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The Cheapskate's Corner 17 (Sep 5th-11th)

By muntdefems,
The Cheapskate's Corner is back, and surely you are all expecting another burst of sales and bundles like we had last week, right? Well, we hate to break your hopes but that doesn't seem to be the case this time around...

GOG.com Don't Plan On Introducing Linux Support In The Foreseeable Future UPDATED

By Liam Dawe,
Well folks a lot of you saw this one coming, GOG.com have officially responded to us to state that Linux support just isn't happening anytime soon. UPDATED

Hotline Miami To Come Out Of Beta For Linux On September 9th

By Liam Dawe,
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Set in an alternative 1989 Miami, you will assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine.

0 A.D. Real Time Strategy Alpha 14 Released & New Crowdfunding Campaign

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest of 0 A.D. the open source real time strategy game has been released, please welcome Alpha 14 Naukratis! Along side this is their new crowdfunding campaign.

Life goes on - Demo available for Linux

By Dany,
Life Goes On is a comically morbid puzzle platformer game, where you send a series of dauntless medieval knights through a trap-ridden gauntlet, sacrificing them one by one to make progress. Impale a knight on a spike to provide the safe platform needed to cross a pit. Catch another knight on a saw blade so their body falls on a button to solve a puzzle.

MirrorMoon EP A Game About Mystery And Exploration In Outer Space

By Liam Dawe,
MirrorMoon EP is a game about mystery and exploration set in outer space. These space travels begin on a red planet and its unique moon and extend across galaxies. The single player part of MirrorMoon EP blends adventure and exploration with navigation-based puzzle solving.

Lenna's Inception A Top-Down Puzzle-Action-Adventure Game

By Liam Dawe,
Lenna's Inception is a top-down puzzle-action-adventure game, similar to some of the Gameboy Zelda titles, but with procedurally-generated maps and puzzles, and a post-game sandbox. The alpha is now out for testing.

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs GOL Teaser

By Liam Dawe,
I managed to get myself a nice early access pass to the new Amnesia game and have been allowed to video it for you, thanks to Simple Screen Recorder I have a setup that now works! Warning: Do not view it if you don't want the first few minutes spoilt, but it's not very long to not spoil much.

Door Kickers SWAT Strategy Now On Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention. Analyze the situation, plan team routes, choose equipment and breach points and coordinate multiple troopers to reach the hostage room before the bad guys get to press that trigger.

Porting Games Over To Linux Using Wine

By Liam Dawe,
So here we are again GOL readers, time for another one of my awful editorials and this time I am asking you/talking at you the glorious community about Wine ports!

Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition Is Still Heading To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Thankfully we have learnt that Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition is still going to happen for Linux, but sadly they still don't have a timeline for it.

Time To Go Postal, Free Postal 2 DLC On Its Way

By Liam Dawe,
Postal 2 the first person game from RunningWithScissors looks like it's getting a totally free DLC! Sweet!

Build & Defend Survival Sandbox Game Updated

By Liam Dawe,
This game mixes several classical gameplay-styles such as Tower Defense, Multi-player cooperation, Destructible world and Economics and it has just had a new update.

The Funding Crowd 17 (Aug 28th - Sep 2nd)

By muntdefems,
The Funding Crowd is here! Here you'll find enough Linux games crowdfunding facts to be the center of attention at your next social gathering, guaranteed.

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate Is Heading To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The critically acclaimed PSN hit PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate makes its way to Steam Linux for the definitive Monsters experience! Currently looking for testers too.

'Alien Arena: Tactical' pre-demo release review

By Alex V.Sharp,
A first look at the alpha demo of the upcoming free, class based multiplayer shooter 'Alien Arena: Tactical'. We list the available player roles, explain the gameplay, mechanics and goals, as well as point out a flaw or two. All this to give you a general idea before the public demo, but also to prepare for feedback gathering.

Steam's August Hardware Survey, Linux Dips Below 1%

By Liam Dawe,
Another month and another quick look at the Linux statistics on Steam, this time it seems we have dipped below that 1% mark.

Greenheart Games Detail The Delay For Game Dev Tycoon Linux Updates And Steam Support

By Liam Dawe,
Game Dev Tycoon is now out on Steam but not yet for Linux, while they do have an older version for Linux on the website, we contacted them to find out what was up?

GOL Cast: Making Science In Sokobond

By Samsai,
Sometimes explosions and loud guns just aren't then thing you are looking for. And when that happens, you can rely on relaxing music, simple gameplay and chemistry!

Egbert and Frogbert's Crystal Picnic By Nooskewl Alpha Now Available

By Liam Dawe,
Crystal Picnic a 16-bit style action RPG in development by Nooskewl the creators of Monster RPG 2 now has an alpha available if you pre-order.