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 Blobs and Sentry Guns. There are also minigames aside from the 30 missions on this game.

As for the gameplay, Jun Auza points out:

The two most important actions in the game are easily controlled via the two mouse buttons: Left-click to shoot and right-click to jump. Gameplay is based on objectives that usually involve unlocking doors, collecting items, jumping over lava, and doing a lot of shooting. They must be completed before you can exit the level.

Sounds like your kind of fun? The graphics look ok from the screenshots but I suppose it depends on what really appeals to you. The gameplay sounds like even casual gamers can enjoy it too. I might take that recommendation and try it out too.

Quantz also looks interesting. It’s a game that has been ported to Linux but only the closed source version is available. Right now they’re actually looking for people to test the Linux version of Quantz. The files are in .deb, .rpm and .tar.gz. It looks interesting but for those who are not comfortable with non-free software or non-open source stuff, this might not be the game for you.

I have yet to download the deb but it’s been taking forever. I want to test it out on my machine too. Hopefully this weekend will be better.

Got games you want to share? : )

Post from: New Linux User

• 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 full games selection for adults and more recent computers.
• Big USB
  
  This has the same contents as the Big ISO but this is meant for USB drives. So yes, your USB drive must have as much capacity or you can’t write this on it. Writing method could be the same as the Lite USB version.

For the complete list of games, check this page.

I would probably get a copy of the lite versions so that I could give it to my co-workers who have children. Some of them do allow their children to use their computers but having the USB with a distro with games will probably limit their young ones so that they won’t be able to just click on anything just because it’s on the browser. I see that a lot of their children go online to play games so this will give them another option.

Post from: New Linux User

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 not really a big fan of the PlayStation 3 as a gaming console so I am just passing on this information to those of you who are.

If you’d like to install Ubuntu on your PS3, MaximumPC has a blog entry about installing it on your PS3.

Post from: New Linux User

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 there’s much more you could do than use it for gaming because of the QWERTY-based keyboard. Instant blogging! There’s also a video of mplayer on Pandora so it really looks interesting to me. Another cool factor: it says on the FAQs that you should probably be able to change the window manager/environment of it

It’s expected to be released in June/July.

Post from: New Linux User