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A Roundup Of The Last Weeks Linux Gaming

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Here is a look back at the last week on GamingOnLinux, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past week for Linux Gaming! Sorted from lowest to highest to make sure you don't miss the smaller news stories. There's just so much news now that things like this are needed for people not to get swallowed up in a sea of Linux games. Think of it like reading a handy Linux gaming magazine of the last weeks news all in one handy place!

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Escape Goat 2 Has A Major Update, Steam Workshop Included - Views: 322
Escape Goat 2 just got more awesome with its 1.1 update, time to goat down to business (that was terrible right?).


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Democracy 3 New DLC Extremism Has A Trailer - Views: 351
Democracy 3 the interesting politics simulation game has a brand new DLC titled 'Extremism'. This new DLC adds a whopping 33 new situations and policies to an already big game.


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Generic Space Shooter Will Warp Onto Linux Soon - Views: 360
In Generic Space Shooter you have one simple mission, survive for as long as you can and battle against the odds with plenty of pewpewpew.


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Nuclear Throne Updated Again With More Enemies, More Weapons, More Awesome On Linux - Views: 458
Oh Nuclear Throne you're like a fast paced Dungeons of Dredmor, I love you, but wow you frustrate me! Nuclear Throne is getting better and better and the Linux version is solid.


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BattleBlock Theater Comedy Platformer Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 463
BattleBlock Theater as promised is now out for Linux on Steam bringing with it some co-op platforming mayhem and it looks awesome.


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The Dungeoning Colourful Procedural Death Labyrinth Video & Thoughts - Views: 489
The Dungeoning is a very colourful game that was pointed out before right here on GOL. The developer sent us over a copy to video.


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Ascendant, A Stylish Action Platfomer Releases For Linux - Views: 568
Ascendant is the unforgiving beat 'em up that challenges you with a new world each time you play. It utilizes a number of modern roguelike elements such as permadeath and procedurally generated environments. Sounds like a pretty decent platformer, looks good too.


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Vulture For Nethack On Steam's Greenlight For Linux - Views: 595
I am sure there are plenty of Nethack fans around, Vulture is an isometric graphical interface for the roguelike engine: NetHack and it's trying to get on Steam.


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SUPERHOT, The Time Controlling FPS Is Back, On Kickstarter & Already Funded - Views: 617
We showed you SUPERHOT back in September of last year. It's now back seeking funding on Kickstarter to bring out a full game and unsurprisingly it's already over-funded.


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The Funding Crowd Interviews Daniel Swiger (Chronicles Of The Rift, Shattered Time) - Views: 642
The Funding Crowd is celebrating its first birthday! As a present we are bringing you something new: an interview with Daniel Swiger, who at the moment is crowdfunding his project Chronicles of the Rift.


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The Impossible Game Released On Steam For Linux, A Fun Music Infused Platformer - Views: 648
The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! Well that's what the developers claim anyway.


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Yrminsul Tower Defence Released For Linux, Video & Thoughts - Views: 670
Today I take a look at Yrminsul a tower defence game from Studio Black Flag and it's their first foray into commercial game development, so how does it live up to my expectations?


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Twin Robots Is An Absolutely Charming Platformer For Linux - Views: 678
Twin Robots comes from Pablo the mastermind behind the studio Thinice. It's a charming little solo or co-op platformer about two battery powered robots.


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Nightmares from the Deep: The Siren`s Call Hidden Object Game Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 688
Nightmares from the Deep: The Siren`s Call is another rather beautiful hidden object game from Artifex Mundi. The in-game graphics and cinematics are really something, this is one not to miss.


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Cloudbuilt 3D Platformer Developers Seeking Interest For Linux Version - Views: 701
Cloudbuilt is an extremely fancy looking 3D platformer with awesome cel-shaded graphics. The developers have noted the Linux interest and it can help bring it to Linux.


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Project Zomboid Major Update Released, Video Of Failure Included - Views: 743
Project Zomboid has finally gone and done it. The developers have pushed 'build 26' to the main download on Steam and soon to Desura too. Desura users will be delighted by this.


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Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine Released On Steam For Linux - Views: 744
Embark on an epic cross-country journey that sends an unlikely hero deep into the heart of the wild west in search of love and an ancient, cursed treasure mine, said to contain inconceivable wealth!


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Paragon The Beautiful Looking Space Sim Is Now On Steam's Early Access For Linux - Views: 756
Paragon is a game we have shown you a few times now and it's looking very pretty. They have bagged themselves a spot in Steam's Early Access section if you didn't want to buy through humble.


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Contested Space, The Awesome Looking Space Sandbox MMO Needs A Hand On Kickstarter - Views: 768
I wrote about Contested Space recently about how fun it looked. Sadly it's not got long left on Kickstarter and needs a bit of love. We do have a new video to show you too, complete with lasers pew pew.


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GOL Cast: Conquering The Galaxy in Salvation Prophecy - Views: 819
You know how we have a bunch of different types of science fiction space games? We have 4x strategy games, shooters, space ship simulators and a lot more. Well, Salvation Prophecy is a game that tries to be everything at the same time.


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Stronghold 3 Strategy Game Could Be Coming To Linux - Views: 832
Stronghold 3 is showing some hints towards coming to Linux. Stronghold is a series of strategy games from FireFly Studios.

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edo May 16, 2014
4A Games is working on another Metro, would be good to know if they will support linux.
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