infraRed let us know about his game project, gFifteen: I coded a GTK+ based implementation of the old puzzle game Fifteen. It is a fun and challenging little diversion, with multiple attractive tile sets to choose from. RPMs and Debs are available for 32 and 64 bit platforms!

The Razer Nostromo is a gaming mini-keyboard that provides remapping of keys to any keyboard or mouse event. This is great; however, the drivers are only available for OSX and Windows. Not anymore, the jnostromo project aims to provide GNU/Linux drivers that provides E-Sport legal keymappings for Linux gamers everywhere. The feature set is similar [...]

Thanks to arvd for sending this in! FleetCOMM : Operation Vigrior is a Kickstarter indie game worth checking out. It’s a real-time strategy game introducing a novel gameplay mechanic. Instead of fumbling over disorganized blobs of units, the player controls a synchronized squad of ships. They’ve been very supportive of Linux game development; they already [...]

A new development release of Wine has been announced. This release being 1.5.3 has the following changes: Support for graphics bounds tracking. A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer. Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger. Various DirectMusic improvements. Better namespace support in MSXML. Various bug fixes Download: [ Wine 1.5.3 [...]

Phoronix’s Michael Larabel has posted a (somewhat defensive, given his past coverage) article relating his experiences at Valve Software, where founder Gabe Newell revealed that the lauded studio is actively porting both their game distribution platform Steam and a Source-engine title, Left 4 Dead 2, to Linux. There’s (understandably) no current public ETA, but very [...]

There’s a new Humble Indie Bundle on the scene, just in time for Earth Day: We’re debuting the brand new game, Botanicula, for Windows, Mac, and Linux! In Amanita Design’s latest adventure/puzzle game, you must guide a motley band of tree creatures in a journey to save their home from brooding, parasitic invaders. Buying the [...]

Here’s the word from Cheese! Last month, I published a lengthy shallow analysis of the comparative purchase, revenue and average statistics for Humble Bundle promotions. I recently updated the article to include additional quotes from a top Humble Bundle contributor and explore some additional figures as well as the notion that the high Linux average [...]

eihrul has announced Tesseract on the Cube Engine forums, which adds these features to the venerable FPS platform: deferred shading HDR rendering with tonemapping and bloom omnidirectional point-light shadowmaps sunlight cascaded shadowmap screen-space ambient occlusion screen-space water reflections (no more reflection plane limits) refractive alpha cubes refractive glass material The actual code is at a [...]

Tomes of Mephistopheles, a dungeon hack/slash game in alpha testing, is now at version 0.07a. Changes include savegame functionality and AI obstacle clearing. The patch is available by logging in to the Kot in Action E-Shoppe.

A new development release of Wine is now available. New items in this release includes the following: Improved naming scheme for audio devices. Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X. Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding. Several printing fixes. Improvements to the URL cache. Various bug fixes. Download: [ Wine 1.5.2

A reader (thanks coryholl!) sent in the following compiled list: At present the following game projects promising Linux versions are seeking funding at Kickstarters: The Banner Saga Bump N Brawl The Earth: Battle for Survival- A Game of strategy Gravitaz Rebirth (?) Shadowrun ReturnsNekro (?) Wasteland 2 I know of the following funded projects which [...]

OpenGOO (wiki) has a new video update: Features for the World of Goo clone now include SVG levels, background animation, and improved physics based on Box2d. The project is also looking for testers and other contributors.

Notch (of Minecraft fame) has posted screenshots from his next game, a space adventure project set in the far future, that game blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun has helpfully collected: It’s worth bearing in mind that these screens represent a build so alpha it probably mostly exists as the dreams Notch’s computer has while in sleep [...]

The Liberated Pixel Cup, a contest to create openly-licensed game art, has been announced: We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Liberated Pixel Cup, a free-as-in-freedom game authoring competition being launched in cooperation between Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and OpenGameArt! Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, [...]

Ensign-1, a space combat game where players can board other ships, has been released on Desura (thanks onionman!): Ensign 1 is multiplayer space combat game that allows players to leave their ships on foot to commandeer turrets, and other starships. Players will also be able to purchase weapons, upgrades, and brand new ships.

We received the following press release today: DarkForge is excited to announce Nekro – a twisted, dark and stylized summoning game on Kickstarter.com. Nekro is a game about conjuring evil minions and conquering empires in a randomly-generated world. Through Kickstarter, DarkForge is hoping to raise $100,000.00 to aid in the production of the game. In [...]

Bitfighter 017a has been released: Cores altered significantly First achievement implemented (25 flags) High scores menu Pulse addition to Boost module Music! Voice chat mute (/vmute) Lot of other fixes and rounding of the rough edges of 016 Download: [ bitfighter.org ]

On the day it turned three, the maze game BOH received its 15th and final update. This update: adds 5 missions adds the Dutch translation optimizes even further the rendering engine replaces the transition effect with a cooler one centers the graphics vertically when playing in a screen bigger than the game area allows providing [...]

DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder Linux Tycoon (?!) Notch’s new title, 0x10c, was announced. Tomes of Mephistopheles is now alpha-funded Mozilla’s BrowserQuest Frozen Bubble is now 10 years old (oh god, how long have I been doing this?!)