The latest development release of Wine has been announced. Changes in this release includes the following:
Download: [ Wine 1.1.26 ]
Grubby Games has reduced the price of all of their games from $20 to $6.99 as part of their acquisition by BigFishGames.
The games affected by the price change are:
It is currently unclear if Grubby Games’ future releases will continue to support Linux.
Frictional Games has issued the following press release regarding the new Penumbra Collection,:
Helsingborg, Sweden – 15th of July 2009
Re-release this Friday the 17th of the Penumbra Series for Mac & Linux – USD 5 launch offer!
With a brand new installer the three Penumbra games will be available this Friday as a single download. This will improve the user experience compared to the original three downloads with three serials installation procedure.
During the launch weekend of Friday the 17th to Sunday the 19th the Penumbra Collection for Mac & Linux will sell for a mere USD 5! Windows users recently had the same offer available to them and due to numerous inquires from Mac & Linux gamers we hope that this offer will achieve full cross-platform horror enjoyment. After the launch weekend the Penumbra Collection will sell for USD 20.
The Penumbra Collection will be available in the Frictional Games Store for Mac & linux. In addition the Mac version will also be available from the Mac Game Store, Mac Games Arcade and the recently launched Gamer’s Gate for Mac. All stores are participating in the USD 5 weekend launch!
About the Penumbra Collection
The Penumbra Collection consist of Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and the expansion Penumbra: Requiem. Penumbra is a horror adventure featuring a unique physics interaction system, detailed story and dreadful environments. The series has received numerous awards, critical acclaim and recognition for its rejuvenation of the adventure genre as well as its fresh approach to the survival horror genre.
Visit http://www.penumbragame.com/ for more information, media and demos.
About Frictional Games
A small independent game developer located in the south of Sweden, developing unique technologies to power their creative game ideas. Currently with a crew of four in-house, with a network of contractors to utilise during production, enables the company to be dynamic and efficient.
http://www.frictionalgames.com/Visit our blog, http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/, to follow our work in progress and to participate in the discussions about game development, design, horror and related topics.
S2 Games, developers of the Savage series for Linux and other platforms, is conducting a closed beta test for their newest title, Heroes of Newerth. A multiplayer strategy game, HoN expands on the Defense of the Ancients style of play.
Moreover, S2 Games has given us beta keys to give away; comment on this article with a description of your favorite game hero/heroine (doesn’t have to be a Linux game, but it’s preferred!) and we’ll send one your way! This is on a first-come, first-serve basis; once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.
More screenshots/info can be found here at the game’s Facebook page.
EDIT: The first batch of beta keys have been sent out! Let me know if you have any problems, and thanks!
EDIT: The second batch (through post #125) has been sent out; if you’ve posted but haven’t gotten your key yet, e-mail me.
EDIT: If you’ve posted through post #175, you should have your key! If you don’t have one yet, there’s plenty more!
The indefatigable zakk asked us to mention that the ioquake3 project, which extends the base Quake 3 code released by id Software, is holding a hosting fundraiser:
Donations are required for ioquake3’s hosting to continue every two years. Next month, ioquake3’s hosting bill comes due. Fortunately it is only due once every two years which means that requests for donations will be infrequent.
Thanks to the many people who let us know that Wildfire Games have announced that their Age of Empires-inspired real-time strategy game 0 A.D. is now an open source project:
Wildfire Games is switching from a closed development process to open source, making the game’s code available as GPL and the art content available as CC-BY-SA. People are encouraged to reuse and learn from and improve our work. We are not releasing a playable game, but we want to show what we have achieved and make it easier for more people to get involved in bringing it closer to completion.
If you’re interested in contributing, check out the Getting Started guide at the project wiki.
Version 2009.1 of the Unknown Horizons project was released for testing by developers and other interested parties:
Unknown Horizons is an economic sim, loosely based on the Anno series, which uses the FIFE engine.
Download: [ unknown-horizons.org ]
Charlie Dog Games and Tweeler have announced the release of version 1.0 of the free software word game Cuba Letra for Linux:
Cuba Letra is a new type of word game with a fun and funky Latin American theme! It combines mental and physical dexterity to challenge players ability to make words against the clock. It’s great fun for all ages with an easy mode that children can play or a harder mode that will challenge even the most literate adults
Cuba Letra is powered by TuxCap.
Download: [ tweeler.com ]
Version 0.8.4 of Wormux, an open-source multiplayer strategy game inspired by Worms, has been released:
Screenshots: [ View ] Download: [ wormux.org ]
The Linux hardware news/review site Phoronix has conducted an interview with Linux Game Publishing’s Frank “Svartalf” Earl about his previous work porting commercial titles, the technical hurdles encountered, and his take on the market.
LordHavoc has released a new build of his Quake-derived DarkPlaces engine, to fix an ogg library bug. DarkPlaces is also utilized by the Nexuiz project.
Download: [ icculus.org ]
Wolfire’s Lugaru sequel, Overgrowth, now has a webcomic which expands on the game’s fighting anthropomorphized animals.
svenstaro fired in a report that the Portalized project has made quite a lot of progress since last we mentioned it: it now features improved portals, portal-though-portal lighting, improved graphics and better physics!
S2 Games, developer of the native (32bit and 64bit) Linux game Heroes of Newerth, currently in closed beta, has released a very impressive video of the gameplay (thanks vadi4!):
More screenshots/info can be found here at the game’s Facebook page.
Thanks to vadi4 for letting us know that S2 Games has released version of their RTS/FPS hybrid Savage 2: A Tortured Soul. The game is free to download and play, forever; the changelog can be found here. You can additionally support the game by buying a premium account ($10 one-time fee). Also, there are live streaming with commentary videos going on (commented by S2Mercenary himself), usually at 2PM US Eastern time.
The developers of Commander Genius, an interpreter of the Commander Keen with improved features, sent in word that they’re at version 0.2.9.7:
This version seems to be the most stable we ever had! So check it out. It even consumes less memory, especially when using HQP, then its predecessors!
Download: [ sourceforge.net ]
Thanks to a reader for letting us know that the free MMORPG Eternal Lands has added a few trailers to their official website.
After 7 months since the DVD was released, this is the first release of YoFrankie since being an open project at the Blender institute.
Version 1.1 brings YoFrankie up to date with Blender, taking advantage of new features. There have also been improvements in the game logic and levels.
Download: [ yofrankie.org ]
The latest development release of Wine, the Windows emulator for Unix, has been released. This release has the following new features and fixes:
Download: [ Wine 1.1.25 ]
A new version of the Commander Keen series interpreter Commander Genius has been released; it is faster, has more features, and the website has new videos.
Download: [ sourceforge.net ]