Worry not readers early access isn't all doom and gloom. Maia's developer Simon Roth has created a blog post letting us all know just how healthy the game development is right now.
With all the doom and gloom recently about games here's a nice one. The head of Chucklefish has created a blog post about how healthy Starbound is and will continue to be.
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.
Orbital Gear is a very fast paced online action game that involves mech units and gravity. It's on Steam right right now and it's not an Early Access game, hooray!
Remember all the doom and gloom surrounding Facebook buying OculusVR? Well nothing has really changed, and thankfully they are still being a great company. They have recently purchased RakNet a cross platform C++ networking engine and they open sourced the damn thing.
My spidey sense is tingling. Marvel Heroes 2015 a free to play MMO Action RPG looks like it will be coming to Linux thanks to info taken from the excellent SteamDB.
Being in charge of humanity's last line of defense against an extraterrestrial threat is highly unlikely and if I were to do it I'm fairly sure we'd be doomed, but now I can try my hand at it in the safe environment of XCOM.
The more Linux gains popularity thanks to Valve & Steam the more we are seeing developers claim OpenGL is broken/hard to use and so on. This time it's Joshua Barczak the lead graphics engineer for Firaxis Games (think Civilization!).
Bionic Dues is the pretty fun 2D mech combat game from Arcen Games that was previously Steam-only for us Linux gamers. Luckily now you can get it on Humble Store too!
So once again the world relies upon my puzzle solving skills. I feel sorry for the world already. At least we can take a look at what these interesting environments have to offer before certain doom. Let's see what TRI is all about...
The Funding crowd is here again, full of recommendations about new exciting crowdfunded games and a review of what happened to the projects we covered in our latest issue.
You have ~20 days to vote for your favourite project of the month for May. The projects are open source engines for commercial games/commercial content.
Din's Curse is a single player and co-op multiplayer action RPG with 141 class combinations, infinite number of dynamically generated towns, real consequences, and a dynamic, evolving world.
So, you all heard about Facebook buying Oculus Rift right? I considered doing an article last night, but I decided to let my own and everyone else's hot heads cool down a bit.
Proven Lands is a game I have been following for some-time, it has finally come to Kickstarter with Linux support as standard. Proven Lands is a beautiful science-fiction sandbox roguelike, procedurally generated and studded with an AI storyteller.
Puppy Arcade is a FREE retro gaming operating system, with many emulators included for different systems & consoles, plus the multi-system rom browser 'Rom-Loader', and many other exclusive tools.
In-Home Streaming was part of the SteamOS announcement Valve made back in September and beta invites to the functionality have been sent to some people around the internet. Luckily I was part of that group and I can share some of it with you!