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Evil monopoly-owning aliens are out to capture friendly little penguinoids and convert them into evil mutants!

Fly around, blast things and save the penguinoids.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

Forget Doom. Forget Quake. Here is the the ultimate game. Parallax Software's Descent ported to Linux.

Features include:
* X11 via the SDL (simple directmedia layer)
* All the features of the original Descent.
* Kali internet play support under linux.
* Plays with either registered descent data files or shareware files (available seperately).

License: free

Additional System Requirements: The Simple DirectMedia Layer

The latest installment of the legendary, pulse-pounding Descent series is coming to Descent3, the newest member of this classic 3D series, has an all-new game engine for improved rendering and gameplay. You'll thrill to the battles in the depths of distant planets in a frenzied, high-octane 360° extravaganza.

License: commercial (US $24.95)

This is a Linux port of the server for Descent 3. A Linux client port by Lokigames is also available.

License: unknown

Displays a Deskmate on your desktop. A Deskmate can be any image you want. The program accepts any image format supported by Imlib. Features include "always on top", follow focus. Future features will include AI and animation.

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

• GTK+
• Imlib

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator running homebrew demos and commercial games.

The original author of DeSmuME is YopYop156. He has stopped working on it on the beginning of april 2006 and passed the torch to a new team of developers.

DeSmuME comes in three flavours: desmume-cli, desmume-gtk and desmume-gtk-glade. Use of desmume-gtk-glade is encouraged due to advanced features as rotating screen, save states support and more.

License: free