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Do you remember the days when we had America’s Army for Linux? The first-person shooter game sponsored by the US government and uses Epic’s Unreal Engine while being distributed freely? Well, it could come back to Linux!

There were Linux server and client versions of America’s Army up through v2.5 Direct Action. At that point, however, Ryan Gordon had abandoned his AA client porting work to Linux and Mac OS X. This decision was made as the US government had stopped paying him to do the porting work. Since then, all has been silent of America’s Army game-play on Linux.

Read more at Phoronix

There is a new test release available for download. The source package compiles on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (vc++ 6.0). There are various files available:

• A binary only Windows installer.
• The full 1.3.1-test1 source package.

You find the installation instructions for the source package in the README file, a common mistake is to forget “make datainstall”. This version does not yet include updated documentation, I will bring it up to date while you are testing this release and include it into the final package. For a detailed changelog hit the Read More link below. Bye, have fun,
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Tired of finding and downloading packages for games, and having to check for updates youself? Playdeb is a software repository for the games available on GetDeb, who package recent games and applications for Ubuntu. With Playdeb, games are easy to install and will be updated when new versions are available.

Read more at Tombuntu