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A little odd news to start the day today, it seems Games Republic, the store previously owned by 11 bit studios that closed down at the end of last year is coming back online.

Moving things around to their proper position is generally the most basic of puzzle mechanics. Codroids embraces that simplicity and offers an assortment of interesting and challenging puzzles for players to solve. I gave the game a play and have some thoughts to share.

I've been playing with Construct 3 on and off during the beta and I have to say I'm really impressed with it.

Maia is a personal favourite as a game I really love to see grow and it just got a big update. It comes with lots of new and very useful features.

Topware Interactive are revamping Two Worlds II and bringing out a new DLC named Two Worlds II: Call of the Tenebrae. Both will see Linux support on May 25th.

Another week has passed and it's time to dust off the machinery that powers the Friday Livestream. Once more you have a chance to enjoy some live Linux gaming and the near-nonsensical commentary that goes with it, so buckle up and point your browsers at our Twitch channel!

Saints Row 2 is currently free to grab it on Steam for a limit time, so act quick if you don't own it yet. The other Saints Row titles are on sale as well.

Take this with a pinch of salt, since it's early days for his next game, but Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness) actually showed off his next game 'Jai Sokoban' running on Linux.

We see a lot of games get delayed for Linux, but why is this? I decided to ask around about the difficulties facing developers when porting games to Linux. A chat with some well known Linux porters! Warning: Article is on the longer side.

Aspyr Media today rolled out the Spring Update for Sid Meier's Civilization VI for Linux gamers, but sadly cross-platform multiplayer still isn't ready.

Techland claim to have finally fixed the Linux co-op in Dying Light in a patch released today! Finally, I tried many times with various Linux gamers and it never worked.

We briefly covered Diluvion before, as the developers were considering Linux support, looks like they decided to! A beta was mentioned and it looks like it might be up to test now.

Monumental Failure is a really quite amazing game! It's hilarious by yourself, with a friend, but how about 10 of you together? That's now possible.

BossConstructor, an indie 2D spaceship building and battling game recently added in some free new content.

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

A big Terraria update has landed and it looks like the developers spent a lot of time getting this right. It includes lots of really useful stuff.

Slime Rancher is a fantastic game, both for adults and children and I personally love it. This new update introduces more ways to spend your monies.

There was some excitement a while ago about Ashes of the Singularity being ported to Vulkan and eventually Linux. It seems Vulkan is largely complete, but Linux still isn't on their radar.

Just a quick heads up, today I implemented a Google login option to hopefully make it easier for some of you.

Immortal Redneck looks like it could be something really fun for FPS fans! An FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite and it looks pretty darn good.