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Microsoft Plays the MP3 Blues
2007-08-02 06:26:00 [News from February 2007] After Microsoft was ruled to pay one and a half billion dollars in damages, it should be clear that no one should use unauthorized MP3 playback in their products. If Microsoft could not win the lawsuit, then you know your indie development shop cannot, either. Use Ogg Vorbis, instead. Does anyone else ... More About: Blues , Plays
Adanaxis
2007-08-01 02:51:00 To the right, we see a representation of a tesseract, a four dimensional shape that cannot be defined in our three dimensional world. In imagining a tesseract, consider a cube where each of the corners has additional lines that branch off forming identical cubes, but you cannot see those cubes at the same time ... More About: Axis
CFS and 3D Gaming
2007-07-31 19:41:00 KernelTrap highlights kernel developers’ email discussions regarding 3D Linux games running under the new Completely Fair Scheduler, a new way of handing process resource requests by the kernel. Great to see that game performance is kept in mind by even Linus Torvalds, and great to see these predictions of even better kernel performance for ... More About: Gaming , Ming
Linux Journal Highlights Gaming
2007-07-25 11:48:00 Perhaps in a sign of the times, Linux Journal headlines Linux gaming their August 2007 cover. In addition to information on setting up your rig for games and setting up a retro gaming arcade, they also have an interesting interview with Terra Soft, who are building a Linux-based, supercomputer cluster with the PlayStation 3’s ... More About: Gaming , Highlights , Ming
Roman Battles Lux
2007-07-25 10:18:00 A few weeks back (June 16th), SillySoft released an expansion pack to their Lux Deluxe title, Roman Battles Lux. There are ten new maps of Ancient Rome, and there are new units like the Legionnaire. Play against the Lux AI or against your friends online. SillySoft provides game servers, so you can ...
NVIDIA Benchmarks - Windows VS. Linux
2007-07-20 08:06:00 Phoronix puts three NVIDIA cards through their paces to determine benchmarks on both Windows and Linux systems. While there are some surprises in the analysis, it really showed that there is not much merit in purchasing high-end DirectX 10 cards for your Linux gaming system! In fact, choosing an expensive 6600GT is just ... More About: Marks , Benchmarks , Bench
Slow New Day
2007-07-20 04:57:00 Here are some instructions on converting your Quicktime format movies into Free Software OGG format. Fedora News reporting. The ffmpeg2theora is available as a community supported package through Ubuntu’s Synaptic package manager. Ah, slow news week - not any releases. Looking for something to read? Here is the article that kicked off ... More About: Slow , New Day
Regnum Online
2007-07-15 05:16:00 Regnum Online went gold on May 24th, 2007. Regnum Online is a massive multiplayer online role playing game with a 3D virtual world. The game is being developed by NGD Studios, a development studio based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From the FAQ: The story involves player taking character roles as Elves, Humans Dwarves, or ...
Ubuntu Gamedev?s Game Development Guides
2007-07-14 19:27:00 Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution for home users, is a juicy target for game developers. Ubuntu Game dev has put together a top-down wiki to instruct game programmers who want to get started writing games for Ubuntu. The site is well organized, so one can drill down into the subject matter in which ... More About: Ubuntu , Development , Guides , Develop
Grubby Games Give-away
2007-07-12 04:02:00 Grubby Games , creators of the recent Professor Fizzwizzle title, will be giving away one game a day for the next seven days, then one per week afterward. They are celebrating the re-opening of their discussion forums, and all an eager Linux gamer need do to win is participate in those discussions! More participation ... More About: Give , Away , Ames
OpenMoko Phone
2007-07-09 07:30:00 The Linux based cell phone project, OpenMoko , has begun taking orders for their upcoming phones. More About: Phone
Wurm Online
2007-07-04 18:32:00 LGW reader Zylian wrote us to review Wurm Online , released by Mojang Specifications in 2006. Thank you, Zylian! Wurm Online is a massively multiplayer online fantasy simulation game. Both the client and server programs are written in Java. Wurm Online, being written in Java, is a multi-platform game. It runs in Linux ...
Game Development
2007-07-02 06:05:00 Troy Hepfner, lead developer of My Game Company, is writting a series of articles introducing game development on the Linux operating system. For any new Linux game developer, it is great having a high-level view of the landscape before jumping into a programming project. Furthermore, this is a terribly important project. At this moment, ... More About: Development , Develop
Buy Bridge Constructor Set for Half Price
2007-06-30 05:04:00 Bridge Cons t ruction Set v1.35 for Linux is selling for 50% off for today only! For the 24 hours of June 30th, Chronic Logic and Game du Jour are offering the Independent Games Festival’s Audience award winner of 2003 at the discounted price of $9.95. About Bridge Construction Set … Building a bridge that doesn?t break is what it?s ... More About: Price , Bridge , Half
In-Game Ads to Generate $2,000,000,000 per Year
2007-06-29 19:47:00 GameIndustry.biz reports that in-game advertising will become a two billion dollar a year market over the next five years. This potentially enormous revenue stream is available developers and cross-platform game designers through the Linux operating system. Those game developers who steered clear of Linux development, concerned with the ways software was rapidly distributed, ... More About: Game , Year , Rate
SuperGamer is Back
2007-06-29 18:24:00 Darin from SuperGamer wrote us this announcement: We are releasing a public test of the new SuperGamer named “Big Mamma” -SuperVL….More information can be found here: http://supergamer.org/forum/index.php?top ic=69.0 We are in the process of getting the .ISO to On-Disk for sales and we will update the Home page at http://supergamer.org/get.htm when it become available to purchase. More About: Back
Mesa 7 Released
2007-06-29 05:41:00 Mesa 7.0 has been released today. Mesa is a free and open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification which includes OpenGL 2.1 API support. More About: Released , Lease , Ease , Mesa
Google Desktop
2007-06-28 19:14:00 Google Desk top is now available — Download at http://desktop.google.com/linux/ More About: Google , Google Desktop , Googl
