Today: Glamour, or how to hide irony about gender stereotypes very well...

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

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

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

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"

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

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

(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

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

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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Force: Leashed - GPL First-Person Gravity Not-Like-Portal

Force: Leashed is a free first person gravity fiddler. To advance, you need to guide rockets to their targets using spherical potential fie...

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Major Unvanquished update (Alpha 8)

UPDATE: Here is a nice video of the ( Note: Alpha ) gameplay: Yesterday (following their monthly release cycle) a new alpha from Unvanqished...

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Shorts: FreeOrion 0.4.1 and Xonotic Vehicle Gameplay

FreeOrion image: Moving a fleet around in FreeOrion video: FreeOrion testplay (best viewed at 720p HD ) FreeOrion 0.4.1 has been released ...

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Intergalactic news (new Red Eclipse version)

Somewhat related to the previous blog post (don't forget to vote to give a VR kit to the Cube2 developers), I can bring you the news th...

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Unvanquished development news

I have to apologize for the recent lack in FG updates, but at least *I* have a good excuse as first my Internet broke down, and now I am pre...

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War§ow 1.0 released

Yesterday the long awaited version 0.7   1.0 was released and thus after 7 years of development War§ow has gone out of beta. For those out ...

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AlienArena reloaded edition

The PR machine behind AlienArena seems to have found out by rigorous focus-group testing and public surveying, that a re-branding of the id...

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OverDose now officially... hmm?... open-source?

Somehow I was under the impression that the team behind Overdose had realized some time ago that by using the idTech2 base they would be bo...

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Xonotic and idTech4 news

Hello and welcome to slow summer news time ;) But at least the awesome guys over at Xonotic took their time and wrote up what exciting new ...

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Tesseract, Cube2 next-gen'd

A FOSS gaming engine stalwart made a major leap forward today. Sauerbraten/cube 2, everyone's favorite octree, in-game editing game en...

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The Big idTech 2 round-up post

Hello fans ;) Today we get back to the main business of this blog: gaming news! And of course my favorite genre: FPS (forevar!)... specifica...

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