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Signs of Life, a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer officially adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of Signs of Life switched from XNA to MonoGame a few months ago and now the Linux build has been promoted to an officially supported platform.

Turns out that 'River City Ransom: Underground' will see day-1 Linux support (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
A few days ago I wrote about 'River City Ransom: Underground' not getting day-1 Linux support, but it seems it will and the developer had their wires crossed somewhere. Note: Article updated.

The Wild Eight is another game funded by Kickstarter that decided to delay the promised Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
GOL follower 'Beer' wrote in to let us know that 'The Wild Eight', a game I was previously excited about has decided to delay the Linux version because doing builds for different systems is 'too hard'.

Neon Drive, a very slick and rather difficult retro-inspired rhythm game

By Liam Dawe,
Neon Drive was sent in by GOL reader Cybolic as they have officially released their Linux version. The developers say it will make your brain melt and they aren't wrong.

Feral Interactive will livestream HITMAN for Linux on Wednesday the day before release

By Liam Dawe,
Exciting week ahead folks! We have HITMAN releasing on Thursday, so Feral Interactive are going to demo it on a livestream on Wednesday!

Typoman: Revised released for Linux, a puzzle platformer with some word puzzling mixed in

By Samsai,
An indie puzzle platformer, where you must control the world around you with words, by the name of Typoman: Revised has made its way onto Linux via Steam.

Gunmetal Arcadia released with same-day Linux support

By BTRE,
This action-adventure platformer Gunmetal Arcadia, with smooth retro-styled art, was released earlier in the week.

'The Dweller' is a short and minimalistic but incredibly fun and solid puzzler that I highly recommend

By -Daniel-Palacio-,
'The Dweller' is one of those obscure games that for some reason, despite being well made and original they pass completely unnoticed under the radar, and once you finally play them you not only feel you've spent a couple of hours on a worthy title, but also the fact itself of finding them is totally rewarding.

Join me on Twitch tonight at 8PM UTC for some gaming fun

By Liam Dawe,
Tonight I shall be continuing my weekly game of Half-Life 2: Update and Rocket League online with the community! Join me at 8PM UTC.

Rocket League should now perform better on Mesa with radeonsi

By Liam Dawe,
Timothee Besset sent word that Rocket League has now been updated to fix some issues Mesa users were having with radeonsi.

Steam now has over 3,000 Linux games available

By Liam Dawe,
It's official! Steam has hit another milestone for Linux games. We now have over 3,000 Linux games to fill our time with.

Into The Breach, the new strategy game from the makers of FTL will be on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Into The Breach has been announced by Subset Games, the creators of the excellent FTL. It will support Linux, but not at day-1.

OpenGL Multi-threading, what it is and what it means

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There’s been a fair bit of talk recently about attempting to multi-thread using OpenGL so I thought I’d write a bit more about what “multi-threading” an OpenGL game is, what’s normally done, and how it compares to multi-threading in Vulkan. Here's an attempt to explain it a little.

Valve set to replace Greenlight with Steam Direct

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have finally announced what they suggested they would do at the first SteamDevDays, Greenlight is being thrown out. It will be replaced by 'Steam Direct', which may still require a payment from developers.

Friday Livestream at 6 PM UTC!

By Samsai,
Hooray, it's Friday again and it's time for the Friday Livestream once more! Linux games will once again be played and nonsense will be discussed on our live show of Linux gaming! Reserve your seats and point your browsers towards our Twitch for tonight's show!

The Linux release of River City Ransom: Underground will see a delay

By Liam Dawe,
River City Ransom: Underground, the crowdfunded follow-up to the original will see a delay in the Linux version.

Getting the 'threaded GL dispatch' code into Mesa is causing some issues, Valve might use a white-list

By Liam Dawe,
You may remember recently I wrote about 'threaded GL dispatch' in Mesa possibly getting merged, after AMD's Marek suggested it and there was some backlash, well, it has continued.

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has a big polishing update, take a look at my video

By Liam Dawe,
Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS from the Insurgency developers has a big update including new maps, updated game-modes, performance improvements and more.

Interview with Aspyr Media about porting Civilization VI to Linux and other interesting questions

By Liam Dawe,
Now that Aspyr Media have ported Civilization VI to Linux, it’s time to publish our interview! Grab a coffee and come learn some things.

Croteam say Vulkan 'is the way forward', Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter due in 'weeks' with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing my love for Croteam, today it was pointed out on reddit that the Croteam developers have been talking quite a bit more about Vulkan on one of their Steam forums. They also stated that Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter should have the Fusion update with Linux & Vulkan in 'weeks'.