I don't cover too many crowdfunding projects, but Pixel Princess Blitz does look pretty entertaining. It also features full Linux support with no stretch goal.
The upcoming RPG and spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment should be seeing a simultaneous release across all platforms.
That's it folks, it's time to get voting! The Linux GOTY award is now officially open for votes. You get one vote per category.
Andres Rodriguez sent in a message to the mesa-dev mailing list announcing 'gputool' for debugging AMD graphics cards on Linux. It's also open source under the GPL, so that's awesome.
My original guide on how to help fix screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU is a bit dated, so here’s an even easier way.
The Verdun developers have continued their work to add to the interesting WWI FPS and today the Scottish folk make their entry into the game.
It seems some developers got fed-up with some assets of the FPS game Sauerbraten being restricted, so they have forked it into the Inexor project.
Two interesting bits of news for you! First up, Wolfire Games have updated Overgrowth with another alpha build and the Lugaru campaign is now finished. On top of that, Wolfire has made the data files for Lugaru HD fully open now too.
Tonight at 6:30PM UTC, Feral Interactive are hosting a big 'BeatFeral' event online in Company of Heroes 2.
Switchcars is a game I've been putting off trying for quite some time to wait for it to get polished up some more, but now I've jumped in at the deep end of this arcade style roguelike.
I was sent in Gearend by a reader, as it not only looks like a pretty good 2D exploration game, but it's also developed on Linux.
Discord, the insanely popular chat and VOIP client primarily aimed at gamers is now officially supported on Linux and out of beta.
Observer, a brand new horror from the developers of 'Layers of Fear' has been announced. It's being published by Aspyr Media once again and I have it confirmed it will be on Linux.
Ballistic Overkill, the really fun and dirt cheap online FPS is now available in more countries! On top of that, they worked on some more optimization.
NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.
The developer of Almost Epic Adventures : The Goblin's Week emailed in to let us know about their game and it has a rather unusual setting.
Project Zomboid has another release pushed to the stable branch of this in-development Zombie survival game. One of the major new features is the ability to trade with other players when playing online.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, a top-down stealth game from Mimimi Productions released with day-1 Linux support. I have fond memories of games like Commandos, so is it any good?
Thanks to GOG and DOSBox, Linux gamers can enjoy the classic crazy racing game Ignition, which originally released in 1997.
Lars Doucet, developer of Defender's Quest has written up a reddit post requesting Valve to open source the Steam Controller software.