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I love the 0.7.x generation.
Anyway, this is mainly a bugfix release. It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you upgrade from 0.7.6 to 0.7.7 (or rather, from 0.7.1 to 0.7.6 to 0.7.7 for half of you)

- Fixed “Getting stuck bug”
- Fixed logging bug
- Fixed UI crash
- Fixed overflow in Multiplayer list + Some of beast’s changes to server list (longer names)
- Instantgib and All rockets disabled during single player startup
- Clears nextmap after single player
- Windows only: new SDL.dll allows Caps Lock and Num Lock to be used as keys.
- Using protocol number 69, this should only now show servers running 0.7.7 (In other words, no more lotsofservers with ‘invalid game folder’ error)

For those who don’t read the front page, then get your rear there!

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Word War vi is your basic side-scrolling shoot ‘em up ’80s style arcade game. You pilot your “vi”per craft through core memory, rescuing lost .swp files, avoiding OS defenses, and wiping out those memory hogging emacs processes. When all the lost .swp files are rescued, head for the socket which will take you to the next node in the cluster.
New version is released - 0.12. Look to change log

Homepage - http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/

We’re pleased to announce the release of Wormux 0.8 first stable release with network support. We hope you will enjoy this new Wormux.

Changelog since last stable release:

* Network game (port 3826 is registred by IANA for Wormux)
* A lot of bug fixes (memory leaks, useless code deleted …)
* 15 new maps
* New weapons: Flamethrower, Football bomb, Cluzooka
* Minimap preview
* Camera improvements
* Better use of anti-aliasing
* Water/lava particles added
* Various graphical improvements
* Sound cache: no more lag on explosion
* More sounds and musics
* Better characters: Better positions, characters’ eyes follow cursor,…
* Weapons tweaking
* Smaller step in angle selection when pressing Shift
* Menus compatible with smallest resolutions
* Help section added (menu explaining shortkeys and howtoplay.pdf documentation provided)
* Language selection
* “Looking for updates” option
* Volume control option
* Joystick support
* Improve collision detection, cursor,…
* User dir as XDG recommandation (Freedesktop)
* Initial management of command line options
* Experimental random map generator and skin viewer
* AI improvements (still stupid so still hidden feature)
Read more at Wormux website

“Can I game on it” is a frequently asked question we hear from Windows users toying with the idea of trying Linux for the first time. Well, the simple answer is yes!

To demonstrate the level of sophistication available, we have put together a list of 42 high quality Linux games that all have the virtue of being free to play. To ensure that there is something of interest here for every type of gamer, we have covered a wide variety of computer game genres, including the ever popular First Person Shooters (FPS), Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), as well as arcade games, board/puzzle games and more.

To be eligible for inclusion in this list each game needed to meet the following requirements:

Read more at LinuxLinks

I like to play with emulators, and I have found a good car race emulator, that works great under my Debian, the game come in autopackage binary format, or at least that is the one I have downloaded.

Download your package from VDrift page, I got the full version for Linux, once you have the .package file make it executable and run it as root, If you have installed an autopackage software before you can run:
Read more at Go2linux.org

After I reviewed Alien Arena last year, some readers criticized my choice of that first-person shooter (FPS) as the best free software game I had played. Several suggested Nexuiz would have been a better choice. At the time, I had not played it. Now that I have tried Nexuiz 2.4, it has become my favorite free software FPS.

Nexuiz runs on an improved Quake engine called DarkPlaces. The engine has been undergoing on-and-off development by Lord Havoc, the game’s creator, for several years. On icculus.org, Lord Havoc says he developed a custom OpenGL-only engine for DarkPlaces, and other modifications that “support Windows WGL and Linux GLX and have greatly improved graphics and image quality.”

Read more at Linux.com

For those interested in some weekend gaming, Nexuiz 2.4.2 has been released. This open-source first person shooter now has an “onslaught” game-mode (with an ons-reborn map being added), brand new announcement sounds/voices, fixes for several bugs, new crylink primary attack mode, new server tools, and uint16 element array support…

Read more at Phoronix

Wesnoth 1.4.2 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.4.x branch. In this release just some smaller bugs were fixed and many translations were updated. To celebrate the release and comment on it, post in this forum thread. As with the last development series, we continue to offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice and the (rather) complete changelog with (almost) all the details, which is likely to cause a serious headache…
At the moment only the Gentoo and Debian binaries are ready. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page. We hope there are no bugs left, but if you find any, report them.

Im not a big fan of wine games but I thought I would share the progress of the wine developers in getting these hot games to work with it. I am still hoping gaming developers create linux clients for these games, leave direct x and start using opengl… Here is the current top 10 platinum wine games.
Read more at Ubuntu Unleashed

Linux Game Publishing is still in the middle of porting X3: Reunion and Bandits: Phoenix Rising to Linux, but they soon will be starting work on another title. This game coming to Linux, however, still isn’t known. At the LGP website they will be showing one pixel of an image every second until the entire image has loaded. Once all pixels (or most of them) have been loaded, the forthcoming title will be know.
Read more at Phoronix