http://www.linuxgames.com – Joyride Labs announced the release of “Nikki and the Robots Story Episodes”. Nikki and the Robots Story Episode 1 screenshots (more) Join Nikki on a secret mission to fight the evil Dr. Lacroix. Test your skills in stunning platformer action and exciting puzzles — with the help of a variety of futuristic robots. You can [...] (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – In response to Valve’s intent to release Linux games via Steam, Richard Stallman posted Nonfree DRM’d Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?. Stallman predicts that “the direct good effect will be bigger than the direct harm” but that it will “augment [the] effect of … teach[ing] users that the point is not freedom.” (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – ’nuff said: A blog by the Valve Linux Team: Steam’d Penguins: For some time, Gabe has been interested in the possibility of moving Steam and the Source game engine to Linux. At the time, the company was already using Linux by supporting Linux-based servers for Source-based games and also by maintaining several internal servers (running [...] (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – A new development version of Wine was released recently. New features in this release include: More stream functionality in the C++ runtime. A number of Windows Codecs improvements. More WBEM classes and properties. Some HTML Help fixes. Support for printing fake italic fonts. Various bug fixes. Download: [ Wine 1.5.8 ] (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition has been released. Revitalized…and, well, reloaded! This is a major release of this game, with many new features, and a veritable truckload of new high quality content. Every aspect of the game has been improved upon and expanded, from the engine, to the game code, weaponry, and overall gameplay. Some of [...] (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – 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! (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – 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 [...] (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – 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. (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – 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. (Software)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxgames.com – 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 [...] (Software)
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