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Friday Livestream with Samsai at 6 PM UTC!

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The time has come once again! I welcome you to our weekly Friday Livestream where we will play games and talk nonsense for a bit over 2 hours. It's a lot of fun! So, make your way to the Twitch page for some live Linux gaming!

The latest elusive target is live in HITMAN, including in the Linux version

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The latest elusive target in HITMAN is now available to try and take down! The good news is that Feral Interactive have kept up with the Windows version and we have it at exactly the same time.

Entroware have unleashed the 'Aether' laptop for Linux enthusiasts featuring Intel's 7th generation CPUs

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Entroware, the UK-based Linux hardware vendor have released a new laptop named 'Aether' and it's quite the little beast.

Security: You might want to change passwords on sites that use Cloudflare

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Not gaming news, but still important to get across. Cloudflare has written a blog post detailing a security issue that was identified which is important to know about.

Angels with Scaly Wings, a visual novel that's actually not bad at all

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If you need to know something about me, it's that I usually hate visual novels with a passion. They thrust boobs and other bits in your face constantly, but Angels with Scaly Wings is different and it's quite interesting too.

Wells, a steampunk run and gun game released for Linux and I took a look, it's not good

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Today I tried to play Wells, a new steampunk run and gun action game, but sadly the experience wasn't great.

SuperTuxKart is trying to get on Steam, be sure to give it a vote

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The open source racer SuperTuxKart is aiming to get on Steam before Greenlight is closed, so be sure to give it a vote.

Crusader Kings II - Monks and Mystics DLC announced

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Paradox are going to give some fresh life to Crusader Kings II with a new DLC named 'Monks and Mystics'.

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux

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Croteam being awesome as usual, as promised Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is now officially on Linux.

Valve have announced 'Steam Audio' an SDK of advanced audio tools, it will support Linux

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Valve have ripped the lid off their latest project named 'Steam Audio', an SDK of advanced audio tools that will support Linux.

Solstice Chronicles: MIA, an incredible looking top-down alien shooter will support Linux

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Solstice Chronicles: MIA is a very fancy looking top-down alien shooter seeking funding on Fig. It will support Linux and it might be worth a look.

A small tip for anyone working with Kdenlive and large video files

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This is likely something many of you who edit videos frequently already know, but here's a small tip for those of you (like me) who aren't massively familiar with all the video editing options available. This tip is about working with large files, like longer or high quality gameplay videos.

A look at Bleed 2, the crazy action game from Ian Campbell

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Thanks to the developer for sending in a key, I've had a chance to put some time into Bleed 2. It turns out that it's damn fun and it is a little insane.

The MMO 'Albion Online' finally has a release date, new huge update in March

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The rather good MMO 'Albion Online' finally has a proper release date! I am looking forward to creating a guild with some Linux gamers.

Mesa now has a shader cache in Mesa-git for r600/radeonsi

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Good news for AMD GPU owners on open source drivers, as Mesa-git now has a shader cache enabled for r600 and radeonsi.

Fumbling around with tanks in War Thunder on Linux, some thoughts

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One title I never had the chance to actually get into is War Thunder, so I teamed up with Samsai to check it out. Here’s a video and some thoughts.

AMD officially announce Ryzen 7 CPUs for launch on March 2nd

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AMD will be officially releasing their Ryzen 7 CPUs on March 2nd, so there's not long to go! They can be pre-ordered right now too if you're that excited about it.

Wine-Staging 2.2 released with CSMT speed optimizations

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The Wine team has put out another Wine-Staging release based on Wine 2.2, this new development release has some CSMT speed optimizations.

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!

You can grab Civilization V super cheap and get money off Civilization VI thanks to Humble

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A pretty good deal you might want to know about! Humble Bundle has a Civilization bundle going on right now where you can get Civilization V really cheap and also get money off Civilization VI.