Desura

The German game publisher Runesoft has released the "point-and-click" adventure Jack Keane on the Indie gaming platform Desura. This game is based on the free rendering engine OGRE and has won numerous game awards.

In this adventure game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist Jack Keane during the colonial period in England. He takes a job to accompany a British secret agent to a secret island and to stop with him the evil scientist Doctor T..

While racing games for Linux are still in short supply, a new racing game Monster Mnis Extreme Off-Road has been published for Linux on Desura. In this game, the player controls a monster truck on 90 different, both realistic and futuristic, race tracks.

While the public beta of the Steam Linux client is about to start very soon, the list of Steam games for Linux is uninterruptedly growing. Apart of the long-known games for Linux, such as World of Goo or Darwinia, new very successful titles like Serious Sam 3 or Killing Floor have been marked as Linux compatible in the Steam's game database recently. At the moment the Steam game list includes 28 games supporting Linux.

While Steam Linux Client is still being in development, there is an excellent digital game distribution service Desura available for the Linux gamers. Desura has been released for Linux one year ago and has even been open-sourced this year.

The publisher of the video games for Linux LGP (Linux Game Publishing) has begun to release games in the Ubuntu Software Center and on Desura. While Sacred Gold was selected for releasing first, the company intends to release further titles in the Ubuntu Software Center and on Desura in the near future.