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Announced today is the start of a new adventure for Linux gamers, Deadfall Adventures has been released into open beta for all owners.

It’s pretty common knowledge Nvidia users get some good drivers at the trade-off of binary blob drivers (or not, depending on your ethics) and that AMD are often left in the dust, but how can open source drivers change that?

Door Kickers is a fantastic indie game for Linux gamers to own. It mixes strategy and action with squad-based tactics.

Planetary Annihilation has been again updated and set into the "Gamma" development phase. Featuring a new interface, social features & more!

So Linux has a lot of games now, with plenty more still to come this year as it's early days yet, but I have decided to list a few you really need to keep an eye on. Since we post so much news nowadays I feel that it is a good time to reflect on what we have still yet to come, so you don't get lost in a sea of Linux games.

This is very interesting, Nothing To Hide is a game where you are your own watchdog, a game of anti-stealth and it looks pretty cool. Everything for it is in the public domain too!

In an early episode of GOL Cast I was the poltergeist, but today I am actually trying to catch them while managing my ghost busting business!

Zigfrak is a single player space-based action RPG, featuring missions, exploration, and crafting. It is also now DRM free on FireFlower Games.

The survival game Rust from the dudes at Facepunch has been updated today, featuring a whole bunch of new kit.

Finally Linux gamers the wait is over, Portal 2 heads into beta for Linux, the sequel to the smash hit puzzle game Portal!

So, this annoyed to the point of having to write about it. Hero Siege was sold on IndieGameStand DRM free and without warning the developer has now removed the DRM free version and has tied it to Steam.

Stencyl is an interesting toolkit that enables you to create games without traditional programming, and they have just released the big 3.0.

Planetary Annihilation the massive scale RTS game has another major update, it now includes their own version of a minimap.

Digital Tribes got in touch with us recently to get the word out about QBEH-1: The Atlas Cube the prequel to QBEH a game which sadly has no Linux version, but this one will.

There is an "ask me anything" going on in reddit-land right now with the folks from the current Humble Bundle, I decided to ask the question a lot of people have been wondering.

I managed to grab some keys for S2 Games new MOBA called 'Strife' which aims to lower the barrier for people to enjoy MOBA games like Dota.

Starbound my favourite indie game of the moment has released a new major patch titled 'Enraged Koala'. Sadly it came with a few game-breaking issues.

Cobalt from Oxeye Game Studio is due to go into beta soon, this is four years after being in alpha. The Linux version was due at beta, but they have decided to do it now and delay the Linux release.

WazHack looks pretty interesting, it looks like a platformer, but it is actually rogue-like with lots of items, monsters and sticky situations.

I thought it was about time I gave some limelight to some really great open source game engines that work on Linux, from official open source games to unofficial open source engines to allow you to run games on Linux that you couldn't normally!