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Firaxis Games have put their strategy game XCOM 2 up to play for free between now and March 25th, so if you've been on the fence this is a great opportunity.

Someone please lock away my wallet, as the GOG Spring Sale is live and it's full of discounted Linux games.

AMD are showing off a little here, with an update to the Radeon GPU Analyzer open source project and it sounds great.

Following on from the tweak to Danger Zone to focus more on duos, Valve are still tweaking their Battle Royale mode in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as well as the game as a whole.

Chasm, the crowdfunded adventure platformer continues to see great post-release support with the latest big free update out now.

Barony is a game I hadn't honestly touched in a very long time, which all changed with the Myths & Outcasts DLC that released last month giving new ways to play. It's also now on GOG, so that's great.

While the Linux version has been up on GOG for a little while, Steam was left a bit behind. Now the Linux version on Steam has been officially announced and released but there's an issue with Steam Play.

Valve haven't given up on their home-grown Linux distribution yet, with SteamOS seeing another beta update. Additionally, there's another Steam Beta Client update about.

Kingdom Rush Origins, the excellent tower defense game from Ironhide Game Studio is seeing some great updates, with another campaign named Forgotten treasures now up.

Oxygen Not Included, the incredible space-colony sim from Klei Entertainment is leaving Early Access in May and they've detailed some of what's coming and future plans.

Wizard of Legend is one of my favourite indie games to play in local co-op and it's great fun alone too, the developer Contingent99 just released the huge Sky Palace update.

Two bits of System Shock updates in the same week, what a time to be alive. After the System Shock 3 news, we also now have more to show for the System Shock reboot from Nightdive Studios.

Sandbox Interactive just announced that their MMO Albion Online, which currently requires an initial purchase to access it is going free to play on April 10th.

The Khronos Group recently announced a provisional specification of OpenXR, a royalty-free open-standard aimed at unifying access to VR and AR (collectively known as XR) devices. Also, Collabora announced Monado, a fully open source OpenXR runtime for Linux.

Now that the dust has settled on the Google Stadia news, here's something entirely different: The Humble Curve Digital Bundle.

Google have now finally unveiled their new cloud gaming service named Stadia, offering instant access to play games in Google Chrome.

OtherSide Entertainment have teased out a new short video of System Shock 3 and it may see Linux support.

It occurred to me today, that no one here at GOL seems to have ever written about the free and open source turn-based survival game Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead.

Last year, we wrote a small bit on how the developer of Gloomhaven was keeping an eye on all the requests for Linux support. It seems they've taken notice.

Convoy seems to be seeing some good post-release support from developer Convoy Games, with a free content update now available.