Linux Gaming News

Hello !

Linux Gaming News has turned 1 year yesterday (under the linux-hardcore domain) but now it is coming to an end, at least under the linux-hardcore domain.
Some of you might noticed yesterday that the usual LGN blog on linux-hardcore has been redirected to linuxgamenews.wordpress.org website.
My dear friend Rich who pays for the linux-hardcore domain (and the hosting of LGN under his domain) has decided to shut down linux-hardcore.
His domain served LGN pretty well supplying the blog with more speed and wordpress options – for this I am grateful.

I am not blaming Rich and can understand him very well – but now we must face the present and prepare for the future.
LGN under linux-hardcore will close by the end of the month and we got 2 options :
1. Go back to the original wordpress blog : http://linuxgamingnews.wordpress.com (I’ve already imported all the articles,setup a new theme, but the links are currently messed up).
2. Buy a new domain like : linuxgamingnews.net or .org or .info …. and host the wordpress blog there.
I still don’t know what am I gonna do, but maybe you could drop me suggestions in the comments.

If you won’t hear any more info by the end of the month the LGN official link would be the original http://linuxgamingnews.wordpress.com

Meanwhile I would like to show you some of LGN stats on linux-hardcore as the new or original blog will have to start from scratch.

First of all here are the 13 months visitors graph, the most popular month had 16,860 visitors due to some websites (which I thank later in this post) linking to LGN articles :

Here you can see those stats in more detail :

Overall LGN had 108,883 views !

The most popular pages like last time where, the Main LGN page, “Upcoming GNU/Linux Games” and “Recently Released”.
The most popular posts where “Heroes Of Newerth Gone Retail !”, “Interview With Frictional Games – Amnesia” and surprisingly “Maxi Mini Golf – Released !”.

Top Posts for all days ending 2010-08-16 (Summarized)

