Hotline Miami a game we have said is coming to Linux now has in Beta form! Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

This is the second edition of [b]The Funding Crowd[/b], our weekly review of crowdfunded Linux games, including the most interesting of the newest campaigns as well as a recap of what happened during the last week (11 days actually).

The Void of Darkness website has gone live, showing of Tropical Games new 2d Space Combat, Trading and Exploration Game inspired in part by Starflight 1 and 2.

[b]Created in homage to Populous and the nostalgia of 16 bit games,[/b] Reprisal lets you take control of a tribe, guiding them, building land and making them grow in number.

Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator.

So as usual behind the scenes I have been doing digging contacting various developers to find out if they have Linux versions planned and here are a few that got back to me! Games including Edge of Space, Battlepaths and more, all of these are currently on Desura.

Akaneiro: Demon Hunters the ARPG that draws from Little Red Riding Hood is now in Open Beta for Linux!

Energy Hook, the grapple-and-swing-and-run-on-walls-for-style game, meets the $20k Linux stretch goal!

Another actual release, hell yes! X3: Albion Prelude is now out for Linux on Steam. X3: Albion Prelude is the latest game in the X3 space game series. TRADE, FIGHT, BUILD, THINK in a living and breathing universe.

Released today (yes an actual release news!) is Anomaly 2 the tower defence game on Steam supporting cross platform multiplayer!

[url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1272313960/life-of-pixel][b]Life of Pixel[/b][/url] features platforming goodness spanning over 72 levels of moving & destructible platforms, double jumps, gravity inversion (walk on ceilings) and lots of different enemies that Pixel must avoid to unlock the history of the pixel.

A couple of months ago we talked about the possibility of a Linux version of [b]Hairy Tales[/b]. What yesterday was pure speculation, today it has become a reality! [b]Hairy Tales[/b] is now available for Linux at Desura.

With the explosion over the past year of crowdfunding campaigns offering some kind of Linux support, I've taken a look at why Linux support as a stretch goal can work against rather than for a campaign.

A story driven, action-stealth-puzzler where you create and control your own zombie army! I fell in love when the developers emailed it in. Linux and Mac releases from day 1 will be a stretch goal, so I dug to find out why!

As the economical crisis advances, the discontent of an entire population cannot help but outburst in Riots, where the sounds of many voices get heard at once.