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Miscellany:

• We missed this last month, but AMD announed the GameStorm AMD64technology which boils down to a bootable Linux CD that runs America’s Army on the AMD Athlon 64 processor.
• RAD Game Tools released a beta, command-line version of the Bink VideoPlayer for Linux a little while ago. Most notably, this will play those NWN cutscenes.
• A reader pointed out Six Games That Push the Limits of What The BlenderGame Engine is Capable of.
• A representative of Oddlabs wrote in to announce Tribal Trouble , their Java/LWJGL-based strategy game that will support Linux and have a demo released by the end of the year.
• The alpha 2 release of the OpenML SDK has been released. OpenML is astandard that aims to rival DirectX.
• A reader pointed out the Valve Software Linux Server Boycott , a harsh “no client, we won’t run servers” petition/boycott.

New Announcement:

• Devil Whisky 1.2.1, a party-based, turn-based, grid-mapped, 3D role playing and adventure game: screenshot, download

New Versions:

• Alien Flux 1.4g, a (commercial) Java-based arcade shoot-em-up: download
• ALSA 0.9.7c, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture: download (includes support for the Aureal Vortex,Vortex2 and Advantage)
• Armagetron 0.2.6.0, a 3d Tron clone / lightcycle game: changelog, screenshots, download
• ClanLib 0.7.5, a game SDK: download
• Crossfire 1.6.0, a graphical RPG adventure: changelog, screenshots, download
• Crimson Fields 0.3.7, a tactical war game: changelog, screenshot
• Doom Legacy 1.41, an enhanced Doom source port: screenshot, download
• FakeNES 0.3.0, a NES emulator: changelog, screenshot, download
• FreeLords , : changelog, screenshot, download
• Game Editor 1.1, an interactive multimedia tool for game development: screenshot, download
• GCompris 4.0 pre4, : changelog, screenshots, download
• glTron 0.70 beta-1, a Tron-inspired 3D lightcycle game: changelog, screenshot, download
• Tower Toppler 1.03, a Nebulous rewrite: changelog, screenshots, download
• Trackballs 0.9.1, : changelog, screenshot, download
• Vega Strike 0.4.1, 3D Space Simulator: changelog, screenshots, download
• Wine 20031016, a free Windows implementation: download

Stay tuned for the rest of the announcements that didn’t make it in to this post…

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