Heliborne, an online Helicopter combat game has a Linux Beta available that actually runs surprisingly well.
I was sent a key to Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps from the developers and I came away pretty impressed with it.
The Unity game engine forums were hacked over the weekend, with defacement of the site and messages sent to all users.
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, the RPG from Portalarium has another major update released and here's a look at what's new.
Mesa, the open source graphics drivers have been updated in the last few days to 17.0.5 and it contains a bunch of fixes.
Take this with a big 'ol bag of salt, but it's possible Dawn of War III might be coming to Linux. Thanks to a tip from a Twitter follower.
Thimbleweed Park developer Ron Gilbert mentioned on Twitter how strong the Linux (and Mac) sales have been, and that it would be silly to ignore it.
Armello is a digital board game about taking the throne from a dying king, it's good fun and they have a new DLC available.
Diluvion, the deep-sea exploration game now has a Linux beta, but the developers suggest holding off for a bit while they get the sound working.
Everything is a hard game to describe, it could be called a life simulator, as you can explore so much. Just today they put out a Linux version!
Awesomenauts, the side-scrolling MOBA, a game I really quite enjoyed playing a while ago is going free to play next month.
The latest Wine development release 2.7 is now officially out and it's a pretty interesting one. Some real goodies in this release!
Fear me, mortals, for it is time for me to take the reigns of the GOL Twitch channel. Yes, it is Friday once more and that means games will be played, fun will be had in varying amounts and an unhealthy amount of nonsensical commentary will be sprinkled on top!
If there's one thing that does frustrate me about the Steam Controller, it's that games often need SC Controller to be run if outside of Steam. If the game uses SDL, in future this may not be needed.
The Mesa developers have been plugging away to get Mesa 17.1 into shape for release, one feature in particular has seen a lot of attention: the shader cache. It will no longer use a percentage of available disk space.
I see people annoyed with GOG a lot in our comments for how long it's taking their Galaxy client to land on Linux, the good news is that it's being worked on.
On May 10th, Rakuen, a great looking 2D adventure RPG will release with day 1 Linux support from developer Laura Shigihara.
Victor Vran Motörhead Through the Ages is an upcoming DLC with some really slick tunes and it now has a trailer. Both this and the Fractured Worlds DLC now have a release date.
On May 25th there's a Vulkan event happening in the UK. Organised by Khronos UK, there will be a number of interesting talks including Croteam and Feral Interactive.
Become a mummified redneck in the FPS Immortal Redneck, here’s some thoughts I cooked up for you plus a gameplay video.