Spaced Out - Vega Strike and Pioneer betas plus Multiplayer Simutrans and MotoGT

The recent blogging activity, spurred on by the growth in official Free Gamer blog authors, is a pleasure to see. When I started the blog b...

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An example of why a license matters

Simutrans OpenTTD OpenGFX Why is OpenTTD now in Fedora 10/11 but Simutrans is not? The former has been only playable with Free media sin...

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What planet are you on?

Wesnoth Knight Battle for Wesnoth continues to get stupendously good art contributions such as this series of Loyalist portraits . Hot on t...

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Rigs of Rods goes Open Source and Glest 3.2

Rigs of Rods is going open source . How cool is that? Rigs of Rods (also known as RoR), is a truck, car, airplane and boat simulator. You ...

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Simulate This - City Building + Tycoon Game Reviews

Welcome to a Free Gamer special! People often accuse the Free software and open source game sphere of lacking depth, that there are few goo...

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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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26 Year Conquest for Brains

Conquest (OpenGL) I think I found the oldest open source game out. It's called Conquest . In development since 1982 . That's kind...

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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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Simu-this

OpenCity OpenCity 0.0.5 has been unleashed upon the wider public. The game is, well, not yet much of a game but it is progressing steadily...

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Simutrans and Open Arena and Irrlamb

Open Arena now with bloom Simutrans , one of the major open source rail games, gets an update with version 0.99.13 - bug fixes and optimiza...

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Allacrost Update, Simutrans Source

Two major pieces of open source game news today. :-D Hero of Allacrost 0.2.0 is now available , with easy installation on Windows, Linux (U...

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Third FreeTrain SE Release

There's another binary version of FreeTrain available, with additional translations, plugings, and fixing a serious bug in the previous...

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Release Early, Release Often

Wormux I had a go at Wormux last night. It's a Worms clone, closest to Worms II. I'm impressed, this is a well done game althoug...

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Railroad Tycoon now Freeware

The original Railroad Tycoon has been released as freeware . Download it from 2kgames.com who seem to be the official handlers of the free...

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A Bit Artifical

Today I'd like to highlight two Artifical Intelligence based games - The breve Simulation Environment and NERO: Neuro-Evolving Robotic ...

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Dark Days

I came across Zak McKracken and the Alien Rockstars the other day. It's a GPL cross-plaform fan-made sequel to Zak McKracken , a Lucas...

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