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HTC Vive Plans Linux/SteamOS Support For Day 1

By Liam Dawe,
Good news VR fans, it seems the HTC Vive plans to have Linux/SteamOS support included for day 1 at release.

Unity Slides From SIGGRAPH Are Up, Unity Not Doing Vulkan Just Yet

By Liam Dawe,
Lots of news coming out of SIGGRAPH recently, and next up is the slides from Unity's talk now being available.

Planetary Annihilation Massive Update Released, Please Welcome Asteroids

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Cheeseness,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By sobkas,
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!

By Samsai,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By BTRE,
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

By BTRE,
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

By BTRE,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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

By Liam Dawe,
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!