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While there are great open-source games like Nexuiz and XreaL, a title many Linux gamers have been waiting years for has been Unreal Tournament 3. Prior to the game launching, a Linux client was confirmed and that famed developer/porter Ryan Gordon was porting the UT3 engine.

When the game launched, the Linux client was missing in action and even the Linux server build. The UT3 Linux server was released a month late with little explanation but the Linux client continued to be non-existent. Epic Games had also been suppressing Linux talk on their forums. Nearly a year after the game first shipped for Windows, Ryan providing a screenshot of UT3 Linux but not anymore information. There still was no release on the one year anniversary. Linux gamers continued to wait in the dark.

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Finally the release of OpenTTD 0.7.0 has come!
It brings you, amongst other things:

• Reworked order system (conditional orders, have both non-stop and via instead of one of the two)
• Ability to have much more engines
• Path based signals
• AI framework giving everyone the ability to write his/her AI
• Downloading of AIs and graphics from a central server (only when author wants to)
• Non-water map edges
• Initial support for right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew
• Increase or removal of several limits: window size, number of windows, network clients (now 255), companies (now 15)
• Six new languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Welsh)

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The long-running Freeciv project has released version 2.1.9 of their empire-building strategy game with features ported over from the Warclient multiplayer enhancement effort.

Nearly a year ago Nexuiz 2.4 was released and it offered impressive graphics along with a new menu design, improved networking performance, reduced memory usage, and many other enhancements to this open-source game. The developers behind this first person shooter have now outdone themselves again with the release of Nexuiz 2.5. This latest release of Nexuiz brings even better graphics capabilities along with a new HUD, network communication improvements that cut the bandwidth in half, smarter bots, even better graphics, and several new maps. In total more than 3,000 changes make up Nexuiz 2.5!

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For those that have faced issues with WINE or CodeWeaver’s CrossOver Games, perhaps you may want to try out the latest release of Cedega. Transgaming has just released Cedega 7.1.1, which is the first point release since Cedega 7.1 was released a month ago.

Cedega 7.1.1 promises to offer fixes for Bioshock, Left 4 Dead, and Steam. The EVE Online client has also been re-certified by Transgaming in this newest Cedega release. That about covers the changes in this release, at least what Transgaming is officially willing to share.

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