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Blog posts tagged
"games"


Alan Pope
14 August 2018

Retro Style Games on Linux

Desktop Desktop

Gaming on Linux doesn’t have to mean buying a ludicrously priced GPU (thanks crypto miners!). Nor does it require a beefy CPU. There’s a real resurgence in retro style gaming going on right now. We’ve pulled together a selection of retro-inspired games for you to play today, on your beloved Linux machine. You can stay ...


Alan Pope
3 July 2018

Fresh Snaps from June 2018

Desktop Article

It’s mid-way through the year, and we’re seeing no let-up with the flow of new snaps landing in the store, we can barely keep up! This month we’ve picked out some of our favourites from the last month or so of social posts on the Snapcraft Twitter account for you. Many are fresh new snaps ...


Alan Pope
5 June 2018

Fresh Snaps from May 2018

Desktop Desktop

Spring has sprung a bounty of applications in the snap store! We’ve hand picked a small selection from those we highlighted during May 2018. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following Snapcraft on Facebook where we share three new and interesting snaps a week. We’d also love to hear what ...


Alan Pope
16 May 2018

Fresh Snaps from April 2018

Desktop Article

In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives, IDEs for developers and games for the weekend. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following @snapcraftio on Twitter where we share three new ...


David Callé
20 December 2017

Fresh Snaps from November 2017

Desktop Article

The past month has been exciting in the snap world, between getting ready to welcome our Google Code-in students, improving the developer dashboard and starting to land, piece by piece, the new store frontend, it’s time we take a small break to appreciate some new releases. Featuring IDEs for Go and PHP, production grade film ...


David Callé
18 October 2017

Fresh Snaps from September 2017

Desktop Article

October, it’s almost time for a new Ubuntu release! This month’s pick of the top snaps is all about spending relaxing time with your computer: playing games, listening to music and enjoying beautiful GNOME applications! If the term snaps doesn’t ring a bell, they are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing ...


Canonical
14 February 2013

Steam Client now available in Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu TV

Starting today, users can install the Steam Client with a few simple clicks in our Software Center, the fastest and safest way to install thousands of paid and free applications on Ubuntu. Canonical and Valve have worked closely together to make Ubuntu the best performing open platform for gaming and now the ultimate entertainment platfor ...


Canonical
19 December 2012

Four new hot indie games arrive in Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Desktop

The Humble Indie Bundle 7 is in the Ubuntu Software Center and just in time for some holiday gaming. The masterful indie games coming to Ubuntu this time are Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot and Legend of Grimrock. These games debut in Ubuntu thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle 7 which is our favorite cross platform, ...


Canonical
15 November 2012

Unity Technologies releases 4.0 including game export for Ubuntu

Ubuntu Partners

The Unity cross-platform development tool version 4 has been released from beta into the growing world of Ubuntu game development. Every Unity developer is now only a few clicks away from publishing in the Ubuntu Software Center with Unity 4.0’s new Linux Deployment Preview. You can download a 30-day preview of all the Pro features, ...


Canonical
8 November 2012

Splice, Walking Mars, Machinarium, and Crayon Physics Deluxe debut in Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Desktop

Another selection of mobile games from the Humble Bundle has been released with the fourth installment of the Humble Bundle for Android. As always we have awesome Ubuntu Desktop debuts: Splice, Walking Mars, Machinarium, and Crayon Physics Deluxe all now available in Ubuntu Software Center which is the easiest way to download and receive ...


Canonical
18 September 2012

Humble Indie Bundle 6 brings six new games to the Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Partners

UPDATE: We’ve just added four more amazing titles to the Humble Indie Bundle 6! If you’ve already picked up a bundle, you’ll find BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Gratuitous Space Battles, Jamestown, and Wizorb available now if you beat the average. This brings the bundle to ten games strong! Humble Indie Bundle 6 is upon us – and ...


Canonical
28 August 2012

Ubuntu and Unite 2012

Ubuntu Article

We’ve already written about Unity Technologies, supporting publishing applications to Linux in the next release of their platform, Unity 4.0. Canonical attended Unity’s Unite developer conference in Amsterdam, held 21-24 August, to meet with the nearly 1,200 Unity employees and developers and see first hand what to expect in Unity 4.0. In ...


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