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I am always hesitant to cover any crowdfunding campaigns, but I think Voxelnauts has just won me over. All development is done on Linux, they have video's showing it, and it looks like a great game.

Jenny LeClue was funded on Kickstarter last summer. A playable teaser has now been made available, along with a new teaser trailer.

The cute but challenging co-op gravity platformer is out of beta and is one worth a look if you have a friend to play with.

Audiosurf 2 is the sequel to the smash hit music game Audiosurf, and as the name suggests you do literally surf the music. The sequel is available day-1 on Linux thanks to having a build during the Early Access time.

Welcome to the Palladium issue of The Funding Crowd! Yep, 46 appears to be a reasonably interesting number: it's a semiprime, i.e. a natural number which is a product of two primes (2x23), it's the designation of Messier object in the Puppis Constellation, it's the number of human chromosomes and finally, it has nothing to do with Douglas Adams.

I was immediately interested in Convoy when I originally heard about it, but was sad when there was no Linux support. The good news is they now have a Linux test build available to the public.

Seven years after the unofficial fan sequel to the 80s classic Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders was released in German for Windows, a director's cut has been made available in English for Linux; free of charge.

Uber Entertainment have been busy, and their work has shown in their latest public test build. It includes lots of new AI fixes and behaviours, as well as some promised Linux fixes!

Curious Expedition has been available in a web alpha since November last year, has already built a large following and has now been put on Steam to gather more player feedback.

Victor Vran was released recently, and I gave it a small write up, but a major graphic bug stopped me from getting far. This was fixed incredibly quickly, and I've now sunk some time into it.

Cities: Skylines is undoubtedly our best city builder on Linux, and the new content update makes it even sweeter.

We have another four classic games that have gained Linux support thanks to GOG.com, our collection seems to be growing nicely with them!

The old-school platformer with 16-bit graphics and chiptune music left Early Access on Steam last month, and is now also available DRM free from Desura.

GOG have now made Blood: One Unit Whole Blood Linux compatible on their store using DOSBox. It's an old sadistic FPS, and I took a quick look.

Good news everyone! Civilization: Beyond Earth has announced an expansion called 'Rising Tide', and it will launch on Linux alongside Windows.

Cyberia 2: Resurrection is another classic game added to our collections thanks to GOG and DOSBox. I've tested it, and it's interesting.

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.43 have many small changes including 26 bugfixes.

So the past couple of livestreams haven't been all that eventful on the new games front. Well, now we have a whole bunch of new stuff and this week's Friday Livestream is dedicated to those games.

We knew that Larian was working on something big that stopped their work on the Linux version, and now we know what.

Victor Vran is a game I’ve been really wanting to see a Linux version, and while it was planned from the start to have one, I didn’t think it would be so soon!