A friend of mine on another forum sent me a message to ask for my opinion of Eureka, a new free software map editor for Doom engine based games that is itself based on Yadex, which was the classic option for Linux mappers back in the day.

"Got the Linux message load and clear" is what we have heard from THQ about Linux ports, this is fun news and maybe they will even grace us with a game one-day.

Introducing Enemy Starfighter a brand new space combat simulator. A civilization’s downfall or ascension always begins with one thing: you. The Penitent Crusade has lasted for 30 years and you’ve led the Emperor’s Harbinger Fleet for most of it...

War For the Overworld is the Spiritual Successor of Dungeon Keeper series, Made by dedicated Dungeon Keeper fans from Keeper Klan. They Formed Subterranean games a team formed of professionals, Modders and Enthusiastic individuals, to recreate and improve on the old and beloved DK formula! They have been working on this for years and recently decided to take it to the professional level to deliver you the best DK successor they can! Due to the engine they are using (Unity) they can and will do Linux and Mac ports...

OMGUbuntu has reported on this thanks to an email they got from the steam mailing list (which for some reason I haven't seemed to have gotten). [QUOTE]Valve cite the ‘stability of the client’ as allowing for the beta to be opened up to more users. "The Open Beta will be available to the public and will increase the current population from 80K to a higher number" they wrote in a message to the closed Steam for Linux Mailing List...

"Damn, I'm looking good!" Here's your chance to play good old Duke Nukem for free! Gog.com is running a promotion right now!

Introducing [url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/meriwether/meriwether-an-american-epic]Meriwether: An American Epic Kickstarter[/url] - "Take command of the Corps of Discovery in this RPG based on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition for PC, Mac, and Linux...

Linux gaming really is coming along isn't it! Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is now confirmed to be coming to Linux a developer tweeted.

The Vessel for Linux build was just released for everyone! It's 1.0, so there's still a chance of multiple bugs being in there, however go and play it so they can be found and fixed. And here's the list I'm aware of: [LIST] [*]the game isn't multithreaded [*]some issues with steam and other such particles [*]the game is unplayable if you use Compiz+Unity (or maybe just Compiz) in windowed mode, since the game doesn't register the mouse outside of a much smaller box...

[IMG]http://www.rune-soft.com/Games/Released/Game-239/upload/pictures/slideshow/CulturesEng_TopImage.jpg[/IMG] The RTS game Cultures : Northland is now available on Desura for Linux : [url]http://www.desura.com/games/cultures-northland[/url] Northland was originally developed for Windows and was then ported by RuneSoft on Mac OS & Linux...

[IMG]http://static.puppygames.net/images/09/banners/revenge-of-the-titans-banner.jpg[/IMG] [url=http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-the-titans/]Revenge of the Titans[/url] which is quite frankly an awesome game and my complete favourite from the Humble Bundles 2&3 has received an update which you can find either on your Humble Accounts if you purchased those bundles or via their own website of course which will enable you to use this new mode...

This is a script to enable you to login to Steam's Big Picture mode directly from login that we featured on here before. [QUOTE] I've just released and updated in my steam-login project that aims to put STEAM BigPicture mode at login screen. More info and download at: [url]https://github...

0 A.D. the often talked about (especially here) open source Real Time Strategy game from Wildfire Games has a new website [url=/]www.play0ad.com[/url] with a revamped look and new address so update your bookmarks!

Corsix-TH the open source engine to run Theme Hospital has hit 0.11 (well they did a while ago actually) and soon 0.20 will be out as well it seems.

A new application has popped up called "[url=http://www.gogonlinux.com/]gogonlinux[/url]" which aims to hopefully help people play their gog.com games under Linux. It seems very much like "playonlinux" in the way of it using Wine but this also uses scummvm and dosbox since a fair few gog...