18 Extra Hot Linux Commercial Games (Part 3 of 3)

There remains a scarcity of commercial games available for Linux with the big game companies rarely venturing into the Linux world. The main reason cited continues to be that its market share does not warrant high ticket-price games being ported

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Penumbra: Requiem – expansion pack

Penumbra: Requiem is an expansion pack to the game Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is an exploration-based adventure game that takes place from a first-person perspective and final installment of the main series. Unlike Black Plague and Penumbra: Overture, the focus

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Awesome Soccer World 2010 – football game

Awesome Soccer World 2010 is a modern day homage to the legendary Sensible Soccer and Kick Off 2 footie games. Features include: Highly customizable: Team editor. Formation editor. Kit designer. Badge designer. ‘Awesome Aftertouch System’ which enables you to bend

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Sun Blast – 3d space shooter

Sun Blast is a cross-platform, independent sci-fi themed action-arcade space shooter game. In this game you will feel like you are immersed in the arcade action, as space debris, enemy vessels, and menacing star ships all take aim at you.

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Atom Zombie Smasher – action-packed game

Atom Zombie Smasher is an action-packed game that plays out across a number of missions where your goal is to evacuate zombie-infested cities with a helicopter and groups of mercenaries. The undead apocalypse is upon us and all eyes are

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Braid – 2D platform and puzzle video game

Braid is a critically acclaimed 2D platform and puzzle video game developed by independent software developer Jonathan Blow. It is a platform game in painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles. Every puzzle in Braid

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18 Extra Hot Linux Commercial Games (Part 2 of 3)

It cannot be denied that there remains a paucity of games for Linux produced by the large well known gaming companies. It is sometimes perceived that part of the reason rests with Linux gamers themselves. Given the number and variety

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Osmos – physics-based gameplay

Osmos is a puzzle video game developed by Canadian developer Hemisphere Games. Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by

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SpaceChem – design-based puzzle game

SpaceChem is a cross-platform addictive, design-based indie puzzle game about building machines and fighting monsters in the name of science! Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate

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Family Farm – game of 19th century farmsteading

Family Farm is an innovative and fun tycoon game in the setting of 19th century farmsteads. It’s a simulation of a farmstead experienced in stories which span a generation. Clicking cows won’t earn you any cash! You control characters with

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Minecraft – sandbox construction indie video game

Minecraft is a sandbox construction indie video game where you can build anything imaginable. It is also about blocks and collecting. The game is inspired by Infiniminer, a block-based digging/building game, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. The game involves players

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18 Extra Hot Linux Commercial Games (Part 1 of 3)

One of the things we really want to witness is Linux making a significant penetration in the desktop market share. Whilst most supercomputers use the Linux platform, it is lamentable that the vast majority of desktops continue to run Microsoft

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Where is M13? – 3D galactic atlas

Where is M13? helps you visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects in and around the Galaxy. Using paired face-on and edge-on views of the Galaxy, this application shows you where that cluster or nebula is actually

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QLandkarte GT – versatile tool for GPS maps

QLandkarte GT is a versatile tool for GPS maps in GeoTiff format as well as Garmin’s img vector map format. QLandkarteGT is the successor of QLandkarte. Among various improvements (e.g. 2D/3D map rendering and reduced resource requirements) the major difference

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GpsDrive – map-based navigation system

GpsDrive is a vehicle (car, bike, ship, plane) map-based navigation system that displays the current position provided by an NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable map. Maps can be downloaded from different map providers or rendered on-the-fly using the

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tangoGPS – mapping application

tangoGPS is an open source lightweight user friendly map and GPS application. It uses the gpsd daemon to obtain data from the GPS receiver. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications can share access to devices without contention or loss of

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