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Steam's hardware survey is out with Ubuntu stats

By Liam Dawe,
The Steam news just keeps on rolling! This time I can now share the hardware stats from the most recent Steam hardware survey as it includes Linux stats: Full Stats: Windows 7 64 bit 58.67% -2.06% Windows 7 14.70...

Linux based Steam console confirmed for this year!

By Liam Dawe,
It seems that a Linux based Steam console will be out this year an engineer at Valve (Ben Krasnow) has confirmed! I may be tempted to get it, would love to lazy on my sofa and play some games...that I already own and on Linux! One great th...

New games on the way for Steam Linux!

By Liam Dawe,
Well after checking the newer Steam CDR today it seems more titles will hopefully soon enter the Linux Steam client! The list includes: Conquest of Elysium 3...

Andy's Super Great Park now on other distros!

By Liam Dawe,
Stuffomatic originally posted about their game Andy's Super Great Park which wa...

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters A free to play ARPG with classic design sense meets fast-paced action

By Liam Dawe,
Veteran game designer American McGee (Quake, Alice, Grimm) and Spicy Horse (Alice: Madness Returns) are set on delivering players a uniquely enthralling free to play action role-playing experience.

Snorms isometric third person shooter updates

By Liam Dawe,
We introduced you to Snorms on Desura before so it's time for an update,

Icculus's thoughts on Unreal Engine 3 games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Well someone asked me to contact Ryan C. Gordon aka Icculus about the possibility of more Unreal Engine 3 games coming to Linux now that Dungeon Defenders is out and he has now sent me a reply and allowed ...

Build & Defend a hybrid of tower defence and minecraft

By Liam Dawe,
It's not often that when I get tweeted a game I look at it and think "instant buy!" well Build & Defend is one such game. You wake up in a desolated and dangerous...

A 2012 review and what's in store for 2013?

By Liam Dawe,
First of all Happy New Year to all! 2012 what year! Has been full of ups for Linux this year and I think easily one of the most important years for Linux gaming, this is aimed to be a small roundup of 2012 with a reminder of interesting news...

Cheese Talks: More Cross-platform Humble Bundle Details Than You Ever Wanted To Know!

By Cheeseness,
Hi people. As many of you are aware, I've spent the last month or so slaving over hot research for a new article on Humble Bundle stuff. With the recent no...

Red Orchestra 2 coming to Linux?

By CzarnyNalesnik,
Look at this twitter between Ryan Gordon and John Gibson (co-owner Tripwire Interactive, the authors of the "Red Orchestra" series):

Torque3D reminder!

By Liam Dawe,
Just a reminder folks over a week ago Headclot posted about Torque3D needing funds to port to Linux well this is a reminder since it seems they have had...

Organ Trail: Director's Cut

By Liam Dawe,
A new release on Desura - Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a retro zombie survival game made with Unity3D.

Steam working towards better supporting other distros!

By Liam Dawe,
A Steam developer johnv has written on the Steam Linux Group forum asking for feedback on package install changes. QuoteWe&...

GamingOnLinux Reviews - Rochard

By Hamish,
Game Information: Name: Rochard Released: September 27, 2011 Developer: Recoil Games Rating: 8/10 Hardware Specifications: Processor: AMD Sempron 140 2.7 Ghz Video ...

Humble Indie Bundle 7 expanded with more games!

By Liam Dawe,
The Humble Indie Bundle 7 has added some more games to keep you going! The new games: The basement collectionCave Story+Offspring Fling

OpenTTD new major RC release

By Liam Dawe,
OpenTTD the awesome Transport Tycoon Deluxe inspired open source game has hit 1.3.0 RC1 with a lot of new features and bug fixes.

Eschalon Book 1+2 heading to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
The awesome RPG games Eschalon Book 1&2 will be heading to Steam, this comes direct from the developer! QuoteYep, Eschalon Book 1 & 2 will be on @steam_games Li...