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Lenna's Inception A Top-Down Puzzle-Action-Adventure Game

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Lenna's Inception is a top-down puzzle-action-adventure game, similar to some of the Gameboy Zelda titles, but with procedurally-generated maps and puzzles, and a post-game sandbox. The alpha is now out for testing.

Amnesia A Machine For Pigs GOL Teaser

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I managed to get myself a nice early access pass to the new Amnesia game and have been allowed to video it for you, thanks to Simple Screen Recorder I have a setup that now works! Warning: Do not view it if you don't want the first few minutes spoilt, but it's not very long to not spoil much.

Door Kickers SWAT Strategy Now On Steam

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Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention. Analyze the situation, plan team routes, choose equipment and breach points and coordinate multiple troopers to reach the hostage room before the bad guys get to press that trigger.

Porting Games Over To Linux Using Wine

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So here we are again GOL readers, time for another one of my awful editorials and this time I am asking you/talking at you the glorious community about Wine ports!

Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition Is Still Heading To Linux

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Thankfully we have learnt that Baldur's Gate:Enhanced Edition is still going to happen for Linux, but sadly they still don't have a timeline for it.

Time To Go Postal, Free Postal 2 DLC On Its Way

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Postal 2 the first person game from RunningWithScissors looks like it's getting a totally free DLC! Sweet!

Build & Defend Survival Sandbox Game Updated

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This game mixes several classical gameplay-styles such as Tower Defense, Multi-player cooperation, Destructible world and Economics and it has just had a new update.

The Funding Crowd 17 (Aug 28th - Sep 2nd)

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The Funding Crowd is here! Here you'll find enough Linux games crowdfunding facts to be the center of attention at your next social gathering, guaranteed.

PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate Is Heading To Linux

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The critically acclaimed PSN hit PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate makes its way to Steam Linux for the definitive Monsters experience! Currently looking for testers too.

'Alien Arena: Tactical' pre-demo release review

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A first look at the alpha demo of the upcoming free, class based multiplayer shooter 'Alien Arena: Tactical'. We list the available player roles, explain the gameplay, mechanics and goals, as well as point out a flaw or two. All this to give you a general idea before the public demo, but also to prepare for feedback gathering.

Steam's August Hardware Survey, Linux Dips Below 1%

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Another month and another quick look at the Linux statistics on Steam, this time it seems we have dipped below that 1% mark.

Greenheart Games Detail The Delay For Game Dev Tycoon Linux Updates And Steam Support

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Game Dev Tycoon is now out on Steam but not yet for Linux, while they do have an older version for Linux on the website, we contacted them to find out what was up?

GOL Cast: Making Science In Sokobond

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Sometimes explosions and loud guns just aren't then thing you are looking for. And when that happens, you can rely on relaxing music, simple gameplay and chemistry!

Egbert and Frogbert's Crystal Picnic By Nooskewl Alpha Now Available

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Crystal Picnic a 16-bit style action RPG in development by Nooskewl the creators of Monster RPG 2 now has an alpha available if you pre-order.

Hot Tin Roof, a modern adventure platformer with a classic touch

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It's raining outside in this late summer afternoon and I'm feeling a bit under the weather too, so it's the perfect occasion to engage myself with a film noir adventure game like Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora.

Half-Life 1 SDK Updated For Linux Support

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Ah Valve they do seem to rather love Linux don't they? They recently added Linux support to the Half-Life 1 SDK so that mods using it can be ported to Linux!

New Wasteland 2 RPG Footage And Linux Release Info

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As more time goes by more Wasteland 2 screenshots have filtered in and now we have 18 minutes worth of gameplay and some info on the Linux release.

Ironclad Tactics, A Fast-Paced Card-Based Tactics Game Available For Pre-Order

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Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots!

The Wine development release 1.7.1 is now available

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The new release of development version of Wine was made public today. Version 1.7.1 brings many changes including 56 fixed bugs and few new features.

Cities In Motion 1&2 Will Come To Linux From Paradox

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So thanks to one of the guys at Paradox we have learnt that not only will Cities in Motion come to Linux but it's sequel will too!