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Hi there!
I have one question: where to find games for Linux? I've heard that many popular games are available under Linux, but I was unable to find any...

You usually play games in Linjux using Cedega, vmware or simliar. Only a few current have a Linux Client (like UT, Quake and NWN).

Depending on your distribution, you might be able to use your local package manager to install the games, but until I know which one you're using, I can't help.

I'm using Mandrake 10.1

Well, I have little experience with Mandrake. =)

There are many games for linux. I have recently been playing Alien Arena which is an AWESOME open source multiplayer FPS, it has a couple of single player campaigns too but they arent as fun as the multiplayer. http://www.planetquake.com/cor/codered/aquire.html for that one.

Sourceforge is the place to go to find linux games though, http://www.sourceforge.org there is also http://www.happypenguin.org and (here comes the shameless promotion) My new website is focusing on these games and I hope to have a bunch of reviews up by the end of next week. But, if you like FPS games, then definitely go get Alien Arena. Pretty much any modern system can run it, you dont have to have a big fancy 3d card or anything.

AstralSin wrote:Sourceforge is the place to go to find linux games though, http://www.sourceforge.org there is also http://www.happypenguin.org and (here comes the shameless promotion)

I can also recommend the Gentoo packages directory. It's very useful, even if you don't use Gentoo. It contains games with short descriptions as well as pointers to their homepages.

De Kus wrote:You usually play games in Linjux using Cedega, vmware or simliar. Only a few current have a Linux Client (like UT, Quake and NWN).

Cedega, transgaming is wildly awesome.. You can run just about any PC game you want .. even hot new games like Battle Field 2 work great.

Google Image Search: Cedega

I have to plug The battle for Wesnoth www.wesnoth.org which is also available for other operating systems. It is a 2D turnbased fantasy warfare/skirmish game. The quality is increadible for an open source game. Definately worth a try. If you see me online I'm always up for a 1v1.

MERLiiN

i have an S3 proSavage ddr video adapter, is a trash, i hate this card, don't have drivers for linux, i cant emulate, i will buy an nVidia fx 5200 128 to run my ragnarok online

I don; know if you have used SUSE, but there is a game installed in the package that is called SuperTUX. There is a win32 version - play it if you like mario

hmmmm... did/does anyone here evever play games like nethack or slash'em?
I stopped gaming when my computer got old, but I still play nethack from time to time

These are rougelike games, which means that they have _NO_ graphics, ie. the graphics are displayed using letters and various symbols. That means they can run on very slow machines, and that there is no eye-candy to distract you from the game

linux games are sux

I play a lot of muds they are all linux based.

Doom
Unreal Tournament 2003/2004
Alpha Centurai

and a good few others can be played on linux as well. I belive directx 9 drivers have been written for linux to run under wine for emulating windows based games. Takes a bit of configuration though.