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The Cheapskate's Corner 8 (Jul 4th-10th) (UPDATED)

By muntdefems, 4 Jul 2013

Welcome back to another issue of The Cheapskate's Corner, your favourite information source about bundles, sales and deals involving Linux games. This week we've got plenty of stuff for you, counting both new and ongoing deals. But be qui...

The Funding Crowd 8 (Jun 26th - Jul 1st)

By muntdefems, 2 Jul 2013

Welcome back to The Funding Crowd, a little late as usual! And this time made even worse by teasing you with an incomplete version of the column. It's all over now, that we've updated the article to include this weeks Hidden Gems...

The Cheapskate's Corner 7 (Jun 27th - Jul 3rd) (UPDATED)

By muntdefems, 27 Jun 2013

Welcome another week to The Cheapskate's Corner! Have you got some spare change you'd like to spend on some cheap Linux games? Please do read on as we're about to tell you what the options are before you decide on whatever you fancy the m...

The Funding Crowd 7 (Jun 18th - 25th)

By muntdefems, 26 Jun 2013

Welcome back to The Funding Crowd, your weekly digest about all the Linux games that are being crowdfunded out there. As usual we begin taking a look at the campaigns that ended, either for good or for bad, during the last seven days:

Paranautical Activity is on IndieGameStand (PWYW) and the dark side of Greenlight

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2013

Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky. I don't usually shout out...

'Alien Arena', an in-depth developers' interview - Part II

By Alex V.Sharp, 11 Jun 2013

'Alien Arena', an in-depth developers' interview - Part I

By Alex V.Sharp, 8 Jun 2013

The Funding Crowd 3 (May 20th - May 26th)

By muntdefems, 27 May 2013

Welcome to a rather late new edition of The Funding Crowd, now definitively settled in the weekend (well, somewhere in the world it's still the weekend, right?). Let's first take a look back on the last seven days and see what news they b...

Race the Sun has been successfully funded

By muntdefems, 7 Mar 2013

$20,000 seemed an easy enough goal, but the truth is that Race the Sun's Kickstarter campaign had a very slow start and for the m...

John Carmack of id software chimes in on Wine gaming

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2013

So doing it's rounds right now is news about John Carmack of id software chiming on on Wine gaming, here are his thoughts and my thoughts. So let's ...

Misc

Serious Sam 3 gets a new beta release

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2013

Serious Sam 3 the fast paced shooter now on Linux thanks to Steam has had a new beta rel...

Misc

Eureka offers a new option for Doom mappers

By Hamish, 16 Dec 2012

A friend of mine on another forum sent me a message to ask for my opinion of Eureka, a new free software map editor for Doom engine based games that is itself based on Yadex, which was the classic option for Linux mappers back in the day.

Open Source

GamingOnLinux Reviews - Postal: Classic and Uncut

By Hamish, 29 Oct 2012

Game Information: Name: Postal: Classic and Uncut Released: August 29, 2003 Developer: Running With Scissors Rating: 7/10 Hardware Specifications: Processor: AMD Sempron 1...

Oculus Rift VR Headset To Support Linux

By Cheeseness, 4 Aug 2012

I've been hunting for an affordable head mounted display (HMD) for years, and I've always been stunned at how high the price point for VR gear in general has managed to stay so high over the past decade and a half. There's cu...

GamingOnLinux Reviews - Shadowgrounds

By Hamish, 13 Jul 2012

Game Information: Name: Shadowgrounds Released: November 11, 2005 Developer: Frozenbyte Rating: 7.5/10 Hardware Specifications: Processor: AMD Sempron 140 2.7 Ghz V...

Ensign weekly update "Get to the Turrets"

By Rustybolts, 27 Jun 2012

We've finally released two new missions to Ensign-1! Mission-4 the corridor crawling descent inspired level as well as Mission-5 with the ice crystals.

Misc

Tiny Cthulhu - The 3D Platform Game Which-Should-Not-Be....

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2012

Well here is an interesting little number which has popped up on my backlog of "oh my god I really need to set aside more time for articles" list.

Misc

An interview about "Ensign-1"

By Alex V.Sharp, 6 Mar 2012

This week we talk about the upcoming space game "Ensign-1" by Only Human Studios. Our guests are Brandon Smith (aka."Onion") the lead programmer, and Kevin Pe...

Misc

Wing Commander Saga Release Date

By Rustybolts, 4 Mar 2012

Misc

Voxatron Updates

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2012

Voxatron the game that was in one of the "Bundles" (The Humble Voxatron Debut) has had a couple new versions since all the fuss from it's bundle has died down, it's s...