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So, Unity 5 is now a thing, I hear the sound of many developers who recently purchased version 4 crying out in horror at having to pay to upgrade so soon. Looks like a lot of new goodies for developers!

Pharaoh's Dance was emailed in by the developer and I couldn't help myself in taking a look, it is an abstract climbing/platforming game that takes place inside a giant spinning carnival contraption.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch the hit indie adventure with some comedy thrown in has officially sold 90,000 copies, the developers have also spoken to me about Linux sales and what it means to them.

This is fantastic news, GOG.com are finally going to open up their store to penguin lovers of the Linux family!

Today we (Nabi Studios) are almost ready for the official launch of Toribash on Steam but we are still in need of Linux players who could try out the most recent version (4.8 beta 4). So, we have 15 keys to give-away!

A Celt-punk action-adventure set in a future Ireland ravaged by technomagical war and economic collapse, humanity clings on by using the remnants of technology that survive. Our hero must venture into lands unexplored, twisted by strange and mythical powers.

Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul.

Paragon the great looking space trading and combat game has hit alpha 5 bringing in lots of goodies for you space pirates!

This is pretty big and awesome news, Gauntlet the action/RPG game similar in style to games like Diablo is getting a reboot thanks to Warner Bros teaming up with Arrowhead Game Studios who developed Magicka.

Braveland is a turn-based game inspired by old-school strategies with hexagonal battlefield. You will start as a humble warrior's son whose village was cruelly raided and will end as talented commander of your army.

Dead Mans's Trail is a pretty fun looking zombie survival & travel game in the spirit of Organ Trail, with plenty of differences to keep you interested.

Chaos Reborn is the newest major Kickstarter to pop up, from one developer I highly respect for creating the original X-COM strategy game.

Previously DUELYST wasn't going to include Linux support at all, now the developers have stated it will be in their first stretch goal due to "overwhelming demand", so I dug deeper.

A Cyberpunk FPS with strong RPG elements, how can you not love Black Ice? It looks fantastic for an early game.

Depths of Fear :: Knossos is a first person adventure horror game, with light RPG elements coming to Linux from Dirigo Games and published by Digital Tribe Games.

Hyper Light Drifter is the fantastic looking 2D action RPG that got funded via Kickstarter, in the announcement of it coming to Playstation devices as well as Linux there is some great new footage.

Are you a Linux nerd, by that you use two different distros on your PC? If so, do you play games via Steam? If this is the case, I wrote a how-to that explains how you can save lots of storage space by sharing your games' data files across both distros! It's easy.

Valve's Rich Geldreich has been busy, he has now fixed a number of issues that where driver specific to AMD, allowing the debugger to work for AMD now too.

Magicite is the very vibrant looking RPG platformer in Steam's Early Access section, it has recently gained a whopper patch to add a ton of content.

You know, after playing various platformers in GOL Casts I've actually started to enjoy them more than I did before. Of course my platforming skills are still non-existant, but that has never stopped me before! Let the dying continue!