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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.

Cheese Talks: Star Wars Games

By Cheeseness,
After four months researching Star Wars games, Cheese has released a big interactive timeline and writeup. Here's an excerpt covering the games available for Linux!

Adventure game 'Beat Cop' launches in a few days and it has a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Beat Cop looks fantastic, with a glorious mix of high quality pixel art and a setting inspired by 80’s cop shows. It launches on March 30th and it has a brand new trailer.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
You know what day it is? It's Friday. And Friday means it's time for the damn Friday Livestream. With me, of course. So, drop everything you are doing and clear up your schedule for some live Linux gaming!

Persia & Macedon coming to Civilization VI with a double content pack and a big update

By Liam Dawe,
Civilization VI is to get a Spring patch with balance changes and bug fixes, but we're also getting the Persia & Macedon civilizations too.

AMD have announced 'Anvil', an MIT-licensed wrapper library for Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
AMD are continuing their open source push with 'Anvil' a new MIT-licenses wrapper library for Vulkan. It's aim is to reduce the time developers spend to get a working Vulkan application.

Guns N' Boxes plans Linux support, testers requested

By Liam Dawe,
Guns N' Boxes a game that promised a Linux version during the Greenlight campaign is now looking to put it out after many months waiting. They've asked for willing testers to help out.

The Away Team, a sci-fi interactive fiction game, now available on Linux

By aeonite,
The Away Team, a sci-fi text-based adventure game by Underflow Studios, has officially been released on Linux.

Megaquarium, a new and exciting looking simulation game about building your own aquarium

By Liam Dawe,
Megaquarium, a brand new announcement from the developer of Big Pharma is a rather exciting looking simulation game. It's touching something I don't remember being done before; building your own aquarium.

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has been fully released and is officially available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Day of Infamy is a very fun FPS from the developers of Insurgency. I've played a little while of it and found it enjoyable and now it's fully released.

Turns out The Swindle has a Linux beta, a short review

By scaine,
The Swindle has a beta Linux client! Even better, it appears to have been well tested since its initial launch back in August 2015 and the most recent feedback is all extremely positive. Here's a short review!

Space Jammers, the nuts sci-fi top-down shooter is now on Steam (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Space Jammers, a game I covered before after being impressed by the early free demo is has continued development and has now had a rather quiet Steam release. UPDATED

Survival game 'MewnBase' has come along very nicely and now has weather systems

By Liam Dawe,
I keep a keen eye on 'MewnBase' as it's a cute and simple survival game about a space cat trying to survive on a barren planet. It's had a few big updates recently to know about.

Kona, an eerie narrative-driven adventure game is now out on Linux, it's a bit buggy

By Liam Dawe,
I took a look at Kona while it was still in development, but now Kona is out I attempted a full playthrough, but I found game-breaking bugs.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
There's an interesting issue with certain Linux CPU governors that will actually bring down performance in Vulkan games.

Rocket League gets Easter goodies and a new game mode in free update

By BTRE,
The massively popular Rocket League sees the start of its new competitive season today and brings with it a whole range of tweaks and new content in its latest update.

Wine Staging 2.4 released

By Liam Dawe,
Not quite as interesting as past Wine Staging releases, but the team have put out their 2.4 release with additional work.

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals

By Liam Dawe,
Welcome to another Wednesday Madness here at GOL. Another quick look at some good deals you shouldn't pass up!

The Whispered World Special Edition is now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Whispered World Special Edition, a game I wished was on Linux before I reviewed Silence has been officially released today for Linux gamers.

Interview with Feral Interactive about their ports and Mesa drivers, Steam keys offered for Mesa developers

By Liam Dawe,
It has been a while since we officially spoke to Feral Interactive about their Linux ports, with the last time being in June 2014. It’s time to get reacquainted and see where things stand right now.