Well news in the Linux gaming scene is pretty slow at the moment. So...what are you all playing? Let me know in the comments! Also be sure to sign-up on the [url=http://www.gamingonlinux.info/community/]forum[/url] to chat to other linux gamers!

[b]Rustybolts wins Amensia TDD[/b] Congratulations to Rustybolts who won the copy of Amnesia from GOL today (a day late - apologies).

Okay so recently after finding GOG.com sells Freespace2 which has a native Linux port i did a little more digging and found that one of their users had even made a list of games that work under Linux! Some of them have native ports - Freespace2, while others work perfectly in dosbox - Master of Orion 2...

Swedish Linux developer [url=http://hovet.biz]Hovet.BIZ[/url] is proud to announce that [url=http://badassvsrobot.com]Badass vs Robot[/url] has finally been unleashed! It is a module based progressive action adventure game! [video]http://www.youtube...

[b]Ways to grow the community?[/b] Ok everyone the forum has a few nice regulars now who have stayed around so to you all Thank You. Now i would like to grow the community and don't mind spending a bit if the idea is good. So put forth any ideas you have on how to grow the forum a bit.

[b]Competitions forum open![/b] Okay just to seperate content a bit easier the competitions forum has been opened - from now on i will post all in there. People can also create competitions and request their post be put in there too :)

Okay so it's been a little while and the Amnesia competition is still on but here's the next one! You will need to say the [b]Day and Time[/b], in the native time zone they use for their releases - to avoid confusion. Anyone who can guess the exact time that the next release of Ubuntu will be released will win a copy of Shadowgrounds from LinuxGamePublishing...

[b]Competition entries - Win Shadowground from LGP![/b] Okay posts your entries here! Competition info link -> [url="http://www.gamingonlinux.info/news.php?view=85"]http://www.gamingonlinux.info/news.php?view=85[/url]

[b]HoN Trial Keys Giveaway ![/b] (please move it to the "Forum News, Updates & Info" section) [url="http://linuxgamingnews.org/2010/09/14/hon-trial-keys-giveaway/"]http://linuxgamingnews.org/2010/09/14/h ... -giveaway/[/url] [b]S2Games the supporters of GNU/Linux and developers of Savage and Heroes Of Newerth games, have enabled the paid accounts to give two trial keys to anyone they wish...

Scirra Construct is an open source game/application development tool. Rather than having to learn a programming language it uses a simple point and click interface - which works pretty well and some impressive games have already been made. [quote] Make 2D games with Construct's visual, human-readable event system...

Just to let you guys know the main website is being changed/upgraded over the weekend which is why some bits may look out of place for today... The reason being - i wasn't going to update until all pages where finished but i accidentally overwrote the main websites index with the new one - so i had to put the rest of what i had done up or else the homepage would have been messed up all day as well...

[b]Main website Updates[/b] Just to let you guys know the main website is being changed/upgraded over the weekend which is why some bits may look out of place for today... The reason being - i wasn't going to update until all pages where finished but i accidently overwrote the main websites index with the new one - so i had to put the rest of what i had done up or else the homepage would have been messed up all day as well...

A couple of hours ago Amnesia TDD was officially released! [item]24[/item] You can download it at the shelf link on this articles links - you will need your email and the order number. I personally am so excited I am having to buy another copy since the current one I won't be touching as it is for the competition...

[quote] Widelands is an open source (GPLed) real-time strategy game. It is built upon the SDL and other open source libraries and is (and will always be) under heavy development. If you knew Settlers I & II, then you already have a rough idea what Widelands is all about because widelands is heavily inspired by those two games...

The creators behind the Unigine Engine have announced their own cross-platform RTS game! It's great to see a Linux friendly developer studio really push their game engine into the spotlight with what looks like could be a massively popular game! [quote] Key Features [list] [*] High-end graphics [*] Multi-player over LAN and Internet [*] Multi-platform: [*] Windows [*] Linux [*] PlayStation 3 [*] Explosive gameplay with rushing swarms of furious enemies [*] Various environments [*] Mod SDK available [/list] Game Play OilRush is a real-time strategy game based on the group control...