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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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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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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Gigalomania, LPC and updates

Some of you might remember Mega Lo Mania back from the days when you could be amazed by PC speaker voice output... so if you spend way too ...

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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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Dev-Corner: Inter Quake Model Format and Open Source Gamedev Collaboration

The following is a guest post by  Lee Salzman , a contributor to several open source game projects and the lead developer of such projects a...

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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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Xonotic 0.6 released

For those not playing with the autobuild releases, I have good news! A new version of the totally FOSS, competitive multiplayer FPS Xonotic ...

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Complete List of Fosdem Game Dev Resources

A link to some Fosdem Resouces has been already posted here before , but now we have a complete list of available slides and audio and video...

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Xonotic 1v1 grand final

Just a small reminder: Don't miss today's  (at 8:00pm CET = UTC/GTM+1 e.g. central European time) grand final of the Xonotic 1v1 tou...

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Modern retro-graphics: RetroBlazer

Short call for help: Awesome looking retro-graphics game is looking for a Darkplaces QC programmer. So far only two screen-shots have been...

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Fan made trailer contests and other FPS news

So it seems Red Eclipse is having a "contest" for creating an official trailer for their upcoming 1.2 release. Nothing to win (e...

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Summer Shorts 2 + Screens

Unknown Horizons Player Scores... gscai of the real-time colony building simulation  Unknown horizons wrote a short player-view summary of ...

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Planets are a nice thing...

...but make us FreeGamer blog-authors lazy, as all the news are already in our awesome game and development planets :p New to the feeds is...

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Some random FPS engine news

Fast games for slow summer news weeks... but actually some of these news are a bit older already also :p To start out... yes RedEclipse got...

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Naev Sound and Xonotic Map Devolution

Spoiler alert regarding a video of a NAEV mission that shows off the sound capacities of the game. The project relies on OpenAL Soft . You ...

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Xonotic Player Interviews

Do you like Let's Plays (Commented gameplay videos)? I do. Antibody of Xonotic made something similar with pro Xonotic/Nexuiz players a...

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Better late than never

Doesn't seem like the other authors of this blog are big FPS fans, so I guess I have to keep you updated about the other nice releases o...

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Xonotic - Nexuiz the Free

The first piece of news is that console Nexuiz will be re-written from scratch, because some coders decided against giving permission for a ...

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