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As mentioned earlier, Urban Terror,which began life as a modification for Quake III: Arena, isnow a free stand-alone game based on the ioquake3 engine source. There’s agalleryat the official site that showcases the new maps. Other new features:

• New player models, skins and animations.
• New hit detection system
• Addition of statistics to the UI
• Updated user interface
• Power sliding, goomba stomp and hot potato

Screenshots: [ View ] Download [ urbanterror.net ]

Version 0.9.3 of PCSX2, a PlayStation 2 emulator, has been released for Linux. Included are the following plugins:

• ZeroPAD – New pad plugin based off Twinpad, PADWinkeyb and SSSPSX Pad.
• ZeroGS OGL – An OpenGL conversion of ZeroGS. No more GSSoft for you.

Source code and 32/64-bit binary builds are available; note that the source requires NVIDIA’s Cg Toolkit. There’s also a compatibility database.

Download: [ pcsx2.net ]

The UFO:AI development team has announced the release ofUFO: Alien Invasion version 2.1.UFO:AI is is a squad-based tactical strategy game in the tradition ofX-COM.Changes includenew aliens, bases, maps, and research options, improved multiplayer, and therequisite bugfixes. Also, the in-game encyclopedia has been expanded with itemdescriptions and backstory.

Screenshots: [ View ]Download: [ ninex.info ]

Falling Leaf Systemsannounced the Saplingprogram earlier this year, which aims to “convert” Windows games intoexecutable Linux applications:

While Wine, at this point, is certainly a far more matureoffering than Alky in certain regards, it falls well short in crucial areasincluding speed, overhead, and the inability to support the coming age of 64bit computing.

Each Alky Converter will solve these issues by converting a specific Windowsgame into a fully native OSX or Linux executable. Alky is fully 64 bit capableand has no Wine-like server architecture to provide unnecessary overhead andspeed degradation.

Falling Leaf is currently offering $50 US memberships to the Sapling programto fund development.