40 Million Linux Fans Can?t Be Wrong?
2007-06-23 07:31:00 As mentioned in our previous article, Make Yourself Heard, Linux gamers owe it to themselves to purchase Linux games. Good in theory, but is there real life proof this strategy works? Sat down to watch a DRM-less video this weekend and saw this quote that had to be shared. “…Japan is a different case, ... More About: Fans , Wrong , Million
Quick Note
2007-06-19 02:50:00 Lots more miscellaneous tidbits of Linux information below… Not watching teevee these days and missed this Linux-boy commercial chain? The whole series is available on Google’s YouTube. LGW has also had an article on the Novell and Red Hat commercials. By the way, the Linux Foundation is doing very interesting work, and they have just ... More About: Note , Quick
Modern Linux Gaming Review
2007-06-17 23:49:00 A new technology site, Kahvipapu, has started off their articles by reviewing the state of Linux gaming. So far, so good - no mention of Tux Racer. The writing in part one of the series covers first person shooters, including commercial titles. A number of nice screenshots highlight each game’s features. ... More About: Gaming , Linux Gaming , Review , Modern
H-Craft Championship
2007-06-17 13:24:00 H-Craft Cham pion ship is a hovercraft racing title that has been in the works for the last year. German software publisher Irrgheist has been working on this unique style of racing simulator. The title includes a career mode, an arcade mode, and a multiplayer mode. LinuX-gamer has a review. The title is being sold ... More About: Ship
Lunar Domination
2007-06-17 07:01:00 Valen Games recently published their multiplayer strategy title, Lunar Domin a tion. Set up lunar mining operations and push the competing companies out of business. The focus on strategy that revolves around finances, rather than military confrontation, creates a completely unique experience compared to other strategy games.The only weapon that is available in Lunar Domination ... More About: Mina
Dirk Dashing 1.04 Released
2007-06-16 23:16:00 My Game Company has released Dirk Dash ing v1.04 for Linux, which contains these improvements and bug fixes: Reduced texture swapping to improve game performance Fixed audio issues encountered by some Linux users, particularly with Ubuntu 7.04 Fixed background clipping issues caused ... More About: Released , Lease , Shin , Ease
The Killer App for Linux Gaming
2007-06-13 07:08:00 What is it going to take for Linux operating systems to be considered a real platform for games? Are there technical limitations? Certainly not. There are already a vast number of 3D shooter games (games considered the most technically complex) available by way of the Quake engines. Are the “too many ... More About: Gaming , Linux Gaming , Killer , Kill
OLPC Game Jam
2007-06-09 21:07:00 The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Game Jam is moving into its second day. There are some really slick games that some of the teams are coming up with. Pay close attention to Team Quirk’s Flowers game written in Python. More can be read on the Game Jam website. Each team is working hard to have ...
linuX-gamers Distributes Live-DVD
2007-06-08 04:03:00 In the same spirit as SuperGamer and SuperGamer II, linuX-gamers has compiled their own collection of high-quality, no-cost Linux games distributed on a Live -DVD via bit-torrent. Check out the list of games and fire up your PC with pre-configured games. No installation required! Developers, here’s another source to help get your demos ... More About: Gamers , Bute , Tribute
Ballistics
2007-06-08 01:15:00 Ballistics, a futuristic racing game, has been released today by LGP. This game has some real fast paced action (how fast? supersonic - literally!), and you’ll advance your racer through his career and trick-out your Ballistics tuberacer. Kick the tires in their single-player game demo. More About: Ball , Ballistic
The Great Game Giveaway
2007-06-07 06:55:00 Spotted over at Kotaku, The Great Game s Experiment - a social networking site - will be giving away a commercial Linux game all this week just for your user registration. This will hopefully encourage your future game purchases down the line. You’ll be able to choose from 11 different Linux-supported titles from Garage ... More About: Away , The G
Valve Hardware Survey
More articles from this author:2007-06-06 03:35:00 Valve has made public their survey of hardware used by gamers using the Half-Life 2 / Steam engine. Developers can use this list to obtain a general overview of what hardware gamers use. For example, 75% of gamers have between 1 GB to 2 GB of system memory, 22% use systems with 2 ... More About: Hardware , Survey , Valve , Hardwar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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