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At long last, here’s my review of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness’ initial episode, the new adventure RPG based on the popular webcomic Penny Arcade.

It’s been a while since we’ve reviewed anything here at LinuxGames, and in the now 10 years we’ve been operating I’m not certain that I’ve ever reviewed any game personally, so this is going to have something of an ad hoc format.

I played the game on the following system:

• Linux 2.6.24 (Gentoo)
• x86_64 Intel Core2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
• 2GB RAM
• GeForce 7900 GS 256MB

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Random Quake-related news:

• Version 1.46 of the Quake III: Arena competition mod Challenge Pro Mode Arena was released.
• ESReality mentioned this map for Q3A, Sodomia, with a unique puzzle-oriented layout.
• Func_Msgboard posted a neat Quake 1 singleplayer map, Tower of Dal Gurak.
• There’s a new alpha release of the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars zombie mod Dusk at the community forums.
• Finally, Wired pointed out that Wolfenstein 3-D was released on today’s date in 1992. The only Linux source port I’m aware of is WolfGL (edit: zakk pointed out icculus.org/wolf3d as well) (edit: The Linux Game Tome pointed out a new port called Wolf4SDL too).

Edit: Splash Damage updated their blog with a preview of two community-made ETQW maps: Comm Link and Meltdown. Also, while fighting to prevent mankind’s extinction in the game, you can also assist Splash Damage in preventing the extinction of the tapir, an endangered animal.

Many thanks to Nemoder, who took the time to produce this article looking at enjoyable Linux games that you may have overlooked before now.

Top 10 Lesser Known Linux Games

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:

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