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As the german news site golem.de writes id Software plans not to support linux in the future with the “Tech 5 Engine”.

Because of the costs tt is very unlikely that the next wolfenstein title will be published for linux means John Carmack because it’s in development at Rage and published by ActiVision.
Further he said that he see performance issues with the tech 5 engine in the linux implementations of OpenGL and it would probably just run fine on nvidias propertary drivers for linux.

Read more at linuX-gamers.net

World’s First Dual Layer LiveDVD

SuperGamer is a games oriented Linux desktop operating system. It has all the normal Linux desktop applications such as the Firefox Browser, OpenOffice.org, etc., but also has a great many native to Linux games added, as well as some demos of proprietary games.

This Supreme SuperGamer version will work on both 32 and 64 bit PCs and fills a full Live Dual Layer DVD. It includes support for ethernet, wireless, and dialup Internet connections. It can run in “Live” mode directly from the DVD and can be optionally installed to your hard drive. A few key includes are 2.6.27.24 kernel, Azureus, Gparted, Limewire, Gimp, K9copy, KOffice, OpenOffice 3, Hardinfo (system profiler and benchmark) along with all the plugins for firefox with forcastbar enhanced, adblock, and blockxxx included (blockxxx is a child word and website filter which is not enabled by default as it blocks alot of stuff…almost to much).

The games (in the order they appear on the launch bar) Include:

Quake Wars
Doom 3
Prey
Unreal Tournament
Quake 4
Savage 2
Postal 2
Enemy Territory
Penumbra Black Plague
Sauerbraten
Urban Terror
Soldier Of Fortune
Torcs
Tremulous
AlienArena
True Combat
America’s Army
Nexus
OpenArena
PlaneShift
Drop Team
Frets On Fire
Chromium B.S.U.
Mad Bomber
X-Moto
BZ Flag
Mega Mario
Glaxium
GL-117
NeverBall
NeverPutt
Super Tux
PPRacer

Torrent: http://www.supergamer.org/downloads/Supreme_SuperGamer.torrent

On-Disk Sales: http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/851

It seems as if Linux gamers are indeed really excited for having new games on Linux, well, “really excited” may still be an understatement. About 24 hours ago we talked about Heroes of Newerth, a game being developed by S2 Games, was coming to Linux and we were able to hand out beta invitations to begin playing the game immediately as part of their closed testing process. Beyond that though, S2 Games has asked that the media refrain from sharing many details about this online role playing game that is derived from DoTA, but with much fancier graphics. In the past day we have already given out far more than 450 beta invitations to Linux users and there is no sign yet that the requests are letting up.

Read more at Phoronix

A few hours ago we invited everyone to come play this new Linux-native game with us, which happened to be Heroes of Newerth by S2 Games. This game is still under development and details surrounding this title are very scarce as the media (including Phoronix), is not yet allowed to post any media or really talk about the game that much…

Read more at Phoronix

Transport Simulations are a genre that has not translated to the high gloss, high production 3d game market now seen on PC and console games. However, they retain a huge following and command a niche.

As it stands, since most game publishers have lost interest in making this sort of game, what remains is almost a two horse race with a few outliers. Interestingly, both are now Open Source, so they run on Linux, Windows and Mac. This also means they are being actively developed and have huge relatively loyal communities around them.

The two main Transport Simulation games still keeping up to date are OpenTTD and Simutrans. There are others which will be briefly mentioned below. read on to see a comparison of the two, along with screenshots ,vids a few strategy tips as well as details on their community and how to get them and play them.

Read more at Squidoo

VO 1.8.82 includes:
- Unloading and/or selling no longer shows a false success message if there was a station error.
- Training sectors are no longer shown in the best prices list for ship cargo.
- Training sectors are no longer chosen as destinations or sources in Trade Guild missions.
- The /fps command now shows average, max, min frame rate over the last .25 seconds.

A new Development release is ready. This is the third release in the 1.7.x tree. This release shows the first results of our Wesnoth Summer Art Scholarship. For some more information about this release have a look at the forum thread.
As with the last releases, 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 the Windows package and the MacOSX packages are ready. You can find them at the download page. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page, too. Please keep in mind that it is a development release which might include quite many bugs. If you find one, report it.

In this entry to the Linux Games department I am going to introduce you to a very fine RPG entry created by Basilisk Games called Eschalon Book I. This game is one of the few full-blown RPG games available for Linux, Windows, and OS X. Eschalon Book I won the 2007 Indie game of the year and with good reason. It’s well done.

Now this game isn’t your standard, free, GPL fare. This game allows you to download a demo but to get the full blown fun you need to purchase the full version. The good news is that the full version will only set you back $19.95 for the download version. You can also purchase the CD version for $39.95. Believe me, this game is worth the price of the download version. Let’s take a look and see why.

Read more at ghacks.net

Cuba Letra is a new type of word game with a fun and funky Latin American theme!
It combines mental and physical dexterity to challenge players ability to make words against the clock.
It’s great fun for all ages with an easy mode that children can play or a harder mode that will challenge even the most literate adults

Cuba Letra is free software

Download Instructions

1. Right click on the download link below and use ‘Save Link as’ to download the game.
2. After download is completed, you may need to update the file permissions to run the installer. Cuba Letra uses a graphical installer to install the game.
3. From the command line:
   chmod a+x CubaLetra_10.sh
   From the file explorer window (e.g. Nautilus):
   Right-click the file, select properties, and set the execute privilege.
4. Run the installer to install the game.
5. After install is completed, you can access the game from the System/Games menu, or by typing (insert the path to your Cuba Letra install directory)/bin/CubaLetra from the command line. (more…)

The Unknown Horizons development team is proud to present our new release 2009.1.
This is a testing version. Its purpose is to give interested players and developers a chance to test our current state of development. Bugs are to be expected at any time.

What is new?

We have made many improvements to our previous release, 2009.0. Here is a list of the most important changes:

• All new user interface.
• Gettext supported muiltlanguage support. This release comes with complete English, French and German translations and mostly complete Norwegian and Portuguese translations.
• New main music theme.
• A boatbuilder to build new ships for your fleet.
• Hunter graphics added. No functionality yet.
• Some revamped ingame graphics, like new inhabitants.
• Some performance improvements for the build process. Previews are now shown much faster.
• Lots of bugfixes.
• Removed all drop down widgets to ensure crashfree setting changing.
• Lots of code refactoring. More to come.
• Saving and loading of games.

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