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A very cute looking game has been released for Linux on Steam titled "Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake" and it actually looks quite decent. It's another Cartoon Network game (the other was Powerpuff Girls) which is interesting to see such a big name support Linux again.

Another Source engine powered game plans to support Linux soon with a migration to a more updated version of Source. Dino D-Day is touted as being like Counter Strike only with Nazi troopers and dinosaurs. If that didn't peak your interest then I don't know what will.

Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it to make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.

PCGamingWiki has recently started a series of articles giving a high level analysis of Linux ports compared against their Windows and Mac counterparts, starting with Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

The Funding Crowd welcomes you to a shorter, sharper and much anticipated TFC#34! It's shorter, because less stuff happened over the quieter June period. It's sharper, because we're not pulling any punches with this edition - we're calling it as we see it. And we're assuming it's much anticipated because the last edition was a whopping 29 days ago. At least! Nearly a month!

Shovel Knight is an awesome looking love letter to 8-bit games that was funded on Kickstarter some time ago. It had a Linux stretch goal that was hit and the developers have now teased it running on Linux.

I think we can all agree Killing Floor 2 is going to be awesome, but how awesome? See this new trailer with some fresh footage.

Door Kickers is the excellent squad based strategy and tactics game from KillHouse Games we have shown you a few times here. They have released a big update to push the game into beta and it's a good one.

The Indie Box is something we briefly covered before that allows you to subscribe to receive a new game in the post every month boxed up with a bunch of goodies. This time we actually have a box with plenty of pictures for you to take a look at.

Eminence: Xander's Tales is a very interesting looking game that came across my inbox recently that is a mix between an RPG and a trading card game and it looks like the battles are quite good too.

Triggerfish Drill Sergeant is the first game from Anglerteam Games which puts you in charge of getting a bunch of fish into the right formation, and it's weird.

The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for June is up, featuring Civilization V, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Skulls of the Shogun, Deathmatch Classic and more!

Being in charge of humanity's last line of defense against an extraterrestrial threat is highly unlikely and if I were to do it I'm fairly sure we'd be doomed, but now I can try my hand at it in the safe environment of XCOM.

One of the funniest games around is now fully available and out of beta for Linux. Goat Simulator is pretty popular and for good reason, as it's just insanely stupid.

Prison Architect has release Alpha 22 where bug fixing has been the priority only in this release as they try to smooth up the experience.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.21 bringing many new features and as many as 77 bugfixes.

The latest and greatest news about Valve's gaming OS. A new update has been released that you need to check out.

Valve are pushing really quickly recently and have gathered together another list of games to allow on Steam. 36 of which are confirmed for Linux.

Ryan Gordon has an hour long presentation on the Linux game industry full of interesting views and it makes for some good listening.

Storm is a fast-paced, 2d side-scrolling multiplayer action game largely based on Soldat. It is Linux native too.