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Livestream tonight at 19:45 UTC instead of tomorrow!

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Tonight I will be doing the weekly livestream as I am busy with pre-birthday stuff tomorrow (I turn 28 on Saturday) and my voice is back hooray!

Move or Die: a funny 4 player local and online party game!

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Move or Die is an incredible, funny and fast paced party game with a lot of mods and funny mutators. You can play local or online with up to 4 players. Steam Workshop integration for user created maps and character skins are available for local play only, while playing online you can earn EXP to level up your profile to unlock skins, game mods and extras.

Headlander, the new game from Double Fine Productions will not come to Linux

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This is very sad to see from a previously very Linux friendly developer. Headlander from Double Fine Productions will not come to Linux due to their choice of graphics API.

New version of the itch store app released, as slick as ever

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The itch developers have been hard at work making their open source store app even better for you, and it's lovely.

God is a Cube: Nanomachines Rising, a programming puzzle game is coming to Linux

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God is a Cube: Nanomachines Rising sounds pretty fun for anyone who likes programming, puzzles and robotics. You control nanomachines to create AIs made of graphical symbols.

Empire TV Tycoon, thoughts from a Linux gamer

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It has been a while as other things kept coming up, but I finally take a look at Empire TV Tycoon. I was not impressed.

Microsoft gives the okay for SWORDY to come to Linux & SteamOS

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Some good news! SWORDY has been given the green light to come to Linux & SteamOS by Microsoft, as the developer was a bit confused due to the Xbox One exclusive deal they have.

HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework needs funds on IndieGoGo

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HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework that was used in the creation of Defender's Quest is needing a bit of funding on IndieGoGo.

Mojang working on new launcher for Minecraft, Linux might not see support

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For those still playing Minecraft, you may know that Mojang is working on a new launcher that doesn't use Java (hooray!), but it might not run on Linux (boo!).

Death Road to Canada released on Steam with Linux support, some thoughts

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Death Road to Canada is a brand new Linux game that released on Steam recently and a GOL user was kind enough to send me a copy to take a look. It's a randomly generated road trip with zombies with lots of encounters and annoying people to find.

GOL Podcast S1E04: Tomb Raider

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The fourth episode for the GOL Podcast is finally here! New hosts, new material and it's time to grab a coffee and listen.

Epic Games founder thinks Microsoft will essentially break Steam in later versions of Windows 10

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Thanks to PC Gamer we have been pointed to an interview that Tim Sweeney the founder of Epic Games did, and he's blasting Microsoft yet again.

The Talos Principle updated with more Vulkan stability and performance

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Croteam have continued developing their Vulkan backend for The Talos Principle and have pushed the last beta to stable and released another beta with more Vulkan work.

Find a missing woman in 'Moirai', a FREE experimental story-driven game with a great twist, some thoughts

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Moirai is a very lightweight and short mini-game (only 13 MB and lasts 10 minutes) with an incredible twist at the end.

Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II (new port!) released on Steam for Linux

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Overlord, Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II are all now available on Steam for Linux. Overlord II is also a brand new port today!

7 Mages brings a touch more of traditional dungeon crawling to Linux

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Controlling a party of adventurers, exploring dungeons and fighting weird magical creatures is an RPG tradition as old as the genre. Expect all that and more in this modern iteration of the classical dungeon crawler.

Physics-based 3D puzzler Human: Fall Flat released on Steam for Linux

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Human: Fall Flat is an open-ended physics player with an optional local co-op mode, available now on Steam for Linux.

Stardew Valley is now in beta for Linux

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Stardew Valley is now in Beta, good job they did a Beta too and it won't even run properly for me and others right now.

Auto-Staccato looks like a great new take on rhythm games

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Auto-Staccato is a new action rhythm game coming to Linux and it's trying to get on Steam. Think of Audiosurf with swords and magics, it looks amusing.

Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can

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I'm a little late on reporting this due to being ill, but Quake has been ported to Vulkan and it's open source of course.