Directory —
Video Games —
Blog Details for "Linux Gaming World"
Linux Gaming World Linux Gaming World Supporting the commercial video game scene, and promoting independent Linux entertainment developers. 
Articles
Google Phone
2007-10-09 05:16:00 Rumors are abound about an upcoming Google Phone that will run the Linux operating system. More About: Google Phone
Visitor Appreciation Day
2007-10-07 01:59:00 Greetings LGW Visitor s. Today we will take a step back just to acknowledge your continued interest in commercial Linux games. Whether you are a gamer or developer, we’re still running the site because of your continued and increasing interest in the site. We’re constantly reviewing the inner-workings of LGW, and seeing gamers ... More About: Appreciation , Reci
Beowulf Movie
2007-10-04 22:30:00 Based on the oldest and one of the greatest Anglo-Saxon stories ever written, Beowulf will be released in theaters in November. The film will be computer-rendered. Interestingly, the Imagemovers production team uses Linux Beowulf Cluster technology for the CGI-rendering. Return to the Meadhall, and check out the movie promotion (caution: restricted rating). Interested ... More About: Movie
GP2X-F200
2007-10-04 07:42:00 Play-Asia is taking pre-orders for their upcoming GP2X-F200, the Linux gaming handheld. Improving on the original GP2X, the GP2X comes with more features and a faster processor. The original GP2X Value Pack is being sold for a discount, too. The GP2X is the premier hand-held Linux gaming system. The value pack ...
Nico and the Robot Planet
2007-10-02 21:03:00 Earlier this year, CMY Multimedia released what might be an interesting title called NICO en el planeta ROBOT. We’re still looking for someone to translate their Spanish press release about “los robots del futuro”. Hopefully, our friends at Linux Juegos will help us out soon. CMY Entertainment is best known for their Linux edu-tainment ... More About: Robot , Planet , Anet , Robo , Nico
Bridge Construction Set v1.36
2007-09-30 09:14:00 Long time Linux favorite Bridge Construction Set released a patch recently, adding a bit more functionality. Check out the fun of puzzling over bridge construction and try to get your trains over the pass without having a collapse! We would like to acknowledge Chronic Games, creators of KE: Tactics, Gish, and Bridge Construction Set, for ...
Huge List of Game Industry Jobs
2007-09-28 19:43:00 An eyebrow-raising list of a huge number of online job reqs, all within the gaming industry. They claim to have found over 3500 listings. Impressive — even if we only counted 1192. More About: Industry , Jobs , List , Game , Huge
SuperGamer VL
2007-09-28 09:03:00 SuperGamer is at it again, releasing a new version of their famous LiveCD precisely customized for gaming. This time, the LiveCD runs on a VectorLinux platform. SuperGamer is a Super Popular way to convert your system into a gaming OS without installing any software. Let’s hear it for Linux… Download from ...
Interactive Fiction
2007-09-28 08:24:00 One of the earliest game engines was Interact ive Fiction , which was often a simple character-based interface. The player read the text description and entered their commands for movement and actions. Zork was the most well known example. The genre lives on today. You can get started constructing a playable world that exists in ...
VMGL - OpenGL in Virtual Machines
2007-09-22 11:38:00 VMGL allows OpenGL applications, which run inside a Virtual Mach ine (VM), to take advantage of graphics hardware acceleration. VMGL can be used on VMware guests, Xen HVM domains (depending on hardware virtualization extensions) and Xen paravirtual domains, using XVnc or the virtual framebuffer. Possibly also QEMU and KVM. VMGL is GPU-independent: we ... More About: Machines , Virtual Machine
John Carmack
2007-09-21 22:55:00 John Carmack has not forsaken Linux! Carmack is in the talk of the blogosphere again, after an interview for a German website quoted him as saying the Rage project would not be released for Linux. However, Beyond3D has received clarification that, in fact, the software would eventually be ported to Linux, even if ... More About: John , Arma
Weather Master
2007-09-20 08:10:00 Earlier this year, AIT Games released Weather Mast er . AIT Games is known for their previous classic, AIT_Trains. From the FAQ: The purpose of the game is to build a rainbow across all the sky while cleaning the landscape from raindrops and thereby scattering the clouds. A game includes 50 levels and combines unsophisticated, classic, easy-to-learn game ... More About: Aster
Valve Porting Games to Linux
2007-09-13 07:55:00 In the too-good-to-be-true department, Valve is officially is seeking programmers to port Windows games to Linux !! Could there be a supported Linux version of Steam in the near future? Valve is, of course, the entertainment software company who produced Half-Life, Counter Strike, and Half-Life 2. Their Steam Engine is a software distribution ... More About: Games
Future of Online Games
2007-09-13 04:42:00 GameDaily BIZ advises online games will represent a third of game sales by 2011: “The revolution won’t be televised; it’ll be downloaded. A new report from Strategy Analytics suggests that the online global games market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 25 percent, so that by 2011 the online games ... More About: Games , Online Games , Future , Online
Nuxified and Cluenet prepare a Free Software Gaming Tournament
2007-09-11 22:15:00 Nuxified.org and Cluenet.org are jointly preparing a Free Software gaming tournament for the purpose of promoting Free Software games and gaming. Likely included games will be Nexuiz, OpenArena, BZFlag, Tremulous, Battle For Wesnoth, but the final official list of games will depend on user interest and amount of participants. You can read the initial announcement here ... More About: Gaming , Ming
TheOpenCD 07.09
2007-09-11 22:14:00 TheOpenCD is a purchasable CD-ROM full of Free Software, including a handful of games. You can also download the .ISO from their site for no-cost. TheOpenCD 07.09, which is version code for September 2007. The collection has dozens of useful programs and entertaining software titles, including updates for Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice, and Stellarium. ... More About: Theo
How to Pitch Your Game
2007-09-06 16:30:00 Garage Game s has an article on How to Pitch Your Game to producers. Valuable insight into the mind of the decision maker.
