modern port

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2020

Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a developer who has ported tons of games to Linux has done it again. Descent 3, has been re-ported and upgraded for Linux (and macOS).