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LAN parties offer the enjoyment of head to head gaming in a real-life social environment. In general, they are experiencing decline thanks to the convenience of Internet gaming, but Kenton Varda is a man who takes his LAN gaming very seriously. His LAN gaming house is a fascinating project, and best of all, Linux plays [...] The 3.1 series is the first based on the new netcode, with new terrain renderer and many other changes. The main target are systems capable of OpenGL 2.0 (with shaders), but at least the important things like team colours should work with OpenGL 1.4+ (some things might look strange though). Configuration uses a new directory, [...] The 10.8 version of Simutrans Experimental has been recently released. This is a bug fix release, with some small feature changes to assist in balancing games, especially online games. Caster presents an intense 3rd person action shooter experience with pulse pounding music. You dash across many scenic locations destroying bug like creatures called the Flanx using 6 unique attacks that include Massive Terrain Deformation and High Sp… Tropical Stormfront is Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game in a tropical setting. You take command of troops to join the ultimate war of good versus evil. In the game, you choose one of these countries : USA, China, Russia, England, Germany, India, Japan, and Brazil. Troops of all countries look the same however they can be [...] Xonotic, the open-source multi-platform game that succeeded Nexuiz, is finally moving closer to its 1.0 release. Xonotic 1.0 was talked about at FOSDEM 2012 this weekend in Belgium within the open-source game developers’ meeting room. Nexuiz was forked as Xonotic by the community in early 2010 following and their first development preview came more than [...] There’s some news today out of Linux Game Publishing, but it’s not about a new game being ported to Linux. Rather, it’s an apology from Michael Simms, the CEO of LGP, and to announce his resignation. Linux Game Publishing though isn’t going away but a new CEO has been announced. Linux Game Publishing has been [...] OpenRA is a free and open source real time strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer (C&C) and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Almost an year back, I tried OpenRA but couldn’t get it to work. Recently I gave it a shot again and was pleasantly surprised at the level of [...] Almost two years have gone by since we released Wesnoth 1.8. To thank you for more than 5 million downloads via sourceforge.net, we now proudly present Wesnoth 1.10. You can look at the (translated) release notes to get an idea about what has changed since 1.8. For those who just want to play, the new [...] Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software’s popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company. On his blog Timothee Bessett (also known as “TTimo”) just had a brief statement posted yesterday regarding his resignation from id Software. “I [...] The 3.1 series is the first based on the new netcode, with new terrain renderer and many other changes. Configuration uses a new directory, if you want to use old mods/maps/savegames, you need to copy them (see FileLocations). Note that savegames from 2.3 and 3.0 are incompatible, only those from newer master snapshots might still [...] Towns the fun little town building game with RPG elements has had a big update! A somewhat neglected topic here on FreeGamer are classic puzzle games, and OGS Mahjong is definitely one of the gems of this genre. Do you think gaming on Linux has improved over the past few years? Although variety and graphics might be a little off that available for OS X and Windows there’s no denying that with every passing month Linux as a gaming platform grows ever more viable. 0.A.D is a completely open-source RTS available for Linux, [...] 3079 is a futuristic and open-world first-person role playing game for Linux. The game is a mix of Minecraft and Fallout style gameplay. Minecraft because of its blocky graphics and art and Fallout because of its open ended sandbox style exlporation based gameplay. All areas, buildings, items, quests and characters are randomly generated. This game is still under active development, so lots [...] Unigine Corp met their latest deadline and will officially be shipping the gold version of their Unigine OilRush real-time strategy game today for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows gamers. OilRush is the first game coming out of Unigine Corp after their string of impressive multi-platform tech demos / benchmarks (Sanctuary, Tropics, Heaven) and licensing [...] Desurium is the official name for the open sourced Desura client which is now officially open sourced as of today. The source code is available under the GPL V3. Desura has now added Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory to it’s line up of free games, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is still one of the best team based shooters available so go check it out. Updated Linux versions of Postal and Postal 2 has been released on Desura. Postal 2 (first person shooter) by Running With Scissors has been banned in many countries in past because of extreme graphic violence but enjoys quite a dedicated fan following. A Postal 2 Linux demo is also available. This updated build which will [...] Relics of Annorath, a game announced last year, is nearing its alpha release. This forthcoming MMORPG game is built atop the Unigine Engine and will feature a native Linux client. From the bits of information that is out there now, Relics of Annorath is described by its developers as “MMORPG which plays in a medieval/post-modern [...] | |||||
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