LINUXGAMES

Hope all of you are having a good weekend; if you have any plans to do any professional fishing, I hope you’re being especially careful.

First, some Quake-related news:

• Quake3 running on XDirectFB with hardware accelerated DirectFBGL (screenshot) — thanks -Dell’Aiera Pol-
• Reality Interactive wrote in to announce that the have “released a non-playable technology preview of a full-featured,OpenGL-based game implemented entirely in Java.| The interesting thingis, it runs full screen at 60+ fps on modern hardware, and is nativelycross-platform. The demo includes both a Windows and a Linux version outof the box, and runs a Quake-compatible game demo. “
• LordMorgul wrote in to announce TrueCombat beta 1.0, realism mod for Quake3 (screenshot)

New Announcements:

• Blocks 3D 1.1, a 3D Tetris clone: screenshot, download
• Enrapture Demo 0.3 beta, an Elite-inspired space/roleplaying game: screenshots, download
• The N.M.E.S. Mezzanine Boards are up. NMES is a linux video game console work-in-progress. (WARNING: arguably objectional popup issues on this site)

New Releases:

• Armagetron 0.2.pre3, a 3d Tron clone: changelog, screenshot, download
• Civil 0.82, a turn based strategy game: screenshots, download
• Crimson Fields 0.3.3, a tactical war game similar to Battle Isle: changelog, screenshots,
• DirectFB 0.9.18, a thin graphics library: changelog, screenshots, download
• Emilia Pinball 0.3.0, a pinball simulator: changelog, screenshots, downloads
• FlightGear 0.9.2, an open source flight Simulator.: screenshots, downloads
• FooBillard 2.7, an OpenGL billiards game: changelog, screenshot
• FreeLords CVS-20030608, a turn-based strategy game: changelog, screenshot, download
• GCompris 3.1, a children’s educational suite: changelog, screenshots, downloads
• GXMame 0.33, a GTK-based MAME frontend: changelog, screenshots, downloads
• LBreakout 2.5, a Breakout-style arcade game: changelog, screenshot, download
• Mah-Jong 1.5.6, a multiplayer and networked Mah-Jong game: changelog, screenshots,
• pyDDR 0.7.0, a Dance Dance Revolution clone: screenshot, download (yes, all of these are down until icculus.org rises again)
• Pygame 1.5.6, a game-authoring Python module set: changelog, download
• ScummVM 0.4.1, a classic 2D adventure game interpreter: changelog, download
• SDL Sasteroids 2.0, a rework of the original Sasteroids game: download
• Simutrans 0.81.33exp, an economic and transport sim: changelog, screenshots, downloads
• Slash’EM 0.0.7E1, a graphical Nethack variant: changelog, screenshot, downloads
• TeamSpeak RC2-2.0.29.47, : changelog, download
• Tickletankle 0.7, 2-player real-time tank game: screenshot, download
• Tower Toppler 1.0.2, a Nebulous rewrite: changelog, screenshots, download
• xmame 0.69.1, an arcade and virtual machine emulator: changelog, download
• XQF 0.9.12, a GTK-based game server browser : screenshots, download

Article:

• Orbz 2.0 – Better Than The Original? @ LinuxHardware.org

/me wipes his brow and hopes that there aren’t too many borked URLs.

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