Links 27/2/2014: Games
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-02-27 16:44:44 UTC
- Modified: 2014-02-27 16:48:25 UTC
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Portal 2 is now available to Linux users – in beta form. Valve has recently released a public beta for the latest version of its bestselling sequel, which you can opt-in to via the Portal 2 properties in your Steam Library. Valve is getting pretty keen on this Linux business and welcomes your bug reports via Github.
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MegaGlest is a 3D real-time strategy game, completely free and open-source, taking place on a wide range of maps and including seven different factions. MegaGlest is a fork of Glest, which stopped being developed a few years ago.
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Zigfrak is a single player space-based action RPG, featuring missions, exploration, and crafting. It is also now DRM free on FireFlower Games, on other stores it uses a one-time activation key, so I hope this version comes to other stores too.
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The survival game Rust from the dudes at Facepunch has been updated today, featuring a whole bunch of new kit.
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Humble Indie Bundle 11 adds another three games plus Valve announces the release of the Portal 2 beta for Linux!
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Reven recently announced the team has reached its Kickstarter funding goal, bringing some more awesome 2D platformer goodness to the Linux platform. Varia games also plans on bringing the title to OS X, as well as the Wii U. Monthly updates are planned to be broadcast on the popular gaming video platform, Twitch.tv. A public demo and eta keys should show up in the next few months.
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Leadwerks has come a very long way since the initial Kickstarter campaign, there is now a 3rd beta available for certain backers.
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WThe Humble Indie Bundle 11 is here!
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Stencyl is an interesting toolkit that enables you to create games without traditional programming, and they have just released the big 3.0.
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The overview includes only games which are completely free, with a permissive license for both the code and their content. I could not include here games like Urban Terror or Warsow, since their assets are not free, nor Steam games.
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Digital Tribes got in touch with us recently to get the word out about QBEH-1: The Atlas Cube the prequel to QBEH a game which sadly has no Linux version, but this one will.
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Standing for TINT Is Not Tetris, that’s exactly what it is. A terminal-based tetris clone with highscore saving and 9 levels. Among the tetris clones for Linux, TINT is one of my favorites. Use J to move pieces left, L to move them right, K to rotate and SPACE to accelerate. Press Q to quit. On Ubuntu at least, there seems to be a problem when saving highscores due to permissions not allowing it (Error creating /var/games/tint.scores). You can fix it by doing something like this: sudo touch /var/games/tint.scores && sudo chown $USER:$USER /var/games/tint.scores.
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