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Planetary Annihilation has officially launched as one of the biggest RTS games ever made. The scale of it is just immense as you fight from planet to planet, and luckily the Linux version was polished up!

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.26 bringing many new features and as many as 48 bugfixes.

The Witcher 2 for Linux is now fully DRM-free and available to buy from GOG, but be warned the GOG team accidentally put up an older version.

Untold Universe is a space voxel sandbox MMORPG. Explore, shape, colonize and conquer a huge and uncharted universe! It sounds interesting, but is it worth a look?

Good news for any Unity3D developers! Ludosity has open sourced their Steamworks wrapper and made it free.

There is actually a dating simulation/visual novel based around pigeons. I wish I was surprised, but with Goat Simulator coming to Linux it seems we are primed to get all the weird games now too.

A brand new Humble Weekly Bundle is out and 5 out the 7 games support Linux. One of them is a pretty recent port too.

This week the GOL world tour leaves Argentina and heads for Norway after a longer-than-expected visit due to the vast quantities of awesome steak and red wine. Norway has around 100 companies involved in the game industry.

The people at King Art Games have been true to their word and have released The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 on steam early access for all platforms at once for their backers, which is a nice break from all the "Linux when windows is out and sorted" releases we get these days.

Tropico 5 is highly anticipated for Linux gamers and one I have been personally waiting for. It sees you return to the island nation of Tropico for more madness.

Sword of the Stars: The Pit is now available on Linux, but not the Vanilla edition to avoid confusion.

Here is some good news for those who like their desktops to be Linux, and their couch to be for gaming: the latest Steam Client Beta has re-enabled In-Home Streaming hosting on Linux.

Feral Interactive one of our new favourite porting houses has asked the big question. Why do we game on Linux?

Costume Quest 2 has officially opened the pre-order flood gates on Steam, and it looks like a Day 1 Linux release is upon us.

This War Of Mine from Anomaly developers 11 Bit has been confirmed to be on Linux from the launch. Good news everyone!

The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for September is up, featuring Sanctum 2, Monaco, Frozen Synapse, Planetary Annihilation and more!

Real time strategy games are my favourite genre next to first person shooters and Interloper is tickling my fancy right now. It's a brand new in-development RTS game.

Band Saga, "a musical action roguelike of epic proportions" is now on Kickstarter and will be available on Linux!

Remember when Randy Pitchford of Gearbox told us not to get our hopes up? Then Borderlands: The Pre-sequel was confirmed for Linux? Well he's a funny guy as Borderlands 2 is now showing signs of coming over to Linux anyway. UPDATED

A Valley Without Wind 1 & 2 from Arcen Games are now available on Linux, and that folks is their entire back catalogue ported to Linux.