Hotline Miami a game we have said is coming to Linux now has in Beta form! Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

This is the second edition of The Funding Crowd, our weekly review of crowdfunded Linux games, including the most interesting of the newest campaigns as well as a recap of what happened during the last week (11 days actually).

The Void of Darkness website has gone live, showing of Tropical Games new 2d Space Combat, Trading and Exploration Game inspired in part by Starflight 1 and 2.

Created in homage to Populous and the nostalgia of 16 bit games, Reprisal lets you take control of a tribe, guiding them, building land and making them grow in number.

Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator.

So as usual behind the scenes I have been doing digging contacting various developers to find out if they have Linux versions planned and here are a few that got back to me! Games including Edge of Space, Battlepaths and more, all of these are currently on Desura.

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters the ARPG that draws from Little Red Riding Hood is now in Open Beta for Linux!

If in The Funding Crowd we do a weekly review of the Linux games being crowdfunded, here in The Cheapskate's Corner you will find all the current bundles and major sales which include at least a Linux game.

Energy Hook, the grapple-and-swing-and-run-on-walls-for-style game, meets the $20k Linux stretch goal!