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The Steam Winter Sale 2020 is now live, plus a new Codemasters Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

Another season another big Steam sale, is your wallet prepared? There's plenty of huge discount going on right now for you to take a look at. Plus to save you a click - there's a new Codemasters Humble Bundle.

Get the incredible Brigador: Up-Armored Deluxe free on GOG until December 25

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

Need a new game? Here's one I can recommend without hesitation - Brigador: Up-Armored Deluxe and it's free to claim and keep for 72 hours.

Get an early look at online multiplayer in the action-RPG Last Epoch

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

One of the most promising upcoming action-RPGs around, Last Epoch had a pretty great year expanding the content available along with a new playable class and they have their sights set to get you playing online in 2021.

Get the feel of the classic GTA2 played online in Geneshift with a massive new map

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

Lots of people love the original GTA and GTA2, myself included and Geneshift has a major overhaul (again) that tweaks the Battle Royale gameplay along with a huge new map to give classic GTA2 vibes.

The classic Transformice now has a Linux build up on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

Transformice, a classic 'MMO platformer' from Atelier 801 originally released in 2010 that to this day still seems to be quite popular now has a Linux build up on Steam.

SDL 2.0.14 is out with support for PS5 DualSense and Xbox Series X controllers

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

SDL 2 is the magnificent bit of cross-platform development open source tech that gives developers access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware.

DOSBox Pure for RetroArch aims to make retro DOS gaming real easy

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

Want to play old DOS games easily on whatever Linux machine you're using? RetroArch now has a new fork named DOSBox Pure and you can give it a test now.

FOSS game engine written in Rust 'Bevy' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

As another promising free and open source game engine written in Rust, Bevy continues maturing and there's a brand new release up for you to try out with lots of advancements.

The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 25

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

The last GOL Podcast episode of 2020 is here, come get it while it's hot and ranty as we cover a range of weird and wonderful topics in Linux, open source, gaming and more.

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Stardew Valley has a massive 1.5 update out with a new Beach farm, local co-op and more

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Here's something to keep you busy over the holiday season! Stardew Valley, the awesome and relaxing farming life sim from ConcernedApe has the biggest update yet.

YoYo Games expand their Linux support in GameMaker Studio 2 to the Raspberry Pi

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

The Raspberry Pi sure is a versatile device and thanks to GameMaker Studio 2 from YoYo Games, it might even end up as more of a gaming unit with newly added support for exported games.

Pulse-pounding 2D ninja action in 'Cyber Shadow' releases January 26, 2021

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Ready for some serious action-platforming with an awesome 8-bit inspired style? Cyber Shadow has been confirmed for release on January 26, 2021.

Portal 2: Desolation standalone mod gets a first proper teaser, coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Will the cake be a lie here too? Portal 2: Desolation is an upcoming very high-quality looking mod and they have revealed the first look.

Godot Engine hires another developer, this time for physics fun

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Through 2020 it seems the free and open source game engine Godot Engine has gone from strength to strength, and they've managed to hire another developer.

The latest big free Civilization VI update is out with a slightly less annoying AI

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

As the last update of the year (and one we missed from last week), getting in one more turn in Civilization VI might be a little less annoying with the AI tweaks in the December patch.

Corsair open source driver and UI 'ckb-next' expands in the latest release

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Have some trendy Corsair hardware and you're a Linux user? You're in luck as ckb-next is a great open source alternative to their usual Windows-only applications.

Valve tweaks Proton Experimental further to get Red Dead Online running on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

Proton Experimental is the new testing area where Valve and their partner CodeWeavers continue rolling out extra fixes and improvements to the Proton translation layer for Steam Play.

Plague Inc: The Cure DLC coming in early 2021 and free until COVID-19 is under control

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2020

Ready to cure the world? Ndemic Creations have released another small bit of info for Plague Inc: The Cure, the upcoming expansion to the excellent Plague Inc: Evolved.

Wine 6.0 hits a third Release Candidate with 19 bugs marked as fixed

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2020

Reaching that little bit closer towards the next major release, the Wine compatibility layer project has another Release Candidate that needs testing for Wine 6.0.