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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.

Flinthook is yet another action platformer that throws in some roguelike elements and it has released with day-1 Linux support.

Another title from the backlog is Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?! The game is a bit nuts, but I quite like it.

I've tested out Downward and I've found it to be a rather incredible open-world Parkour game and I love it.

Geneshift, previously known as Subvein: Mutant Factions, a top-down shooter with vehicles will officially launch on April 27th (Early Access) and they also have a demo now too. UPDATED.

I've debated for quite some time setting up my own more generalised Linux and technology site, so screw it, I did it. Announcing LifeOnLinux as a new experiment!