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Friday arrives and brings us yet another chance to show our incompetence when it comes to gaming! Yes, the Friday Livestream is here once more to bring you live Linux gaming and the commentary that goes with it, so get your snacks and tune your Internet connection!

Hard West is a hard game to recommend to anyone unwilling to subject themselves to a trial by fire. If it were a horse I would say that it tried to buck me at every possible opportunity. It almost succeeded too.

It's fun when this happens, I poked the developer of Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles about the Linux version and they replied saying it was coming and now in the same day they've put it up!

I've spent a bit of time flailing about in VThree, a new Early Access run and jump game based on speed-running to the end of a level. It's fun, but difficult.

Atomic Reconstruction is a simple-looking puzzle game about splitting and fusing atoms to complete each level. The Linux version launched in January, so it's likely a lot of Linux gamers missed it.

Alien Isolation is a fantastic game, so I urge you all to try it. Humble Store has a seriously good deal going on the collection right now.

I wrote about Man O' War: Corsair - Warhammer Naval Battles coming to Linux in September last year, but with no release yet I poked the developer for more info and the reply was better than I expected.

Here’s an interesting one, a developer from NVIDIA noted on the Linux Kernel Mailing List that NVIDIA has been designing some new open source drivers. So I did some digging and got an interesting response.

Looks like some more fun is heading our way, as the Serious Sam Fusion 2017 update build is ready, but marketing and paperwork needs to be done first.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past is a new story DLC that Feral Interactive have ported to the Linux version.

I've spent a little while checking out the new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive today and I'm pretty impressed with the new map.

The code for OpenGL threaded GL dispatch is now finally in Mesa-git, after multiple developers attempts to fix it up. This should improve performance in multiple games for users of the open source Mesa drivers.

AMD initially launched Ryzen 7 their enthusiast higher performing chips, but now they're gearing up for the lower end with Ryzen 5 which will launch on April 11th.

I didn't write this up initially, but now the Humble Jumbo Bundle 8 has some new games it's well worth taking a look.

The developers of Vikings - Wolves of Midgard have confirmed that Linux is planned, but it won't be until after the initial Windows release.

I picked up a copy of Hyper Knights on a whim and it turns out this Early Access mix of strategy and action is actually quite good.

There were a few loud users complaining about a recent Linux release where you had to pay for the Linux version on Steam, even if you already own the Windows version. I’ve spoken to a few people and have some thoughts on it.

I only wrote about signs of Fossil Echo finally coming to Linux yesterday, but it has already seen a release!

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

'Disturbed' is a free visual adventure that was released some months ago, which got a lot of favorable reviews from Steam users. Because of this, the single developer behind the game announced, only a few weeks after its release, that there would be a sequel. And now the Steam Greenlight page is finally live.