I really hope a lot of Unity developers upgrade to Unity4.5 as it offers up some heavily needed fixes to the engine for Linux builds of games.
FINALLY. XCOM: Enemy Unknown for Linux has been officially announced on Feral Interactive's official website. This is something we have been telling you about for quite some time now.
The Last Federation is the rather good mix of space combat and strategy simulation on Steam from the guys the made AI War & Bionic Dues. The developers have announced an expansion and even noted some details about their sales.
One you may have missed on the masses of titles greenlit recently is Submerge as multiplayer RTS game set underwater and it's bloody beautiful.
Prisonscape is one of the more interesting titles I've seen lately. You control a single inmate in prison and have to fight for survival creating weapons. gain henchmen and more.
Decent MMORPG games are something Linux still lacks, we have nothing close to World of Warcraft which is still extremely popular. So, can Blue Saga fill that gap? Probably not, but it's still charming.
Death Epileptic Pixel is one game that looks like it will give a fit even to people who aren't sensitive to flashing lights.
The WWI first person shooter Verdun has been through a fair few changes over its life-cycle, none more appreciated than the new much better UI.
A bit of a sore spot for me personally, but there is light at the end of the tunnel! Scrolls is the rather good card battle game created by Mojang (creators of Minecraft).
Labyrinthine Dreams is a short puzzle game about Beth, a young woman who is standing at Death’s Door. The developer let us know that a Linux version is likely this summer!
KeeperRL is the up-and-coming open source dungeon sim that recently hit their funding goal on indiegogo to expand. They have also just release a big alpha update to the free and open source game.
I'm not sure how many of you follow e-sports I sure don't, but this figure is interesting regardless. Dota2's next big tournment now has well over $6 million to hand out.
A bit of good news today is that TowerFall Ascension the highly rated indie game is very near to having a Linux version.
Shipwreck is a top down adventure game in which you must travel the land, explore dungeons, and defeat monsters to earn safe passage off the island on which you are stranded. It's a nice little game and has had a price-drop as well as a Desura release.
Thanks to the recent fiasco of The Witcher 2 I wanted to write down some thoughts on why we shouldn't accept bad quality ports from developers.
Pixel Dungeon is a traditional procedural death labyrinth game with pixel-art graphics and simple interface. Originally designed for Android the game is going to be open sourced soon, which means a port for Linux opens up!
8BitMMO is a retro-style 2D massively multiplayer game! It's a giant construction sandbox -- you can build a home or a castle in a persistent streaming world. Found and manage your own city. Fight evil LawyerCats and engage in Player vs Player battle.
Witcher 2 got pushed out for Linux few days ago and I decided it would be wise to cover this ASAP considering how big this release is and how much conversation there has been about its performance. So, let's start it up and check what's inside!
Planetary Annihilation was already awesome for the sheer scale of the game and the fact that it's on Linux means we finally have a big RTS game. The developers have just released a brand new build containing a single-player mode called "Galactic War".
OpenXcom is still one of my favourite open source engines ever. The original X-COM game UFO: Enemy Unknown/X-COM UFO Defense is one of the best strategy games ever made. The incredible open source engine is finally approaching a 1.0 release.