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NOWHERE New Alpha Version, We Take A Look At This Odd Title

By Liam Dawe,
So, NOWHERE is still living up to my weirdest game ever award and I decided to take a look at it in this weeks "TheBoss plays a game badly" video.

0 A.D. Open Source RTS Continues Progressing Towards Next Alpha

By Liam Dawe,
A new development report is available for the open source RTS game 0 A.D. and it looks very promising, lots of work going into the next alpha folks!

Galcon Legends Strategy Game Has Arrived For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Join Buck the bill collector as he unites the galaxy against the forces of evil. Send swarms of ships to defeat enemy planets and conquer the universe!

AaaaaaaaAAAAaAAaaaaAA!!! For the Awesome gets Rift support on Linux

By Cheeseness,
Earlier today, Owlchemy Labs and Dejobaan Games released an update for AaaaaaaaAAAAaAAaaaaAA!!! For the Awesome, which adds the Rift friendly "Aaaaaculus" version on Linux!

Mutant Gangland Turn Based Strategy game To Hit Early Access This Month & Go Open Source

By Liam Dawe,
Mutant Gangland is a fast, neat and simple turn-based-strategy game where mutants fight robots . Build units, Conquer buildings and use them to Fund your army. Battles are short but the game packs 50 quick battles and a level editor to design your own maps.

Steam Developer Days Is Fast Approaching

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Developer Days is only 2 days away now folks and the list of talks is getting rather large, time to get excited.

Help Make Open Source AMD Graphics Drivers Better

By Liam Dawe,
Lauri Kasanen wrote into Phoronix to request help in gathering information on the r600g open source AMD graphics driver.

The Last Disbeliever - Teaser Trailer And Beta Testing

By sashadarko,
News about the game since the last December 7 update. Watch the teaser plus some other videos, read about closed beta testing and apply to join it.

Dota 2 Hits 7 Million Unique Players, Downtime This Month Also

By Liam Dawe,
Dota 2 the ever more popular MOBA from Valve has hit over 7 million unique players in a single month and shows no signs of slowing down, there is also some downtime to be had this month.

Wings of Saint Nazaire Retro Space Combat Sim New Alpha & New Video

By Liam Dawe,
Wings of Saint Nazaire is a retro space combat sim in the vein of Wing Commander™ and X-Wing™ and it's already fantastic with crisp music and beautiful visuals.

Running With Rifles Open World, Top-Down, Tactical Shooter New Major Version

By Liam Dawe,
Pick up your rifle and join the Green or Grey army in their mission to send the enemy home in a box! RUNNING WITH RIFLES is an open world, top-down, tactical shooter for single player and multiplayer online, that puts you right in the middle of chaos in towns, trenches and forests turned into ruthless battlefields, controlling just one soldier in an army of several hundreds.

Steam Runtime Changes Inbound For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Not really one for gamers, but this is important for developers to know that changes are heading your way.

GOL Cast: I Am So Godly in Reus

By Samsai,
Many games focus on smaller details, rather limited worlds and single important characters but sometimes you just need to kick back and assume a role of a god to whom the whole world is just a playground.

140 A Challenging Minimalistic Platformer Now In Beta For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
140 is a challenging minimalistic platformer with abstract colorful graphics. Rhythmic awareness is required to overcome obstacles controlled by an energetic, yet melancholic electronic soundtrack.

The Wine Maintenance Release 1.6.2 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
Wine developers have today released a maintenance version of Wine 1.6.2. As it's only a minor update, it doesn't introduce any new functionality, except update to liblcms version 2, only various fixes including 36 fixed bugs.

SteamLUG January Events

By Cheeseness,
The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for January is up, featuring Nuclear Dawn, No More Room In Hell, Brütal Legend and more!

The Funding Crowd 26 (Dec 18th - Jan 10th)

By muntdefems,
The Funding Crowd is back in 2014 with the best and the finest crowdfunding campaigns on which you can spend whatever you've got left after the holidays.

3089 A Futuristic Action RPG Released On Steam

By Liam Dawe,
3089 is a futuristic, procedurally generated, open-world action role-playing game. All terrain, enemies, weapons, items, quests & more are uniquely generated. It's also very weird.

Violett, GhostControl Inc And More Linux Games New On Desura

By Liam Dawe,
For those not keeping up, Desura has added a ton of games recently so it's time to highlight them! Useful for those of you who prefer other stores than Steam or don't like all your eggs in one basket.

AMD Catalyst 13.11 Linux Beta V9.95 Driver Is Out

By Liam Dawe,
A new official beta has landed for AMD graphics users that adds official support for SteamOS and fixes a few of issues.