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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

Wesnoth 1.4.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.4.x branch. In this release several smaller bugs were fixed and many translations were updated. To read about other (more important changes, celebrate the release and comment on it, have a look at this forum thread. As with the last development series, 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 only the Gentoo, Debian and Windows binaries are ready. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page. We hope there are no bugs left, but if you find any, report them.

Version 7.10 of Alien Arena 2008 has been released! Notice the revision change…this is because what initially was expected to be a quick patch turned out to be much, much more. Five revamped maps, two brand new maps, major renderer changes, new gameplay features, and important bugfixes abound in what may just well be the most signifigant milestone in the long history of this game. For a condensed changelog, look HERE.