THE LEGENDS OF NORRATH CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS DECEMBER 15th

Prepare Your Deck With the Firiona Vie Loot Tournament Weekend Card Illustrated by Legendary Artist Jim Lee!

Legends of Norrath Championship Qualifier Tournament Series Kicks Off December 15th!
Starting next Saturday, December 15th, Sony Online Entertainment’s (SOE) Legends of Norrath players can truly test their strategic skills and throw down in the first of the Legends of Norrath Championship Qualifier tournaments. Expected to run monthly, each qualifier event will have no entry fee and will feature a prize pool of approximately $5,000 USD. Winners of these qualifier events will receive an automatic entry into the Legends of Norrath Championships to be held at Gen Con Indy 2008 in Indianapolis, IN where they will compete for cash and prizes in excess of $100,000 USD in total. Don’t get lost in the shuffle, join the action December 15th!

Double Threat Firiona Vie Loot Tournament Weekend, December 8th and 9th!
This weekend, SOE will be hosting a weekend of major loot tournament events where players can receive extraordinary promotional cards and in-game loot rewards! The new "Loot Tournament Weekend" tournament queues, featuring the opportunity for players to receive new promotional and loot cards, will be running all weekend long. Each event will start when all slots have filled in the tournament.

Each player who participates in one of these tournaments will receive a Firiona Vie, Guardian of Growth (1P8) promotional card (illustrated by Jim Lee) and a choice of either an EverQuest® Visage of Queen Pyrilonis or EverQuest II Burning Touch loot card! Please note that participation is limited to U.S. residents only.

To get started on the fun, players can download the client for free, test their skills against AI and real opponents, and then head over to the tournament lobby to play. Tournament eligibility limited and subject to official rules. Residents of certain territories are ineligible to participate in LoN tournament play. Please see the Official Tournament Rules for details. For a schedule of events, rules and further details see the LoN Events Page or the LoN Tournaments webpage.

New Expansion Coming Soon – Loot Cards Announced!
In preparation of the release of Legends of Norrath’s first expansion, Forsworn, scheduled for December 19th, a sneak peak of the highly anticipated EverQuest and EverQuest II Set 2 loot cards have been released to the player community at large! Check out all 44 of them here!

Free Linux Video game - ManiaDrive (Trackmania clone)

ManiaDrive is a free clone of Trackmania, the great game from Nadéo studio, and is an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gameplay (tracks almost never exceed one minute), and features a network mode, as the original. Lots of crazy driving involved.

Get the game here... http://maniadrive.raydium.org/

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Free Linux Video game - Scorched 3D

Scorched 3D is a 100% free turn-based artillery game modeled after the classic DOS game Scorched Earth ‘The Mother Of All Games’. Operatable across all operating systems. What started as a 3D landscape generator has now become a cool 3D game that requires skills to master. Players are supposed to take turns homing in to hit the target by adjusting the angle, rotation, power and a weapon of choice every other turn. Hits and kills will generate income for you to buy better weapons and items. Note that items are as important as weapons.

Get the game here... http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

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Free Linux Video game - The Open Racing Car Simulator

TORCS is an open source 3D racing simulator using OpenGL technologies. It is runnable on all Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows platforms. There are 50 different cars, 20 tracks and 50 opponents to race against. The multiplayer mode can accommodate up to 4 human players. Several of the simulation include damaged models, collisions and aerodynamics like ground effects, spoilers, etc. Development is currently being carried out to enable online racing mode.

Get the game here... http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

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Free Linux Video game - True Combat: Elite

TC:Elite happens to be a total-conversion modification of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory by Team Terminator and Groove Six Studios. The game is free and playable across all platforms. Notable features include iron sights aiming (no crosshair), multi layer object penetration, letterbox / wide screen view modes, lag compensation, client side bullet prediction and support for PunkBuster, the anti cheat software.

Get the game here... http://www.truecombatelite.net/

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Free Linux Video game - Alien Arena 2007

Alien Arena is a completely free FPS (first person shooter) started by COR Entertainment in 2004 comprising of a science fiction ambience and a Quake like gameplay. This game is playable in single player mode against bots, but the action and thrill lies at the online multiplayer mode. Features of the Alien Arena 2007 include an internal server browser for finding other people to play online and an external program that acts as an IRC interface. There are 6 game types and 6 game mutators that changes the gameplay. Cattle Prod is a new game type that requires you to herd robotic cattle to earn points. Alien Arena 2007 is playable in Linux, Windows and FreeBSD.

Get the game here...http://red.planetarena.org/

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FREE Linux Video game - Nexuiz (Doom clone)

Nexuiz is a free, cross platform, FPS (first person shooter) distributed under GNU General Public License by Alientrap Software. It started back in May 31 2005 with version 1.0 using DarkPlaces, a significanlty modified Quake engine. The current version, 2.3, was released on May 31, 2007. Available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

Several notable features of the game include

* ability to multiplay up to 64 players
* ability to generate bots for practice sessions
* dynamic lighting system similar to Doom 3

Get the game here... http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/

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Free Linux Video game - Tux Racer

Tux Racer is a newbie friendly, open source, 3D computer game starring the Linux mascot, Tux the penguin. Like many open source games, the replay value of Tux Racer is extended by easy modification of the game. New maps can be created by making three raster images to indicate height, surface, and object placement. The last release of Tux Racer was version 0.61, 29th October 2001.

Get the game here... http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/

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Free Linux Video game - Tremulous

Tremulous is an open source team-based FPS (first person shooter) with a game play that is similar to Gloom (a Quake 2 mod) and Natural Selection (a Half-Life mod). The game features two teams, humans and aliens, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The game has been downloaded over 200,000 times and was voted “Player’s Choice Standalone Game of the Year” in Mod Database’s “Mod of the Year” 2006 competition.

Get the game here... http://tremulous.net/

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Video game sales ahead of DVDs this Christmas

DVD sales are lagging and game sales are up. Something's gotta give, as they say.

Retail shelf space is a finite thing in the world of brick and mortar, so each inch has to be maximized with product that is going to sell. As video games continue their rise, we're likely to see less and less shelf space given to DVDs, and more to video games and related merchandise.

NPD analyst Anita Frazier weighed in on the record game sales last month when talking about October's sales numbers. "This year [video game] sales have already achieved the annual sales number for 2005—and the two biggest months are yet to come. I think we'll see not only record-breaking revenues but record-breaking year-over-year growth when the final numbers are tallied," she said. The month previous, Frazier made another hopeful comment about the industry: "Although we've been confident for many months now that the industry was poised to realize it's best year ever in terms of revenue, the results in recent months makes me even more bullish." In other words, the sales keep getting better and better, with titles like Guitar Hero 3 and Halo 3 leading the charge.

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