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Banished is the harsh city building and survival simulation that the developer had always planned to port to Linux, but it looks like it's about to happen now.

Here's the latest Steam Hardware survey for December 2014, and Linux actually increased, but not by a lot.

Always Sometimes Monsters has officially launched on Linux today, so we can all join in on the hype and see what all the fuss is about in this 2D story based adventure game.

Want to become the head of a Pharmaceutical Conglomerate? Well, your wish may be granted! We spoke to the developer who had encouraging words.

What kind of game can you expect for the price of a candy bar? Today I aim to answer that very question as I purchase and play the cheapest game available for Linux on Steam.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.34 bringing many new features and as many as 63 bugfixes.

Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders is a reasonable looking air combat sim that has recently released for Linux, so we decided to take a look and see how many times we get fragged.

Cognition & Moebius are two games from Phoenix Online Studios that are due to get their Linux versions.

Ride your music. Use your own music to create your own experience on a roller-coaster-like track. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. We take a look at the new Linux release.

Once again I'm going to go live to celebrate the arrival of weekend (for some of us, that is) by playing games and chatting with you, our beloved audience.

Cubot is a minimalist puzzle game that has been available since early last year on Itch.io and Desura. Last week it was greenlit and the game is already available on Steam.

Warhammer Quest is a new mix of strategy and RPG action based on the tabletop board-game. It comes with Linux support, but sadly the reception so far isn't the best.

The year 2087 is upon us — a future where genetic engineering is the norm, the addictive Trance has replaced almost any need for human interaction, and an omnipresent AI named Central powers the city. Its all-seeing CEL police force keeps tabs on everyone, including three people who are about to meet their maker.

Sadly, the Linux port of The Incredible Adventures Of Van Helsing is on hold and not a top priority any more.

Enigma-Dev is a fully featured game engine that compiles natively for Linux! Enigma is completely compatible with GML (the GameMaker Language), as well as C and C++. It is developed and written in Java, and can cross-compile to Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is a "work in progress" currently, but can compile full games.

After hearing plenty of heated feedback, GOG.com has now backtracked from their use of encrypted RAR files in their Windows installers, something which has raised concerns about the potential for encroaching DRM on their service as well as causing technical problems for some Linux users.

We are a little bit late on this as we are still doing our post-Christmas catch-up, but it looks like Valve hid a new Steam Controller design in their Steam client downloads.

The fantastic new FPS counter on the Steam Beta client is great, and this update makes it a ton more useful! I am really fond of this feature, but surprised it took this long to do.

I hope you weren't excited for Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, as the release that was supposed to happy last month got delayed.

Back in July last year, we wrote about Torchlight and Torchlight II possibly coming to Steam for Linux, and a little while ago more SteamDB activity was noticed.