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The Humble Indie Bundle team has a couple of open positions, one of which is for a software engineer – check it out if you’re interested!

There has been two Wine release since we have last posted here, one being a development and one being a stable release of the product. The first was version 1.4.1 of the stable branch with some minor updates to translations and some bug fixes. The second release was on the development branch which has some new features which are listed below.

• Automatic installation of the Mono add-on package.
• Control panel applet for joysticks.
• Device bitmap rendering now done through the DIB engine.
• Support for video rendering through DirectX (VMR-9).
• First steps towards a D3D shader compiler.
• Build fixes for DragonFly BSD.
• Various bug fixes.

Download: [Wine 1.4.1 ] [ Wine 1.5.6 ]

Thanks to kingron for pointing us towards The Journey Down,a classic-style point-and-click saga with a black African twist.

It can be purchased for $13.99 on Desura.

Thanks to Shaolu for letting us know that Wolfire Games (who are also the principal organizers of the Humble Indie Bundle) has introduced Linux support with the latest alpha release (a180) of Overgrowth (preorder), the lagomorphic action game sequel to Lugaru.

Ben Crispin wrote in to let us know about Tiny Cthulhu (dev blog), a 3D platforming game which SHOULD NOT BE!!

A teacher at the notoriously underfunded Miskatonic University Daycare Centre sends her charges off to sleep with a story from the Necronomicon
(it was the only book she could find in the library that had pictures…) Through her not-quite-carefully-edited-enough account, we follow the dread
Tiny Cthulhu on his travels through mind-blasting vortexes of madness and adorableness on his way to rain inevitable and cuddly doom on a blissfully
unsuspecting humanity.

…Sleep well, kids…*

Are you personally offended by the astonishing lack of 3D Platforming titles for PC/Mac/Linux?
Do you further feel that there’s simply not enough Eldritch Abomination in your life?

Well, in that incredibly unlikely case, you’ll probably be overjoyed to hear that THEORY32 has just launched an Indiegogo fundraiser for Tiny
Cthulhu – its an upcoming game of adorable Lovecraftian mega-horror.

Donation perks include having your house made into a stomp-able model and placed in Cthulhu’s path during the ‘Modern Earth’-set finale, having a
picture of your face appear in the ‘Lost and Hidden Shrine to Those Horrors That It Is Better To Die Than To Glimpse… Even For A Second…’ easter
egg, and providing screams and/or last words for the destruction of a building.

Unigine has announced the release of a Tower Defense DLC map pack for Oil Rush, the naval-themed strategy game recently released for Linux. Features include:

• 5 challenging Tower Defense maps with relentless waves of furious enemies.
• A completely new game experience – Tower Defense multiplayer co-op for up to 3 players.
• Brand new Technology tree makes completely new strategies possible.
• New unit: Raider’s Catamaran – great for fast hit-and-run strikes.
• New tower: Heavy Mortar Turret – the ultimate in naval defense.

The pack is available in the Unigine store for $4.99 US, or bundled with Oil Rush for $24.99.

Plutoids is a gravity-based artillery game which takes place in outer space. It features five planet types, fifteen unique weapons, and up to eight local players, including AI opponents. Plutoids is available in the Ubuntu Software Center or, for other distros, Indievania.com.