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Youtube are in the firing line again for anyone who wants to make money from gaming videos on their service with the latest stupid move.

TowerFall Ascension the highly rated indie game is now officially available on Linux and with it comes a nice sale. Two of my favourites things a game and sale!

Monochroma, a grim indie platformer (where have we heard that before?), has been released on Steam. The developer, Nowhere Studios, managed to fund the game last year on Kickstarter and Greenlit on Steam. It appears to be set in a dark industrial world with an orwellian vibe. Carried by plot sans dialogue and some great 2.5D visuals, this game definitely looks to have potential.

Unreal Tournament is coming to Linux with the brand new version and we have some fresh footage for you to ride that hype train to game land.

Earlier this month we pointed out that Warlock 2 a good looking strategy game may come to Linux, the developers also sent us a funny message on it.

A new topic to generate some discussion today is an ask the community section on why you think Steam itself is DRM?

Bionic Dues is the pretty fun 2D mech combat game from Arcen Games that was previously Steam-only for us Linux gamers. Luckily now you can get it on Humble Store too!

We don't usually do shout outs for game sales any more due to having our big Sales Page, but this seems worthy. Copod a fantastic little roguelite where you are a tiny creature trying to survive in a strange world.

Desura starting this weekend will launch a big sale called "Cheap End", it will run monthly on the lasy weekend of every month and promises plenty of cheap games.

Track the Bad Guys, be brutal and smart in your planning, and eliminate them one by one. But bear this in mind: each criminal’s death has to look like an accident. In each level, you’ll have the chance to splatter and destroy the Bad Guy using various weapons and traps.

Valve has done the usual and given that greenlight for a ton of indie games to come onto Steam, we highlight the ones with Linux support.

Factorio is the great simulation game that mixes a few different genre's for excellent results and you only have a few days left before the price goes up.

With GOG.com heading over to Linux later this year they are in need of someone technically minded with Linux who doesn't mind moving to Poland.

So, I've already talked at length about "bad ports" and why I thought the toolkit used to port games to Linux matters. Now I'm here again to talk about why it actually doesn't matter and why we need to accept that in the end.

Here is a look back at the last week on GamingOnLinux, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past week for Linux Gaming!

It looks like Valve will be delaying Steam Machines release untl next year thanks to doing more work on the controller. This is actually good news.

Those Humble folks are at it again! Humble Bundle PC & Android 10 is now available with a bunch of fun games to sink our teeth into.

Today we not only bring you the fantastic news that is XCOM, but also actual confirmation now of Stronghold 3 Gold coming to Linux.

The Leadwerks game engine is now available to buy from the Ubuntu Software Centre, so anyone using Ubuntu can purchase it and install it directly within Ubuntu to begin creating games.

I really hope a lot of Unity developers upgrade to Unity4.5 as it offers up some heavily needed fixes to the engine for Linux builds of games.