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90s collectible card game Doomtrooper is being revived as a PC game, releasing for Linux this Spring

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

Originally released in the 90s as a proper real-life game, the CCG (collectible card game) Doomtrooper was revived with a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017.

Developer of Brutal Doom reveals new project: VietDoom; alpha 0.1 already available

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 27 Dec 2019

Last August, the developer responsible for the excellent mod Brutal Doom, revealed after a month of absence that he was working on a new project called VietDoom, which takes place during Vietnam War.

Doomsday Engine for classic Doom, Heretic and Hexen has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2019

Giving you another great way to play the classics, Doomsday Engine 2.2 has been released marking 20 years since the announcement of its creation.

RetroArch is getting hardware video decoding, manual content scanning and more

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2019

The team behind the RetroArch front-end used with emulators, game engines and media players have announced that it will be getting proper hardware accelerated video decoding soon.

Confessing my continued love for Jupiter Hell, the super slick roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2019

Regular readers won't be surprised by my love for Jupiter Hell, I've written about it a few times now and the latest update just continues to allow me to gush about it.

Dicey Dungeons outsold Terry Cavanagh's last two Steam games in the first month

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2019

Terry Cavanagh, the indie developer behind VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and the latest Dicey Dungeons has a new blog post out talking about how well Dicey Dungeons has done and what's to come next.

BlooM brings together the classics Doom and Blood

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2019

Another quality mashup here, with BlooM merging together elements from both Doom and Blood into something quite different.

BorderDoom adds a little Borderlands flavour to classic Doom

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2019

Always on the lookout for the new and interesting, BorderDoom came across the GOL news-desk recently adding a little Borderlands flavour to Doom.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition released with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2019

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition from Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montréal and Square Enix has been released today with a Linux port available from Feral Interactive. With an included port report.

ULTRAKILL is a first-person shooter for fans of super speed and lots of blood

By Liam Dawe, 29 Oct 2019

ULTRAKILL, as the name might suggest, is a pretty over-the-top game. It's an upcoming first-person shooter from Hakita that now has a free Prelude build out.

Noir-inspired detective adventure 'Backbone: Prologue' now supports Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Oct 2019

Backbone: Prologue, acting as the demo of an upcoming much larger game from developer EggNut has finally added Linux support today a few months after releasing for Windows.

The impressively smooth roguelike Jupiter Hell has a big AI upgrade and a first sale

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2019

ChaosForge continue advancing their turn-based shooter roguelike shooter Jupiter Hell, with another big update now available.

A little look over ProtonDB reports for Steam Play in September 2019

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct 2019

ProtonDB have released another of their monthly data dumps of user reports for Steam Play, so let's take a look over what happened during September.

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What's that? Another Steam Client Beta update? With a Linux platform filter? Yes it is

By Liam Dawe, 26 Sep 2019

Valve have released the fourth Beta update for the Steam Client since the new Library design dropped and it's a good one.

Doom 4 Vanilla is the latest crazy Doom game pack inspired by 2016's DOOM

By Liam Dawe, 4 Sep 2019

This is quite amazing. I never grow tired of seeing what people in the Doom modding community are able to achieve.

A little look over ProtonDB reports for Steam Play in August 2019

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2019

Another month has come and go and so ProtonDB, the super handy unofficial tracker for Steam Play compatibility ratings has released another data dump.