So, you all heard about Facebook buying Oculus Rift right? I considered doing an article last night, but I decided to let my own and everyone else's hot heads cool down a bit.
Maia is the fantastic looking space colony sim currently in early access that shows massive promise. A new update is out adding in tons of content, it's worth a looksie.
Star Conflict is a beautiful looking space-based free 2 play MMO that has finally be confirmed for Linux. We have known it was going to happen after the previous hints, but it is good to get solid confirmation.
The community manager for Unepic a fun looking 2D Platformer-RPG has confirmed that the Linux port has made "good headway", so we should hopefully see it this year.
You may not remember this, but Eador. Masters of the Broken World was supposed to come to Linux, and promise after promise it still hasn't arrived, but why? I got in touch with the developers to find out why.
Escape Goat 2 is now available on Linux from developer Ian Stocker, I put it through its paces to see if it's a good goat simulator or not. Spoiler: It's not a good goat simulator, but it is a good game.
Tallowmere is a 2D indie action roguelike procedural death labyrinth platformer for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, featuring randomly-generated levels, enemies, weapons, and gore.
Copod is a roguelite where you have to survive as a small creature in a strange world. It is currently in alpha and shows some real promise.
Not enough FPS games you say, we need more you say, fear not for we have a big list for you to sink your mouse into!
3D gems is a match 3 game with a beautiful 3D graphics and unique gameplay, which varies from level to level throughout the game.
Valve's Rich Geldreich has continued his awesome blog post about his work on the Vogl OpenGL debugger and has now posted some actual shots of it in action.
The Hong Kong Massacre is a decent looking top down blood-fuelled shooter that will come to Linux. The game is inspired by classic Hong Kong action movies.
Game Develop is an interesting bit of kit, as it's like GameMaker, Clickteam's Fusion and Scirra's Construct 2 in the way of letting you create games without programming. They need funding to make their Ubuntu support better.
A little later than expected, but Ground Pounders the turn-based strategy game now has a Linux version on Steam.
Build & Defend is the pretty fun looking co-op survival rogue-like game that doesn't seem to get enough attention.
Move over Godot, you aren't the only open-source game engine in town. Maratis is also free and open source!
Being an astronaut and exploring planets far away would be awesome, but sadly becoming an astronaut is really difficult and there won't be any missions to Mars or even Moon for a long time. Oh well, luckily we still have games that allow us to do that.
KiloBite is an the next logical step for snake, 3D! A simple HighScore chaser with a beautiful retro look; which can be left on or mixed and matched to achieve a look you like.
Planetary Annihilation has some more spit and polish now as they work through their Gamma phase of development, they have recently improved art, the lobby, the AI and more!
With all the talk of game engines giving Linux support recently, here is another. Esenthel game engine classes itself as a "Next-Gen" game engine with advanced features.