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In a presentation at Ubuntu Developer Summit currently going on in Denmark, Drew Bliss from Valve said that Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming. Windows 8 ships with its own app store and it is not an open platform anymore.

Critically Acclaimed realistic first person shooter Receiver is now available for Linux. The game has been developed by Wolfire Games, creators of popular cross platform game Overgrowth and Humble Indie Bundles.

Clementine Music Player 1.1 has been released with many new features and fixes. This major release brings long requested podcast support to the popular music player.

Ubuntu 12.10 has been released and you may have already started customizing it. Below is a handy tweak that will make Unity dash more responsive.

Latest proprietary AMD Catalyst driver version 12.9 cannot be used with Ubuntu 12.10 If you have a AMD Radeon HD 2xxx-4xxx series card.

Ubuntu 12.04 and Unity interface has been criticized for poor gaming performance as many users were finding higher frame rate in 3D games while using other desktop environments like Gnome Shell, Unity2D and Classic Gnome.

AMD has recently dropped support for cards in series HD 2xxx-4xxx. Catalyst drivers for these cards are now available in a different branch, called Legacy series. Legacy drivers won't receive any new feature updates from AMD.

Gamecaster is a graphical frontend for open source project glc. It can capture real time footage of any Linux game that uses ALSA for sound and OpenGL for drawing.

John the Ripper is a free and Open Source password cracker. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords and It is one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs. It combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker. JTR is available in official Ubuntu repositories. A custom JTR build includes a nice gpg2john binary that converts your key file into a format that JTR understands.

Ubuntu 12.10 includes a new shopping lens that shows Amazon search results in dash. These results are related to the query you typed in dash while searching for applications, files or other stuff. If a user clicks on these results and makes a purchase from Amazon, Ubuntu gets affiliate revenue which is invested back into Ubuntu development.

OpenMW is an open source project that reimplements game engine of popular role playing game 'The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'.

The Parallella is a new pocket sized computer based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by semiconductor start-up Adapteva.

Revolution Software is making a sequel of their popular science fiction adventure game 'Beneath a Steel Sky'.

Cortex Command has been in development for more than 11 years. Data Realms has been releasing development builds of the game from time to time and Cortex Command was also included in Humble Indie Bundle 2.

YoYo Games' popular 2D game engine GameMaker will soon have an option for exporting games to Ubuntu. Similar to what Unity 4.0 game engine is doing, developers will be able to export their games to Linux platform.

Olli Ries, Director of Technology at Canonical shared information about some new features in Ubuntu 12.10 that will help in generating affiliate revenue for Ubuntu project.

Ubuntu 12.10 features an interesting change in GRUB2 Boot Menu. Menu entries now have 'Ubuntu' as the first option instead of 'Ubuntu with Linux (Kernel version)'.

Faster Than Light (FTL) is a spaceship simulation and roguelike game. The player have to manage a spaceship, survive and explore vast galaxies.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is developed by SCS Software. The game is powered by Prism3D, a multiplatform game engine written in C++. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit target architectures on Windows, Mac and Linux out of the box.

Linux platform has made its first occurrence on Steam website. Few days back, Valve added a zombie Tux to Left4Dead 2 website announcing that it well head to Linux soon and now a Linux platform filter has been added to Steam Greenlight.