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Ever since the Steam Hardware & Software Survey began showing Linux statistics, I've been asked to write about it. This month I've taken some time to talk about why the survey is important, pitfalls to watch out for when interpreting it, and some suggestions for improvement. I also take a look at how Linux userbase figures shift when adjusted for title count and find an interesting correlation.

The developers emailed this in one to let us know about Alone, a very interesting looking horror game for the Oculus Rift which supports Linux of course.

The latest major update to Minecraft (1.7.1) and one of it's biggest yet is about to drop on our plates!

Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders. Crime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change...

Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator.

Some more sad news today folks, Trent from Nooskewl has made a blog post detailing why the currently open source game Monster RPG 2 is to become non-free again.

Rating: 8.5/10 The original Trine (2009) first became notable to me after I had discovered that its developer Frozenbyte had given full permission to redistribute certain screenshots of the game under a Creative Commons license as long as an attribution back to them was preserved...

7 Days To Die is a promising looking zombie survival and crafting game that was kickstarted and will head to Linux, sadly Tripwire Interactive the makers behind Killing Floor filed a claim against them.

Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate your way across a galaxy of Timothy Zahn's favorite aliens...and some of your own. I interviewed them on the project and here is the result!

So, some see Unity3D as one of the saviours of Linux gaming along with Steam. I, however, have been thinking more on this recently, and feel that it could be dangerous, not just for Linux, but for Indie developers in general to be so heavily reliant on one game engine.

We've seen a huge influx of platformers, some in 2.5D and some with pixelated 8-bit style, so it's obvious that some of us have already gotten tired of them and actively prefer other genres over platformers, me included. But Glare was something that I actually like for multiple reasons.

The latest Serious Sam 3 update has landed which adds amongst other useful things customizing your controller buttons if you game with one of those pads!

SCALE is a first person reality manipulation game that reimagines exploration with a unique resizing mechanic. It's currently on Kickstarter looking for $87K and it's sitting pretty at $41K with plenty of time still left (25 days).

Fancy Skulls is a shooter with random generation where you defeat enemies with skill, wit and caution. The game is different every time you play it. There are no saves, when you die, you will start over. Permadeath means that tension is high, and victory is sweeter.

OpenRA the free and open source RTS engine for playing with Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 unit-sets has a new testing version with some interesting new features to try out.

In Dark Gates you lead your team of 6 heroes into the dungeon where they will fight their way through in order to destroy the Dark Gates and the evil mage who is the master of the dungeon.

The Dream King is a unique blend of multiple genres into one Side Scrolling Action Role Playing Game! It is intended to capture the magic of the childhood classics of the early 80's and 90's gaming era!

You may not remember but we asked the Wasteland 2 guys back in august about Wasteland 1 & 2 release information for Linux, we now know the original will come to Linux too!

0 A.D. the awesome looking open source RTS game from Wildfire Games has less than 2 days left on its indiegogo campaign!

Classic adventure game "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers", is set to receive a remastering for its 20th anniversary update, and our favorite open-source OS is on the feature list! Creator Jane Jensen's Pinkerton Road Studio, in partnership with Phoenix Online Studios, have the title under heavy development for a mid-2014 release.