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Planetary Annihilation Massive Update Released, Please Welcome Asteroids


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Planetary Annihilation gets bigger, as the previous test release that included Asteroids is now live in the stable version.

GOG Have Supported Linux For Just Over A Year, Announce New Linux Installer System


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GOG have officially supported Linux for just over a year, and to mark the occasion they have worked out new official installers for all their Linux games.

Ubuntu Developers Looking To Simplify Getting Latest Nvidia Graphics Drivers


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I had a nice email from Jorge Castro of Canonical today, and it seems they are looking at ways for Ubuntu users to get newer Nvidia graphics drivers in an easier fashion.

Interplanetary Strategy Game Thoughts, Throwing Missiles From Planet To Planet On Linux


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Interplanetary is a very intriguing game about firing missiles, railguns and lots of fancy weapons from your planet, to an enemy planet, and it’s quite good.

Terraria For Linux Is Making Great Progress


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The developer working on the Linux version of Terraria has made great progress, and it shouldn't be too long before it's considered stable.

PowerVR Show Off Vulkan On Android, Impressive


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PowerVR seem very interested in Vulkan, and a demo they have shown off shows much better performance on Vulkan over OpenGL.

Winter's Wake, A First Person/Text Adventure Hybrid


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GOL editor Cheeseness also makes games. A playable demo of his fantasy first person/text adventure hybrid Winter's Wake is now available.

The Sales Page Returns


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Did you miss it? Our sales page has been fixed up somewhat with huge thanks to our server admin Levi.

Insurgency Tactical FPS Still Looking To Support Linux, Developers Working On A Solution


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It's sad that it seems Valve aren't supporting their Source Engine developers very well in some cases, and the Insurgency developers are going their own way to support us.

Contagion Linux Version Still Happening, Developers Discussing With Valve To Move To A Newer Engine


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We've been pretty patient waiting for Contagion to come to Linux, and we haven't been forgotten about. The developers will be visiting Valve this year to speak about it.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.49 Is Now Available


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Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.49 have many small changes including 31 bugfixes.

It's That Time Of The Week, So We Shall Play Games Live At 5 PM UTC!


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A week's gone by and it's time to gather around for a live session of Linux gaming, as is the tradition here on GOL. So, I welcome you once again to the Friday Livestream for some slightly entertaining commentary and gameplay.

Nvidia To Show Off Vulkan On NVIDIA GPUs & An OpenGL Linux Graphics Debugger


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It seems Nvidia are getting more invested in Linux, and this makes me rather happy. At SIGGRAPH 2015 on Sunday Nvidia is doing a number of talks, and two are very interesting for us Linux folks.

Stellaris, An Ambitious Space Grand Strategy Game By Paradox, Announced & Coming To Linux


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Paradox Development Studios revealed at Gamescom one of the big secret projects they have been working on. So far, everything looks awesome!

Pillars Of Eternity: The White March Part I Gets A Release Date


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The first expansion to the highly acclaimed Pillars of Eternity now has a solid release date. You can expect to continue the RPG adventure very soon.

Cities: Skylines Expansion 'After Dark' Announced


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Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have announced the first expansion to Cities: Skylines at Gamescom. This successful city builder will see the addition of a day/night cycle and added depth to the gameplay.

Tangiers Is A Horror Themed Stealth Game Coming To Linux, I'm Going To Make Samsai Stream It


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We love horror games here (hi Samsai), and Tangiers looks so freaky that it's exciting me. I'm going to see to it that Samsai (our video specialist) does a nice stream on it for you pleasure too.

Nightside, The Awesome Traditional RTS Game Exits Early Access


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Nightside is a personal favourite of mine, after I did initial testing for the developer a while ago they decided Linux would be worth it. The game has now left early access!

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! Simulation Game Comes To Linux!


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After a successful campaign on both PC and Mac, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is being released on Linux on the 7th of August.

The Funding Crowd 49


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Another three weeks have passed, and The Funding Crowd is back with a new batch of interesting crowdfunding campaigns.