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SteamDB is a bit like a drug for some of us waiting on games, and today my usual check-in resulted in finding PAYDAY 2 with some nice looking Linux additions.

These are the types of projects I can really get behind. Much like CosixTH for Theme Hospital, openage is aiming to be a full open source engine for Age of Empires II.

Element has impressed me quite a lot, with some impressive visuals, quick games that you don't need hours for and it's really quite accessible.

AMD are stepping up their open source game again, as they have announced GPUOpen to rival Nvidia's GameWorks.

Shiness, a successfully crowd-funded RPG game has release a new teaser trailer, and it looks fantastic.

Magicka 2 seems like a pretty cool game, and great that we now have it on Linux too. The idea of battling away by casting spells is quite cool, and this new DLC looks insane.

Warsow, a rather stylish and free online shooter hit the big 2.0 release recently, and it seems to be pretty good.

While sites like STEAM and GOG are often the go-to for our gaming pleasure, there are still some indie gems hidden in the corners of the Internet that forgo these venerable platforms. One of those is Starsector, an open world space combat sim set in the distant future where civilization is slowly collapsing.

Here's an easy way to get some money off, simply use the code Linux5OFF on our Games Republic store to get a bonus 5% off.

The games store Itch has released the first proper public version of their own store client like Steam and GOG Galaxy, but simply named "Itch". It's open source too, so that's cool.

Read the latest in crowdfunding news for Linux in the last issue of The Funding Crowd this side of New Year's.

The last livestream we did was easily one of the most hilarious times I've had gaming on Linux, thanks in part to Feral Interactive for porting GRID Autosport, and also because we played with viewers who drive dirty.

Wine development team released today the fourth release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. 26 bugs were fixed.

Poi is the latest of a small handful of 3D platformers to release for Linux these last couple of months, and is worth a look for fans of 90s era 3D platformers.

Albion Online is already looking like a massive success, and their recently released statistics give me hope for it.

Oh boy, here we go. SMACH Z is a portable Steam Machine running SteamOS that will be powered by an AMD embedded low-powered SoC.

Idol Hands is a strategy game where you gradually take over the world by guiding your people and defeating other gods. It doesn't have the best reviews, but the patch that came with the Linux version may sway a few to change their reviews I think.

I'm not a big survival fan, but even I think Hurtworld looks pretty damned good. Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on deep survival progression that doesn't become trivial once you establish some basic needs.

Sheltered is one indie game I think will become pretty big, and their new update and video shows why I think this.

Stardust Galaxy Warriors looks like another good one for the Steam Machine race, as it combines good looking visuals with fun looking gameplay.