In simple terms, the ODROID game console comes down to iPhone hardware mixed with Android software in a Nintendo box.

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So unreal the name, so real the news: Epic Games is providing its Unreal Engine 3 free to developers. It isn't open source, but game developers can implement it for noncommercial games and applications.

Game development team 2D Boy (Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel) have released the results of their pay-what-you-want Birthday sale. Results show Linux users to have donated one dollar more on the average in comparison to Windows users.

Based on the eSport Duel, first person shooter Warsow is about to be released in version 0.5 and the makers are calling developers to help with demos to promote the downloads.

Wine 1.1.24 has smoothed out rough edges and now functions with various Windows games while Linux applications run better.

The GPL flight simulator Palomino from Jim Brooks has, with the integration of OSSIM and the 3D graphic tool OpenSceneGraph, become serious competition for Flightgear.

The Wine-based commercial software Cedega offers with its new 7.3 release support for the latest version of Sims.