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Be a jerk cloud in Rain on Your Parade - releasing April 15

By Liam Dawe,
Ever wanted to just fly high, be a cloud and rain all over everything? Well you will be able to on April 15 when Rain on Your Parade releases letting me be a total jerk cloud.

The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 27, the one with too much gain

By Liam Dawe,
The second GOL Podcast episode of 2021 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.

Go Norse in the Crusader Kings III: Northern Lords pack releasing March 16

By Liam Dawe,
The last of the announcements from Paradox Insider today to be covered here on GOL is Crusader Kings III: Northern Lords, a Norse themed 'Flavor Pack' for one of 2020's best games.

Stellaris: Nemesis launches April 15 giving you more power than ever

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for the ultimate power? Stellaris: Nemesis will launch on April 15 bringing with it some huge additions to Paradox's space strategy game.

Paradox resumes development on Surviving Mars, new update and expansion planned

By Liam Dawe,
Surviving Mars from Paradox Interactive and originally Haemimont Games from 2018 is being revived and expanded under a different developer named Abstraction.

Catch over 1,200 creatures in Siralim Ultimate out now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
It might not be the prettiest around but the Siralim series is quite popular because of the incredible depth and the latest Siralim Ultimate is now in Early Access.

Lazy Chess a new open source game that gives you the best moves

By Liam Dawe,
I do always love to see new takes on classic games and Lazy Chess has a fun idea. It compresses Chess down into a game of only a few possible moves each turn.

Monolith of Minds announced Lila's Sky Ark, a prequel story to Resolutiion

By Liam Dawe,
Resolutiion was one of the most striking games visually from 2020 and Monolith of Minds are coming back this year with a prequel named Lila's Sky Ark.

Windows 'not an emulator' compatibility tool Wine 6.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Not an emulator but a compatibility tool that translates Windows calls into language Linux can understand, Wine 6.4 is officially out now as the latest development release.

Tactical zombie survival action game Dead Age 2 exits Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Offering up a mix of character building RPG mechanics, survival features, turn-based battles and much more - Dead Age 2 is officially out now as it has left Early Access.

Interactive movie adventure The Dark Side of the Moon is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Love your FMV adventures? The Dark Side of the Moon is a brand new interactive movie featuring live-action video and point & click elements out now on Steam along with full Linux support.

Try out the new demo for Shield Cat, a sweet action adventure collectathon

By Liam Dawe,
Love your 2D action-adventure games? How about collecting everything you possibly can? Shield Cat from CyanSorcery has a brand new demo available with support for Linux desktops and the Raspberry Pi.

War Thunder 'Ixwa Strike' update out bringing over 30 new vehicles

By Liam Dawe,
War Thunder continues expanding its roster of countries available with the 'Ixwa Strike' update out now that brings with it South African armoured vehicles.

Loop Hero is another success story with over 500K sales, much more to come to it

By Liam Dawe,
Only a single week after the release, Loop Hero from developer Four Quarters and publisher Devolver Digital has managed to surpass 500,000 sales. Plus they revealed we can expect a lot more to come from it.

VKD3D-Proton works towards Ray Tracing, new small Proton Experimental build up

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you with a graphics card capable of Ray Tracing who use the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer we have some good news coming for you.

Mesa 21.0.0 open source graphics drivers out now

By Liam Dawe,
After much waiting, the latest release of the Mesa graphics stack is out now with tons of improvements to lots of drivers for Linux users and for Linux gaming.

Linux hardware vendor System76 introduces the Thelio Mira desktop

By Liam Dawe,
Out for a brand new desktop from a true Linux vendor? System76 have a little something special announced today with their new Thelio Mira desktop powered by AMD Ryzen and NVIDIA.

Tuxedo announce their NVIDIA Ampere laptops with the Tuxedo Book XP15 and XP17

By Liam Dawe,
Linux hardware vendor Tuxedo has refreshed some more of their lineup to bring on NVIDIA Ampere graphics to the Tuxedo Book XP15 and XP17 models.

Spaceship building co-op sandbox Avorion teases a massive 2.0 update

By Liam Dawe,
Boxelware did exceptionally well with Avorion, a space exploration sim that lets you build ships together with blocks and they've teased a massive 2.0 update to come.

Nightfall Hacker is a turn-based strategy homage to The Nightfall Incident

By Liam Dawe,
Some of our older readers might know The Nightfall Incident, an early 2000s game available on the LEGO website. The overall idea was revived in the homage Nightfall Hacker that's out now.