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The first game for Ubuntu phone OS, Dropping Letters, sees new features and desktop-enabled state

After the successful announcement and public presentation of the Ubuntu phone OS, creative developers have started expressing items as filtered through an Ubuntu for phones prism, items ranging from interesting wallpapers to applications.

Dropping Letters is a simplistic yet addictive game that centers blocks of letters into a pleasant-to-the-eye interface, basically, forcing the user to immediately locate letters, necessary to construct valid words.

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Humble Indie Bundle 6 released with new games (first Unity-based game included)

Humble Indie Bundle 6

Humble Indie Bundle 6 has just been released, being now available via its usual purchase method, consequently, gamers can enjoy DRM-free exciting games by paying an amount of money ("you can pay whatever you want").

After the actual purchase, the games can be installed via Ubuntu Software Center for a proper easy install method.

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RTS game 0 A.D. ALPHA 11 Kronos released (official PPA available)

0 A.D. ALPHA 11 Kronos

O A.D. is a free open-source RTS game of ancient warfare, plunging the gamer into an ancient environment filled with numerous civilizations, properly rendered naval warfare, technology trees, high-quality graphics, detailed maps, etc.

0 A.D. has just been updated to another meaningful release, 0 A.D. ALPHA 11 Kronos, enhancing the previous releases on numerous relevant "levels".

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Minecraft-like Minetest 0.4.3 released with fixes and optimizations (official PPA available)

Minetest 0.4.3

Minetest-c55 is an entertaining game inspired by Minecraft and InfiniMiner, presenting the user a infinite-world block-based gaming experience, similar in a approach and look to the widely known Minecraft.

Minetest-c55 is free and open-source software, designed at being stable, fast and lightweight, suitable for both powerful and "old" low-specs computers.

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Ubuntu developers further push the work on Unity (the game platform)

Unity

High-quality games are definitely an aspect highly considered by the Ubuntu developers.

Weeks ago, the developers announced the imminent availability of Ubuntu inside Unity (the game platform), in the sense of incorporating into the upcoming Unity 4.0 the ability to publish games to Linux (Ubuntu), mainly, opening a wide door of powerful games entering in Ubuntu.

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Unite squares and navigate through portals with the lightweight Memory Owl Lite and Portal Slingshot (Ubuntu Software Center)

Related to gaming, Ubuntu has adopted a double-sided approach, being focused on both "small" and "big" games, thus, while receiving the Humble Bundle, support for Unity (the gaming platform) and waiting Left 4 Dead 2, constantly landing lightweight yet entertaining games into Ubuntu Software Center.

Memory Owl Lite is an exciting game featuring high-quality visual components, backed by smooth game interactions, basically, allowing the gamer to enjoy a pleasant fun game.

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Move circles and steal jewels with SokoAdventure and Jwltief, lightweight interesting games (Ubuntu Software Center)

Computer games are enjoyed all over the world, usually being "categorized" as "big" games (with complex characters, serious hardware requirements, etc) and "small" games, latter approach that features numerous use cases, such as occupying periods of time until an event is to happen, breaking the daily monotony, refreshing the brain between job projects, school hours, etc.

SokoAdventure is a lightweight interesting game, featuring a colored gaming "space", where the gamer is to exercise patience when dealing with various structures.

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Humble Bundle 3's Spirits, Fieldrunners and BIT.TRIP BEAT available for Ubuntu

Humble Bundle

The third Humble Bundle had just brought three new exciting games for Ubuntu, making them available for easy installation via Ubuntu Software Center.

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Enrich your lightweight yet entertaining game collection with puzzle game Spheres and 3D shooter Bionightmare (Ubuntu Software Center)

Recently, Ubuntu adopted a bold and challenging gaming-related approach, that is to probably land globally known and appreciated games, in a what seems to be a serious energy pushed towards Ubuntu gamification, in the sense of adding, along with the default values as stability, security, full-fledged user experience, etc, a gaming niche, easily accessible via Ubuntu Software Center.

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Valve about Left 4 Dead 2: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) version runs faster than the Windows version

Steam

Weeks ago, Valve published a hugely important statement, announcing that Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 are coming to Ubuntu 12.04, adding themselves to the already existing Ubuntu's "wave" of popular games enrichment.

After the announcement, obviously, the Valve developers have started working on refining, testing, tweaking, developing, etc, parts of their game stack, bundle of development actions oriented towards Linux (Ubuntu), probably with the end goal to deliver zero-compromise fully usable properly optimized games for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

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