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GNOME Twitch is a rather slick desktop Twitch viewer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Caveman Warriors, a surprisingly good 1-4 player action platformer needs help on Kickstarter

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The developers of Caveman Warriors sent in a copy of their in-development 1-4 player action platformer and it's really quite good.

Ama's Lullaby, a point & click adventure with hacking plans Linux support

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Ama's Lullaby is currently on Kickstarter with the interesting premise of being a point & click adventure with hacking.

World of One, a fantastic looking and dark indie puzzle platformer

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The developers of World of One emailed in details about their dark puzzle platformer and it really does look interesting.