Once again, Jun Auza reviews a cool game that he’s running on Linux. It’s called “Blob and Conquer” ; ) Blobs on your computer out to defeat aliens. Yes, Blobs. Bob the Blob is leading the other Blobs to save the day.

What do you get from Blob and Conquer?
This is the 3D version of Metal Blob Solid. You’re in for some adventure as well as action. You could use weapons like uzis, shotguns and grenades. If you’ve played Metal Blob Solid before you will see the familiar enemies like Assimilated Blobs, Eye Droids, Spider …read more

linuX-gamers.net announced its latest release linuX-gamers live 0.95. There are different versions available for download and it depends on your needs.

Lite ISO: Small CD image (700MB)
This has games suitable for children and older computers. You just burn it on a CD with your favorite CD-writing tool.
Lite USB
This has the same games as the Lite ISO version but it is made for USB keys and USB sticks (requires minimum of 1GB USB device).
You could use:
sudo dd bs=8M if=/path/to/lg-live-0.9.5-i686-lite.usb of=/dev/your_usb_device

Or: use the Flashnul utility. You could also refer to this guide to using Flashnul.
Big ISO
Big DVD image (4.7GB) with the …read more

One of my friends has been talking about OpenSUSE on the PS3 but today I chanced upon a blog entry talking about Ubuntu on the PS3 and the cool applications you could run on it.
The list includes the following:

Last.fm – for your music playing needs
Twitux – if you’re addicted to Twitter, you must have this!
CheckGmail – because you can’t leave it alone
ScummVM andd Beneath a Steel Sky – adventure gamers will probably want to check this out

My friend might hate Ubuntu so I’d show him the blog entry and maybe it would help him change his mind. I am …read more

If you love games so much, why not keep an eye on Pandora? It’s the size of a DS but it has a QWERTY keyboard and gaming buttons. It will have a customized Debian-based Linux distro and so you could expect emulators to work on it as well as browsers.
It’s exciting because you could have the following emulated:

Atari 2600, 7800, 5200, and Lynx
Nintendo NES, SNES, Gameboy, and GBA
Sega Master System and Genesis
NEC PCEngine (TurboGrafx-16)
SNK NeoGeo, NeoGeo Pocket, and Pocket Color
Sony Playstation [2]
Nearly any other console which predates the Playstation for which an open-source emulator exists

And it seems like …read more