Title	Views
Home page	37,705
Upcoming GNU/Linux Games !	6,351
Recently Released	3,438
Heroes Of Newerth Gone Retail !	3,023
Interview With Frictional Games – Amnesia	2,704
Maxi Mini Golf – Released !	2,394
Osmos For GNU/Linux Has Been Released !	1,629
Brink – Unique Immersive FPS	1,606
Primal Carnage – Humans VS Dinosaurs	1,404
Interview With Thomas From Basilisk Games	1,117
Open Letter To LGP	1,083
The Case Of Nexuiz	1,077
Natural Selection 2 – Sci-Fi Online RTS/FPS	985
GNU/Linux Versions Of Grubby Games Products Are Being Phased Out ?	940
Venetica – Action RPG Game	861
The Chzo Mythos Is Coming To GNU/Linux !	848
Fragoria – English Version Goes Beta !	688
Galcon Fusion – Review	685
Avaneya – More Than Just A Game	684
Afterfall Universe – Rascal (draft title)	680
Penumbra: Overture, HPL1 Engine And OALWrapper Released As Open Source	672
Joe-Danger – Stunts Racing Game	649
The Humble Indie Bundle !	630
Iron Sky: Operation Highjump – Action Adventure	626
Micro-Warrior : Heal with a Kill	608
Hacker Evolution: Untold Now Available For GNU/Linux !	603
Hacker Evolution: Untold For GNU/Linux Goes Beta !	591
Poisonville – GTA Style Action MMORPG.	585
Eschalon: Book II – Old School cRPG	583
Date Warp – Anime Visual Novel Released !	557
Card Sweethearts – Visual Poker Novel	533
Classic Roguelike : Dungeons of Dredmor Is Coming To GNU/Linux Soon	530
More Details On Primal Carnage	524
Natural Selection 2 and GNU/Linux	510
Trauma – Flash Based Point-and-Click Adventure	506
The MMORPG Ryzom Goes Free Software !	492
Dark Salvation – Horror FPS !	488
Eschalon: Book II Released For GNU/Linux !	475
Garshasp – Action Adventure Game	473
Interview With Koen From Koonsolo	453
GNU/Linux users show their love for indie game – By Koonsolo	447
Vote For Torchlight GNU/Linux Port !	440
Mystery of Solarus DX – Zelda Remake !	440
Amnesia: The Dark Descent – Teaser, Web Site & Pre-order	429
I Live, Again…	428
HoN Free 2 Play Weekend, A patch, Jobs And More News !	408
Syndicate-Online Sci-Fi MMORPG	387
How To Find GNU/Linux Games	384
Warp Speed – 2D Multiplayer Shooter	381
Aquaria Goes Free Source !	379
Gish Goes Free Source !	378
Planet Stronghold Alpha Available !	376
Cortex Command – Brain Control	371
Forums	361
The Legend of Crystal Valley – Adventure Game	356
Welcome to 2010 !	350
Frogatto 1.0 Released !	341
Fight For Your Right !	341
Achron Alpha Build Now For GNU/Linux 64-Bit !	339
Aquaria – An Underwater Fantasy Adventure Game	339
DeathSpank Comical cRPG Adventure	338
Next Frictional Games Title Name Revealed !	335
Cute Knight Kingdom For GNU/Linux Released !	332
Sake Visual – Indie Visual Novel Studio	331
Amnesia: The Dark Descent Release Date Revealed !	330
The State Of Mac And GNU/Linux Gaming – By Wolfire Games	328
Eschalon: Book II Release Date Announced !	312
Irukandji – Score Attack Shooter Released !	292
Interview With John From Wolfire Games	290
Conquest – Simultaneous Turn Based Strategy	287
And Yet It Moves For GNU/Linux Released !	282
GNU/Linux Game Porters Needed !	280
Angels Fall First : The Second Antarean War – Spaceships Online	276
GNU/Linux Users Contribute Twice As Much As Windows Users !	271
Interview With Kip Warner About Avaneya	270
HurricaneX2 Evolution – Fighting Adventure Game	254
Caster – Pay What You Want !	251
Hanako Games GNU/Linux Ports Are Coming !	248
Awesome Soccer World 2010 Released !	238
Fishing Cactus Are porting Their Mojito Engine To GNU/Linux !	233
Mystic Mine – Review	233
Osmos GNU/Linux Beta Testers Needed !	233
Call Of The Kings – Online Strategy RPG	231
GNU/Linux Game Porters Needed for Osmos !	231
Bullet Candy Perfect – Space Shoot-Em-Up game	224
Interview With Amir From Fanafzar – Garshasp Developers	224
Xenocell – Unconventional Sci-Fi MMORPG	218
Planet M.U.L.E – Online Economic Strategy Released !	215
Overgrowth & Natural Selection 2 Preorder Pack !	210
Venetica’s GNU/Linux and MacOS Ports	210
Lugaru Goes Free Source – Other Games Will Follow !	208
jBliss – Intelligent Romantic Game For Lovers	206
GNU/Linux Users Pay and Buy More !	200
Rotc Ethernet – MOFPS	195
Aquaria Open Beta !	192
Why You Should Use OpenGL And Not DirectX	191
Sleep Is Death – Pay What You Want !	190
Vera Blanc: Full Moon Released !	190
id Software and Linux – By TTimo	184
The Chzo Mythos For GNU/Linux Released !	184
Interviews	179
QuantZ For GNU/Linux Released !	178
LGN Contest !	176
About	174
Warp Speed – Alpha Version Released !	170
Osmos Sales In Detail	164
Interview With Thearrel McKinney From Mangled Eye Studios – The Dark Salvation Developer	161
Gamebox – Cloud Storage Service For Games	160
Castle Vox – Turn-Based Strategy Game Coming Soon !	150
Love – Unusual MOG	147
Heroes of Newerth Beta Is Now open for the the Holidays !	147
Achron – meta-time strategy game	146
Dirk Dashing 2 Under Rapid Development !	144
Interview With Konrad From Bitgap – The Xenocell Developers	134
The Broken Hourglass	129
Regnum Online – Characters Are Now Transferable Between Servers !	129
AfterWorld	129
LGN WordPress Theme Contest !	125
Scoregasm – Combo Space Shooter	125
Eschalon Book II Beta Testers Wanted !	125
Koonsolo RPG Editor – Website Is Up !	122
An Update On The Chzo Mythos	116
I’m Back !	109
Teagon – Chain Tetris	108
Organic Indie Preorder Pack (Overgrowth and NS2) Postmortem	107
HoN Free2Play Week For Everyone !	106
Adonthell 0.4 – Not Just A Game	105
And The Winner Is…	105
Contact	102

The most popular links from LGN didn’t change much from last time and are to freegamer.blogspot.com, gamingonlinux.info and irontowerstudio.com .

Now is the time and place to say THANKS to the websites that linked to http://lgn.linux-hardcore.com and let them know that this link due to be changed by the end of the month (if you won’t find the new link, you could try Ubuntuforums in which I post the new LGN links).

Ubuntuforums.org is still in the lead, linux.org.ru is our “new kid in town” which generously linked to LGN articles.

LinuxToday.com also linked to some LGN articles.

THANK YOU for spreading the new, the Linux Gaming News that is…

Most people who can to LGN via search engines, searched for, you guessed it “linux gaming news” .

I wonder if the next LGN blog could suppress those stats, if you won’t hear any more info by the end of the month the news will be posted at the original blog : http://linuxgamingnews.wordpress.com
Meanwhile you can write what you think about the issue and what do you think will be the right path for LGN to take