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.
While Ryan Gordon has yet to release Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux (likely due to Steam / Valve’s Source Engine Coming To Linux), he has today released new versions of Postal 2 for Linux and Mac OS X. In celebration of the Postal movie being released, Running With Scissors (the company behind Postal) has permitted the release of a free multi-player edition of this popular game…
We’re pleased to announce the release of Wormux 0.8 
first stable release with network support. We hope you will enjoy this new Wormux.
Changelog since last stable release:
* Network game (port 3826 is registred by IANA for Wormux)
* A lot of bug fixes (memory leaks, useless code deleted …)
* 15 new maps
* New weapons: Flamethrower, Football bomb, Cluzooka
* Minimap preview
* Camera improvements
* Better use of anti-aliasing
* Water/lava particles added
* Various graphical improvements
* Sound cache: no more lag on explosion
* More sounds and musics
* Better characters: Better positions, characters’ eyes follow cursor,…
* Weapons tweaking
* Smaller step in angle selection when pressing Shift
* Menus compatible with smallest resolutions
* Help section added (menu explaining shortkeys and howtoplay.pdf documentation provided)
* Language selection
* “Looking for updates” option
* Volume control option
* Joystick support
* Improve collision detection, cursor,…
* User dir as XDG recommandation (Freedesktop)
* Initial management of command line options
* Experimental random map generator and skin viewer
* AI improvements (still stupid so still hidden feature)
Read more at Wormux website
“Can I game on it” is a frequently asked question we hear from Windows users toying with the idea of trying Linux for the first time. Well, the simple answer is yes!
To demonstrate the level of sophistication available, we have put together a list of 42 high quality Linux games that all have the virtue of being free to play. To ensure that there is something of interest here for every type of gamer, we have covered a wide variety of computer game genres, including the ever popular First Person Shooters (FPS), Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG), as well as arcade games, board/puzzle games and more.
To be eligible for inclusion in this list each game needed to meet the following requirements:
Im not a big fan of wine games but I thought I would share the progress of the wine developers in getting these hot games to work with it. I am still hoping gaming developers create linux clients for these games, leave direct x and start using opengl… Here is the current top 10 platinum wine games.
Read more at Ubuntu Unleashed
We’ve all heard of open source games like Tuxracer and Wesnoth, and of commercial games like Quake and Unreal Tournament but there are a number of lesser known Linux games that deserve some more attention. Not all these games have the latest 3D graphics but what they lack in state of the art visuals they more than make up for in depth of gameplay and replayability. If you’re looking for something a bit different to play you definitely want to check out these:
Five months ago from today, Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC was released in North America. Linux gamers around the world, however, were let down with the lack of an available Linux client and all UT3 gamers were impacted by the lack of any Linux server for this game…
We are leaving for a short vacation week, I’ve been begged not to leave my laptops at home. Here are the reasons why:
Once atanks (package atanks) is installed, you launch it from a terminal. The goal is to destroy other tanks before they destroy yours. You can earn “money” when you hit them and win, buy weapons, and get more powerful shields. My kids are not fluent in English, my systems are in English, they found their way around on their own.
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