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It's that time of the month again Linux gamers! The new GOL survey for July is now available, so please make sure to fill it in if you have the time. We had a lower number of respondents last month, and it would be great to keep the number above 1000.

You can add Torque 3D into the list of game engines that support Linux, it's not 100% finished, but it's good to see them do it.

Rogue Invader is a new roguelite game from Squishy Games (Nathan Rees and Lee J Hinkle) that is now counting on your votes on Greenlight. This isometric, 2D sidescroller puts you in the shoes of single soldier sent to defeat alien menace. But due to a clerical error an invading fleet have only one gun and one drop pod.

Our very first official LEGO game is now available on Linux, but is it worth your time? I took a look with our caster Samsai.

Compulsion Games just announced in their Kickstarter campaign that they'll be releasing We Happy Few for Linux. Set in a drug-fuelled, retro-futuristic city in an alternative history 1964 England, you’ll have to blend in with its other citizens, who don’t take kindly to people who don’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.

We have been waiting with a keen eye for ARK: Survival Evolved to arrive on Linux. It’s a very popular survival game with dinosaurs that is constantly in the top-10 on Steam, so how is it?

The developer of NEON STRUCT the stealth game from Minor Key Games (Eldritch, You Have to Win the Game, Super Win the Game) has posted stats of their sales, and Linux is doing well.

DiRT Showdown is a highly rated racing game that looks like it's close to a Linux release, exciting times for racing fans!

The sandbox factory puzzler by SpaceChem and TIS-100 developer Zachtronics has left Early Access after five months of tweaks and bug fixing.

The Last Dogma is a dark comedy exploration adventure game set in the year 1999 of an alternate reality world, where US actively campaigns for world domination after being disappointed with the results of the Cold War.

A free standalone(-ish, I'll talk about that a bit later) Portal 2 mod called Portal Stories: Mel has been released on Steam. So those who want more Portal can get it in the form of 22 levels and approx. 6-10 hours of gameplay.

Tabletop Simulator launched after over a year of Early Access. As a fan of board games and tabletop RPGs, I felt compelled to take a look.

It was heavily requested, and a Unity developer has written a blog post giving us a lot more insight into what’s going on.

Pillars Of Eternity looks to be solving issues I had with it, and then some with the 2.0 release and expansion.

SMACH Zero previously known as the SteamBoy has revealed the specifications it should be releasing with.

Street Rage is the video game tie-in to the 80s style action comedy flick Kung Fury, which was funded on Kickstarter last year.

Distance is a beautiful neon survival racer that I finally had a chance to play, and what I found really did surprise me.

Shift Happens is a co-op platformer in development built around the concept of shifting mass between two player characters, and it promises a "shiftload" of fun action and puzzles.

Some of you might remember this open, procedurally generated space exploration / exploitation game that was kickstarted in late 2012. The project has now woken up from extended, months-long cryosleep.

Oil Enterprise is a business simulation that has been available in steam Early Access for about a month and it has been available for Linux from day-1.