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#1

Ubuntu Gamers Arena are looking for reviews of these subjects;

1) Game review: You have played a linux game you want to share your thoughts and opinions about. 2) Hardware on Linux regarding gaming: The new XXXX video card is good/bad, drivers, how does XXXX work YYYYY game. 3) Game related applications: You tried wine version X.XX and want to share your experience with the rest, or you have tested a new benchmark and want to make a review off it.

Here's some good advise when you submitting a review; 1) Add a screenshot or 2 if it's possible. 2) Links to homepage and/or similar of the subject you are reviewing.

Don't worry about style, format of your review we'll adapt it into Ubuntu Gamers Arena style, but you can request a specific setup/style if you like.

You can submit your reviews here; [EMAIL="scarlettarrasque@gmail.com"]Submit Review[/EMAIL]

Just mark the review with [Review] in the title; eg. [Review] - My wesnoth review

Thanks.

#2

I would hate to post reviews of all ready reviewed games. Any place there is a list of those reviewed games?

#3

I'll make a list of the games when we have'em. We just started on with people can contribute with reviews so we havn't recieved any yet.

#4

Great i've been testing a few games with Feisty, so I should have somthing in a few days to add.

#5

Excellent, I'll be typing up a good game review within the next few days. Thanks AI

#6

I will be getting Ubuntu setup permanently on my home box soon -- then I will try to add some reviews after I get my favorite games working under Ubuntu.

I am assuming you want to cover areas including how you get the game working in addition to the actual game play; right?

The games I would be targeting are:

Europa Universalis III Birth of America Guild Wars Neverwinter Nights 2

If I win the contest I am in right now I will even have another forum to champion Linux games perhaps...

The Article for the contest

#7

Eh, GW is easy. NWN2, Id have to refer back to AI on that one.

Ill research your other two.

#8

I'm down to lend a helping hand. I'm still really new to the U, but I'll give it my best.

I'm currently playing Tremulous, And Nexius. Savage currently installing.

#9

I enjoyed playing Nexuiz and 2 Scumm games in the repos. Also, Warsow looks nice, and Planeshift looks promising, even though i'm tired of MMOs lately.

#10

Well I've being using Ubuntu for a while now but am making a concerted effort to make it my main OS now. (Vista killed it for me totally)

I'm using Wine for most my games and over the weekend I've installed all the following.

City of Heroes/ Villians World of Warcraft Republic Commando Dawn of War Dawn of War - Winter Assault Dawn of War - Dark Crusade

I'd be happy to review any of the above. I have other games to test and would be happy to review them under linux too.

Also I'd be happy to put a "how to" for getting the above working in WINE

#11

There's a decent blog out there that has been posting reviews of games available through Ubuntu here:

Part 1: http://www.ilovebonnie.net/2008/01/07/ubuntu-open-source-games-review-part-1/

#12

I recently started a blog where I'll be reviewing every game available through the default sources in the package manager in alphabetical order (i.e. every game that comes up when you select 'Add/Remove...' from the 'Applications' menu). I think I'm around 30 in at this point; I'm doing anywhere from five to ten a week, on average. The longer/more complicated games take longer, and it depends on my workload, but I've been pretty consistent so far, as far as updates are concerned.

http://ubuntu-quest.blogspot.com/

Any comments or constructive criticism would be welcome. :)