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Today the first release candidate of the 1.0 release was published. Since wine is in the state of code freeze no new features were implemented, but a whole lot of bugs got fixed. How you can help wine to approach a stable 1.0 version is described here. As usual more detailed information can be found in the current release notes.

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Last week we shared the sad reality about Unreal Tournament 3 that it's been 5 months and there's still no Linux client. There's not even any sign that the game client will still be made available for Linux once their "legal" problems are resolved. It was mentioned in the news posting that forum moderators for Epic Games, the company behind the Unreal franchise, had been deleting posts of users who had inquired about the status of this game for Linux. There is now confirmation that they are taking such actions to suppress the UT3 Linux talk.

Mentioned in the Phoronix Forums are links to screenshots showing a thread asking about the game's Linux status being removed. In addition, yours truly had tried asking for information in the Epic Forums as well.

In a kind message left on the forums (the thread, unless it gets removed) I had simply asked for a Linux status update whether it be big or small. My user-name and signature were rather identifying and not inconspicuous. Six others had then chimed in by replying to this post and agreeing that they would like to hear from Epic Games on whether they will be releasing a Linux client or just jerking its customers around.

Finally then, an administrator (Flak) for the Unreal Tournament forums had replied. His reply was solely a link to an UT3 FAQ thread. This thread was created in November before the game was even released in North America and prior to the UT3 Linux "legal" problems becoming known. The only mention of Linux on this FAQ thread was "We are currently working on a linux UT3 client that players will be able to use with the retail Windows version. As soon as it's available we'll announce it here."

Lastly, this administrator then locked this Linux thread to prevent any further communication, even though that FAQ thread didn't answer my original question of providing an updated status. When is it going to come? The same year that's the "year of the Linux desktop"?

What gives, Epic Games? For Linux gamers out there, if you're fed up in waiting you may want to check out Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. This id Software title was released in early October and just two weeks after its release was the ET:QW Linux client and even the ET:QW Linux demo. id Software has also been providing updates to this game that coincide with the Windows ET:QW updates. On the free software side, there are great games such as Nexuiz.

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The 3d rougelike game has just been released in version 0.20. New features in this version include:

• Full German and Italian translation
• New trees for outdoor terrain
• Each level now starts in a village with its own set of npc-s
• A new UI theme with nicer cursors
• Lots of new icons and models
• Ambient sound (footsteps, torches, wind, etc.)
• Outdoor weather (rain, fog, thunder)
• Many small features and bugfixes

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Frictional Games' horror adventure Penumbra: Black Plague, a sequel to Penumbra: Overture has recently been released for Linux. A demo of the game is available for download. The full version can be purchased online. An expansion Penumbra: Requiem has been announced aswell. The publisher states, that compared to the previous part violence and combat are not even an option, so the games atmosphere can be experienced even more intense.

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A new version of wine is available, which marks the beginning of the code freeze towars version 1.0, which means that the new version mainly consists of fixes while new features, which could endanger a soon release of v. 1.0 will not be included at that point

• Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory.
• Winhelp now uses Richedit as display engine.
• Many RichEdit fixes.
• More improvements to IME support.
• More quartz fixes.
• Implementation for many more Gdiplus functions.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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Recently a new version of this great open space trading and fighting simulation was released. Its aswell an anniversary release, since the project was born 10 years ago. This new version is thought to be the last single player release of the game. It includes some important changes to code, which caused temporary licence issues. The current release shows that the project is still active after ten years and authors indicate, that there are still more things to expect for future releases, like multiplayer support, which is not yet included in v0.5.0 but available in SVN.

The German game developer Deck13 who already ported the Ankh series to Linux announced the port of the adventure Jack Keane if there are at least 200 preorders worldwide.

Jack Keane can be purchased at ixsoft or Tux Games.

Finally after 1 and half years, the next release is finally out!

Gfire 0.7.0 has a few new features which include better support for Pidgin, new protocol icons and added the about function. This version also fixes many bugs.

Full change log is here.
You can download Gfire 0.7.0 at SourceForge.net.

We have provided Gfire 0.7.0 as source code, rpm file and deb file. However, we have no Windows installer yet. If you are able to build a windows installer, please let the dev team know.

Gfire 0.7.0 is a stable release, however if you find any bugs please let us know by posting a bug report on source forge or posting a thread on the forum.

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After 1 and half years since the last release of Gfire back in 16 September 2006, the next version of Gfire is almost ready.

The project went quite since September 2006, but a few weeks ago, asraniel, handed over the project to a new dev team. They have opened a new website (gfire.edhewitt.co.uk) and they supporting new games list. Every time there is a new games list released from Xfire, the team will convert for Gfire. currently the latest list is the 10th April.

New release is only a few weeks away. Version 0.7.0 is currently in beta, it has a few new great features such as:

• ported the gfire code from Gaim to Purple

• added new protocol icons

• added the about function

• fixed the “(AFK) Away From Keyboard” bug

• fixed server port number