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Core Defense aims to mix up the Tower Defense genre with deck-building and randomness - out now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Core Defense, available today in First Access on itch.io is a Tower Defense game that's trying to be a little different. Throwing out predefined waves and rewards, in favour of a little random generation.

Chaotic platformer with a curved gameworld 'CreatorCrate' getting a demo next week

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

You've played plenty of platformers before, but have you played a platformer where the entire world is a great big spinning space station with variable gravity? CreatorCrate has a fun idea.

The Frictional Games strange teaser appears to be growing

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Frictional Games, the team that craft some very interesting horror experiences like SOMA and Amnesia are teasing something and it appears to now be growing. What horrific thing will chase us next?

Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. After writing about it yesterday here on GOL, they've now given some more info on what it actually does.

Action-packed drone building game 'Nimbatus' has a huge update, we have 3 copies to give away

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

We've teamed up with Stray Fawn Studio again to give away three copies of their space drone construction game, Nimbatus, plus there's a massive update out now.

Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Today, The Khronos Group has released the next big update the Vulkan graphics API specification with Vulkan 1.2 now available.

Apocalyptic fantasy RPG strategy 'Vagrus - The Riven Realms' new build out, passed $50K on Fig

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Vagrus - The Riven Realms, an incredibly engrossing in-development narrative blend of fantasy RPG and strategy mechanics has a fresh build up.

Paradox to focus on smaller and more frequent updates to Imperator: Rome this year

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Paradox Development Studio have given their first 2020 update on the roadmap for the struggling Imperator: Rome.

3D party action game 'Aeolis Tournament' is on Kickstarter promising some chaotic fun on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Beyond Fun Studio are raising a little funding to complete their crazy party game, Aeolis Tournament, which is planned to release with Linux support this Spring.

Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.

Valve continue working behind the scenes for Linux gaming with 'Gamescope'

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Valve are definitely up to something. For a little while, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has been tweaking steamcompmgr, the SteamOS session compositing window manager.

DOOM Eternal coming to Stadia on March 20, plus other Stadia news - a round-up

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Time for another little roundup of what's going on with Google Stadia lately. First up, let's talk about games.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-12 is out

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

The first Steam Play Proton release of 2020 is now available with 4.11-12 which is mainly a cleanup.

Slay the Spire patch 2.0 is out, bringing in The Watcher as the fourth character

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

As if I needed more reasons to dive into the Spire once again, Slay the Spire 2.0 is out which brings quite a lot of changes in addition to the fourth character.

The Humble Sweet Farm Bundle is live with some lovely Linux games

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

Humble Bundle have just put up The Humble Sweet Farm Bundle and there's multiple lovely Linux games included.

ShotX Studio got a big boost to sales by releasing a free torrent of Danger Gazers

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

This is certainly an unusual way to get a little extra support for your game. ShotX Studio, an indie outfit of just developer Shota Bobokhidze who recently released the rather good Danger Gazers put it up in a torrent.

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo arcade shooter released

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a long name and this is supposed to be the expanded edition of the 2019 release, giving additional arcade-style shoot 'em up action.

Korean survival horror-adventure 'The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters' leaving Early Access this month

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

Atmospheric, story-driven Korean survival horror-adventure from Devespresso Games and Headup 'The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters' is just about ready, with a full release announced for January 28.

Grand space strategy game AI War 2 had a massive update so big it's 'almost a sequel'

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

Arcen Games sound quite proud of how big the latest update to AI War 2 is, saying it's "Almost a sequel in how much it adds to the core game mechanics and AI.".