Beacon: Sweet Little 15 Minute Linux Game with a Surprisingly Touching Story

Beacon is a sweet platformer created in just 48 hours by indie developer randomine that takes us on a memorable 15 minute journey. With fantastic retro music score and 8-bit pixel graphics, the game creates a wonderful atmosphere where an stranded astronaut tries to solve the mystery of a distant planet and how he landed there.

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Linux Game Preview: Cobalt, New 2D Multiplayer Action Game is in Development

Indie Game Studio Oxeye Games is working on a new 2D multiplayer action game - Cobalt. The game was originally being developed as a story driven single player game but now all the focus has shifted on development of multipayer and co-op mode.

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[Ubuntu 11.10 Updates] New Window Auto Maximize Option in CCSM

Compiz with Unity 4.0.1 in Ubuntu 11.10 now allows you to tweak window auto maximize settings. This feature was much requested and will allow users to optimize auto maximize settings for their system.

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Summer Special: Grab a Copy of Steel Storm Burning Retribution for Just $ 2.99

Steel Storm Burning Retribution is now available for a Summer Special Price of $2.99. The game can be purchased from Ubuntu Software Center or from Steel Storm eShoppe.

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[Ubuntu 11.10 Updates] Synaptic Gone, Welcome Aboard Deja Dup

Synaptic Package Manager will be no longer shipped as default application as an update today removed it from CD. However, it will be easily installable from repositories. 

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Movie About Indie Game Developers Crosses $35,000 Fund Raising Goal in Just 24 Hours

About 4-5 days back, I came to know about this awesome project Indie Game : The Movie, a documentary movie about indie games and life of developers. The project had reached $12,000 goal out of $35,000 fund raising target, so I thought I would write about it. But, then I was not able to finish it on time due to office work.

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Digitanks to Get a Linux Port

Fun tank fight and strategy game Digitanks will be soon ported to Linux. The developers of the game have launched a new exciting 5 for $5 gaming bundle but 4 out 5 games are for Windows, the only one for Linux being Steel Storm : Burning Retribution. In the same announcement post, they have said that a Linux port for Digitanks is on the way.

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3D Fantasy MMORPG 'PlaneShift' Updated to Version 0.5.7 with Many New Features

Popular multi-player role playing game PlaneShift has been updated to version 0.5.7. This release brings many new features and a huge amount of fixes.

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Firefox 5 Released with Improved Performance, Speed, Stability and Better Support for HTML5 Standards

Firefox 5 has been released today as the part of its Rapid Release Program. There are lots of under the hood changes in this release that improves overall performance, speed, stability and security for the World's second most popular web browser.

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Vapor, Open Source and Cross Platform Steam Chat Client

Vapor is a cross platform steam chat client written in C# which allows you to chat with your friends on Steam. It does not have any other feature but is useful if you want to stay in touch with your friends while using Linux distributions.

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