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Welcome to a new issue of The Funding Crowd! It looks like the summer lull is definitely over, as tons of interesting and good-looking projects are knocking at our doors in search of our pledges.

Here is a look back at the last week on GamingOnLinux, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past week for Linux Gaming!

Steam's Early Access is filled with games these days that are annoying to cover due to missing assets, bugs, bad performance and unfinished gameplay mechanics. In my opinion only few games out there are worth picking up. And I believe Ziggurat is one of them.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.25 bringing many new features and as many as 35 bugfixes.

Lazors & Asteroids is an open world SciFi game, now on Alphafunding on Desura! The game has a chunk of open levels including large-scaled pre-set space battles and procedurally generated wars, along with a Free-Roam mode in which you have to collect items and attack cargo ships to upgrade your ship.

For those who can't wait for the release of Valve's Steam Machines, this is a guide on how to build your own using parts tested to make sure they play nice together. The guide also doubles up as a cheap PC build for those looking to get the best value for money Linux gaming rig.

AMD are working very closely with the Khronos Group for the next generation OpenGL API, and have even given them access to see what makes their own Mantle API tick.

Orbital Gear is a very fast paced online action game that involves mech units and gravity. It's on Steam right right now and it's not an Early Access game, hooray!

Welcome to The Funding Crowd, issue #36! Summer is still going on in the boreal hemisphere, but make no mistake: boreal has nothing to do with boring, so here we come to bring you the games which are most worthy of your hard-earned money!

Wings Of Saint Nazaire is probably one of the most beautiful space combat sims around, and it has a brand spanky new free alpha to try!

Gratuitous Space Battles 2 has finally been announced officially, and the good news is that it will officially support Linux.

Arcen Games just love Linux now don't they! AI War Fleet Command is currently in beta for Linux on Steam, and it's quite playable.

NeonXSZ is quite a unique FPS set in cyberspace that we have covered before, but it's come a long way development wise and will be heading to Steam in August.

You can now grab Space Pirates and Zombies DRM free from GOG.com as they build up their game collection.

Bik is quite an interesting looking point & click adventure, and it's available for Linux. We check it out and let you know how it plays.

Today marks a big day for Linux and DRM free gaming. GOG.com are now officially supporting Linux on their store, and so that's pretty much all major online stores supporting Linux.

Halfway is the brand new game from Robotality that promises to be a beautiful space sci-fi turn base strategy. We have a hint for you: It's good.

Star Ruler 2 looks like a fantastic space 4X-RTS game currently in Early Access on Steam, and luckily it comes with a Linux build too.

Budget caps to blow, reputations to ruin and missions to fail have now come to career mode in the fantastic sandbox space simulator from Squad.

Exciting news readers! Halfway the beautiful looking science fiction space strategy game is going to be released this month, and they have a shiny website for the game now.