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Two days ago we published an article about Mad Otter Games asking if there anyone was interested for a Linux port of their Red Baron remake that they are kickstarting. We Linux users are quite vocal about things we like and many people displayed their interest in the comments and now they have given an official response to us Linux gamers.

Well folks Left 4 Dead 2 now has a Linux icon and it's beta tag completely removed, this follows some essential fixes they did.

Two new platformers are now on Steam for you lovely lovely people to enjoy, both rated well and should be worth a look!

Spooky Range is a new Unity3D powered first person shooter that is currently available for pre-order on Desura and will be released the day before Halloween.

Continuing their effort of improving experimental Wine branch, developers have reached new goalpost and released version: 1.7.5. It includes many additional features and 30 bugfixes for known problems present in version 1.7.4.

It's time to ramp up the support of a Linux version for the new Red Baron flight combat sim, the developers are listening.

Neocolonialism - Buy votes. Extract wealth. Exploit the working class. Negotiate. Backstab. Manipulate parliaments. Manipulate the International Monetary Fund. Manipulate the world. The map is upside-down.

Control the evolution with the touch of your finger. Climb your way through the evolutional ladder. Start as a little organism and transform into a magnificent aquatic being. Explore the abyss in search of nutritional elements. Attack other species whenever you run out of other food sources.

Forced is a one- to four-player co-op arcade action RPG with puzzle and tactical elements. You are cast as slaves in the toughest fantasy gladiator school of them all, condemned to fight to the death, all the while attempting to win your freedom.

Klei Entertainment are super awesome aren't they? Releasing so much extra content for free for Don't Starve.

Ever since the Steam Hardware & Software Survey began showing Linux statistics, I've been asked to write about it. This month I've taken some time to talk about why the survey is important, pitfalls to watch out for when interpreting it, and some suggestions for improvement. I also take a look at how Linux userbase figures shift when adjusted for title count and find an interesting correlation.

The developers emailed this in one to let us know about Alone, a very interesting looking horror game for the Oculus Rift which supports Linux of course.

The latest major update to Minecraft (1.7.1) and one of it's biggest yet is about to drop on our plates!

Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders. Crime, Unemployment, National Debt, Terrorism, Climate Change...

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.

Some more sad news today folks, Trent from Nooskewl has made a blog post detailing why the currently open source game Monster RPG 2 is to become non-free again.

Rating: 8.5/10 The original Trine (2009) first became notable to me after I had discovered that its developer Frozenbyte had given full permission to redistribute certain screenshots of the game under a Creative Commons license as long as an attribution back to them was preserved...

7 Days To Die is a promising looking zombie survival and crafting game that was kickstarted and will head to Linux, sadly Tripwire Interactive the makers behind Killing Floor filed a claim against them.

Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate your way across a galaxy of Timothy Zahn's favorite aliens...and some of your own. I interviewed them on the project and here is the result!

So, some see Unity3D as one of the saviours of Linux gaming along with Steam. I, however, have been thinking more on this recently, and feel that it could be dangerous, not just for Linux, but for Indie developers in general to be so heavily reliant on one game engine.