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The Humble Weekly Sale featuring Tripwire

By n30p1r4t3,
The humble weekly sale is back with 2 Linux games, and one windows only game. The games this week are: Red Orchestra, Red Orchestra 2, and The Killing Floor Bundle (all 11 DLC).

FLARE open source rpg/engine unleashes 0.18!

By Liam Dawe,
FLARE the increasingly awesome open source RPG Engine and Game of the same name has released version 0.18! The quality of this is just insane.

Dysis a real time strategy game with a difference!

By Liam Dawe,
You've just crash landed; your journey begins with limited resources and the knowledge that you will be facing wave after wave of hostile enemies. You must engage or evade them to survive. You can hide your crash site and base by manipulating the w...

Project Zomboid RC3 has officially entered testing!

By Liam Dawe,
Project Zomboid a game that has been in development for some time now due to some rather unfortunate drawbacks is finally nearing it's next release! Quote

Bleak - Explore new races, governments, religions and more in this dark steampunk style platformer!

By Nicodemus,
Bleak is a platformer that sets out to be incredibly story and lore focused.  Their hope is to set out to create a game that is not only challenging to play, but is also an engrossing world that one can spend hours mulling over the details. ...

Soul Capture 2.0.0 has now been released

By Hamish,
The 2.0.0 release of Soul Capture, a free software utility developed by Piga Software which can be used to capture both the video and audio playback of OpenGL applications such as games, has now been released. Quote...

Half-Life 4 added to the SteamDB for Linux!

By Liam Dawe,
That's right, you heard it here first folks, Half-Life 4 has been added to the SteamDB! It includes hints of others things too.

Shovel Knight - A groundbreaking love letter to 8 bits!

By Nicodemus,
Shovel Knight, which made a big splash in the gaming community from their showing at PAX East, just announced a Stretch Goal tier for Linux support. 

A Thought on What Holds Linux Gaming Back

By n30p1r4t3,
All the talk nowadays if of "unification" or to paraphrase Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu the "availability of a single interface for all devices."  And with all this talk I began to wonder why more gaming engine's aren't jumping on board.

OpenMW v0.22.0

By OpenMW,
The OpenMW team is incredibly proud to announce the release of version 0.22.0! Release packages for Ubuntu are now available via our Launchpad PPA and for Debian in our

Steams March user survey is out, Linux goes down!

By Liam Dawe,
This Month Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.47% +0.04% Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit 0.28% +0.28% Ubuntu 12.10 0.19% 0.00% Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 0.16% +0.16% Linux Mint 14 Nadia 64 bit 0.13% +0.13% Linux 64 bit 0.1...

Valve continues pushing adding 5 new titles!

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has done another push and put up 5 new games to Linux! All in Beta though so be warned there will be bugs! The titles are Ricochet,

Double Fine And 90,000 Friends Present A Teaser For Broken Age

By Cheeseness,
After deliberation and a community vote, the name for Double Fine's cross-platform crowd funded adventure game has been tentatively set as Broken Age (it may change in the future, but I've got a hunch it will grow on everybody). Ye...

Fester Mudd adventure game released for Linux!

By Liam Dawe,
Set in Wild West, FESTER MUDD: CURSE OF THE GOLD is a three-part comic saga of exploration, reunion, and redemption…and a love letter to the classic adventure games of ...

Starsector space combat sim gets a new trailer!

By Liam Dawe,
Starsector (originally Starfarer) is a space combat sim I have been following for a long time now, it is constantly evolving and becoming more awesome, it has everything a decent space combat sim ...

Postal, Dungeon Defenders and Dungeon Hearts added to Steam for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
So the push for Linux games on Steam just keeps on going, this time we have Postal, Dungeon Defenders

Just Tactics turn based strategy 1.0 Released

By shaunix,
As sent to me in an email: QuoteHi Shaunix, Version 1.0.0 is done.   It is an amazing feeling!   Just Tactics looks good, sounds good, and plays great.   We are in...