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Victor Vran 'Fractured Worlds' DLC trailer released

By Liam Dawe,
Victor Vran is about to get bigger as Fractured Worlds along with Motörhead: Through the Ages are both set to release in the Spring. The trailer for Fractured Worlds is now here!

Leaving Lyndow adds Linux support to their well reviewed short adventure game, my thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
Leaving Lyndow is a short and beautiful looking adventure game that came to Linux due to 'popular demand'. The developer sent in a copy, so I played through it and here's some thoughts.

NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics, a shoot 'em up redesigned like a turn-based strategy game

By Liam Dawe,
NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics sounds like an interesting game. It's done in the style of old shoot 'em up games, but turned into a turn-based strategy. A tactical shoot 'em up, if you will.

GNOME Twitch is a rather slick desktop Twitch viewer

By Liam Dawe,
Today I tried out GNOME Twitch, a native desktop application for watching Twitch streams and it's really quite amazing.

SDL2 Gamepad Tool, an alternative to Steam Big Picture configurator

By Liam Dawe,
Today I was sent a link to SDL2 Gamepad Tool from Seru on Discord, it's described as an alternative to the Steam Big Picture configurator for gamepads.

Wine-Staging 2.3 released, has some minor CSMT improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Wine-Staging 2.3 has now been officially released as they continue to improve their CSMT implementation.

Some thoughts on The Original Strife: Veteran Edition

By Hamish,
Strife: Quest for the Sigil was both a critical and commercial disappointment for Rogue Entertainment in 1996, and the source code to the game was mislaid by its developers. Years later work begin on reverse engineering Strife using the released Doom code. Night Dive Studios would later use this community project to craft The Original Strife: Veteran Edition.

Faeria, the rather good free to play turn-based card battler has a final release and now official Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
I've been waiting on this for a while now! Faeria is a free to play (don't pass it up yet) turn-based battler using cards.

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals

By Liam Dawe,
Welcome to another Wednesday Madness here at GOL. Another quick look at some good deals you shouldn't pass up!

Slime Rancher major update 'Ancient Ruins' released with lots of new toys

By Liam Dawe,
The 'Ancient Ruins' update for Slime Rancher is now live. This update adds in an entire new area filled with new types of slimes to catch.

Some thoughts on Blueprint Tycoon, the resource management sim

By Liam Dawe,
I was gifted a copy of Blueprint Tycoon by a GOL follower a little while ago, so it's about time I took a proper look at it.

There's a fork of Wine-Staging that allows you to play Overwatch on Linux, still needs work

By Liam Dawe,
It seems someone has forked Wine-Staging adding in all the needed patches for Overwatch to work, so I tested it out.

Lambs on the Road, a post-apocalyptic platformer survival game will see Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Lambs on the Road, a post-apocalyptic platformer survival game is coming to Linux and it looks pretty decent.

VoidExpanse has a new expansion named Pariahs’ Bane with an entirely new faction, plus a big patch

By Liam Dawe,
The open-world space action-RPG VoidExpanse has grown bigger with a new expansion named Pariahs’ Bane which adds a bunch of new shiny content.

DiRT Rally should soon render correctly with later LLVM versions on RadeonSI Mesa (AMD)

By Liam Dawe,
DiRT Rally seemed to have an issue with rendering properly in certain cases with newer versions of LLVM with RadeonSI Mesa (AMD), but it seems to have been tracked down as an issue in LLVM.

The threaded GL dispatch code for Mesa has been taken over by Timothy Arceri to continue the work

By Liam Dawe,
The work on the threaded GL dispatch code for Mesa has been picked up by Timothy Arceri as Marek is now busy with other work.

Streets of Rogue will finally release on Steam this Friday, come see the new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Streets of Rogue is the seriously cool sandbox roguelike with 1-4 player local and online co-op play. It will release on Steam this Friday and they have a new trailer.

How to livestream from Linux to Twitch, a simple guide to being awesome on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
I’ve had a number of requests to get a guide up on how to livestream from Linux to Twitch. It’s damn easy, so here’s how to do it.

Crusader Kings 2: Monks and Mystics, now available

By BTRE,
The latest expansion to the sprawling medieval grand strategy game has been released. Secret societies and orders are at the forefront of this one and, as always, a big free patch has arrived to all owners of the base game.

OBS Studio livestreaming and recording application updated, plenty of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you using OBS Studio for livestreaming and recording, you might want to update as OBS Studio 18.0.1 is now available.