Hewlett Package to Sell Linux at Home
2007-08-30 15:33:00 Not to be outdone by their primary competitor, Dell, HP may be rolling out their own Linux -supported desktop for home users. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols sites an Australian source which indicates the computer will be a low-end AMD64 system. This might make a good gaming rig, if you are a HP fan on a ... More About: Home , Sell , Package
Penny Arcade
2007-08-28 02:13:00 The guys from Penny Arca de are producing a cross platform game development which will include Linux support from day one. The distribution of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - gotta love the name - will use electronic distribution with multiple future episodes. Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island and Manic Mansion fame is helping ... More About: Cade , Penny Arcade
Nouveau Project
2007-08-27 22:09:00 Phoronix is now hosting regular updates on the Nouveau graphic driver, an open source effort to produce an NVIDIA graphics driver. More About: Project
DEFCON Freeplay
2007-08-24 10:51:00 Introversion Software’s DEFCON will have freeplay during the long-weekend, in conjunction with the Penny Arcade Expo. (Click our PAX advertisement link, on the right sidebar.) Both events will take place on Friday, August 24th at 18:00 GMT and run until Monday, August 27th at 06:00 GMT. During this time, DEFCON will be free ...
H-Craft Championship v1_2 Released
2007-08-17 11:00:00 Patch 1_2 for H-Craft Champion ship released last week. Features include support for the Matrox triple-head monitor card for wrap-around gameplay! See our prior mention of H-Craft Championship. More About: Released , Ease
EVE Online seeking Linux-client Beta-testers
2007-08-15 19:30:00 The popular MMORPG Eve Online seeks customers, with existing accounts, to help test the new Linux game client. CCP’s Quality Assurance Lead started a forum post on Monday that volunteers were needed with “good technical skills”, and folks interested should reply there. It would be very exciting to have Eve Online supporting a Linux client ... More About: Beta , Seeking , Este
Carmack on Linux Gaming
2007-08-14 07:38:00 United-Underground, news source on software and technology, has John Carmack’s opinion on the future of Linux Gaming , from his keynote speech at QuakeCon last week. “Doom 3 stuff will be open source.” More About: Linux Gaming , Ming , Arma
Mumble 1.0
2007-08-13 00:36:00 Mumble finally released their 1.0 version last month. Mumble is an open source, voice conferencing software for Linux and Windows, much like Teamspeak and Ventrilo. Precompiled Ubuntu Feisty binaries are available, and the package should be in the next release of Gutsy by default.
Quick Update
2007-08-11 21:57:00 (i) Is DirectX 10.1 the best thing to happen to OpenGL? (ii) Quake Wars release date announced: October 1. Linux version “inevitable”. (iii) Troy Hepfner writes next article in wonderful Linux Game Development series. (iv) Editor grovels for the hundreds of LGW visitors a day to leave comments, click banner ads. (v) SCO loses UNIX copyright ... More About: Update , Quick
Interview with Andy Southgate
2007-08-09 12:06:00 “It seemed like a concept that needed to be out there.” The lead developer of Adanaxis, the four-dimensional space shooter, took time to speak with Linux Gaming World recently. Read our exclusive interview… Mr. Southgate, thank you for your time interviewing with us today. We’ve been really impressed with your recent game for ... More About: Interview , Andy
Educating with Videogames
2007-08-09 10:22:00 An interesting essay on Sun Microsystem’s keynote presentation given at the eLearning Conference at the University of Alberta. Where are games headed and what can we learn from them? Includes link to the presentation in PDF format. More About: Videogames , Ames , Duca
G3D Engine 7.00 Released
2007-08-09 08:15:00 The G3D Engine was released the 7.00 version on August 2nd. This engine produces amazing results (take a look at those screenshots and movies), and the software is BSD (open source) licensed and is no-cost to use. One game that was created with the engine was Animal Race, yet not many other game ... More About: Released , Ease
Tribal Trouble updated to version 1.10
More articles from this author:2007-08-06 19:02:00 Tribal Trouble has now been released in version 1.10. Once again major improvements in the network code has cut down lag to an insignificant level, while maintaining the ability to play behind a firewall. The update also contains a variety of bug fixes. What’s new: ———– Lag reduced: The network code has been optimized even more, to make ... More About: Version , Tribal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
|
