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Here we are again! Your favourite fortnightly-ish crowdfunding-related column is back with our recommendations about where to put your hard-earned money in order to help make games.

So, Linux finally has Earth 2140 Gold Edition around 17 years after the original release of the game, how does it stack up? Here are my thoughts and a video.

Here is a look back at the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for March 2014, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux Gaming!

So, Unity3D based games don't work correctly for you? Well it happens to me too and a helpful email from a GOL fan got it sorted, read on for how.

Heavy Bullets is another favourite little FPS of mine, it is now in beta and available for purchase!

Shipwreck is a top down adventure game in which you must travel the land, explore dungeons, and defeat monsters to earn safe passage off the island on which you are stranded. Shipwreck is the first game from Brushfire Games, a small game studio in Redmond, WA, run by brothers Nick and Joe Gravelyn.

Moebius: Empire Rising from Jane Jensen will not see a Linux release when it has the official release this April, despite hitting well over the Linux funding goal.

Balrum is the brilliant looking 2D RPG that just scraped through Kickstarter in August of last year, they have now released the beta build and it works on Linux.

I had to keep quiet about this one as well, but it seems the cat is out of the bag now. Sanctum 2 the awesome looking FPS & Tower Defence hybrid will come to Linux.

Gary is an office worker who oversleeps after a drunken night out on the town. Since it isn’t the first time Gary’s been late for work, he could be fired if he’s spotted arriving at his desk after everyone else yet again. So he’ll have to prove he’s smart and sneaky enough to make his way up all the 22 floors between him and his office without being seen.

Shadowrun Online billed itself as a "true cross-platform game" in the world of the popular Shadowrun series. It looks like Linux users may be playing another waiting game.

So, Star Conflict's Linux version was supposed to come out with their latest update and that didn't happen. We now know why!

Do you remember Voxatron? You don't? Well Voxatron is currently in alpha and it was part of a Humble Bundle named "The Humble Voxatron Debut!". Much has changed since then.

Valve have now put up their patched branch of Mesa that they use for SteamOS on github for all to see.

Leadwerks the fantastic looking game creation toolkit is due to arrive on Linux on Monday. Josh Klint announced on kickstarter last night.

Good news goat fans, Goat Simulator is officially coming to Linux and promises some very odd action. One of the funniest games i've seen for a long time.

Paper Dungeons the frustrating RPG/Roguelike game we recently reviewed from the Desura version has now hit Steam & Humble.

You aren't dreaming Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball really is a game. We actually mentioned it a while ago, but they have now pushed into Steam's early access section.

The second part in my articles on giving some limelight to open source games and engines, this time I have a completely different set to show you! How exciting!

Another game engine highlight for you today, this time it is V-Play a 2D game engine that enables you to code once for many platforms.