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Wx3 Labs looking into Linux support for Starcom: Nexus

By Liam Dawe,
Starcom: Nexus from Wx3 Labs is a striking looking open-world space action adventure and they've been looking into getting it running on Linux.

Tremendous looking 2D action game Helvetii confirmed to be coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the supremely stylish 2D action game Helvetii has now been confirmed to be launching with Linux support next year.

We Happy Few for Linux and Mac being refunded, to get an "unofficial" beta

By Liam Dawe,
After a long road, the waiting on We Happy Few for both Linux and Mac is about to come to an end. Not the happiest of endings either.

Google reveal Stadia will only have 12 games available at launch, more later in the year

By Liam Dawe,
With the Stadia streaming service from Google launching on November 19th for those with the Founder's Edition or Premiere Edition, they're finally revealing what will be available.

Build a busy city on Mars in The Farlanders, an in-development city-builder with a free web demo

By Liam Dawe,
Currently in development and quite early on, The Farlanders is a tile-based city-builder set on the red planet Mars.

Cyberpunk Bar Sim fully funded on Kickstarter and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Currently crowdfunding (successfully!) with a few days left, Cyberpunk Bar Sim takes elements inspired by both Game Dev Tycoon and VA-11 Hall-A to create a new mix of cyberpunk bar ownership.

Deliver pizzas, upgrade your car and smash into everything in Crash World

By Liam Dawe,
Crash World is an upcoming comedy pizza delivery game with some really silly physics and you can try an early demo right now.

Red Eclipse 2 is a revamp of the classic free arena shooter coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
I will admit this is quite a surprise, Red Eclipse is a first-person shooter I haven't seen mentioned in a long time and it seems they're closing in on a big revamped release with Red Eclipse 2.

Design your own plants and animals in the casual sim The Sapling

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing with Linux support in December, The Sapling looks like a nice casual sim where you design your own plants and animals.

BlooM brings together the classics Doom and Blood

By Liam Dawe,
Another quality mashup here, with BlooM merging together elements from both Doom and Blood into something quite different.

BorderDoom adds a little Borderlands flavour to classic Doom

By Liam Dawe,
Always on the lookout for the new and interesting, BorderDoom came across the GOL news-desk recently adding a little Borderlands flavour to Doom.

Valve has an Armistice Sale and Singles Day sale on Steam with some good Linux games cheap

By Liam Dawe,
Yet another chance to grab a game or two from your wishlist perhaps? The Armistice Sale on Steam supports the War Child UK charity and there's also a Singles Day sale.

Steam for Linux can now run games in a special container

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest Steam Beta Client for Linux, Valve have added a new way to run Linux games through a special container.

Korean survival horror The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters enters Early Access with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Devespresso Games and Headup continue their great Linux support, with a same-day released of The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters.

Comedy adventure game 3 Minutes to Midnight funded and coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Scarecrow Studio have raised enough funding to have a successful Kickstarter campaign for 3 Minutes to Midnight, a comedy adventure game due out next year.

Ghost Grab 3000 is a very satisfying arcade game where you chain ghosts together

By Liam Dawe,
Ghost Grab 3000 just recently released after a delay due to the Halloween sales and it's a huge amount of fun.

Unique first-person shooter Shotgun Farmers adds an amusing Horde Mode

By Liam Dawe,
In Shotgun Farmers when you shoot and miss, your bullets sink into the ground and grow new guns. It's a brilliant idea and it just got a huge update.

Steam Play Proton 4.11-8 is out with vkd3d for Direct3D 12 support

By Liam Dawe,
Another update to Steam Play Proton has been released this evening, which should bring with it plenty of improvements for playing Windows games on Linux.

Your weekend look at what's on sale and what you can try free

By Liam Dawe,
While the Halloween sales are over, plenty of stores still have some big and interesting game sales going on with lots of Linux games going cheap.

Mainframe Defenders, retrofuturistic squad-based strategy now has a Linux demo

By Liam Dawe,
Mainframe Defenders from Old Byte Apps is an in-development retro take on a squad-based strategy roguelike. They just announced today that they've now added a Linux demo.