Today I bring you a smaller but new test I did recently with my system. I wanted to see what the actual performance difference was when running Left 4 Dead 2 natively in Ubuntu 13.04 versus running it in Windows 8.
A little late on this one, been feeling so ill the past week, we now have more titles to look forward to on Steam!
Natural Selection 2 has gotten two updates recently 256 and 257 to give you lots of big fixes with a few new features thrown in for good measure too.
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 is set to get a pretty big update on the 23rd of September to include some pretty major new features.
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 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.
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!
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.
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.
Fortix 2 is best described as a reverse turret defense game. As Sir Fortix, the knight, you must conquer castles while dodging tower turrets and evil monsters.
SUPERHOT is an FPS game where time moves only when you move. The innovative time control mechanics create gameplay never seen before. TAKE YOUR TIME! Get rid of aggressive enemies with grace, style and the intense satisfaction.
Gabe Newell owner of Valve the company behind Steam did a keynote at LinuxCon 2013 inside is a video and the info.
Planetary Annihilation an RTS game currently in alpha testing is due to go into beta on the 26th of September which means it will drop in price from $70 to $60 and a whole host of new features will be pushed!
Shank combines all the goodness of Classic side scrolling beat 'em ups and shooter games with a modern feel.
Captain your own space ship and roam the galaxy in 3D in this tactical space simulator with tons of RPG depth ! Space has never looked so inviting - but images can betray...
Saturday Evening's Steam Linux User Group Event. This time it was Guns of Icarus Online. Here's a short gameplay clip of the action.
Something odd has happened to Steam for Linux and you might face some difficulties starting/restarting it at the moment. We don't know what causes this, but luckily we have a quick temporary fix for you!
Valve are making another Linux push towards having their full library available on Linux, this time it's Half-Life: Source & Half-Life Deathmatch: Source.
So hot no the heels of GOG.com stating they aren't supporting Linux Night Dive Studios has put Wizardy 6&7 onto Steam using Dosbox.
