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Salvation Prophecy space epic could hit Linux this weekend!

By Liam Dawe,
Salvation Prophecy is a military space epic. Human, mutant, and robotic factions are at war for galactic domination. Battles rage as space fleets collide, and planet invasions clash ...

Portal 1 is now in Beta for Linux woohoo!

By Liam Dawe,
Valves rather popular puzzle game Portal is now officially available on Linux in Beta form, thanks Valve! Contrary to what Phoronix is telling you (let's no...

Earth 2140 the futuristic RTS game is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Well folks today I break the news to you that Earth 2140 is officially coming to Linux via Runesoft! The game itself Earth 2140 was originally ported by Runesoft to Mac as stated on

Steam's April hardware survey shows poor Linux statistics!

By Liam Dawe,
Well the latest Steam hardware survey is out for April and it isn't looking good again for Linux. Here are the statistics just for Linux Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit 0.35% -0.12% Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64 bit 0.23...

Fancy winning a copy of the original Postal game?

By Liam Dawe,
Time for another GOL competition, this time we have 3 keys to give away for the original Postal game! Thanks to RWS for giving us the keys! This time it's not a twitter retweet com...

Jack Lumber the supernatural lumberjack now on Steam!

By Liam Dawe,
A tree killed his granny and now he is out for revenge. Meet Jack Lumber, the supernatural lumberjack who hates trees, loves animals, and hates trees. Did we say that twice? The guy really hates trees, and boy does he have an axe to grind. ...

Receiver experimental FPS now on Steam!

By Liam Dawe,
Receiver was created for the 7-day FPS challenge to explore gun handling mechanics, randomized levels, and unordered storytelling. Armed only with a handgun and an audio cassette player, you mu...

Starbound reached $1,000,000 in pre-orders

By Bumadar,
The folks over at Chucklfish have announced on the Starbound website that they have reached $1,000,000 in pre-orders of their story driven sandbox game in outerspace for Mac, Linux a...

Anomaly 2 Is Now Available for Preorder and release date given!

By Liam Dawe,
Anomaly 2 pre-orders launch on Steam and via the official site. Get 10% o...

Stealth Bastard Deluxe is now available for Linux

By Guest,
Stealth Bastard Deluxe, Curve Studios’ fast-paced stealth-puzzle-platformer, arrives on Linux and Mac today. To mark the occasion, Stealth Bastard Deluxe, its

Game Dev Tycoon - A business simulation game

By KIAaze,
Game Dev Tycoon by Greenheart Games has been released for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows.

OpenMW v0.23.0 released, now with particles! (and a lot more)

By OpenMW,
The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.23.0! Release packages for Ubuntu are now available via our Launchpad PPA and for Debian in our

Worlds of Magic - A new classic 4X fantasy game

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of Worlds of Magic emailed me to ask if we could do a shout out for their game. The game itself is meant as a spiritual successor to Master of Magic.

Defense Grid 2 is happening and coming to Linux!

By Liam Dawe,
Defense Grid 2 is now happening thanks to a private investor and it will even be coming to Linux in 2014! Hidden Path Entertainment did a Kickstarter...

Left 4 Dead 2 Linux Beta Coming Next Week!

By Cheeseness,
It's been a long time in coming, but it's finally here. Earlier today, a post titled "I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith played L4D2 on Linux" (a referen...

INSURGENCY team-based realistic FPS coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
INSURGENCY a team-based realistic FPS has popped up on Steam's Early Access with a promise of Linux support in the future! Hell yeah! About the Game INSU...

Linux Gaming DRM Free promises: Do they stack up?

By jlibster,
A disturbing announcement from Obsidian Entertainment was made a few weeks ago. The new Project:Eternity game has a native Linux version being made with the Unity engine. However the distribution download options may make it impossible for Linux supporter...

Spicy Horse Games Reveals Hell Invaders a CCG/RTS hybrid

By Liam Dawe,
Spicy Horse Games have unveiled a new game they are working on called Hell Invaders that will come to Linux in a press release. April 25, 2012. Shanghai. Spicy Horse Games, develop...

The Realm (including platform survey) UPDATED

By Cheeseness,
Recently Atomhawk added Linux as a stretch goal for their crowdfunded point and click adventure The Realm. I've been discussing with them the notion of proritising Linux support sooner, and they've put together a survey to gauge interest. ...