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A lot is going on with Basilisk Games, the bringers of the Eschalon Books cRPG series.

Basilisk games support their games well and didn’t forget about Book 1; recently they released 1.06 version which is compiled using the latest Ubuntu 10.04 libraries and should work better with newer distributions.
All you have to do to get the latest version is to email Basilisk Games with your purchase information (order number works best!) and they will activate a new download link for you.
But if you have no problems with your current version of Book 1, you don’t need the update as it offers no additional content.

Read more at Linux Gaming News

Neotron Games

These guys have compiled quite a selection of quality, complete games. Actually, to such an extent, one could say that they are one of the most prolific open source game devs out there, even if not all of their works are completely “open”.

Most of their games are compatible with the GPX-Wiz, and hopefully the Pandora once Bennu, the language they use for developing their games, gets an official port.

Read more at FreeGamer

I was hoping it would take longer so my last “contest”/giveaway will make sense – but now everyone can register a trial account and play 10 matches.
All you have to do is registered at this page : http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/fbtrial.php .

You will off course be able to play only no stats matches, then if you like you can buy a full account for $30.
It might look like a lot, but believe me if you like the game it’s worth it and will supply you with endless hours of fun.

Source – LinuxGaming News

The folks who brought the three-part Penumbra series to the Linux community now bring us another even more terrifying adventure. Amnesia: The Dark Descent follows Daniel as he confronts a sinister dark shadow in his quest to hunt and kill evil Alexander in order to save his own mind and life. Danger hides in every corner. Risk life and limb at every turn, your very sanity in peril with every step into the dark descent.

The first-person adventure immerses the user in the spooky setting of an ancient desolate and crumbling Prussian castle. You, as the hero, navigates the terrifying environment using all your wits and knowledge to wriggle out of one tight spot after another. Hang around in any one area too long and you will begin to lose your mind and, if you’re not careful, even your life.

Read more at LinuxJournal

It’s been a while since I last reviewed a shooter game for Linux, and one of them was World of Padman (reviewed here), which was a cartoon-like, funny first-person shooter. Well, the same goes for Warsow, the game I’m going to talk about in this article. Every graphical aspect of Warsow indicates we’re dealing with a cartoon-like universe, from the character models to weapons and maps.

Read more at TuxArena

Hi everybody!

PlayOnLinux 3.8.1 was released this morning.

What has changed in the new release?

Bugs #30 and #31 were fixed.
Function introduced with PoL 3.7.7, for auto_shortcut was buggy in last release, now fixed.
Full rewrite of an internal function that installs a plugin shipped with PoL automatically on startup.
Plugin Capture was updated with the last version (2.1.1).
Translation was updated with the last available on Launchpad (synced the 2010-09-02).
And finally new tools appeared, playonlinux-cmd.

About translation

Many thanks for all translators, I don’t know how to export the nicknames of people that made translations on Launchpad. With your help PlayOnLinux is now translated in a least 3 new languages such as Korean, Czech, Turkish…
You can continue to help by translating, the next release will be synced with the latest translations.

What is playonlinux-cmd?

This is a new tool to manage PlayOnLinux in scripts, this was requested on the bug tracker as a feature… and this tool is not yet fully finished.
Currently you can ask for an update of the script database, run already installed software and start the installation of an application.
There are some known bugs that I discovered just after releasing PoL 3.8.1. Currently you can’t use this software if you have never run PlayOnLinux before (will be fixed in next release).
To force an update:

To start an installation:

To run already installed sofware:

Please note that –start-install doesn’t install silently but just directly opens the graphical GUI for the software that you request, so you always need to answer prompts.

We advise you update your PlayOnLinux version.

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As the title suggests, TORCS is a free and open-source racing simulator available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. I’ll list here some of its features:

- 3D graphics using OpenGL
- 42 different car models
- 30 racing tracks
- 6 racing types
- different camera angles

Read more at TuxArena

Danger from the deep is nice open source submarine sumilator game. According to their website “Danger from the Deep (known as dangerdeep or DftD) is a free (as in free speech), Open Source World War II german submarine simulator. The program and source code is available under the GPL license and most of the artwork/data is released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution/NonCommercial/Non-Derivative works).

DftD is currently being developed on Linux (i386 and AMD64) and Windows. There are binarys available for Linux (i386 and amd64), Windows (32bit) and there are some old packages for MacOSX. Danger from the Deep makes use of SDL/OpenGL and thus should be portable to other operating systems or platforms.’”

Read more at Unixmen

The Warzone 2100 Project staff bring you this 2.3.5 release candidate 4.

This should be the final release candidate before the actual release build.

This is your last chance to report any issues with this release candidate, and balance feedback!

We strongly urge everyone to try this 2.3.5 release candidate 4–especially multiplayer users!, and report any and all issues with it.

Please submit all bugs via this link, and follow the directions listed at the link, we need every bit of that information in order to fix bugs!

Downloads will be made available at our usual site:
Warzone 2100 file releases on Sourceforge.

Windows build | Mac build | source tarball

2010-09-12: Version 2.3.5_RC4

General

• Fix: Possible crash when designing units (r11630, #2150)

Multiplayer

• Change: Display no-tank, no-cyborg or no-VTOL icons if the relevant factories are disabled via limits (r11633)
• Fix: Make sure new players are shown immediately (r11650, #2136)
• Fix: Lobby tooltip display (r11647, #2157)
• Update Rebalance 0.8.3: (r11635)
  * Weaken Flak Cannon and Sunburst a lot more. I’m pretty sure this change makes them too weak, but when introducing new weapons it’s better to make them too weak than too strong.
  * Increase HP of a bunch of VTOL weapons
  * Remove VTOL Flak Cannon
  * Slightly buff Hurricane/Whirlwind

Translations

• Update: Polish (r11624, r11646, #1347), Korean (r11625, #2098), German (r11627, r11644), Brazilian (r11656, #2163)