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I wasn't sure if you had had enough of Metro: Last Light yet, so I quickly made a GOL Cast of it to show you the incredible world of post-apocalyptic Moscow. I also decided to shoot some mutants with a shotgun while I was at it, though the situation got pretty hairy.

It has finally happened, Team Meat have enabled the Linux version of Super Meat Boy onto Steam!

So today marks a whole year of having the Steam client on Linux, how will you celebrate or do you still refuse to use it?

A world made of tiny colourful cubes sets the stage for a cast of cute characters on their quests to find courage, adventure, friendship, and sometimes just a way to get home.

Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed labourers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science!

Well folks Left 4 Dead 2 now has a Linux icon and it's beta tag completely removed, this follows some essential fixes they did.

Two new platformers are now on Steam for you lovely lovely people to enjoy, both rated well and should be worth a look!

Neocolonialism - Buy votes. Extract wealth. Exploit the working class. Negotiate. Backstab. Manipulate parliaments. Manipulate the International Monetary Fund. Manipulate the world. The map is upside-down.

Ever since the Steam Hardware & Software Survey began showing Linux statistics, I've been asked to write about it. This month I've taken some time to talk about why the survey is important, pitfalls to watch out for when interpreting it, and some suggestions for improvement. I also take a look at how Linux userbase figures shift when adjusted for title count and find an interesting correlation.

The original Trine (2009) first became notable to me after I had discovered that its developer Frozenbyte had given full permission to redistribute screenshots of the game under a Creative Commons license as long as an attribution back to them was preserved.

Forced is a one- to four-player co-op arcade action RPG with puzzle and tactical elements. You are cast as slaves in the toughest fantasy gladiator school of them all, condemned to fight to the death, all the while attempting to win your freedom.

The latest major update to Minecraft (1.7.1) and one of it's biggest yet is about to drop on our plates!

Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate your way across a galaxy of Timothy Zahn's favorite aliens...and some of your own. I interviewed them on the project and here is the result!

So, some see Unity3D as one of the saviours of Linux gaming along with Steam. I, however, have been thinking more on this recently, and feel that it could be dangerous, not just for Linux, but for Indie developers in general to be so heavily reliant on one game engine.

Fancy Skulls is a shooter with random generation where you defeat enemies with skill, wit and caution. The game is different every time you play it. There are no saves, when you die, you will start over. Permadeath means that tension is high, and victory is sweeter.

You may not remember but we asked the Wasteland 2 guys back in august about Wasteland 1 & 2 release information for Linux, we now know the original will come to Linux too!

Stronghold2D is an awesome 2D Multiplayer War game that will allow you to play on any Computer, iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows devices. Build a Stronghold and Protect it by adding Cannons, Lasers, Missiles and other knarly 2D war objects.

Play as the daemon-hunter Baron Dashforth in a side-scrolling co-op brawler set entirely on the grand spectacle of a theatre stage that rewards performance over pummeling. Perform shattering takedowns and reversals!

Chainsaw Warrior is a classic 1987 Games Workshop solo board game being brought to mobile and desktop by Auroch Digital.

We told you early in September that Shadowrun Returns (Steam Link) was going into beta soon and it looks to be finally hitting our digital shelves.