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Shadowrun was not only the first CRPG series I found compelling enough to play through all the way to the end, but one that I also found myself invested in enough to purchase additional instalments soon after playing the first.

As you might have noticed, the last Friday Livestream was handled by Liam because I was doing secrety secret things and I will be doing more of the same on next Friday. So, I bring you an unexpected Monday Roguelikely Livestream!

The developers of Monumental Failure sent over a key for me to test out their hilarious and totally historically accurate game about building monuments.

We have a bunch of Steam keys for King Lucas, a metroidvania-style game from DevilishGames and here's your chance to grab a copy.

I've seen a few requests for this to happen and it was always planned, so from today the gitlab repository for GOL is officially public.

Wine-Staging have released their 2.0-rc6 release and it brings in some more D3D11 work further pushing what can be run with Wine.

Thanks to GOL Supporter 'Creak' we now have our very own Matrix chat room and it has a bridge with our IRC channel so chat goes both ways.

Sad news, the survival game 'Raft' that really caught my interest for doing something very different has decided to drop Linux support.

Honestly, I never heard about this title until Steam recommended it to me, and once I learned that it has a demo available, then it became a priority. Of course, I think it was a very good experience, and I'm looking forward to eventually acquire the full game.

The guys over at itch are doing some truly interesting work. The itch store is open to all developers, they have an open source client and they talk openly about their work. A developer of their games client has written up about how they compress data for downloads.

During the livestream I did last night I had one of those moments where you fully appreciate how far Linux gaming has come.

Samuel Pitoiset (Valve) discovered an issue in radeonsi (Mesa) that Marek Olšák has now patched up and is already in Mesa-git.

Wine 2.0-rc6 is now available and it brings in another 21 bug fixes which should make this a seriously stable release. It has no new features, as they are in a code freeze.

Albion Online, the Linux-friendly MMO has another blog post and video detailing changes coming to this interesting MMO.

If you fancy scaring yourself silly this weekend, be sure to check out Alien: Isolation - The Collection which is 70% off on the Feral Interactive store.

As Samsai is away on secret business, I will be taking control of the Friday livestream today and probably next week too. I will be livestreaming Saturday as well, so double the Liam fun!

If you weren't already sold on Yooka-Laylee, this new multiplayer trailer might just sell you on it and it looks fantastic.

Dave Airlie sent in a massive patch-set of 31 patches for 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver, to support geometry shaders.

Originally available to anyone who went to a physical Games Workshop store, this Legendary Lord has now been made available for free on Steam if you own the game.

The upcoming RPG by inXile Entertainment is looking good. There’s a pair of new trailers that show off more of the game systems and offer a preview of what we can expect once the game is out.