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Techium Eclipse is a sweet free game about defending a tiny planet

By Liam Dawe,
Meteors! Meteors are coming! Thankfully, you have the powers of a god in Techium Eclipse, so you can just grab the planet and swing it around to ensure they don't hit any cities.

GONNER2 looks brilliantly weird - check out 9 minutes of new footage

By Liam Dawe,
GONNER2, the sequel to IGF winning game GoNNER will bring some messy, colourful and weird platformer action to Linux PC later this year. Check out the new footage.

Space Crew has new footage and it's releasing on October 15

By Liam Dawe,
Space Crew takes the idea of the popular Bomber Crew from developer Runner Duck and sends everyone into space. During Gamescom 2020, it gained not only a new trailer but a release date too.

Check out the latest Spacebase Startopia footage, coming to Linux PC in October

By Liam Dawe,
Spacebase Startopia is getting closer and during Gamescom 2020, some new footage surfaced giving us a better look at what to expect from it.

You could play Chess but why not play 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

By Liam Dawe,
Why play old, stale and normal Chess when you can fry your brain good with some 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel.

What are you playing this weekend? We're Linux distro-hopping

By Liam Dawe,
Time to brew a cup of your favourite and chat in the comments, let's see what GOL readers have been enjoying on their Linux boxes recently.

Dota Underlords gets a big reset, new heroes and a mode without Underlords

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's free to play auto-battle strategy game Dota Underlords has received its first major post-release update.

Wine compatibility layer sees a 5.16 development release

By Liam Dawe,
Released just before the weekend began, the Wine team have put out the 5.16 development release as they continue chasing Windows compatibility.

Ova Magica looks like the next great life sim with a creature-taming twist

By Liam Dawe,
Top Hat Studios along with ClaudiaTheDev have shown off a bit more of Ova Magica, what I think could turn into the next great big casual life-sim type of game.

Observer: System Redux should be available for Linux PC too

By Liam Dawe,
Observer: System Redux was announced, as the standalone definitive edition of the award-winning cyberpunk thriller from Bloober Team.

Two Point Hospital gets a Free Weekend and huge sale to celebrate 2 years

By Liam Dawe,
Two Point Studios and SEGA are celebrating it coming up for two years since Two Point Hospital released, so it's on a pretty big discount and a free weekend so you can try it for a few days.

2019's weirdest release 'Hypnospace Outlaw' has a huge update, with improved Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Hypnospace Outlaw, a '90s internet simulator / parody that takes things to the extreme which was probably 2019'a weirdest game just had a major upgrade.

The International 10 for Dota 2 breaks the esports prize pool record again

By Liam Dawe,
Surprised? I doubt anyone will be. Valve have managed to gather what's now the single biggest prize pool for an event - ever. It's now absolutely massive.

Valve announce new Chat Filtering and a big change to Steam Wallet Codes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to roll out new experiments with their Steam Labs, one of which is now live which you can try out with special Chat Filtering.

Rockfish show off some impressive EVERSPACE 2 footage

By Liam Dawe,
ROCKFISH Games have revealed two new trailers for the upcoming space-action sim EVERSPACE 2, a traditional hype trailer and some more raw gameplay footage.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart has a big 1.2 release out

By Liam Dawe,
The classic FLOSS racing game returns with more enhancements, as SuperTuxKart now has the 1.2 release officially available. Here's a run over the highlights and what's new.

Recording and livestreaming software OBS Studio has a major new build in testing

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and pretty essential for anyone doing livestreaming and/or recording videos on Linux; OBS Studio has a new Release Candidate out for testing.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI - August 2020 free upgrade out now, cross-play has issues

By Liam Dawe,
Sid Meier's Civilization VI has another free upgrade out now, which thankfully game porter Aspyr Media was able to get onto Linux (and macOS) right away but with a major caveat.

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead is the next physics builder crossover

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for more physics fun, this time involving Zombies? Yep, it's happening. Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead was announced during Gamescom today.

First-person shooter Prodeus looks insane, and it's out in Early Access this November

By Liam Dawe,
Prodeus from the duo at Bounding Box Software is looking intense and it's coming soon! Today it's been confirmed for an initial release into Early Access on November 10.