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S2Games’ Free Content Patch 2 for Savage 2 has been released. The patch sees the addition of several new features and improvements to the game.

Two new units have been added. The first, named “Maliken”, is available to both human and beast races but is not obtained at a Hellshrine. The unit instead requires that 3 enduring items be purchased and that a user has at least 10 souls available. The unit allows a user to switch between several new melee modes.

The second unit, named “Hunter”, sees the addition of several new abilities one of which allows limited periods of flight!

Three new official maps have been added that provide new strategic opportunities for commanders and team tactics for units on the ground:
Read more at Newerth

S2 Games had released Savage 2 for Linux back in March and now they’ve updated this first-person shooter / real-time strategy mix in quite significant ways. Version 1.5.0 for Savage 2 is the new release and it brings improved memory performance, graphics rendering optimizations, new anti-hack functionality, new enduring items, new units, and three new maps…

Read more at Phoronix

WHAT’S CHANGED SINCE 2.1.4

* Fixes for bootstrap and compilation issues. (PR#40134, PR#40242, PR#40250, PR#40258)
* Fixes for rulesets, for example making Civ1 ruleset playable (PR#40230, PR#40257)
* Fixes for several bugs concerning player handling and game loading (PR#40194, PR#40195, PR#40238, PR#40233, PR#40224, PR#40235, PR#40239)
* Fixes for a number of corner case crashers. (PR#15712, PR#40208, PR#40243, PR#40261)
* Fix a memory leak in the readline code. (PR#40209)
* Fix for bug that prevented the adding of items to the top of global worklists. (PR#39821)
* Fix citybar view options. (PR#40128)
* Updates to Estonian, Korean, Greek, Turkish, Catalan, Swedish, Spanish, and German translations.
Read more at FreeCiv website

This is a bugfix release and is the last version before 0.8.0. Some of the bugs that have been fixed:

* Mistyping in transfer dialog prevents saving or ending turn
* Buttons stop working
* AI gets stuck in infinite loop
* Indian settlements can be visited multiple times

Are there many high quality commercial games available for Linux? That’s one of the frequently asked questions we receive in our mailbox every week.

It is true to say that the number of commercial games released for Linux each year remains small compared to other platforms. Nevertheless, we faced lots of difficult choices compiling a list of 42 of the best commercial Linux games. The selection we have finally chosen covers a wide range of different game genres, so hopefully there will be something here that will interest all.

Read more at LinuxLinks

For most hardcore gamers, Linux is taboo since they probably think that they cannot play their favorite Windows-only games with it. They do have a point of staying away from Linux, but if they knew that they can play some of their most wanted games on Linux, will they take the switch?

A program called Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) allows Unix-like computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a software library known as Winelib which developers can compile Windows applications alongside to help port them to Unix-like systems.

Read more at Tech Source from Bohol

After almost a year and a half of development, TripleA 1.0 stable has been released.
The full changelog is,

Changes for 1.0

* add tdice dice servers (sgb)

* lock warnings don’t show error dialog (sgb)

* fix bug [ 1962058 ] fighter move in non combat (sgb)

* allow selection of text on chat panel (sgb)

* remove non existent irony dice server (sgb)

Download it here

Recently our chief developers released an new version of linuX-gamers.net live-DVD.
This version was used on the Linuxtag in Berlin.

Changes v0.9.3 (linuxtag2008-release):

• Base and mastering environment rebuilt to support custom mastering
• Easy network configuration gui
• Support for chipsets of recent boards
• Easy display setup gui
• Video settings saved to usbstick

The webpage does not contain all recent changes, yet. This will change in short time. Stay tuned.

When you think of Linux, you probably think of open source software and security, but not gaming. Most people think if you are into gaming, Windows is your only option. A few years ago this might have been the case but not anymore.

So, if you are a Linux power user, or just prefer Linux, here are a few of your options for playing games on your Linux box.

Read more at makeuseof.com

Wesnoth 1.4.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.4.x branch. In this release several smaller bugs were fixed and many translations were updated. To read about other (more important changes, celebrate the release and comment on it, have a look at 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, Debian and Windows 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.