[News] Another Top Game Comes to GNU/Linux, Windows Games Run Fine Also
Roy Schestowitz
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A New Game Comes To Linux And It's Not A FPS
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| While quality native Linux games are rather
| in short supply, those that do end up coming
| out of the professional game studios end up
| being first-person shooters, just look at
| Doom 3, Quake 4, Enemy Territory: Quake
| Wars, Cold War, Unreal Tournament 2004, etc.
| Even on the open-source side there are many
| first-person shooters from Nexuiz to Warsow
| to many others. If though you have been
| trying to find a new non-FPS game that has
| native Linux support, there is a new one
| emerging and that is QuantZ.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzcwNw
Wine, Cedega, and CXGames Benchmark Comparision
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| The Test: I will be running an FPS test
| under both the original source engine
| (Counter Strike: Source) and the latest
| version of the source engine (Left 4 Dead).
| For each test I used the same detail
| settings and tested each game at three
| different resolutions, using each Wine,
| CXGames, and Cedega.
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http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2009/11/wine-cedega-and-cxgames-benchmark.html
Recent:
Smokin' Guns a free Old West game for Linux
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| Smokin' Guns is a free FPS and Open Source
| game that take you back to the old time of
| the 'Old West'. Based on the engine of
| Quake 3, Smokin' Guns has all the
| attributes of a traditional FPS: play in
| solo or network, a complete arsenal of
| weapons, a dozen charts and several modes
| of play.
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http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/463-smokin-guns
World of Goo Price Dropped To Anything
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| 2D Boy's Ron Carmel spoke out against DRM
| at the Game Developers Conference earlier
| this year, stating that "It's a waste of
| time. You just end up giving the DRM
| provider money. Anything that is of
| interest gets cracked, and the cracked
| version ends up being a better user
| experience than the legit version because
| you don't have to input in some 32-
| character serial number."
|
| This latest offer seems to show evidence
| that 2D Boy is all about the consumer's
| experience - and having played World of Goo
| extensively, I can add that the games are
| all about that too.
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http://www.incgamers.com/News/19068/world-of-goo-price-dropped-to-anything
Smokin' Guns a free Old West game for Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Smokin' Guns is a free FPS and Open Source
| game that take you back to the old time of
| the 'Old West'. Based on the engine of
| Quake 3, Smokin' Guns has all the
| attributes of a traditional FPS: play in
| solo or network, a complete arsenal of
| weapons, a dozen charts and several modes
| of play.
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http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/463-smokin-guns
World of Goo Price Dropped To Anything
,----[ Quote ]
| 2D Boy's Ron Carmel spoke out against DRM
| at the Game Developers Conference earlier
| this year, stating that "It's a waste of
| time. You just end up giving the DRM
| provider money. Anything that is of
| interest gets cracked, and the cracked
| version ends up being a better user
| experience than the legit version because
| you don't have to input in some 32-
| character serial number."
|
| This latest offer seems to show evidence
| that 2D Boy is all about the consumer's
| experience - and having played World of Goo
| extensively, I can add that the games are
| all about that too.
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http://www.incgamers.com/News/19068/world-of-goo-price-dropped-to-anything
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