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Codex of Victory, a turn-based strategy with real-time base building elements comes to Linux this month

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2017

The developers of Codex of Victory emailed in to let me know that their turn-based strategy with real-time base building elements will release this month with day-1 Linux support.

The Talos Principle has another stable build with Vulkan improvements, much better than OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2017

Croteam have put out yet another stable build of The Talos Principle, which brings improvements for the Vulkan version. I did some fresh benchmarks and the difference is quite amazing.

Start your engines as DiRT Rally is now on Linux, port report & review

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2017

DiRT Rally is one game a lot of Linux gamers have been looking forward to, so here’s my port report and review.

Khronos working on an '3D Portability Initiative' to enable portable development across Vulkan, DX12 and Metal

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2017

The Khronos Group have announced a '3D Portability Initiative' to enable 3D applications that are portable across Vulkan, DX12 and Metal.

The 'System Shock' remake has switched from Unity to Unreal Engine, Linux still aiming for day-1 release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2017

The 'System Shock' remake being done by Nightdive Studios has switched to Unreal Engine and they have said that Linux support 'is not in question at all'.

Torment: Tides of Numenera, early port report and thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

A smaller article about the new RPG Torment: Tides of Numenera after spending a little time with it to make sure it works, he's a little report.

American Truck Simulator has a new beta with some major engine simulation improvements

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

For the truckers out there, American Truck Simulator has a big new open beta available with plenty of new stuff to play with.

New NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver released, fixing SteamVR problems

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

NVIDIA have released another beta of their Vulkan driver, which includes a fix for a major problem with SteamVR.

Steel Division: Normandy 44 RTS announced by Paradox & Eugen Systems (UPDATED)

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

Paradox & Eugen Systems have today announced their new RTS 'Steel Division: Normandy 44' and it will have Linux support. UPDATE: It will not have Linux support.

NVIDIA have announced the 1080 Ti and it's a beast

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

NVIDIA have let a few details out on the 1080 Ti and it sounds like an absolute power-house of a GPU.

Valve are working on a new design for the Steam client

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

Recently, some images 'leaked' in a Steam update that showed off a shiny new look for the Steam client and Valve have confirmed it is being worked on.

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

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

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

'Fruits of a Feather' is a small Pay What You Want unconventional exploration game where you play as a bird

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 1 Mar 2017

'Fruits of a Feather' is a short mini-game which has been out there for a while, whose general concept and gameplay intend to provide a relaxing experience as a main priority, so you should expect a pretty unconventional and minimalistic title.

Total War: WARHAMMER has two free new content packs available (UPDATED)

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

Total War: WARHAMMER has two new free content packs available to download and one of them has quite a few features! UPDATE: They are now actually live!

GOG is having another weekly retro sale with eleven Linux supported titles

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 1 Mar 2017

Three weeks after the previous retro Weekly Sale, GOG is celebrating another one with Linux supported games from the late 80's and 90's (mostly). Some of them are titles which are totally unmissable.

Thimbleweed Park to release on March 30th with day-1 Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2017

Thimbleweed Park, the new point & click adventure game from Ron Gilbert and Garry Winnick is to release on March 30th and it will have day-1 Linux support.

Unity 5.6 to release March 31st with 'out of the box support for Vulkan'

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2017

More news from GDC, Unity have announced that on March 31st, Unity 5.6 will release and it will have 'out of the box support for Vulkan'.

LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2017

During GDC at the AMD event, a LiquidSky employee stated that their gaming client that streams games to you will have a Linux client.

Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2017

So I've been doing a Half-Life 2: Update play-through during my recent livestreams and Samsai decided to grab some 'best bits' to utterly roast me good. Come watch.