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Earlier I had some time to sit down and play through nearly two hours of SOMA, the new horror game from Frictional Games and these are my initial thoughts.

That's it folks, it's all official now. Alien: Isolation is coming to Linux next week, and it's going to scare you senseless.

Looks like AMD finally spoke in public about their plans for Vulkan, and the news is looking pretty good.

It's always fun when I see lots of websites talking about how many games Linux now has on Steam, as the number itself doesn't really mean all that much.

The Funding Crowd has once again returned to keep you up to date on the latest news in crowdfunding for Linux.

Some initial thoughts on game development simulator Game Corp DX before the full release next month.

The full names of the games are 'Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse' and 'D&D Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator' and they were released on GOG for Linux just before the weekend.

The previously announced roguelike Gunmetal Arcadia will be preceded by a classic action platformer early next year.

Developer Side Scroll Studios has released a new video to show off some of the non-combat elements of their upcoming metroidvania platformer with action RPG elements.

In addition to the free demo, the latest update also introduces an "Easy Mode" to make the game less punishing and a new option to turn off some of the dialogue for players who don't care for as much exposition.

Manifold Garden is an upcoming exploration puzzle game set in an Escher-esque world, where you can walk on any visible surface.

I've been a little bit sick this past week and still haven't completely recovered, so I decided to invite a fairly familiar person to act as the co-host for this week's Friday Livestream. That person is of course our beloved leader, TheBoss. We will be playing some multiplayer games for fun but less for profit.

Triumph Studios has just released Age of Wonders v1.7, and with it comes a much anticipated feature in the form of user-created modding, including brand new units, heroes, classes, races and gameplay mods, along with a ton of stability fixes and balancing work.

I Can't Escape: Darkness tickled my fancy when I first heard about it, and I had access to play it a bit early and get some impressions.

It's not secret that I consider Victor Vran to be one of the best action RPG's on Linux, and now even more so with more free content!

Carnivore Land is a new and quite promising looking top down zombie shooter now in Early Access, and it's available for us of course.

Going through my backlog, and today we are checking out DreadOut a third person horror game. Prepare your spare pants people!

It's good to see another game from OrangePixel, as I previously tried their Heroes of Loot which didn't hit any notes for me. Luckily, Space Grunts is hitting the right ones.

It's time for another GOL Asks, and today you "What game are you looking forward to playing?". This doesn't have to be unreleased games, even one sitting in your list waiting to be played with.

AMD have released a new driver for their GPUs and because I happen to own one I decided to do a test run with it by running my standard set of benchmarks to see what improvements, if any, there are.