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The Funding Crowd 19 (Sep 12th-24th)

By muntdefems,
The Funding Crowd goes on, at the rhythm our tightly scheduled lifes allows. But soon things are going to change...

Planetary Annihilation Enters Beta With Lower Price & More Features

By Liam Dawe,
This is very exciting especially for any RTS fan as Planetary Annihilation has entered beta which unlocks more features and lowers the price.

NeonXSZ - Descent Inspired 6DoF Shooter - Demo Releasing Today

By Intravenous Software,
The much requested demo for NeonXSZ - A 6DoF twitch shooter that pays homage to Descent and Quake - is releasing today. Highly optimized to run on just about any hardware this is definitely one to try out.

Heavy Bullets FPS Dungeon Crawler With Video

By Liam Dawe,
Heavy Bullets is an FPS dungeon crawler from Terri Vellmann in the early stages, but already very promising, with its bright colours and fun enemies it's already fun.

Neverending Nightmares Offers A Personal Approach To Horror

By s_d,
Neverending Nightmares is a psychological horror game featuring an interactive narrative structure in which the player character navigates a chilling and constantly shifting reality as they experience false awakenings into new and different nightmares.

'FlightGear' v2.12 enhances visual experience

By Jarl Arntzen,
The FlightGear development team is happy to announce the v2.12 release of FlightGear, the free, open-source flight simulator. This new version contains many exciting new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Highlights in this release include improved usability, continued development of the Canvas rendering toolkit, and improved scenery rendering.

Valve Announces Steam Machines, You Can Win One Too

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have announced SteamOS, their own operating system based on Debian Linux that will be placed on a variety of gaming machines due for release in 2014.

GOL Cast: Weird Stuff in Kairo

By Samsai,
Guess what, we have another puzzle game for you to try out! So, let's start our journey into Kairo (with a K) and see what this weird and abstract world has in store for us!

Crypt Run Action RPG Available To Pre-Order

By Liam Dawe,
Death is just the beginning in Crypt Run, an action RPG where a new world awaits each time you play! Available to preorder now on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Achron Time Travelling RTS Game Updated

By Liam Dawe,
A new major bugfix update to Achron has been released to fix a lot of bugs and a few minor new features. Glad to see this games continues to be supported.

Cactus IDE For Haxe Game Development

By Liam Dawe,
Open source cross platform IDE for the Haxe programming language supporting Windows/Linux/Mac as Haxe lacks really good cross platform IDE.

SteamOS Thoughts, SteamOS Official Group & Next Announcement

By Liam Dawe,
So with the dust settling in about Valve's new SteamOS it's time to take a quick think about it all.

Octopus City Blues A Surreal Adventure

By Liam Dawe,
The authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure game about everything and nothing.

The IndieGameStand Game Store

By Liam Dawe,
So IndieGameStand the website which used to be all about a new pay-what-you-want and charity supporting game sale every 96 hours has officially launched a full game store.

Turn-based Wargame Steam Squad On Kickstarter

By ,
Steam Squad is a turn-based war-game for PC, Mac and Linux. It takes place in an alternate universe during World War I.

Valve Has Announced The SteamOS Built On Linux UPDATED

By Liam Dawe,
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

How Does Left 4 Dead 2 Perform On Ubuntu 13.04 Compared To Windows 8?

By Sabun,
Today I bring you a smaller but new test I did recently with my system. I wanted to see what the actual performance difference was when running Left 4 Dead 2 natively in Ubuntu 13.04 versus running it in Windows 8.

The Fall A Dark, Story Driven Exploration In An Alien World UPDATED

By Liam Dawe,
Descend into a dark world where action platforming meets traditional adventure gaming to create something new for you to explore.

New Batch Of Titles Greenlit On Steam 18th September

By Liam Dawe,
A little late on this one, been feeling so ill the past week, we now have more titles to look forward to on Steam!

Natural Selection 2 FPS/RTS Hybrid Gets A Big Update

By Liam Dawe,
Natural Selection 2 has gotten two updates recently 256 and 257 to give you lots of big fixes with a few new features thrown in for good measure too.