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Sintel The Game is a video game adaptation of popular open movie Sintel by Blender Foundation. The game showcased its pre-demo in Blender Game Contest 2010 and stood at second place.

Tomahawk is a free and open-source music player that allows you to connect your other machines and friends via Jabber, Google Chat and Twitter. You can browse and play their libraries, playlists and stations. It also features a mood based smart playlist system, support for importing metadata from playlists from all over the web and other media players and a nice extension system to add more functionality.

NitroShare makes it easy to share files across a local network. You have to Just install the application on each machine you want to use for sharing files and then simply drag-and-drop files on to the share box or use the indicator menu to send files.

Bitwig, a Berlin based company is bringing professional grade music production software 'Bitwig Studio' to Linux. They have released a new video showing us a demo song and the actual software in action.

A new a customized build of Unity is now available that adds missing features to back to the Unity Shell.

One of the advantages of Unity is the screen real estate optimization it can bring to desktop by combining global menu and window controls on top panel. If you don't like other components of Unity interface like the launcher on left, lenses, dash etc, there is a way to disable them and use a custom dock.

An interface for system updates will be integrated into a new software store tentatively named 'App Center'.

Holyspirit is a free and open source isometric hack'n'slash game inspired by action role playing game, Diablo. The game is being developed by French game studio Alpha Arts.

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical recently replied to user questions while doing 'Ask Me Anything' session. Check out some of the excerpts.

Humble Indie Bundle 5 was launched recently with five popular and award winning indie games. All these games are supported natively on Linux except one, LIMBO. LIMBO doesn't run natively on Linux and instead uses a Wine/CodeWeavers wrapper. It has been a hot topic for debate in last couple of days and Humble Bundle organizers have commented on this.

Humble Indie Bundle 5 has been launched and it has smashed all records of past bundles by raising more than $2 Million in 24 hours. As always, Linux average price is higher than Windows and Mac.

A native Linux build has been released for Wolfire Games' massively popular 3D action adventure and fighting game Overgrowth.

From May 24th to June 1st, World of Goo creator Ron Carmel is arranging a sale of 383 indie games by roughly 180 developers in an enormous event titled Because We May.

Indie game studio SkyGoblin has released a new point and click adventure game The Journey Down: Chapter One. The game is a commercial remake of their free adventure game with same title but it comes with new content, fully voiced cast and HD art and animations.

FXI's Cotton Candy, A $200 USB stick size PC running Ubuntu and Android 4.0 will start shipping at the end of this month to anyone who has pre-ordered the device in back in February.

There was a very interesting session at UDS by Google developer Thomas Bushnell. He talked about how Ubuntu, its derivatives and Goobuntu (Google's customized Ubuntu based distro) are used by Google developers. He starts by saying 'Precise Rocks' and that many Google employees use Ubuntu including managers, software engineers, translators, people who wrote original Unix, people who have no clue about Unix etc. Many developers working on Chrome and Android use Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 12.04 may get Wayland implemented as a system compositor making overall boot experience more smooth. More specifically, a Wayland demo-compositor plus a LightDM greeter wayland backend can be used to start user's X sessions in Ubuntu 12.10. Users who prefer open source Intel, ATI and Nvidia drivers will be able to take benefit from this. This system compositor will be able to support hybrid graphics and graphics switching, but work on this will be done after Ubuntu 12.10.

In future releases, more design changes will be introduced to Gnome 3 and there will be a better login and notifications experience.

Dell has announced Project Sputnik, a 6 month research effort to explore the possibility of creating an open source laptop targeted directly at developers. It is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell XPS13 laptop.

UFO: Alien Invasion is a free and open source strategy game featuring turn-based tactical combat against hostile alien forces (human or computer controlled) which are infiltrating earth at this very moment. The game is heavily influenced by the X-COM series (mostly by UFO: Enemy Unknown).