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Get Your Dancing Shoes On, Crypt Of The Necrodancer Comes To Linux Soon

By Liam Dawe,
The excellent and frustrating Crypt of the Necrodancer comes to Steam Early Access on the 30th of July, and comes complete with a Linux version.

Darkwood Release Date For Linux & Interactive Trailer!

By Liam Dawe,
Darkwood is a dark survival game that blends a few different types of games together, and originally Linux was a delayed release, but they actually delayed their own release so that Linux is now a day 1 release. They have now finally given an Early Access release date with a fancy interactive trailer.

Epic Games Helps Blender By Becoming A Sponsor

By Liam Dawe,
Epic Games are starting to become real champions for us with porting Unreal Engine and bringing the new Unreal Tournament to us, but now they are also sponsoring the Blender project with funds too.

Open Source Morrowind Engine OpenMW 0.31.0 Released

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest OpenMW has been released which pushed the engine even further to allow us Linux gamers to play the excellent Morrowind natively.

Open Source UFO: Alien Invasion 2.5 Released

By Guest,
After more than two years of development, the team behind UFO: Alien Invasion has finally released a new stable version of their open source tactics game.

Ground Pounders Turn Based Strategy Now Officially Out For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Ground Pounders is the next game from the developers behind the Sword of the Stars series, and promises some heated turn based action. It's now out of Early Access and is fully available for Linux.

The Nightmare Cooperative Turn Based Roguelike Released For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Nightmare Cooperative classes itself as a turn based strategic roguelike (I wish more developers used Procedural Death Labyrinth) that looks crisp, but is it any good? Read on to find out.

Vote For GOG To Make Galaxy Open Source

By FutureSuture,
Galaxy will launch this year, so a number of folks in GOG's community have suggested that it should be open source. A list of reasons speak for this, but what do you think?

Simple Screen Recorder Updated, Recording & Live Streaming Made Easy On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another of our favourite recording and live streaming applications on Linux has recently been updated, and it's time to give you a little run down on it.

Minecraft Gains Massive Performance Improvements With New Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
If there's one thing Minecraft needs it's better performance amongst a lot of other things. Thankfully they have been working on it, and it's already showing.

Live Streaming On Linux, Now With OBS Studio

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio is a rewrite of the OBS recording and live streaming software that is currently in the early stages, but it's already very useful. It's a popular bit of kit a lot of Windows gamers use to stream their games and the rewrite OBS Studio works on Linux.

Halfway, The Excellent Looking Strategy Game Release Date Announced

By Liam Dawe,
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.

Postal 2 Linux Updates Are Now Up In The Air

By Liam Dawe,
Sadly the big updates for Postal 2 for Linux may be a long way behind the Windows updates as Ryan "Icculus" Gordon their usual porter has now passed on their work. So, they need a new developer to help out it seems.

Torchlight & Torchlight II Look Set For Linux & Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Morning! We begin today with some big news folks. It looks like both Torchlight & Torchlight II are due to be released on Steam for Linux.

BANG BANG BANG! Released With Linux Support

By Cheeseness,
Western shootout themed party game BANG BANG BANG! from indie developer Sophie Houlden is now available for Linux.

The Funding Crowd 35 (July 2nd-15th)

By muntdefems,
Welcome to The Funding Crowd #35! We have some wonderful projects to cover this issue, so read on to discover what they are about!

Minions of Steel, An RTS & FPS Game Coming To Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Minions of Steel is an interesting looking hybrid of a real time strategy game along with some first person shooter elements, and it is in need of greenlight votes. It does of course state it will be able on Linux too.

Crytek Face More Problems, As Homefront Director Resigns

By Liam Dawe,
So, that's more bad news for our hopes of having the new Homefront: The Revolution not only be on Linux, but ever seeing the light of day. The director has now left.

Super 3D Noah's Ark Now Available On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Super 3D Noah's Ark was originally a NES & DOS game that was revamped for a 20th anniversary edition, and the new version includes a Linux port with an open source engine.

Unity Looking To Expand Linux Game Pad Support In Unity 5

By Cheeseness,
Unity developers are requesting SDL stlye mappings from the community to assist in increasing game pad support on Linux in Unity 5.