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Eric Chahi's renowned cinematic platformer makes its Linux debut. Read inside for details, plus some quotes from Linux porter Ryan C. Gordon.

Even though it seemed likely from a developer tweeting a screenshot of Terraria on Linux there was never an official confirmation. Until now that is! The developers are now confident enough to confirm it.

Here is a look back at the last week on GamingOnLinux, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past week for Linux Gaming!

Rising Angels: Reborn is now available for free on Linux and promises to be an interesting sci-fi adventure.

Double Fine's charming RPG-come-puzzle game, Hack 'n' Slash has left Steam Early Access and is now released, along with Lua sources for engine scripts and Steam Workshop Support.

Warlocks is a crazy (and awesome) looking pixel art action game now on Kickstarter. The developers have told us Linux will be a day 1 release too.

Chasm is the excellent looking RPG Platformer from Discord Games that will be launching into early access soon, and luckily the Linux release will come too.

Those of you who passed on The Binding of Isaac due to it being a flash game are in luck! The popular rogue-lite title is being remade from the ground up, with plenty of new content for new and old players alike this November. The most significant change from a gameplay standpoint will probably be the addition of an interesting local co-op mechanic.

Here is some Sunday reading for you from other gaming sites across the internet. Not much generally happens on a Sunday, so hopefully this will be a regular article.

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!

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.

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

Virtual Programming are again delivering on their promises of better performance. The Witcher 2 has kicked off another round of beta versions and it comes with AMD related fixes too.

Minecraft 1.8 has officially just been released and with it comes maaaaany changes you need to be aware of.

We already knew that Total War: ROME II would come to Linux, but now it looks like the original Empire: Total War will come to Linux too and maybe sooner than the sequel.

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

Strife is the brand new free to play MOBA from S2 Games who created Heroes Of Newerth, Savage & Savage 2. Is it any better than other MOBA's though?

Screencheat is a pretty funny idea. The days of split-screen play on old games console FPS games allowed you to see where the other players are, and this game incorporates that into the actual game-play. It has a Linux version too, so we can join in on the cheating fun.

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

Welcome to a new issue of The Funding Crowd! It looks like the summer lull is definitely over, as tons of interesting and good-looking projects are knocking at our doors in search of our pledges.