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Viking strategy game Northgard releases the free Expeditions expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Offering up a new way to play the game and unlock some cosmetic items, Northgard Expeditions is the 5th major expansion to the Viking strategy game and it's a free update too.

Imperator: Rome 2.0 Marius and the Heirs of Alexander content pack out now

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to try Imperator: Rome again? Paradox have been busy overhauling quite a lot of it, with it still being one of the worst rated Paradox titles by users overall.

Have a NZXT Kraken? You can use GKraken to configure it on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you own one of the NZXT Kraken coolers you might want to check out the GKraken project to configure it under Linux.

Valve & Netflix teamed up for a Dota anime series

By Liam Dawe,
If, like me, you're a bit of an Anime fan you might want to keep an eye on Netflix as DOTA: Dragon's Blood has been announced for release in March.

The Humble Plug In (And Play!) Digital Bundle is live and worth a look

By Liam Dawe,
In need of a few new games? The Humble Plug In (And Play!) Digital Bundle is now live and worth a look.

Adventure game about Death's daughter 'PRIM' is up on Kickstarter - try the great demo

By Liam Dawe,
PRIM is a point and click adventure game with some of the best art and most impressive demos I've seen for a while in the genre, and now you can help make the full game a reality.

DemonCrawl the Minesweeper-roguelite RPG is adding an online multiplayer mode

By Liam Dawe,
DemonCrawl was already highly unique with the Minesweeper styled roguelite gameplay, now it's going a step further with an online multiplayer mode inspired by auto-battlers.

Plasma 5.21 rolls out as one of the best looking Linux desktops available

By Liam Dawe,
Love your PC to look flashy? The KDE team put in a lot of effort to be both beautiful and functional with the latest Plasma 5.21 release which is out now.

ANATHEMA is an upcoming FPS roguelike about making friends and enemies

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development and now crowdfunding on Kickstarter, ANATHEMA looks absolutely wild. A first-person shooter roguelike about making friends and enemies.

Valheim is now one of the most successful survival games on Steam with two million sold

By Liam Dawe,
13 days after release and it seems there's no stopping the absolute insane rise of the co-op survival game Valheim, as the developer has now announced two million sales.

Volo Airsport went open source with main development discontinued

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a bit of open source news we missed from the end of last year. Volo Airsport, which entered Early Access back in 2014 has been discontinued by the developer and it went open source.

Monado now officially OpenXR conformant, gets a SteamVR driver

By Liam Dawe,
Monado, the free and open source OpenXR runtime for Linux has reached a massive milestone as it's now officially conformant.

Metro Exodus still due on Linux this year, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition announced

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Silver and 4A Games have just revealed Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and they've confirmed that Linux support for Metro Exodus is still happening.

ComPressure is a new puzzler like something Zachtronics would make

By Liam Dawe,
Do we call this a Zach-like now? ComPressure is a puzzle game that has you design increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam.

Inspired by Thief, The Dark Mod 2.09 is out with more modern OpenGL rendering

By Liam Dawe,
Thief is an absolutely classic, and the series lives on thanks to The Dark Mod which is a standalone free and open source first-person stealth game.

AI-made maps for your favourite adventures? Dungeon Alchemist sounds very interesting

By Liam Dawe,
With an aim to release in late 2021, Dungeon Alchemist is an AI-powered mapmaking tool for both players and dungeon masters to use with your favourite Virtual Tabletop Application.

Space-shooter idle game SPACE / MECH / PILOT now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
In need of a game to just click around in and idle for a while? SPACE / MECH / PILOT from October 2020 has been updated and is now supported on Linux too.

WW2 Co-op FPS Projekt Z shows off more impressive progress

By Liam Dawe,
Three months since their last devlog, 314 Arts have shown off some more footage on Projekt Z, their upcoming first-person co-op game set during the second world war on a mysterious island full of zombies.

The Co-op News Punch Podcast - Episode 26

By Liam Dawe,
The first 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.

What have you been playing recently? Come chit-chat with us

By Liam Dawe,
It's been quite a while since we had a community chat post for Linux gaming, so let's get it going again: what have you been gaming on Linux lately?