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Esenthel Next-Gen Game Engine, Supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
With all the talk of game engines giving Linux support recently, here is another. Esenthel game engine classes itself as a "Next-Gen" game engine with advanced features.

White Noise Online, An Adventure & Horror Game

By Liam Dawe,
White Noise Online looks extremely interesting. It is a mix between horror and adventure that can be played solo, co-op or even online. It needs help getting onto Steam.

Battle Chess: Game of Kings Will Be Heading To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Battle Chess: Game of Kings looks like it will be coming to Linux as a developer confirms it on their Steam forum.

Get Ready For Some Thumping Tunes In Crypt Of The NecroDancer

By Liam Dawe,
This is just magical, Crypt of the NecroDander is a hardcore dungeon crawling (roguelike) rhythm game. It features an epic sound-track and the ability to play with your own music.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.15 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.15 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 53 bugfixes.

Breach & Clear Tactical Squad Strategy Game Released On Steam For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to Windows, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.

Influent Educational Language Game Out Now

By HadBabits,
Influent, a new vocabulary building language game has been released. I decided to purchase it myself to improve my Spanish vocabulary and so far I'd say mission accomplished!

The Last Federation Sci-Fi Strategy New Game-Play Footage, Looking Fantastic

By Liam Dawe,
The Last Federation is a space sci-fi strategy game I am seriously looking forward to, it mixes some good unit graphics with beautiful space backdrops.

Paper Dungeons Roguelike/Tactics Game Now Out For Linux On Desura, My Thoughts & Video

By Liam Dawe,
Paper Dungeons is a brand new mix of tactics and roguelike dungeon crawling all in one neat little package.

Octopus City Blues Game-Like Adventure Game Available For Pre-Order

By Liam Dawe,
Octopus City Blues is certainly an interesting title, the developers don't even say it's actually a game, they say it is "game-like" hah. Well to be more precise they also call it an authentic Octopus City Simulation Software (OCSS). Freaked out yet? I am.

Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube First Person Puzzle Game Has A Trailer, Hooray!

By Liam Dawe,
Remember Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube the first person puzzle game, no? Well I can forgive you as it's not exactly an easy to remember name. We showed you a preview of it before and it now has a brand-spanking new trailer to burn your eyes out with.

Secrets of Rætikon Stylish Adventure Game Alpha 17 Out With New Sound Effects

By Liam Dawe,
Secrets of Rætikon is an extremely stylish aventure game currently in Early Access and they have unleashed their seventeenth alpha, that's a lot of alpha.

Science Girls Anime RPG & Visual Novel Released On Steam For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Science Girls is a 2009 anime visual novel and RPG hybrid, it has now hit Steam with a new version that features updated graphics and sound.

NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains, With Slides

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is mighty fine, seems the big guns have teamed up on this one to talk about performance gains in OpenGL.

Starbound Stable Updates, New Weather & Encounters Available

By Liam Dawe,
Starbound the really fantastic 2D universe sandbox game has pushed out a small content update into its stable branch on Steam, including some wild weather!

Ground Pounders Linux Version Drops Tomorrow, From The Creators Of Sword Of The Stars

By Liam Dawe,
Kerberos Productions Inc. creators of the 'Sword of the Stars' games will activate the Linux build for Ground Pounders a hex-based, turn-based strategy wargame tomorrow the 21st of March.

GOL Cast: Dogfight Ballet In LUFTRAUSERS

By HadBabits,
Hey guys, this will be my first video contribution to GOL; let me know what you think. Today I'm playing LUFTRAUSERS (yes, all caps) and taking on an army all by my lonesome and having a lot of fun doing it!

H-Craft Championship Sci-Fi Racer Is Now Free

By Liam Dawe,
You all love free games right? Good news as it is free games Thursday here at GOL and we bring you news that H-Craft Championship has been unshackled from its price-tag and is FREE.

Valve's Vogl OpenGL Debugger Now Supports Steam's Big Picture Mode

By Liam Dawe,
A chance for Valve to really improve their own software, as their Vogl OpenGL debugger now supports debugging their Big Picture mode.

Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Development Kit 2 Announced

By Liam Dawe,
Oculus has announced their second generation VR development kit with many improvements, it's closer to what the retail release will be.