warsow
Warsow is now Warfork and on Steam
Warfork Gameplay (livestream - skip ahead 1m20s) Last updated 2019-08-22 (see bottom of this article). The title says it all. War fork is the revi…
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warsow
Warsow 2.0 is now almost fully FOSS!
Great news for the FOSS enthusiasts: after many years of constant nagging the latest release of the great parcour/arena FPS Warsow has now most of i…
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xonotic
Xonotic 0.8.1 released & related news
For those that are not keeping up to the latest development branch ( via the autobuilds ), the Xonotic developers have released a new version with v…
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xonotic
Xonotic community frag movie and other FOSS arena FPS news
Very nice new movie from the Xonotic community: It gives a pretty good idea about the vanilla game mode, although the very popular (some say too pop…
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torque3d
First public release of Terminal Overload!
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 bit late…
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torque3d
Help to ROTC:Ethernet to become fully open-source
The creator of the nice, but pretty niche, freeware game (but with Creative Commons licensed assets) Revenge of the Cats: Ethernet has just informed…
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Tesseract
Progress on Octaforge
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 graphic …
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idtech4
Breaking news: The Dark Mod 2.0 stand alone version out now!
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 here . Th…
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idtech2
New Alien Arena, with included alpha-demo of in development commercial spin-off
Yes, it looks like the developers behind the long running idTech2 based AlienArena are going make a more slower paced & 'tactical' spin-…
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unvanquished
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 if this …
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genre-fps
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 is there ;…
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unvanquished
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. Regular tou…
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xonotic
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 masses. H…
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platform-windows
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 never th…
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xonotic
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 Morning : As …
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stuntrally
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", aka…
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xonotic
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 . Besides gene…
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Terasology
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 really unde…
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platform-windows
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 fields. And …
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unvanquished
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 was rel…
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