Community Round-Up 23/05

We’re back again with all the latest news and creations from around the community in this week’s Community Round-Up!

BTS: New Website and New Hi-Scores

This week, we catch up with Mod Lee and Mod Glacian on the new website and new high scores coming with RuneScape 3!

Wesnoth 1.11.4: Development Release

Wesnoth 1.11.4 has been released. This is the fourth release of the 1.11.x development series. It includes huge, groundbreaking changes. Please have a look this forum thread to get a rough idea about those big changes (including why it is called 1.11.4…

Wesnoth 1.10.6: Maintenance Release

Wesnoth 1.10.6 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.10 series. For information about further changes in this release, please visit this forum thread. We offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog t…

Wesnoth 1.11.1: Development Release

Wesnoth 1.11.1 has been released. This is the second release of the 1.11.x development series. It includes huge, groundbreaking changes. Please have a look this forum thread to get a rough idea about those big changes. We offer two versions of changelo…

Wesnoth 1.10.5: Maintenance Release

Wesnoth 1.10.5 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.10 series. For information about further changes in this release, please visit this forum thread. We offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog t…

Harvest Heaven: High-Level Farming

There’s some fantastic new flora for high-level farmers to grow this week, yielding a bounty of XP and hearty, homegrown produce – including Saradomin, Guthix and Zamorak grapes for fortifying your god brew and rest potions!

BTS Video 53: Harvest Heaven

Mod Moltare takes us through the new plants and produce coming to the Farming skill.

Squeal of Fortune: Alchemist’s Amulet Returns

Collect amulet fragments and transform them into two new amulets and hefty gold prizes, only on Squeal of Fortune.

Above the Lore Podcast: The Future of Funny

This week’s Above the Lore podcast is entitled The Future of Funny, and features four JMods, plenty of pirates, and more megalomaniacal penguins than you can conceivably cram into a submarine.

New Interface System Alpha Update

We’ve had some amazing feedback in the NIS Alpha’s first few weeks, and today we’ve launched a batch of your most-requested changes. On top of this, the NIS Alpha is now open to every member who registered their interest. Keep the feedback coming!…

Community Round-Up 16/05

Come and check out the latest events, news, videos and awesome community creations in this week’s Community Round-Up!

Behind the Scenes Video: RS3 Audio

The orchestral music coming in RuneScape 3 is pretty awesome, but as Mod Lord tells us in today’s Behind the Scenes, it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Play FreeCiv in your browser (HTML5)

FreeCiv is now available as a HTML5 implementation that runs right in your (modern) browser:Load times are quick too, so give it a try. It even supports multiplayer.Tip: Moving units is either done via the arrow keys (preferably the number key-pad ones…

A preview of novel features for the next release

Flightgear is constantly under development, and the current development version (2.11) contains already a number of interesting features beyond what 2.10 could do – so here is some (incomplete) list of what to expect from the next release:

Novel water effects

As part of the Atmospheric Light Scattering rendering scheme, some novel features have been added to the water shader:

Subtle variations in sea color and surface reflectivity are rendered at high quality, which together with slighly patchy fog improves the visual impression significantly. In addition, an experimental effect generating surf at some coastlines is under active development (coast of …
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Solomon’s General Store: Elements of Death

Finish your PvP victims in style, with earth, water, air and fire-themed death animations, available now from Solomon’s General Store.

The Nexus

It’s time for a deep cleanse! Hold back the horror emerging from Lumbridge Swamp for Prayer XP aplenty in this social training method, aimed at low-level RuneScape members.

Two times (0.)2.0

(Yes, that is a rather thin common ground to combine these two news in one post ;) ).Anyways, today there is one for the “FreeGamers”, aka those that are looking for more or less playable games:There is a new release (2.0) of StuntRally, and I guess I …

Half-Life 2 Games Available For Linux (Steam)

Quick update: Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Half-Life 2: LostCoast are now available in Steam for Linux. Like the other two titles Valve has made available for Linux last week: Left 4 Dead 2 and Portal, the Half-Life 2 games are in beta for now and they don’t show [...]

BTS Video 52: The Nexus

Today, we catch up with Mod Krista for the full scoop on the new Prayer training method: The Nexus!