Open Source Games Still Alive

Octower! BAM! Word War Vi runs on Pandora ! (Have a feed !) Split-screen! BAM! Egoboo alive, kicking and now has a pretty website! Lazza ma...

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News Avalanche!

Zero-K: Zero-K is the reboot of Spring RTS game Complete Annihilation, with aims to distance itself from the TA IP that has plagued Spring...

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Two weeks?

Has it really been that long since the last post here? I'd better contribute before tumble weed hits the front page. Egoboo 2.8.0 has ...

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HE'S ALIVE

*Qubodup's eyes shift left and right* Qubodup mutters, "I smell death." *Charlie jumps out from behind a tree* "No! It...

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Clonk open sourced and Free Gamer ceil(foss games)

Clonk Clonk got open sourced! Welcome OpenClonk . Clonky! It seems to be the indie game fashion at the moment what with 0AD and all. Wha...

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Foooooooooooooo Egoboo

Update: brain malfunction. I first posted 2.7.0, then 2.7.7b, but the correct _stable_ version of Egoboo is 2.7.0b and the development v...

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OpenTTD, Simutrans, and Egoboo

OpenTTD OpenGFX OpenTTD moved a step closer to being a Free Software game with alpha releases of OpenGFX , the "[8bpp] Graphics Repla...

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Egofoo with Egoboo and a Tank Pledge

Egoboo 2.6.1 (stable) is ready for consumption (go there for download links). Go kick some ego ass with this revived classic. For braver...

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Games, Games, and Free Software

Goonies F1 Spirit Road Fighter Daimonin A good open source platform game that never gets a mention is The Goonies: 20th Anniversary Edition ...

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Happy Gnu Year

Well, well, it's 2008. Happy birthday time! Thanks to Qubodup for posting, and I'm sure he'll be doing so regularly this year....

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650 Days Later

No, it's not another diabolical sequel... it's the number of days since the last major Freeciv release until yesterday when Freeciv ...

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Return of the Jedi Gamer

WWWWhaaaat?! 3 days since I last posted? Disgraceful. Oh well, trying and make this one interesting I guess! ;-) Blood Frontier Blood Fron...

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Common Media Project and loads more

The first major community effort is coming out of the FreeGameDev community. It has been identified that the major weakness in creating qua...

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Revival of the fittest - sourcing art

Pingus 0.7.0 is available for download. With revival work complete, Pingus now uses SDL and comes with lovel anti-aliased fonts. There...

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Bos Wars and Egoboo

There's a new Bos Wars release - version 2.4 comes with a new resource system and a new tutorial (presumably to reflect the new resourc...

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Privateer Parallel Universe

Parallel Universe , a modification of Privateer Remake , has gotten itself a rather smart website and community forums . There's a good...

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8 Kingdoms and Strategy

8 Kingdoms Legacy of Magic 8 Kingdoms is a 3D turn based fantasy strategy game. Build empires and conquer enemy kingdoms. I came across i...

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Scourge and SoulFu

Scourge 0.18 ( download ) has been released. :-) If you don't know, Scourge is a 3D RPG game inspired by top-down old school isometric-...

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Egoboo vs FreeTrain vs VDrift

Egoboo 2.3.6 is released! This is a major development in what was a dead game. Egoboo used to be a darling of open source gaming, so I...

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Can You Say Revival

The Widelands team put out a release candidate for their next release, Widelands build10 , of their Settlers II inspired game. Check it ou...

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