Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders. Crime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change...
Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator.
Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate your way across a galaxy of Timothy Zahn's favorite aliens...and some of your own. I interviewed them on the project and here is the result!
OpenRA the free and open source RTS engine for playing with Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 unit-sets has a new testing version with some interesting new features to try out.
0 A.D. the awesome looking open source RTS game from Wildfire Games has less than 2 days left on its indiegogo campaign!
While included in the recent Humble Bundle, Worms Reloaded was not actually downloable and playable on Steam, well it now is!
Stronghold2D is an awesome 2D Multiplayer War game that will allow you to play on any Computer, iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows devices. Build a Stronghold and Protect it by adding Cannons, Lasers, Missiles and other knarly 2D war objects.
What makes the 4X TBS ‘Master of Tactics’ game heavy on strategy and what motivated its development?
Airship Dragoon is an interesting one, it features turn-based squad combat with a tile based grid for airship movement
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist. The Locksmith: Blue-collar infiltration expert The Lookout: She can see and hear everything...
I spoke with the developer of SubLight a game coming at the end of this month and they are in need in testers!
Chainsaw Warrior is a classic 1987 Games Workshop solo board game being brought to mobile and desktop by Auroch Digital.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future. Meteor impacts! Explosive decompression! Unbearable loneliness!
Natural Selection 2 has a new build out which fixes rather a lot of issues and has the usual optimizations as well.
Planetary Annihilation the massive scale RTS game is now in beta and with it has come multiple massive patches that add some huge new features, I dive in and fail at playing it for your pleasure.
A new kickstarter is up for The Mandate which sounds like a sci-fi fan's wet dream. I had a chance to have a chat with the guys behind it to find out a little more info for you.
BossConstructor is a game about building, tweaking and flying your own spaceship! The game will include about 25 missions which will test both your design and piloting skills.
So catching up on all the news while I didn't actually have stable internet, it seems Steam has a bunch of new Linux games for you to sink your teeth into!
Creative Assembly have said to PCGamesN that a port of Total War: Rome II to Linux to support SteamOS gives them no worries.
You may have seen on our twitter a while ago we retweeted a post from Interwave about Nuclear Dawn on Linux!