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If you like first-person shooters, you’ll love Sauerbraten. This open source game might not have the visual finesse of other FPSes, but what it lacks in the graphics department, Sauerbraten more than makes up for with its various single and multiplayer modes, including an experimental role-playing game mode, and a unique WYSIWYG in-game map editor. Sauerbraten blends the best of FPSes like Quake and Max Payne to give you a unique gaming experience.

This verdict isn’t a surprise since Sauerbraten has a very good pedigree. It’s based on the redesigned Cube game engine developed by well-known Dutch programmer Wouter van Oortmerssen, who is a professor of software development and has written a few programming languages.

Read more at Linux.com

A new Development release is ready. This is the fourth release in the 1.5.x tree. A lot was changed since the start of the stable 1.4.x branch and since I am too lazy to list all the great changes in here, better have a look at the forum thread which describes the most important changes. As with the last releases, we continue to offer two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice and the (rather) complete changelog with (almost) all the details, which is likely to cause a serious headache…
At the moment no binaries are ready. Once they are done you can find them at the download page. Please keep in mind that it is a development release which might include quite many bugs. If you find one, report it.

Not being a gamer I won’t be able to give detailed critical descriptions on how the game-play is, how polished the game is and so on. But I can tell you a little about what games you can expect to find.

I installed all of these games from the Add/Remove Applications menu. Using the drop-down box, changing it to “All available applications” and then clicking on Games on the left-hand side reveals all the games that I am able to install. There are quite a few of them!

I am going to use the descriptions that are supplied to give you a bit of an idea of what you can expect from the small selection that I have installed.

* Battle for Wesnoth - A fantasy turn-based strategy game. Battle for control of villages, using variety of units which have advantages and disadvantages in different types of terrains and against different types of attacks. Units gain experience and advance levels, and are carried over from one scenario to the next in a campaign.
* Extreme Tux Racer - A 3D downhill racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin. The goal of the game is to slide down a snow- and ice-covered mountain as quickly as possible, avoiding the trees and rocks that will slow you down.

Read more at iTWire

Feudal Times is a world where you become a king, where you rule a small town and where you will make a great empire. Diplomacy, economy, town and army management, are the bases of every empire, how you mix them all is up to you.

This is the first browser based game to be realised open source. Written in PHP5, MySQL, JavaScript, it already allows anyone to download it’s source code via SVN:

Read more at linuX-gamers.net

Open Arena 0.8.0 is released. From original announcement:
ouch i’m burned out, will polish news later.
- Better mouse control (it’d better be)
- Initial release of ‘missionpack’
- Missionpack weapons added back into baseoa (this means NAILGUNS, PROXIMITY MINES AND CHAINGUNS in non-missionpack mode!)
- New announcer voices from Fuzztooth
- New player model : Sorceress
- New map: oa_bases7
- New map: pul1ctf
- New map: schism
- q3dm6ish retextured by TRaK, and is back in the maps menu
- oa_bases3 recompiled with fast water (should perform 632% faster)
- Classic version of oa_bases3 snuck in Smiley
- oa_minia updated
- dm6ish updated (retextured, and bots aren’t dumb at the door anymore)
- New plasma gun model and skin from enki
- New sound effects for shotgun, railgun, and weapon switching
- New CTF event sounds
- New Kyonshi voices, courtesy of aeri_s
- Ayumi optimized, at the cost of the Jenna skin Sad
- Beret greatly improved, in skin and animation and taunt sound
- Some simple stress and flyby demo files (intended for timedemo)
- All TGAs that had broken headers are now corrected
- Other stuff like random asset polish

Read more at Open Arena forum

Since the release of the Quake 3 engine source code in summer 2005 a lot of modifications and spin-offs have emerged. One such spin-off, Smokin’ Guns (formerly known as Western Quake 3), is all about classical Wild West themes: big rifles and revolvers, wailing steel guitars, bank robberies, and smooth talking. It’s a game you don’t want to miss.

Read more at Linux.com

The code is stable, and I’m busy working on the refactor, so it’s a good time for a release.

I’ll update the “Current VDrift releases” table above as the files make it to sourceforge.

UPDATE:
Here’s the link for the windows installer:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vdrift/vdrift-setup-2008-08-05.exe

and the linux source:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/vdrift/vdrift-2008-08-05-src.tar.bz2

Wesnoth 1.4.4 has been released. This is a bugfix release for the stable 1.4.x branch. In this release several smaller bugs were fixed and many translations were updated. To celebrate the release and comment on it, have a look at this forum thread. There are still two versions of changelogs: a rather nice to read players changelog that only includes changes every player will probably notice (only translation updates this time) and the (rather) complete changelog with (almost) all the details, which is not much more to read either…
At the moment the Debian, Gentoo, Mac OSX and OpenSolaris binaries are ready. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page. We hope there are no bugs left, but if you find any, report them.