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It seems the the commercial game ’savage 2′ (which has a Linux version) has gone free (as in money, not software). It may not be to everyone’s tastes but its an okay game. https://savage2.s2games.com/main.php for more info. The slight catch is that there exists ‘prime accounts’ which cost $9.99, but if you are playing the free version so much that you want a prime account, you’ll probably not mind paying.

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul is totally free to play, but you have the option of creating a Prime account for just $9.99. There are multiple advantages to a Prime account, such as two additional inventory slots, unlimited play as Hellbourne units, access to player statistics both online and in-game, and the ability to download a replay of every Savage 2 match ever played! Spread the word, help the development community by supporting companies that want to make unique and innovative games.

Its always nice to see game companies not only supporting the Linux platform but actually looking towards the future of making money from games. slapping a thousand different types of drm onto your game will only get it pirated. thinking up clever new oss inspired business models will make you money.

As a heads up to all the UK folks, if you are on one of the big uk ISP’s (which I am sure most of us are) you will now have to start logging onto wikipedia via secure.wikipedia.org, logging on via another route will likly lead to you being banned from editing.

This set of curcumstances has come about because of the big six isps deciding to filter wikipedia’s content, to remove child pornography, sensible enough i guess, but have done it in such a horrible way, all the UK traffic is being proxies though just a few ip addresses - thus if one person vandalises wikipedia the entire country pretty much gets banned from editing.

The only workaround at the moment is to either log in via the secure server or use this greasemonkey script, it will change your edit links to the secure version of wikipedia. the downside to this is that if everyone starts using the secure version wikipedia could slow down to a crawl.