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Available games ankh cube devastation docking station doom 3 enemy territory enemy territory: quake wars freespace glest heavy metal: fakk2 heroes of might and magic 3 jagged alliance 2 kingpin medal of honor neverwinter nights no gravity quake quake 2 quake 3 racer savage serious sam serious sam2 unreal tournament unreal tournament 2003 unreal tournament 2004 vegastrike Get lock installers for games .

Unknown Horizons is a RTS game focused on building your city and its economy, commerce. Install Unknown Horizon Add following source to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. deb http://deb.unknown-horizons.org/ release main Install GPG keys of the repo to confirm package authenticity. wget http://deb.unknown-horizons.org/key && sudo apt-key add key Now update your apt cache to fetch info about new packages and install Unknwn Horizons game. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install unknown-horizons

Vega strike is a space simulation game with numerous mods. It has support for multi player gaming. Use following command to install vegastrike package. sudo apt-get -y install vegastrike You can visit vegastrike wiki for further info on both playing and developing the game. Vegastrike wiki

World Of Goo by 2D Boy has been released for Linux. World Of Goo is a physics based puzzle game and offers countless hours of fun. Previously we are able to run World Of Goo on wine with out any problem but It's good to see native port of this popular game. Get World Of Goo for Ubuntu Linux

Installation Download windows full version and Linux client zip files from download page. Extract full version zip file and extract Linux client into previously extracted directory. Set execute permissions for Linux binary and you are ready to play the game. Download Counter Strike 2D

Commander Stalin is based on BOSWARS and it's a RTS game. The most impressive thing about this game is clean graphics. Get Commander Stalin

Blender Gamekit 1st Edition is available for free of cost. It includes a book and a CDROM for learning everything from texturing to animation. Download Blender Gamekit 1st Edition For Free

This is one of the best multi player game I have played recently. Maps, weapons and number of online servers available is just wonderful. Go and play this game you won't regret it. Installation sudo apt-get -y install teeworlds Remember that left click is for action & right click is for shooting hook.

Build vast cities sometimes 64 times larger than original game. Game play spans from 1950 to 2050 and objective of this game is to build roads, transport system, etc... and attract as many passengers as possible. Enjoy the game. Get OpenTTD

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul was completely free from Dec 28th 2008. You can download it and play it on your system for free. Game play includes elements of FPS & RTS. Download Savage 2: A Tortured Soul for Linux

sauerbraten is a free first person shooter game. This is redesign of famous Cube FPS game. Installation sudo apt-get -y install sauerbraten sauerbraten seems to have lower fps with nivida cards, you can speed up the game by passing the option -f to the executable. This effectively disables shaders and makes the game responsive. If you have any problem or trick you want to share comment to this post.

galcon is one of the commercial game designed and produced using pygame. This proves you can make money using open source tools. Galcon has high engaging game play that keeps you playing the game for hours. You can freely download it and buy it if you like it. Get galcon

numpty is a physics puzzle game. And it will surely entertain you. Goal of this game is to making sure red ball hits yellow star with in the constraints of physics. Download 32bit deb Download 64bit deb Get Extra Levels

What is Yo Frankie ? Yo Frankie was initially known as project apricot. Project apricot was initiated to know whether it's possible to produce commercial quality professional game using opensource tools. And it was a success. During project apricot execution some extreme improvements were added to blender. And today you can write games inside blender with little effort. Get Yo Frankie! Download Yo Frankie! Yo Frankie! used crystal space rendering engine to render effects. If you are interested may be you can start coding your own Linux game from there.

playonlinux is one of the tool that answers the question "How to play windows games on Ubuntu Linux ?" playonlinux seems to be similar to cedega except that playonlinux is open-source and free. playonlinux supports around 11 Linux distros. Although there is no package for Ubuntu Intrepid but adding Ubuntu Hardy sources file to my intrepid seems to be working fine. Installing playonlinux Use following commands to configure sources and install the playonlinux package. sudo wget http://deb.mulx.net/playonlinux_intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list wget -q http://deb.mulx.net/pol.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install playonlinux Supported Games Star Wars : Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast Max Payne 2 : The Fall of Max Payne Star Wars : Jedi Knight : Jedi Academy Steam Guild Wars Half Life 1 Legacy Of Kain : Defiance Ragnarok Online Starcraft Star Wars - Episod 1 : Racer Star Wa...

playdeb.net provides deb packages for games. To install games provided by playdeb.net you have to do following setup. Add following line to sources.list file. deb mirror://www.getdeb.net/playdeb-mirror/hardy/// hardy/ Now do an apt-get update. sudo apt-get update Available Games Alien Arena 2007 Alien Blaster Amoebax AssaultCube atanks Barbie Seahorse Adventures Bos Wars Charge CRRCSim DreamChess ETSwitch FreeCiv FreeCol gBrainy Glest Globulation 2 GLSFcave GridWars 2 InterLogic Irrlamb jMemorize LordsAWar ManiaDrive Mupen64Plus Monsterz Nexuiz Nimuh numptyphysics Open Tyrian Enhanced OpenArena PainTown PCSX2 Phun PipeWalker PokerTH PyChess Really Rather Good Battles In Space ri-li Sauerbraten Scorched3D ScummVM Second Life Secret Maryo Chronicles Slime Volle...

This live DVD contains native Linux games which can be run directly without installation. Game state can be saved to a USB stick. Supported Games Astromenace - Astromenace is a brilliant 3d scroll-shooter allowing you to feel the adrenalin rush of a fierce space battle against relentless swarms of alien invaders. Blobby2 - Blobby2 is the gpl-ed sequel of Blobby Volley, a very famous freeware game. Boswars - Boswars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). Btanks - Btanks is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. BzFLag - BzFlag is a free online multi player cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. Foobillard - Foobillard FooBillard is a free billiard game for Linux using OpenGL and comes with realistic physics for a great billiard experience. gl-117 - gl-117 is an action flight simulator for Linux/Unix and MS-Windows. Glest - Glest is a real time strategy game...