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Terminus A Classic City Builder Set On Another Planet

By Liam Dawe,
Terminus is a classic 'city-builder' set on a distant, inhospitable planet where there is only one colony, one chance, one future.

The Cheapskate's Corner 18 (Sep 20th-26th)

By muntdefems,
After last week's absence The Cheapskate's Corner is back with lots of new bundles and sales for you!

Citizens of Earth - A Modern RPG On Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
A modern RPG that places you in the shoes of the Vice President of the World and all of the heroes are regular people!

OpenRA Release 20130915

By Matt,
OpenRA the Open Source Time Strategy game engine that recreates the early Command & Conquer titles released another huge jump, with over 1,100 changes and improvements by 17 authors.

Starbound Universe Sandbox Game Has New Videos

By Liam Dawe,
Starbound the increasingly amazing looking 2d universe sandbox game has some new videos to show off more gameplay like the grappling hook!

Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate Tower Defence Hits Linux 30th September

By Liam Dawe,
A highly regarded tower defence game Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate will come to Linux on the 30th of September the developers tweeted to let us know.

DOTA 2 First Blood Update This Month

By Liam Dawe,
DOTA 2 is set to get a pretty big update on the 23rd of September to include some pretty major new features.

The Steam Universe Is Expanding In 2014

By Liam Dawe,
A new section of Steam's website has opened with a countdown that will end on Monday with the first of three announcements for Steam in the living room.

Verdun A Squad Based WWI FPS on Steam Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Verdun is a squad based multiplayer first person shooter set in the first world war. Inspired by the infamous battle of Verdun in 1916 players are able to take part in never seen before WWI action. Made by 3 indie developers from BlackMill and M2H.

NOWHERE Launches Crowdfunding With Alpha Access

By Liam Dawe,
NOWHERE is a game that's hard to describe and we covered it back in July, they have now launched a crowdfunding campaign using humble store and it looks like the game has had a little change in direction.

Hyper Light Drifter, 2D Action RPG With Awesome Visuals

By Liam Dawe,
Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8-bit and 16-bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.

Humble Weekly Sale Featuring Egosoft's X series

By Liam Dawe,
Humble's latest weekly sale is actually a really good one folks, featuring Egosoft's X series of games where the three newest ones do support Linux, this is the cheapest I've ever seen them together!

GOL Cast: Low Gravity Jumping in Rochard

By Samsai,
I saw that this game had a HUGE discount on Steam and decided to show some footage about it in case you were wondering whether to buy it or not. Queue the low gravity environments and let's start jumping!

Pixel Piracy, A 2D Sandbox Pirate Game Updates

By Liam Dawe,
Remember Pixel Piracy? The fun looking Side-scrolling 2d, Real Time Strategy, Sandbox, Simulation Game we showed you? It's been getting some fun updates!

Humble Indie Bundle 9 Adds New Games, Two Brand New To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
That's right folks as is usual the Humble Indie Bundle 9 has added some new games, two of which are brand new to Linux "A Virus Named Tom" and "Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken".

Wine Testing: Does The D3D Patch Boost Performance?

By Sabun,
Hey there folks! Today I present to you a small test I did with the recent Wine 1.7.1. The video showcases the differences of games running in a normal Wine 1.7.1 versus a patched Wine 1.7.1.

Terncraft Games To Bring Their Latest To Linux - Help Fund Neo-Victorian Skirmish Squad!

By David J. Sushil,
When their University is overrun with monsters, Dr. Bellwether and his team must collect, train, and fuse Battle Dice to combat the invading hordes. Coming soon to Linux!

Arma Tactics Turn Based Strategy To Come To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Linux is to get a game in the Arma series, not one of their realistic FPS games, but rather a new turn based game called Arma Tactics.

Iesabel - A new Unity3D powered Hack 'n' Slash released on Desura

By Hamish,
Madman Theory Games and Forever Entertainment S.A. have released their Unity3D powered Hack 'n' Slash game on Desura .

Timelines Assualt On America Pre-Order Up On Steam

By Liam Dawe,
A new RTS game we have covered here on GOL before is now up on Steam for pre-orders, hooray! This one does look rather great.