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Ant writes "Midway Games and shockwave.com announced today that ten classic Midway arcade games are now available for free on the internet. " The games released include Defender, Joust, Spy Hunter and Rampage, but as you might expect, you need Shockwave in order to play them.

A reader writes "Read over at GA-Source that the space sim game Terminus is finally about to start shipping and that they are taking 100 pre-orders for limited edition signed copies of the game. If you never heard of Terminus, check out GA's preview of the game here. It's got a load of cool features like real Newtonian physics and a persistent online universe and real good AI to boot! I've never been a big sim fan but this is one game I'm definitely gonna check into. "

A reader writes "Read over at GA-Source that the space sim game Terminus is finally about to start shipping and that they are taking 100 pre-orders for limited edition signed copies of the game. If you never heard of Terminus, check out GA's preview of the game here. It's got a load of cool features like real Newtonian physics and a persistent online universe and real good AI to boot! I've never been a big sim fan but this is one game I'm definitely gonna check into. "

A reader writes "Read over at GA-Source that the space sim game Terminus is finally about to start shipping and that they are taking 100 pre-orders for limited edition signed copies of the game. If you never heard of Terminus, check out GA's preview of the game here. It's got a load of cool features like real Newtonian physics and a persistent online universe and real good AI to boot! I've never been a big sim fan but this is one game I'm definitely gonna check into. "

Robert Wilde writes "Bleem claims in a countersuit that Sony has misued copyrights and patents to restrain trade and maintain it's Playstation monopoly. In addition, the Judge rebuked Sony's attempts to demand access to the identities of Bleem's customers. " David and Goliath all over again - it's been quite a while since we've talked about this case. Still, another indication in patent sanity, perhaps?

ttyRazor writes "ga-source.com is reporting that at Comdex they were told by NVidia that they will be releasing an OpenGL ICD for Linux for all their current products by the end of the year. Woohoo! Quake 3 on my TNT in Linux! One less reason to dual boot. " Mmmm...prettier graphics. I'll give thanks for that.

Anonymous Coward writes "According to an article at GA-Source, Aureal Semiconductor will be releasing Linux drivers for their sound cards "much sooner than you think" along with the source code. " Excellent - coming on the heels of the Soundblaster announcement, things are going to be sounding much better.

Several people wrote to us to let us know that Creative Labs has decided to make the drivers for their Soundblaster Live open source. They made the announcement and also said they will be setting up a CVS/Bugzilla system to aid in development. Jon Taylor, of S3 and nVidia fame, along with several other coders have been asked to oversee the development. Additionally, they confirmed that they are working with Lokisoft to work Environmental Audio and "3D Audio" on the Linux platform. Lokisoft makes most of the uber-cool games for Linux.

mediageek writes "Targeted at non Linux users, James Hills has written an editorial which tries to explain open source, why there are different distros and general Linux pros & cons. " This is a good one to pass on to your bosses/parents/friends - heck, all of the unwashed. *grin*

Mr.E writes "Dave Taylor, former id code monkey and the man responsible for the linux port of Doom, is interviewed by Ga-source about the past and future of Linux gaming." He talks about tons of stuff from Id to Crack.com to Transmeta (no he doesn't spill the beans). Good bit.