Well if you are reading from the title you must be a little interested I have a copy of Osmos for Linux up for grabs for one lucky winner (Full version, no demo). And if this competition is a success then i will be doing a monthly competition from my site, with prizes from games, to t-shirts, to hats etc...

After just over a year of silence the UFO2000 project has released a new version: [quote]Change notes : * Display enemy's points feature (Fomka) * Linux version of ufo2000 game client does not depend on HawkNL library anymore (Siarhei Siamashka) * Finnish translation (Tuomas Lähteenmäki) * Various bug fixes (Siarhei Siamashka)[/quote] For those not familiar: [quote]UFO2000 is free and opensource turn based tactical squad simulation multiplayer game...

Thanks to the success of the Humble Indie Bundle (which took in over a million $) the first two games have been Open Sourced. To play them you will still need to buy them, as I understand it the source of the game Engines are free, but not the game itself (so people can fork the engines to make new open-source games or improve the engines for the current games)...

[quote]Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of a second pre-alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. Although it's not a playable release yet, it includes a new pathfinding system, training queues, a dynamic minimap and more...

Well here you have it folks apparently Valve has announced that Steam will be coming to Linux after all.

Well after a rather long discussion with other forum members on the Ubuntu Forums I decided it was time to attempt to get some answers. For those of you not familiar with the matter Linux Game Publishing (or LGP for ease) is a company who specialise in porting and publishing others ports of games to the Linux platform...

$610,901 later and 72,791 contributors (at time of writing) the Humble Indie Bundle is a MASSIVE success. A new contributor has emerged as "Amanita Design" but instead of donating dollars and cents they have added a new game to the bundle! Samorost 2 has been added to the bundle, so stop reading this and go to your page and download it! If you haven't yet purchased the bundle then there is still time! [quote]I talked to fellow indies Amanita Design this morning and they would like to contribute to the Humble Bundle too...

Over the past 2 days I have done some more work for this website to get the feature set a little more complete. Added "lytebox" for screenshots, so when you click on a screenshot it is shown in a pop-up box. Added a "Quote" tag for news posts that will show up now like this: [quote]This is some quoted text![/quote] So when quoting from various news sources it will look a lot nicer (I can also use it wherever I like, for example interviews to quote the persons response) cool eh! Have added an "Unreleased" category to the directory which will list games with a confirmed Linux client, unlike other sites that list games that "may" have a Linux client and get peoples hopes up, I will only list games that you can be sure will have a Linux version available! Much more to come!

This post is to basically highlight a topic on Ubuntu Forums about the company Linux Game Publishing. I am participating in the topic and encourage the readers of this website to chime in with their own thoughts too, but please keep it nice and don't be rude...

Well my birthday month just got a whole lot more interesting. The open source Age Of Empires-like RTS game recently released a pre-alpha version to show what all the fuss is about.

The first Humble Indie Bundle is up, a Pay What You Want game bundle of 5 games, could we see more of this in the future? I think so!

Okay so over the past two days i have done a little more on getting this website up to scratch to make it much more useful. *Added tags to the item pages: -Open Source -Single Player -Online Play -Netbook Friendly *Added an initial screenshot to the top of the item pages (makes it look a lot nice), if they don't have a shot it will show a default blank thumbnail (i plan to make sure all items have screenshots :))...

Well for a while now I have been following forum threads on different websites and news posts on Phoronix and it seems that a Linux client for Steam (Valve's game platform) will be coming to Linux!

It has been a long time coming due to unforeseen events preventing me to work on the website. The item pages now work, so when you click on an item from the categories or from the latest ones in the left panel it will now show you more information, that page will be worked on more and more to look nicer...

After a very short and fun testing period the indie hit Osmos now officially supports Linux. This marks yet another excellent indie game for our growing platform!