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I'm a Linux gamer from Finland. I like reading, long walks on the beach, dying repeatedly in roguelikes and ripping and tearing in FPS games. I also sometimes write code and sometimes that includes hobbyist game development.

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Vulkan 1.0 specification and SDK have been released

By Samsai,
The specification for the long awaited Vulkan graphics API has now been released by Khronos. An SDK by LunarG has also been released which contains validation and debugging tools for Vulkan applications.

Friday Livestream will greet you once again at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
I for one am particularly happy that it's Friday today. My studies have been stressing me out a little bit so it's good to relax a little with some Linux gaming. As always, you get to join in on the fun via the stream chat, so make use of it!

GOL Cast: Killing mushrooms and spiders in Sproggiwood

By Samsai,
Roguelikes have a tendency to be really complex games with tons of depth and thick user manuals. Sproggiwood is a game that tries to do away with the complexity but still offer an enjoyable roguelike experience. Let's check it out!

Friday Livestream commencing at 6 PM UTC, Commander

By Samsai,
It likely doesn't come to you as a surprise that I am going to be playing XCOM 2 on the Friday Livestream. It's the biggest game that has released during the past week and as such deserves a place on the livestream. So, let's destroy some aliens!

XCOM 2 tested on R7 370 with Crimson and RadeonSI

By Samsai,
You have seen Liam's port report of XCOM 2 on Nvidia hardware and it's time for me to take a look at the AMD performance. So, let's take the R7 370 on a spin with both the open and the proprietary drivers!

Friday Ahoy, it's Friday Livestream time at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Did you know that it's Friday again? Yeah, it's that day we play some games live on Twitch and talk all kinds of nonsense. You are, as per usual, welcome to join in on the madness as it unfolds during the 2 hour live segment of Linux gaming on our own little Twitch channel!

First-person puzzle game Attractio has been released on Steam

By Samsai,
A first-person puzzle game by the name of Attractio, developed by GameCoder Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, has been released for Linux on Steam.

It's Friday Livestream day today! Come and watch at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
It appears that game releases are starting to line up properly once again and the Friday Livestream has some new releases to fuel this beast of a livestream and its hungry penguins. So do come and join us as we take on the obstacles the game devs place before us and fail horribly! Discussion of random topics is also included.

Friday Livestream, finally with new releases! Starting at 6 PM UTC

By Samsai,
It's time for our weekly livestream once again and luckily this time around we have a couple of new games to play! So, let's have fun with these recent releases on the traditional Friday Livestream of Linux games and random discussion!

You know the drill, The Friday Livestream is starting at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
As per tradition, I am holding the usual Friday Livestream and you are welcome to join in on the madness as I play some Linux games and talk about various (usually gaming related) topics which you can participate in via the Twitch chat.

GOL Cast: Surviving the harsh winter conditions in The Long Dark

By Samsai,
In a very surprising turn of events it appears that winter has arrived in Finland and I think that calls for a very specific type of a game. Enter The Long Dark, a survival game set in the cold, dark forests of Canada.

Feel like fragging? You can do that in your browser with QuakeJS

By Samsai,
Here's an interesting thing I stumbled upon while I was looking up ioquake3 stuff. QuakeJS is a port of the ioquake3 engine to Javascript and WebGL and it plays original Quake 3 maps.

The first Friday Livestream of 2016 starting at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
2015 has come and gone and it's time to welcome the year 2016. It was quite the coincidence that the first day of 2016 happened to be a Friday so we get to celebrate it almost immediately with the GOL Friday tradition.

End of the year benchmarks, GTX 760 and R7 370

By Samsai,
It's been a while since I last dug up my 760 and did some benchmarking, so I decided that I would run some to celebrate the last days of 2015. I've picked some new games this time around to show the performance of both the open source and the proprietary drivers.

A festive Friday Livestream happening at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Hello, you holiday penguins! The festivities are slowly starting to come to an end but I figured I would still brighten your monitors with a Friday Livestream! Yes, even Christmas Day festivities aren't able to come between me and the GOL Friday tradition!

GOL Cast: Wandering Around Morrowind in OpenMW

By Samsai,
You might have heard about OpenMW, the open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine which, naturally, allows you to play Morrowind on Linux. Let's test it!

Remember, it's Friday Livestream time at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Finally, after a tiresome, cold and dark week it's finally Friday and I can relax knowing that the holidays are here! So let us celebrate a little with some Linux games!

We are going fast on the Friday Livestream, starting at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
The past two week have luckily had some interesting releases and project updates that have been fun to cover on the Friday Livestream. Today is not different, thanks to Feral Interactive!

GRID Autosport Tested on R7 370 4G

By Samsai,
You've likely already heard what Boss had to say about GRID and its Nvidia performance and now it's my time to show you how it ran on my AMD GPU.

Friday Livestream Is Here at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
There are many ways to describe a Friday and I'm obliged to do so nearly every week. To be honest, my imagination is slowly starting to run out of interesting ways to welcome you to the Friday Livestream so I'll keep it simple this time: you are invited to watch me play video games and talk about stuff for 2 hours. Welcome!
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