This is incredibly damaging to Kickstarter. I suspect that most hardware based Kickstarter campaigns will now face a torrent of cynicism as a result of this. Kickstarters have a hard enough time gaining trust in the face of the Ouya shenanigans - I hope I'm wrong, but this could wreck everything.

As for Oculus itself... I was about to pre-order the crystal cove edition just last weekend. Glad I didn't, and I won't be touching it now. I suspect that continuing Oculus as an open platform died with this announcement.

Finally, what will Valve do? They've staked their colours to VR as the future of gaming. I guess they'll revive their own headset (assuming they buried it in the first place) and sell it as a Steam Machine peripheral. Hopefully it will remain open and cross platform.

What a mess.

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Yep, I've pretty much condemned these devs for their treatment of the Linux port. It's basically a promise, broken. Or as I like to call it, a "lie".

You do run the same risk with Kickstarter though - the Fun Pimps have utterly failed to bring 7 Days to Die to Linux despite it being a clearly supported platform on the campaign. And let's not forget Contagion which is looking like another dubious promise. Despite promising Linux support on a stretch goal, no word. Due for release April 11th now and still no word.

7 Days to Die - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/7daystodie/7-days-to-die-zombie-survival-game

Contagion - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monochromellc/contagion

[edit : Contagtion devs sticking to their original promise. Fingers crossed. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monochromellc/contagion/posts/768189]

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Looks good. I played a lot of Dungelot on Android, and this is very nearly the exact same game with some stylistic differences. In Dungelot, for example, you don't level up as you play, but instead use the gold from one run to power up your next attempt (much like Rogue Legacy actually).

I'm a sucker for these types of RPG-lite games, so I think I might have to fire up the old Desura client for the first time in a long time!

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Good to see Tower of Elements on there. I pledged to that Tabletop Simulator too - I didn't realise they were aiming for Greenlight!

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Great news. Really superb. I've been avoiding them for years - I buckled last year and bought Planescape, because there was a great post about getting it working natively in Ubuntu. And last month, I bought Descent because of the DXRebirth project (which is amazing, BTW), but I never considered them for general purchases, because I can't stand wine.

So yeah. Fantastic news!

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Just pledged to this - I got a heads up back in February that this was happening (was meant to go live on March 14th, but heyho). Very exciting.

I've added this one to the Games wiki and we'll no doubt cover it in the next Funding Crowd as a Biggie!

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This is great news. Fingers crossed for some big AAA titles using the engine and getting a simultaneous Linux release. Fantastic!

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I backed Earthlock (thanks again to Q4a for that one) and have just backed Nothing to Hide. I'm also swithering over Star Crawlers.

It might have been a slow start to 2014, but there's absolutely cracking stuff coming out now.

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There's also Card City Nights - http://store.steampowered.com/app/271820/. It's really good, no in-app purchases at all and clocks in at a reasonably 8 hours campaign. I'm not sure, but I don't think there's multiplayer in this one though.

Worth a look though. The combo idea is really clever and makes the strategy more important than waiting for a killer card. The style is fun too - reminds me a little of the superb Costume Quest.

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This looks superb, but as a developer, they need to blog more. Up until two days ago, their site carried the same "Merry Christmas" message/blog post that they created on December 21st. To a casual visitor, the site would look like a dead project.

Very excited to play this though. Like a cross between Rebelstar Raiders and the recent Xcom remake. It looks excellent.

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