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Raven's Cry, the pirate-themed open-world action RPG from TopWare Interactive and Reality Pump has a new release date. See inside for the scoop!

For all the classic-style adventure fans: You can now grab the first three parts from Blackwell series on Steam for Linux!

The latest entry in the Borderlands series has been released in the Americas today. Unfortunately the rest of the world will have to wait a few days before getting their hands on the game.

You may remember me praising Ziggurat for being an awesome Early Access title. Well, here's another one that I've been pretty interested in for a while that is quite a mix: Hand of Fate!

Among various bug-fixes, this version also features support for GPU acceleration on Linux platform (CUDA-capable devices only) and reworked documentation.

Planetary Annihilation has just received an update adding the (much requested) possibility of playing offline and LAN games.

A tweet sent out by the Unity engine folks earlier about their stats page mentions that all Unity games automatically send your data to them on the first launch. This is interesting and worrying.

Scrolls is the next game from Minecraft studio Mojang that promised Linux support back in 2012. Two years later they have just pushed out an experimental Linux build.

Here is a look back at the last week on GamingOnLinux, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past week for Linux Gaming!

Wildfire Games has released a new alpha of their open source real-time strategy game. Alpha 17 is titled ”Quercus” and contains numerous gameplay balance fixes and ability to place soldiers on top of walls among other things.

Hello, my name is Segata and I’m a Paradoxaholic. With Paradox Interactive releasing The Art of War - the biggest expansion yet for Europa Universalis IV - with a huge list of extra features and Hearts of Iron IV due next year, I fear I may plunge further into the depths of addiction.

The Hive, a story-driven real-time strategy game, was launched on Thursday on Steam Early Access for Windows, but according to the developers it should be available for Linux at a later date.

Shadowrun Online has officially launched on Linux. It's still in early access as well, so it's not yet feature complete.

The developers of Reflex have pulled the plug on their Kickstarter campaign, as it's unrealistic that the goal still can be achieved (10 days left, 81k/360k pledged). The project won't be abandoned though, as it has been greenlit on Steam and is being prepared for Early Access. If Linux support is still on their list is questionable.

A couple of old Sid Meier classics were released on Steam, more precisely Sid Meier's Colonization, Pirates! Gold Plus, and Sid Meier's Covert Action.

Rat King Entertainment's vibrant first person puzzle adventure TRI is now available on Steam, Humble Store, GOG, IndieGameStand and itch.io!

We are currently livestreaming our public discussion of our current plans here at GOL on Twitch now that TheBoss is no longer writing for us.

The 90's Arcade Racer was delayed again with no given release date. Graphics, models and sound are in a good shape, but the code makes some trouble for the developers. Especially the AI code is giving them some headache.

Following on from his earlier "Port Reports" on Civ V and XCOM, PCGamingWiki contributor soeb is back, this time looking at how Linux versions of Tropico 5 and Borderlands 2 stand up against their Windows counterparts.

Wadjet Eye Games make their first same-day release for Linux with the release of A Golden Wake today. Follow real estate agent Alfie Banks in this retelling of historical events during the Florida land boom in the early 1920s and the following Great Depression.