GamniX

Not being a gamer I won’t be able to give detailed critical descriptions on how the game-play is, how polished the game is and so on. But I can tell you a little about what games you can expect to find.

I installed all of these games from the Add/Remove Applications menu. Using the drop-down box, changing it to “All available applications” and then clicking on Games on the left-hand side reveals all the games that I am able to install. There are quite a few of them!

I am going to use the descriptions that are supplied to give you a bit of an idea of what you can expect from the small selection that I have installed.

* Battle for Wesnoth - A fantasy turn-based strategy game. Battle for control of villages, using variety of units which have advantages and disadvantages in different types of terrains and against different types of attacks. Units gain experience and advance levels, and are carried over from one scenario to the next in a campaign.
* Extreme Tux Racer - A 3D downhill racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin. The goal of the game is to slide down a snow- and ice-covered mountain as quickly as possible, avoiding the trees and rocks that will slow you down.

Read more at iTWire

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

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

Over the past two years, I’ve reviewed free software first-person shooters including Tremulous, Alien Arena, and Nexuiz — all top-notch games. Now we can add Urban Terror to that list. While the first three sport other-worldly, sci-fi-style opponents, Urban Terror goes for realistic opponents — as realistic as today’s headlines. You’re fighting terrorists in Algiers and other locations around the globe, and you’re using realistic weaponry to do it.

Read more at Linux.com

I like to play with emulators, and I have found a good car race emulator, that works great under my Debian, the game come in autopackage binary format, or at least that is the one I have downloaded.

Download your package from VDrift page, I got the full version for Linux, once you have the .package file make it executable and run it as root, If you have installed an autopackage software before you can run:
Read more at Go2linux.org

After I reviewed Alien Arena last year, some readers criticized my choice of that first-person shooter (FPS) as the best free software game I had played. Several suggested Nexuiz would have been a better choice. At the time, I had not played it. Now that I have tried Nexuiz 2.4, it has become my favorite free software FPS.

Nexuiz runs on an improved Quake engine called DarkPlaces. The engine has been undergoing on-and-off development by Lord Havoc, the game’s creator, for several years. On icculus.org, Lord Havoc says he developed a custom OpenGL-only engine for DarkPlaces, and other modifications that “support Windows WGL and Linux GLX and have greatly improved graphics and image quality.”

Read more at Linux.com

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

Teeworlds is an open source 2D platform shooter featuring online play. Your round character will run, jump, and grapple around maps while wielding weapons and avoiding being killed by other players.

The game recently was forced to change their name because of a copyright issue.

The server browser:

Read more at Tombuntu

We are leaving for a short vacation week, I’ve been begged not to leave my laptops at home. Here are the reasons why:

atanks

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.

Read more at b-initials

Alien Arena is an open source First Person Shooter (FPS) that takes the fun extraterrestrial theme of games like Area 51 and combines it with the hard hitting deathmatch action of great shooters such as Quake and Unreal Tournament.  The game is themed around a 1950’s era alien invasion, complete with all the classic bug eyed and bulbous headed aliens and weird robotic monsters.  But what makes this game even better is that it’s completely open source!  It’s a completely free game that comes at no cost to you, but provides you with hours of unending, frag filled carnage.  But what makes the new Alien Arena so special?  Let’s have a look.

Read more at Raidens Realm