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Robocraft Free 2 Play Game Released For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Robocraft is a surprisingly fun free 2 play game now on Linux. You build your own vehicle and have it out with other people across the globe with some amusing designs.

Planetary Annihilation Officially Launches, Linux Is Polished Up

By Liam Dawe,
Planetary Annihilation has officially launched as one of the biggest RTS games ever made. The scale of it is just immense as you fight from planet to planet, and luckily the Linux version was polished up!

The Wine Development Release 1.7.26 Is Now Available.

By sobkas,
Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.26 bringing many new features and as many as 48 bugfixes.

The Witcher 2 For Linux Released On GOG

By Liam Dawe,
The Witcher 2 for Linux is now fully DRM-free and available to buy from GOG, but be warned the GOG team accidentally put up an older version.

Untold Universe, A Space Sandbox MMO Now On Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
Untold Universe is a space voxel sandbox MMORPG. Explore, shape, colonize and conquer a huge and uncharted universe! It sounds interesting, but is it worth a look?

Ludosity Open Sourced Their Unity3D Steamworks Wrapper

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for any Unity3D developers! Ludosity has open sourced their Steamworks wrapper and made it free.

Hatoful Boyfriend Takes Flight On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
There is actually a dating simulation/visual novel based around pigeons. I wish I was surprised, but with Goat Simulator coming to Linux it seems we are primed to get all the weird games now too.

New Humble Weekly Bundle (5 Linux Games Out Of 7)

By immortel,
A brand new Humble Weekly Bundle is out and 5 out the 7 games support Linux. One of them is a pretty recent port too.

GOL World Tour: Linux Gaming From Norway

By Segata Sanshiro,
This week the GOL world tour leaves Argentina and heads for Norway after a longer-than-expected visit due to the vast quantities of awesome steak and red wine. Norway has around 100 companies involved in the game industry.

The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 - Chapter 1, Released For Linux

By Bumadar,
The people at King Art Games have been true to their word and have released The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 on steam early access for all platforms at once for their backers, which is a nice break from all the "Linux when windows is out and sorted" releases we get these days.

Tropico 5 Linux Release Date Announced, It's Very Close

By Liam Dawe,
Tropico 5 is highly anticipated for Linux gamers and one I have been personally waiting for. It sees you return to the island nation of Tropico for more madness.

Sword of the Stars: The Pit Available On Linux, You Need The Gold Edition

By Liam Dawe,
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is now available on Linux, but not the Vanilla edition to avoid confusion.

Reclaim The Couch: Steam In-home Streaming Returns To Linux

By neffo,
Here is some good news for those who like their desktops to be Linux, and their couch to be for gaming: the latest Steam Client Beta has re-enabled In-Home Streaming hosting on Linux.

Feral Interactive Wish To Know Why You Game On Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Feral Interactive one of our new favourite porting houses has asked the big question. Why do we game on Linux?

Costume Quest 2 Pre-orders Open, Linux From Day 1

By Liam Dawe,
Costume Quest 2 has officially opened the pre-order flood gates on Steam, and it looks like a Day 1 Linux release is upon us.

This War Of Mine From 11 Bit Studios To Be On Linux At Launch

By Liam Dawe,
This War Of Mine from Anomaly developers 11 Bit has been confirmed to be on Linux from the launch. Good news everyone!

SteamLUG September Linux Gaming Events

By Half-Shot,
The SteamLUG (Steam Linux User Group) events calendar for September is up, featuring Sanctum 2, Monaco, Frozen Synapse, Planetary Annihilation and more!

Interloper A Fancy Looking New RTS Game Coming Soon For Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Real time strategy games are my favourite genre next to first person shooters and Interloper is tickling my fancy right now. It's a brand new in-development RTS game.

Band Saga, A Musical Action Roguelike Now On Kickstarter

By NamTaey,
Band Saga, "a musical action roguelike of epic proportions" is now on Kickstarter and will be available on Linux!

Borderlands 2 Also Looks Like It's Coming To Linux, UPDATE: Confirmed

By Liam Dawe,
Remember when Randy Pitchford of Gearbox told us not to get our hopes up? Then Borderlands: The Pre-sequel was confirmed for Linux? Well he's a funny guy as Borderlands 2 is now showing signs of coming over to Linux anyway. UPDATED