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Tactical RPG 'Chroma Squad' has a big Director’s Cut update with lots of goodies

By Liam Dawe,
I was quite impressed with Chroma Squad when I tried out the original release of this Power Rangers-inspired tactical RPG and now it's looking even better.

Golf for Workgroups is a very weird golf game that's now on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
A very serious Golf game, absolutely no fun allowed. This is so you and your work colleagues can go hit some holes and talk about work. Okay, not quite.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker, an isometric single-player RPG has reached the goal for a Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
Pathfinder: Kingmaker is currently on Kickstarter to bring out an isometric single-player RPG and they have hit the funding goal for a Linux version.

OpenGL multithreading in Mesa is ready for wider testing

By Liam Dawe,
A Mesa developer wrote into the public Mesa-dev mailing list to ask for testers of OpenGL multithreading in Mesa so that they can grow the whitelist of games that will use it.

Beyond Enemy Lines, a single-player tactical FPS looks like it's heading to Linux (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Beyond Enemy Lines, a rather interesting sounding single-player FPS looks like it's going to get a Linux version. UPDATE: There's now a test Linux version on Steam.

Wine 2.12 released with performance improvements for async I/O and more

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Wine development release is now available and it looks like quite a quiet one for us, nothing truly major. It does have some new features and some notable bug fixes for games.

Ashworld, from Orangepixel looks like a pixel art survival game in the style of Mad Max

By Liam Dawe,
An open-world pixel art survival game that resembles Mad Max? I think I might be in a little bit in love with Ashworld.

Hazelnut Bastille, a very stylish pixel art topdown adventure plans Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Hazelnut Bastille is an absolutely amazing looking pixel art topdown adventure and it has plans for a Linux version.

Next Up Hero announced by Aspyr Media and Digital Continue, will support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Next Up Hero is a new arcade action-adventure being developed by Digital Continue and it's being published by Aspyr Media.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Friday Livestream is here again! Another week has gone by and it's time for me to heat up my Ryzen to bring you a live broadcast of silliness, video games and more silliness! So, point your browsers towards our Twitch channel for some live Linux gaming!

Prison Architect updated with more staff needs, a morale system and Steam Cloud Saves

By Liam Dawe,
Prison Architect, the prison building and management sim was updated towards the end of last month to bring in more needs for your staff and more.

Slime-san, the excellent platformer is to get a huge free update this month

By Liam Dawe,
I was extremely impressed with Slime-san when I took a look and it's about to get a huge free content update, in the form of a free DLC.

Stellar Tactics, the space exploration RPG with classless character progression is getting closer to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I wrote about Stellar Tactics in October last year, as it looked like a pretty decent space exploration RPG and the developer was planning Linux support. It seems the Linux version is now coming closer!

Shadow of Mordor is currently 80% off and free to play for a few days

By Liam Dawe,
If you still haven't picked up Shadow of Mordor now is a damn good time to try it out. It's 80% off and actually completely free to try for a few days.

Join the fun on our new server for Rust

By Liam Dawe,
You asked, some of you repeatedly and so I listened. GOL now officially runs a server for Rust and you're all welcome to join in.

Take a look at 'The Skirmisher' another new unit coming to XCOM 2's War of the Chosen expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Oh goodie, another new unit that's actually on our side. Let's take a look at The Skirmisher another unit you will find in the War of the Chosen expansion coming to XCOM 2.

ARK: Survival Evolved has just had a price increase, it has more than doubled

By Liam Dawe,
Studio Wildcard seem to repeatedly mess up Early Access for ARK: Survival Evolved. First with a DLC for an unfinished game and now this new eye watering price.

Dawn of War III updated on Linux, we now have the Annihilation mode update

By Liam Dawe,
Good news everyone! Dawn of War III has been updated on Linux today and we now have the Annihilation game modes available.

Move or Die could quite easily be my new favourite game, it's absolutely nuts

By Liam Dawe,
Move or Die was sent over by Samsai during the first part of the birthday livestream today (GamingOnLinux is 8 today!) and it's quite an incredible game.

Steam just keeps growing according to a presentation Valve did recently, UI update is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, Valve did a presentation about Steam during Indigo 2017 which took place in June. The interesting and not surprising thing here is that Steam just keeps on growing.