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Games: Vikings, Crusader Kings, and Recoil Games

By Roy Schestowitz Created 19/02/2021 - 4:03pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 19th of February 2021 04:03:20 PM Filed under Gaming [1]

There's no stopping the Viking invasion as Valheim hits 3 million sales | GamingOnLinux [2]

Valheim has truly become an absolute runaway hit. A about Vikings running around in co-op chopping down trees and facing off against big bosses.

Less than three weeks since the Early Access release, Iron Gate announced today that it's now sold three million copies. This is just absurd but it's genuinely well deserved. This isn't some AAA or even AA team with a huge budget, Iron Gate is a tiny team backed up by Coffee Stain Publishing.

The team shared some other records they've managed to hit recently too including over 60,000 user reviews with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating, they're now doing so well they're rising up the Top 250 and it has been one of the most popular games on Twitch lately too. There's just no stopping it.

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Seems to have caused a surge for LinuxGSM too, the really great tool for managing game servers. Going by their stats we can see Valheim is now the most popular game being hosted with their kit with over 750 servers live.

Crusader Kings II gets a monthly subscription for all the DLC | GamingOnLinux[3]

Paradox Interactive are branching out with revenue models and they're now doing a subscription for Crusader Kings II, which itself is free to play. Even though Crusader Kings III is out now, the classic Crusader Kings II is tried and tested with multiple thousands of people still playing it regularly. It being free also makes it a good entry point for Paradox strategy titles. It's officially game over for Rochard with studio Recoil Games shutting [4]

Recoil Games appear to have filed for bankruptcy a while ago and sadly a casualty of that is their game Rochard, which has now been removed for sale.

Rochard was an award-winning side-scroller puzzle-platformer, originally released in 2011. It was also part of the early indie game push for Linux, thanks to it being part of the Humble Indie Bundle 6 back in 2012 it was ported to Linux especially for the bundle. Not only that, it was also one of the first commercial games (possibly the actual first) to be built for Linux too, so it holds something of a special place in our history.

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Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/69 [2] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/theres-no-stopping-the-viking-invasion-as-valheim-hits-3-million-sales [3] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/crusader-kings-2-gets-a-monthly-subscription-for-all-the-dlc [4] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/its-officially-game-over-for-rochard-with-studio-recoil-games-shutting