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Bloody Service looks like a unique FMV experience blended with a visual novel


By Liam Squires-Hand
More FMV goodness? Yes please. Bloody Service mixes in a visual novel with an FMV (full motion video) to bring an intriguing mix that the developer says is a "dark, wild and unsettling love letter to 80’s slashers".

Kind Words, the game about writing nice anonymous letters gets a little sweeter


By Liam Squires-Hand
2019's Kind Words from Popcannibal is probably one of the sweetest ideas for a game ever made, and with it being a year old the developer went back to give it a bit of an upgrade.

Godot Engine documentation is about to get much better with a new hire


By Liam Squires-Hand
Godot Engine is one of the most exciting, most advanced free and open source game engines around and it's improving when looking at all angles.

FOBIA - St. Dinfna Hotel is an upcoming psychological horror - try the demo


By Liam Squires-Hand
Pulsatrix Studios are working on FOBIA - St. Dinfna Hotel, an upcoming psychological horror and it appears a number of readers are excited about this one.

Albion Online continues pulling in record player counts


By Liam Squires-Hand
Albion Online is a 'sandbox' style MMO where you pretty much do whatever you please, and it's proving to be quite popular with a healthy growth in players.

Manjaro Linux 20.1 'Mikah' is out now with a theme refresh


By Liam Squires-Hand
Manjaro Linux, the semi-rolling distribution based on Arch Linux has a new stable build release out with Manjaro 20.1 'Mikah'.

Stadia is getting Risk of Rain 2, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Scott Pilgrim and more


By Liam Squires-Hand
Google have announced multiple new titles are coming to their Linux and Vulkan powered game streaming service, Stadia. This includes some pretty big and popular titles. Time for another Stadia round-up.

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure now has a Linux Beta


By Liam Squires-Hand
Video game developer Ron Gilbert of Terrible Toybox has now put up an official Linux Beta for Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure.

NVIDIA confirms $40 billion deal to buy Arm


By Liam Squires-Hand
Huge industry news to mention this morning! NVIDIA has confirmed they're buying Arm for $40 billion.

The weekend chat - what have you been playing?


By Liam Squires-Hand
The ending of another week is just about here, ready to begin anew. Before Monday comes knocking, it's time for the usual GOL community chat post.

Dino MMO 'Path of Titans' has a new playable demo for PAX Online


By Liam Squires-Hand
Ready for some dinosaur action? Path of Titans, the hugely successful crowdfunded indie MMO now has a demo you can download and try out.

With PAX Online here, you can try out the demo of zen-puzzler Unpacking


By Liam Squires-Hand
After a long day hack away at some code, a game about unpacking a bunch of boxes would usually be the last thing I would want. However, Unpacking (the actual game) is genuinely lovely.

Check out the latest demo of the couch party game Unspottable with new levels


By Liam Squires-Hand
Unspottable is an absolutely fantastic local multiplayer game about picking out your opponents from a crowd.

A new security flaw is revealed with 'BlindSide' on Linux affecting Intel and AMD


By Liam Squires-Hand
VUSec have published and shown an example of a newly discovered flaw present with both Intel and AMD processors when used with Linux.

Linux gaming optimization kit 'GameMode' has a new release up


By Liam Squires-Hand
Need an easy way to run a bunch of system enhancements? GameMode, originally made by developers at porting studio Feral Interactive has a new release out.

Wine development release 5.17 is out now


By Liam Squires-Hand
Another two weeks have gone by and the team hacking away on the compatibility layer Wine have a brand new development release available.

APICO is an adorable upcoming casual sim about breeding and collecting Bees


By Liam Squires-Hand
Beeautiful. That's what APICO is. A recent discovery and I have a feeling it's going to bee something quite big.

Get ready for action as SOLDAT 2 enters Early Access on September 22


By Liam Squires-Hand
The next generation of the side-scrolling action shooter is almost here, over 18 years later Soldat 2 will arrive in Early Access and Transhuman Design has big plans.

Borderlands 2 will see no further updates for Linux / macOS from Aspyr Media


By Liam Squires-Hand
After repeatedly trying to get an answer, we now finally have it confirmed that Aspyr Media will be doing no further updates to Borderlands 2.

Deleveled is a clever platformer with no jump button where you use bouncing momentum


By Liam Squires-Hand
Platformers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are about hacking and slashing, some are about precision and some like Deleveled take almost everything away from you.