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Vaporum: Lockdown delayed into later this year as the game has grown

By Liam Dawe,
Vaporum: Lockdown is a prequel to the 3D real-time dungeon crawler Vaporum that was pretty great, and it's now delayed but it's not all bad news.

Deep fantasy RPG-strategy hybrid 'Vagrus - The Riven Realms' has hit another funding milestone

By Liam Dawe,
Vagrus - The Riven Realms continues smashing through their Open Access funding goals on Fig, this special hybrid of Crowdfunding and Early Access together seems to be paying off.

Stellaris: Federations and the huge free 'Verne' content update are out

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio have today released the Stellaris: Federations expansion along with the free 2.6.0 'Verne' content upate for everyone.

Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is like a wild sci-fi Desert Strike

By Liam Dawe,
Desert Strike, oh hell yes, that's a game I put tons of hours into on the Sega Mega Drive. Now Pizza Bear Games have taken that same helicopter action and put a wild sci-fi spin on it with Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess.

The GOG Spring Sale is on - giving away the 'Witcher Goodies Collection' for 48 hours

By Liam Dawe,
DRM-free store GOG has launched a huge Spring Sale with thousand of games going real cheap. They've also put the Witcher Goodies Collection on a 48 hour giveaway which has art, books, soundtracks and such.

3dSen NES emulator gives classics some 3D depth and it's pretty awesome

By Liam Dawe,
3dSen, an upcoming Emulator currently in development is now going through some Beta testing. Unlike some other Emulators, it doesn't just support old games, it aims to redefine them.

Proton GE 5.4 released for Steam Play on Linux with Warframe gamepad fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Proton GE, the custom-built fork of Proton for Steam Play that adds in numerous extra tweaks and fixes has another release now available.

vkBasalt the Vulkan post processing layer for Linux has a new release up

By Liam Dawe,
Need to add some fancy effects to your Linux games? vkBasalt can help with that and a brand new release is now up.

Primal Light is an action-platformer that has some seriously good art - releasing on July 9

By Liam Dawe,
Primal Light, built with the free and open source Godot Engine, is an action-platformer with pixel artwork that looks divine like some of the classics on Amiga and it's releasing on July 9.

Indie fighting game "Them's Fightin' Herds" releasing in April, Linux coming later

By Liam Dawe,
Them's Fightin' Herds has been in Early Access for a while, and they confirmed a Linux port during their original crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo and now a release date has been set.

Village-building god sim strategy 'Rise to Ruins' passes 1.5 million dollars net revenue

By Liam Dawe,
One of my favourite pixel-art indie games, Rise to Ruins, has now officially passed the 1.5 million dollar net revenue mark showing that indie games can really sell well.

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin engine source code released - a quick look

By Samsai,
The developers of Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, an FPS game built on the Darkplaces engine, have seemingly been a bit sneaky and released the source code to their engine fork with little fanfare on GitHub.

If you're self-isolating and in need, here's a bunch of awesome free Linux games

By Liam Dawe,
It's a scary time, with more restrictions being announced regularly across the world to prevent the spread of Coronavirus. Here's a list of some really great free games for Linux if you find yourself stuck with self-isolation/distancing and low on funds.

MangoHud, the excellent Linux overlay layer adds OpenGL support in addition to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
A huge update for the Linux overlay layer, MangoHud, as it can now work with OpenGL games in addition to Vulkan making it many times more useful and awesome.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive hits over 1 million online, Steam breaks user records again

By Liam Dawe,
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve's free to play competitive shooter which also features the newer Danger Zone mode which is like a Battle Royale has today hit over a million players online. Additionally, Steam itself broke another record.

Wine 5.4 is out improving Direct2D, Unicode 13 and a real old D3DX9 issue is solved

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine hackers have released the latest development build this week, with Wine 5.4 now available. Here's your usual GOL look over the highlights.

Preview: Check out our footage from 'Resolutiion' - it's got some serious style

By Liam Dawe,
Resolutiion, currently in development by 'two angry German brothers' that make up Monolith of Minds recently had a press demo sent out so I took a look.

A look over what's on sale this weekend for Linux gaming fans

By Liam Dawe,
Is it Friday already? Apparently it is. If you're stuck in across this weekend, we've rounded up some of the best deals going on for Linux gamers.

Deep Space Battle Simulator has two teams face off in a big space battle now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Space Battle Simulator, an Early Access first-person online team-based game about two capital-ships facing off is now available on Linux.

Wheely World is an unusual top-down scrolling racer available on itch.io for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Wheely World is one of my more unusual discoveries lately. It's a racing game, it's top down and it's completely crazy.