CeBIT 2010

Even admins get bitten by the gaming bug. Frets on Fire lets you train for an air guitar competition. Or try the free business simulation clones Transport Tycoon, Simutrans, or OpenTTD.

After almost a year of development, a new version 2.5 of the free Nexuiz open source action game has come out. What awaits users are some updated graphics and numerous fan-developed game levels.

For some game fanatics, the only reason they continue to use Windows is to play poker. Yet Linux also offers poker software.

The software is oriented to TeamSpeak and gamers: the voice chat product Mumble is now available together with the Murmur server in version 1.1.8.

A Goblin Spearman can now be weak, slow or dim, but Wesnoth has seasons and Walking Corpses cost you more in the battle to reclaim the throne to the mythical land.

In Mystic Mine you guide a trolley through an old gold mine, switching rails at the right moment with a designated keystroke. It's the only normal thing about this new skill game from Koonsolo Games.

The LinCity-NG project takes after the classic SimCity, and with good effect. The new version enhances graphics and simulation logic.

Why not build bridges and towers out of little balls of goo? Thats exactly what Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel asked themselves, and promptly they created an addictive puzzle game that resembles a mixture of Lemmings and a physics simulation. Much acclaimed by the games-world press, World of Goo is about to be let loose on Linux operating systems.