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The itch.io charity bundle hits over $6 million and ends soon

By Liam Dawe,
The incredible itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has just continued growing but it will all be ending soon.

EVERSPACE 2 sure does look shiny in the new Alpha footage

By Liam Dawe,
Open-world space action sim EVERSPACE 2 from ROCKFISH Games has shown off plenty of new footage across multiple events recently and it looks seriously shiny.

GONNER2 announced bringing even more colourful action

By Liam Dawe,
IGF-winning game GoNNER is getting a sequel! GONNER2 was announced today by Art in Heart and Raw Fury, bringing an even more colourful platformer-shooter and it's due out this year.

Mixing old with new Prodeus is an intense FPS arriving this 'Fall'

By Liam Dawe,
Bounding Box Software and Humble Games have shown off brand new footage of the upcoming FPS Prodeus, which mixes retro and modern styles together.

Norse-inspired fantasy survival game Valheim looks awesome

By Liam Dawe,
Covered here on GOL a few times since the early demo was incredibly promising, the viking and norse mythology inspired adventure and survival game Valheim has new footage up.

Boyfriend Dungeon is a most peculiar upcoming dungeon crawler

By Liam Dawe,
How about a sword you can take on a date? Well, not the sword itself but the person it can turn into? Boyfriend Dungeon is a most peculiar idea for a dungeon crawler.

System Shock reboot gets a weirdly chill new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
System Shock, a true classic that's currently going through a reboot from Nightdive Studios has released a new preview trailer and it's weirdly chilled.

Linux Kernel patch sent in for comments to help gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora have sent in a fresh patch for discussion to the Linux Kernel list to help Linux gaming, acting as a follow-up to their previous attempt.

Valve boost player contrast in CS:GO and add Text Filtering

By Liam Dawe,
While it seems Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now over the sudden massive popularity boost it saw in the last few months, that hasn't stopped Valve continuing to improve it.

Godot Engine 3.2.2 RC 1 is out towards a feature-packed release

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine is progressing and getting close to a new release with Godot 3.2.2 and it's going to be quite feature-filled with a new Release Candidate ready for testing.

There's now a Proton build for running Red Dead Redemption 2 on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Currently with the Steam Play Proton Linux compatibility layer, Red Dead Redemption 2 isn't playable but a new testing build provided by a CodeWeavers developer sounds promising.

Stealth hacking adventure OFF GRID playable during Steam Game Festival

By Liam Dawe,
Stretch those fingers and get ready to hack the planet in the stealth-hacking adventure OFF GRID, as it's getting a demo ready for the Steam Game Festival. Plus a reminder on some others.

art of rally looks terrific in the latest trailer and it will be on GOG too

By Liam Dawe,
Bright colours, stylish low-poly graphics and a whole lot of speed is what's coming our way with art of rally. From the same developer behind Absolute Drift and it's coming to Linux this year.

Time matters in the tactical RPG 'The Iron Oath' and it looks very promising

By Liam Dawe,
The Iron Oath is an upcoming turn-based tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world, one where your choices matter because as you progress time flows and affects everyone including your characters.

Have some physics fun with Poly Bridge 2, now released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a short delay, Poly Bridge 2 from Dry Cactus has now released for Linux so you can begin building bridges and playing with the fun physics system.

Theme park builder 'Parkitect' now uses the Vulkan API on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Parkitect, one of the most magnificent games from 2018 had one of it's usual monthly updates but it turns out for Linux it was more than just some bug fixing.

Chip designer Jim Keller has resigned from Intel

By Liam Dawe,
Jim Keller, something of a legend when it comes to chip design has formally resigned from Intel over 'personal reasons'.

Defold Foundation awarded a grant to bring support of Web Monetization

By Liam Dawe,
The Defold Foundation recently announced another partnership, as they've secured a grant from Grant for the Web to bring in support for the Web Monetization API.

It seems Coreboot and Open Firmware will come to System76's NVIDIA laptops

By Liam Dawe,
Back in April, System76 released the Lemur Pro laptop and one of the highlights was that it pulled in a lot more open source. It seems those clever engineers aren't stopping there.

Stadia gets resolution options per-device, discount for everyone and more Android

By Liam Dawe,
Stadia might not be reaching the heights that Google initially promised but they continue to tweak their game streaming service. Some big updates are now available.