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The Sales Page Returns

By Liam Dawe,
Did you miss it? Our sales page has been fixed up somewhat with huge thanks to our server admin Levi.

Insurgency Tactical FPS Still Looking To Support Linux, Developers Working On A Solution

By Liam Dawe,
It's sad that it seems Valve aren't supporting their Source Engine developers very well in some cases, and the Insurgency developers are going their own way to support us.

Contagion Linux Version Still Happening, Developers Discussing With Valve To Move To A Newer Engine

By Liam Dawe,
We've been pretty patient waiting for Contagion to come to Linux, and we haven't been forgotten about. The developers will be visiting Valve this year to speak about it.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.49 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.49 have many small changes including 31 bugfixes.

It's That Time Of The Week, So We Shall Play Games Live At 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
A week's gone by and it's time to gather around for a live session of Linux gaming, as is the tradition here on GOL. So, I welcome you once again to the Friday Livestream for some slightly entertaining commentary and gameplay.

Nvidia To Show Off Vulkan On NVIDIA GPUs & An OpenGL Linux Graphics Debugger

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Nvidia are getting more invested in Linux, and this makes me rather happy. At SIGGRAPH 2015 on Sunday Nvidia is doing a number of talks, and two are very interesting for us Linux folks.

Stellaris, An Ambitious Space Grand Strategy Game By Paradox, Announced & Coming To Linux

By BTRE,
Paradox Development Studios revealed at Gamescom one of the big secret projects they have been working on. So far, everything looks awesome!

Pillars Of Eternity: The White March Part I Gets A Release Date

By BTRE,
The first expansion to the highly acclaimed Pillars of Eternity now has a solid release date. You can expect to continue the RPG adventure very soon.

Cities: Skylines Expansion 'After Dark' Announced

By BTRE,
Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have announced the first expansion to Cities: Skylines at Gamescom. This successful city builder will see the addition of a day/night cycle and added depth to the gameplay.

Tangiers Is A Horror Themed Stealth Game Coming To Linux, I'm Going To Make Samsai Stream It

By Liam Dawe,
We love horror games here (hi Samsai), and Tangiers looks so freaky that it's exciting me. I'm going to see to it that Samsai (our video specialist) does a nice stream on it for you pleasure too.

Nightside, The Awesome Traditional RTS Game Exits Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Nightside is a personal favourite of mine, after I did initial testing for the developer a while ago they decided Linux would be worth it. The game has now left early access!

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Simulation Game Comes To Linux!

By Daylight Studios,
After a successful campaign on both PC and Mac, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is being released on Linux on the 7th of August.

The Funding Crowd 49

By flesk,
Another three weeks have passed, and The Funding Crowd is back with a new batch of interesting crowdfunding campaigns.

Alienware Have A New Youtube Series Showing Off Gameplay On Their Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
Alienware have released a youtube playlist of them playing games using the Steam Controller on their SteamOS powered Steam Machine.

Shadow of Mordor Nvidia Benchmarks On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
We decided it was time to plug Shadow of Mordor again, only this time myself and Samsai have conducted some benchmarks across four different Nvidia GPU’s.

DiRT Showdown For Linux Delayed For Polishing

By Liam Dawe,
Sorry folks, blame me for this one. DiRT Showdown has been delayed after some crash bugs I uncovered and reported to the developers.

Homefront: The Revolution Still Coming To Linux, New Trailer & Details Emerge

By Liam Dawe,
It seems after a quick poke from me to the Homefront: The Revolution developers, that a Linux version is still planned, goodie!

Prison Architect V1.0 Confirmed For October

By Liam Dawe,
Heads up Prison Building fans, as the final version of Prison Architect has been announced for October. If you've been holding off, I highly suggest picking it up at release, as it's great.

Wasteland 2 Director's Cut Due In October

By Liam Dawe,
Wasteland 2 Director's Cut isn't too far away folks, so if you've been holding off on playing this big RPG your patience will pay off.

Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power Linux Version In Progress

By Liam Dawe,
Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is the latest in the puzzle platformer series by Frozenbyte, and they confirmed in their newsletter that the Linux and Mac versions are in development.