Archive for the 'Games' Category

PlayOnLinux — Automated WINE Installations

PlayOnLinux is a frontend that helps to install a number of population Windows games and applications on Linux using WINE. It connects to an online PlayOnLinux script repository for the latest script to automate the installation of a given program. You still have to own a copy of the Windows program you want to install, [...]

Incursion D20 Based Roguelike Game (Discovery)

Roguelike games are not for everyone as they lack all the pretty graphics that many people think are absolutely necessary for a good game. However, roguelike games have very deep gameplay hidden behind their text “graphics.” Incursion is a new roguelike game of the standard fantasy dungeon hack-and-slash fest variety. Its claim to fame is [...]

Bowling Evolution Game (Discovery)

Bowling Evolution is a freeware bowling game for your computer that uses very realistic physics.
Game features as listed on the game’s web site:
* Tenpin bowling* Challenge bowling* Online World Highscores* Realistic physics - pins bounce like in the real world* Nice 3d simulation* Different bowling balls* Multiplayer game* Replays* Runs on Windows 2000/XP/Vista* Multi-language support: [...]

SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth (Discovery)

SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth was a retail game. Now it has been released as a freeware game. It’s an online multiplayer game with an unusual twist, you can play as a commander and deal with resource management and strategy or as a warrior and deal with first person shooter action.
From the Savage website:
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Leylines — Master of Magic-Like Game (Discovery)

I’m not much of a computer gamer. I tend to avoid the new, cutting edge, and expensive because I seldom play a game from start to finish before getting bored with it. One of the few that I really enjoy playing is an old DOS game from 1994 or so, Microprose’s Master of Magic. Unfortunately, [...]