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Warsow 2.0 is now almost fully FOSS!
waled b 02 December 2015
Great news for the FOSS enthusiasts: after many years of constant nagging the latest release of the great parcour/arena FPS Warsow has now ...
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Xonotic 0.8.1 released & related news
waled b 31 August 2015
For those that are not keeping up to the latest development branch ( via the autobuilds ), the Xonotic developers have released a new versio...
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Xonotic community frag movie and other FOSS arena FPS news
waled b 27 November 2014
Very nice new movie from the Xonotic community: It gives a pretty good idea about the vanilla game mode, although the very popular (some sa...
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First public release of Terminal Overload!
waled b 01 August 2014
You might remember the crowd-sourcing campaign from the beginning of this year to make a fully FOSS remake of a rather unique game. Well, a...
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Help to ROTC:Ethernet to become fully open-source
waled b 08 December 2013
The creator of the nice, but pretty niche, freeware game (but with Creative Commons licensed assets) Revenge of the Cats: Ethernet has just...
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Progress on Octaforge
waled b 30 November 2013
One of the newer engine/game projects I have been following closely is Octaforge . It is basically a fork of Tesseract , which in turn is an...
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Breaking news: The Dark Mod 2.0 stand alone version out now!
waled b 08 October 2013
I guess quite a few people were waiting for this to finally happen :) Have a look at the release announcement here and the full change-log ...
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New Alien Arena, with included alpha-demo of in development commercial spin-off
waled b 11 September 2013
Yes, it looks like the developers behind the long running idTech2 based AlienArena are going make a more slower paced & 'tactical...
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Today: Glamour, or how to hide irony about gender stereotypes very well...
waled b 02 September 2013
Or something like that... because as much as I think FOSS games should cater to the other ermm... 2nd out of three(?) gender, I am not sure...
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Assault Cube reloaded, version 2.5.8
waled b 17 August 2013
I'm a bit hesitant to cover this game, as media licensing is a complete mess, but well some might enjoy playing it and the source-code i...
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Unvanquished summer tournament
waled b 24 June 2013
Given the often quite small online communities around FOSS games, one has to become creative on how to keep players and attract new ones. Re...
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Xonotic 0.7 released
waled b 09 June 2013
After an agonizingly long wait, I am happy to report that a new official release of the premier FOSS arena FPS Xonotic is available to the ...
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WIP "OpenFlashpoint"
waled b 31 May 2013
Here is another post about a project I found in the far ends of the internet ("here be dragons"), but which seems really promising...
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Dead Morning, an open-source horror game
waled b 23 May 2013
Today I bring you news of yet another rather low profile Darkplaces engine game (e.g. the same engine that runs Xonotic ), called Dead Morn...
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Two times (0.)2.0
waled b 11 May 2013
(Yes, that is a rather thin common ground to combine these two news in one post ;) ). Anyways, today there is one for the "FreeGamers...
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Red Eclipse 1.4 and a missed birthday
waled b 23 March 2013
Good news is that the long awaited Red Eclipse version 1.4 was released yesterday. Read the announcement (with full change-log) here . Bes...
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Various voxel engine ramblings
waled b 30 January 2013
I have outed myself previously as not a big Minecraft fan, so take everything in this post with a grain of salt (as I obviously don't re...
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