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Some hot news today is that Epic Games is working on a next-gen Unreal Tournament and it's not out of the realm of possibility that it will see a Linux client since Unreal Engine 4.1+ now officially supports Linux.

After months of hard work and multiple test releases, we are proud to announce the long-awaited release of Warsow 1.5. The latest and greatest version introduces significant updates to all areas of the game.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.18 brining many new features and as many as 80 bugfixes.

Another success story to share with you guys today. The kind folks at bitSmith Games kindly let us know how well Ku: Shroud of the Morrigan is selling on Linux.

Raise demons and spawn unholy weapons of war as a powerful Necromancer with an insatiable blood lust. Customize your minions to your liking and perfect your ideal "monster loadout." Tear your enemies limb from limb and harvest their corpses to strengthen your dark magics.

Oddly only called LEVEL 22 on Steam, LEVEL 22, Gary's Misadventures previously on Desura & Fireflower Games joins the ranks of Linux games on Steam for you Steam fanatics. You play as Gary who is trying to sneak into work as he's a silly hungover man.

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

Remember Factorio? No? It's the factory building simulation game that was funded via Indiegogo in March of last year. The game has been overhauled dramatically since then and looks fab.

We already let you know last month that Battleblock Theatre would have a Linux version, the best news is the date is now set for the release and it will be simultaneous on Linux & Windows.

Desura are slowly working to better themselves against the competition and following in the footsteps of Humble & Itch they have introduced a new buy widget developers can put on their websites, the kicker is that you only need an email to buy a game and not a Desura account.

The Natural Selection 2 team has announced the Kodiac update & DLC release further refining the already beautiful game. The patch fixes many issues and introduces a new DLC map with customization options.

Quest for Infamy is a game that looks absolutely fantastic for a point & click adventure game, it mixes some old styles of play with some interesting looking combat as well.

Play as ordinary people struggling for food, safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Explore an ancient Indian city and use conversation, violence or both to achieve your goals. Unrest is an RPG/Adventure game that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make.

You may remember that I spoke to the developer of the awesome goat simulator (joking) puzzle platformer Escape Goat 2 after the first week about their Linux sales. The good news is after a month sales for Linux are still good.

The developer behind the fun indie hit Vox a voxel based, action, adventure and creation game with a big focus on player created content has re-confirmed their plans for the Linux version. The good news is that the major content patch is now out, so once dust settles on that the Linux version will come!

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for April 2014, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux Gaming!

Looks like Prison Architect just gained some end-game options in the way of screwing you over when you do badly, hooray. Not to be missed is the massive sale on too.

Don't Starve is easily one of the best indie games ever made and they have now unleashed Don't Starve: Reign of Giants DLC in full.

Wow Valve is on a roll for Linux gamers aren't they! 39 more Linux games have been lit up to be included on Steam's store.

In the latest instalment of GOL Cast a member of the community 'Half-Shot' takes a look at The Swapper the atmospheric puzzle platformer.