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Waaagh! Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III released for Linux with OpenGL & Vulkan, review & port report

By Liam Dawe, Jun 8, 2017

Hey you humies! Time to die! Feral Interactive have done it once again! We now have a native Linux port of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III and here’s my port report. Waaagh!

StarCrawlers, a gritty spacepunk dungeon crawler has released and it's looking good

By Liam Dawe, Jun 6, 2017

StarCrawlers is a game I covered quite some time ago back in March of 2015, years later it's now released in full. It's a fresh take on the 3D dungeon crawlers set in a spacepunk themed universe.

StarFlint, is a comedy point & click adventure game not to be missed on Kickstarter, has a Linux demo

By Liam Dawe, Jun 5, 2017

StarFlint is a new comedy point and click adventure in the style of old Lucas Arts titles, it's on Kickstarter and it actually has a Linux demo to check out.

Blasting away rocks and pirates in Stardrift Nomads, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, Jun 2, 2017

I've been playing Stardrift Nomads, a twin-stick space shooter with Tower Defence elements and it holds up pretty well.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!

By Samsai, Jun 2, 2017

Huzzah! The weekend is near and video games are in the horizon! Today you have a chance of participating in our weekly ritual of summoning the weekend with the power of online-transmitted video streams and video games, so do join us on Twitch!

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Breaking Point, an Arma 3 mod is moving to Unreal Engine 4 with Kickstarter, Linux & Vulkan planned

By Liam Dawe, Jun 2, 2017

Breaking Point is an online survival game that blends survival realism with the gameplay of a modern military shooter. It was previously an Arma 3 mod, but now they're moving to Unreal Engine 4 with a Kickstarter and they plan Linux support.

Control a defective spaceship in space survival game 'Deep Sixed' now on Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe, May 29, 2017

Deep Sixed is a space survival game where you're given control of a defective spaceship with a mission to explore a large nebula, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it turns out.

SteamVR updated with experimental Linux support for SteamVR Home

By Liam Dawe, May 26, 2017

Valve have pushed out another update to SteamVR, this time Linux has been given experimental support for SteamVR Home.

Planet Nomads officially lands into Early Access

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2017

Planet Nomads, the rather fancy looking sandbox survival game has now officially launched into Early Access and it's looking pretty good.

Parsec is another game streaming service, now with Linux support and it's blown me away

By Liam Dawe, May 24, 2017

I've been chatting to the founders of Parsec, a new game streaming service that allows you to stream games from any cloud machine to your desktop. They just released Linux support and apparently it even works on streaming to a Raspberry Pi.

Lightspeed Frontier, another ship-building sandbox experience, impressive

By Liam Dawe, May 22, 2017

I'm an absolute sucker when it comes to spaceship building and combat games. Avorion is a good one I put some thoughts up on, but Lightspeed Frontier is also quite impressive.

The developer of EVERSPACE makes it clear it's not just NVIDIA problems holding the port up, making progress

By Liam Dawe, May 19, 2017

EVERSPACE is still coming to Linux and the developer has made it clear that it's not just problems with NVIDIA holding the Linux port back. They also made a little progress.

EVERSPACE to launch without Linux support, NVIDIA driver bugs are part of the problem

By Liam Dawe, May 18, 2017

EVERSPACE, the gorgeous space shooter that's supposed to get a Linux version is launching soon, but sadly, there will be no Linux support for now.

Ballistic Overkill updated as promised with Vulkan, but it's now completely broken (UPDATED with temp fix)

By Liam Dawe, May 16, 2017

Confirmed by others as well, the latest Ballistic Overkill that adds in Vulkan and many other things, has completely broken the Linux version. UPDATED with a temp fix.

Haemimont Games & Paradox announce 'Surviving Mars', a management strategy game

By Liam Dawe, May 12, 2017

Surviving Mars, from developer Haemimont Games and publisher Paradox is a brand new management strategy game about colonizing the red planet.

Limit Theory, an ambitious space game, is still being developed and has quite a few beautiful screenshots to show off

By BTRE, May 11, 2017

Originally crowdfunded nearly five years ago, it’s taken a long time for Limit Theory to shape up. Development is cruising along now and there’s more news of what the developers are up to.

Stellaris turns one year old today, gets free DLC and a patch in celebration

By BTRE, May 9, 2017

The grand strategy space game by Paradox has just gotten some more love. The update brings changes that should make running your empire more interesting.

Shallow Space development is not quite dead

By BTRE, May 9, 2017

Following a few months of no updates and general silence from developers of the space RTS, a GOL reader asked us to look into the current state of the game. We got a reply and it’s positive.