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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
A true classic and one of the most played online first-person shooter games, Wolfenstein: ET was supposed to be released as a new mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but the single-player part of the game was abandoned and it was released at no cost, as a standalone multiplayer game.

Today, after over five years since the game was released, ET is still one of the most popular online FPS games out there, at least on the Linux platform.

ET is one of the games which puts accent on the teamplay, as well as learning to use abilities for each class which you play with. There are two factions or sides: the allies and the axis, and you can choose to play as a soldier, engineer, covert ops, medic or field ops. Each of these class has special abilities, and you’ll get points from using them. For example, the engineer can plant mines as well as arming and disarming bombs, while the soldiers clear the path by killing the enemies and the medic heals everybody. That’s what I like about this game: you get experience for healing teamplayers with medics for example, rather than going into battle, get yourself killed and leave the players in your team without any chances of revival.

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StarCraft and Red Alert are two of my favorite real-time strategy (RTS) games. Though these games are closed-source, they are still playable in Linux through Wine. Recently, I have tried a few free and open-source RTS games and was really impressed with some of them. The best thing is that I can play them instantly on my Linux box without the need for Wine and without having to spend a single dime.

If you are into real-time strategy gaming, I highly recommend you check out these Free and Open-source RTS games:

Read more at TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL

LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn’t run on my machine.

There are no productivity tools, Web browsers, or package managers here; this disc is all play and no work. Because it’s a live DVD, no hard drive is required to run the games. Once you burn the downloaded image to a DVD, you have a portable arcade that will run on any x86 system with 512MB or more of RAM. A 3-D accelerated video card is also required for most of the games. Proprietary drivers for Nvidia and ATI-based video cards are included, so you can enable acceleration for those types of cards by simply answering a few dialogs during the boot process.

Read more at Linux.com

This version contains another major improvement in the track editor: the route information will now be automatically re-calculated when you make changes to the track. This is an important step towards completeness of the track editor. Other changes are a more user-friendly settings editor, and a different slip model, which should make the car handling a bit easier.

Read more at Ultimate Stunts

We accidentally left a test feature in our last release, if you downloaded the new version early you probably noticed your hedgehogs have funny little hats. This feature is incomplete (expect it later), we’ve updated the installer to remove it, we’ve also added another new map to tempt you to download it!

Make sure you clear your browsers cache before getting the new version, it should be around 9.1mb in size!

Read more at Hedgewars

Zero Ballistics is a unique blend of first person shooter and tank combat, focusing on multiplayer gaming exclusively. An open beta version is now available and - surprise, surprise - there is a Linux client available!

Read more at linuX-gamers.net

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