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Atmospheric puzzle platformer Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) now available for Linux on Steam

By flesk, 22 Dec 2015

The story driven puzzle platformer is now officially available for Linux with the Foxtales DLC and is currently on sale.

Steam is having a whopper of a sale right now

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2015

Roll up, roll up, it's time to empty your wallets. Steam is having a big winter sale with an insane amount of games on sale, and some serious bargains.

GOL's Linux & SteamOS gamer survey results for December

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2015

The last GOL Survey results of our Linux & SteamOS user survey for 2015, wow what a year! The next survey will be available on January 1st and run for two weeks as usual.

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The GOL GOTY Awards page is open for nominations, voting after

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2015

Welcome to our second year of doing a GOTY Awards, this year we added many more categories based on feedback.

Free retro game Bio Menace now available from GOG on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2015

Join top CIA tough guy, Snake Logan as he battles for his life against ferocious monsters created by an evil and twisted mastermind. A free game now available on Linux thanks to GOG.

Speculation: A job posting for Elite Dangerous hints at possible future Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2015

This one is quite vague, but a new job posting may suggest that a Linux port of Elite: Dangerous isn't out of the question.

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Saints Row: Gat out of Hell now available on SteamOS and Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2015

Another one, oh boy! In the same day we have Saints Row IV and now Saints Row: Gat out of Hell too! What a nice early holiday present.

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Saints Row IV now available on SteamOS and Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2015

Oh baby! Saints Row IV is now available on SteamOS and Linux, and I can't wait to give this insane game a game.

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Insurgency FPS adds official Steam Controller support, better gamepad support overall

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2015

Insurgency was very exciting to have on Linux, as it's the most tactical FPS game we have available. The new updates have made it much more fun too, with gamepad support and decent Steam Controller support added in.

GOL Cast: Wandering Around Morrowind in OpenMW

By Samsai, 20 Dec 2015

You might have heard about OpenMW, the open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine which, naturally, allows you to play Morrowind on Linux. Let's test it!

Unity Editor for Linux winter holiday update

By Eike, 20 Dec 2015

Explicitly dedicated to our holiday season game making enjoyment, a new build of the Unity editor for Linux has been released. It is updated to Unity version 5.3.0f4.

Wine 1.8 was finally released

By sobkas, 20 Dec 2015

Today a new stable Wine 1.8 version was released. After a 17 months of hard work and nearly 13,000 individual commits it's here. And it brings lots of new shiny features in its sack(because it's December, pick your holiday of choice).

Maia, the promising colony building sim releases big update with first person mode

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2015

I love keeping an eye on Maia, as it's one of the only building sims that isn't going for some sort of retro style. Progress isn't quick, but each new release does push out some big new stuff, and this new release is no different.

Bombernauts, bomberman for mental people now on Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2015

Bombernauts is pretty much bomberman on a year long diet of steroids, as it's insane. We should get a game of this going sometime.

Win an Alienware Steam Machine from Feral Interactive

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2015

Here's a chance to bag a shiny Alienware Steam Machine from Feral Interactive, you just have to draw up some winter themed Mordor art.

Some thoughts on the Asus 4K PB287Q 28 inch monitor, with added radiation alarm

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2015

I recently acquired a new PC and 4K monitor thanks to a family member, so here’s some thoughts on the Asus 4K PB287Q 28 inch monitor.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter looks like it will come to SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2015

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter takes the best from the N64 and PC versions, puts them into a new engine and then released into the wild. It looks like the developers are planning a Linux release too.

Khronos gives an official update on Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2015

Khronos has given an official update on Vulkan, there's good news, and there's bad news. The year-end target release date for Vulkan will not be met. However, they are in the home stretch and the release of Vulkan 1.0 is imminent!

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition for Linux & SteamOS is being held up (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2015

Not quite as bad news as the Rocket League delay, but Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition for Linux & SteamOS is being held up by some memory corruption issues. UPDATED.

Hacknet, an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator now on SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2015

It was a little weird that a terminal based hacking game wasn't on Linux to begin with, but now it is! Hacknet joins our growing list of interesting titles.