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You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.

Australian studio, Defiant Development has one week remaining on the crowdfunding campaign for their unique hack & slash/card collecting hybrid game, Hand of Fate.

Described as an addictive hybrid of Super Metroid and Terraria, SteamWorld Dig is a platform mining adventure. Take the role of Rusty, a lone mining steambot, as he arrives at an old mining town in great need. Dig your way through the old earth, gaining riches while uncovering the ancient threat that lurks below...

Unvanquished is a fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements, pitting technologically advanced humans against hordes of highly adaptable aliens. The player can choose from either team, providing a fresh gameplay experience on both sides of the conflict.

Not a game itself but will be very useful for developers i'm sure, Sprite Lamp is a tool to help game developers combine 2D art, such as digital painting or pixel art, with dynamic lighting.

Apotheon, the upcoming action game that leverage's a unique look based on ancient Grecian art styles is now confirmed for Linux!Beautiful action game coming to Linux!

The latest Steam update no longer works in wine but a patch due out this weekend should fix the issue.

Starbound the game I have probably been most excited about this year is due to drop into public beta in less than an hour, are you ready to rock?

Not exactly gaming news but still interesting and it can impact Linux gaming in the future, Valve (and others) has joined the Linux Foundation.

Bit late of this as I catch up, but Prison Architect has hit a fifteenth alpha version featuring mod support!

Fancy Skulls is a first person shooter with procedural generation and permadeath. When you die - you will have to start over, but level layout, enemy placement and items are random each time you play.

Dyscourse, the new psychological survival adventure game from Owlchemy Labs (Snuggle Truck, Jack Lumber), will be completing its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in only three days.

The developers of Journey of a Roach are looking to port their game to Linux and are looking for a group of Linux gamers to help them test it.

Step into the space suit of valiant gravity badger Captain T Bayback as he ventures into the deadly depths of deep space to save his friends, family and the universe itself from the threat of the deadly Evil Honey Badgers, aka the Hellsett.

Elder Sign: Omens is a digital version of the popular board game by Fantasy Flight Games. Build a team of unique investigators and fight to keep an all-powerful Ancient One from invading our world! Explore museums, oceans, deserts and more for the arcane Elder Signs that will help seal the Ancient One away.

Here is the latest instalment of Steam's Hardware Survey, as usual we do our monthly thing and compare it and talk about it and make sure you know not to use it as a hard figure.

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.27.0! This release brings the first official release of OpenCS, the OpenMW team's efforts to bring an open source solution for editing content for OpenMW. OpenCS is in an early Alpha state, please take that into consideration when testing! See the full notes below.

So the first Steam Machine has been shown off and it looks awesome with some decent specifications to boot.

Starbound the ever increasingly fun looking sandbox game is due to head into beta around the 4th of December.

You've probably seen a bunch of articles related to this tactical FPS/RTS game running on the Source engine. Before buying it I had compared the screenshots and gameplay ideas to Natural Selection 2 and thought about skipping it. But thanks to Steam's Autumn Sale I decided to pick it up anyways, which turned out to be a good decision after all.