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Warsow 0.5 is finally released after a long time of hard work and a few release candidates tested by YOU, the community. With version 0.5 Warsow reaches a major milestone in its development. Feature-wise and technically, Warsow is now more complete, stable and polished than ever!

Some of the new features in Warsow 0.5:
» Weapon settings, armor settings and movement system have been tweaked and revised
» Weapons can stun players, making them unable to walljump for a short period of time after being hit
» Warsow 0.5 introduces AngelScript gametype scripting, inviting everyone to create their own custom gametypes
» Warsow 0.5 has new maps, textures, playermodels, engine features, visual effects… even a brand new weapon!
» Warsow 0.5 comes with new gametypes: Team Domination, Headhunt, Bomb & Defuse

For more details, check out the changelog… That is, if you’re not already downloading Warsow 0.5!

Have fun Warsowians!

MINDGUNNER is retro-arcade insanity at its finest that will push your hand/eye coordination to its limits thru 20 levels of, mind numbing shoot anything that moves, action. The premise is simple. The player controls a gunnery platform that orbits around a central object. Baddies land on said object and randomly shoot out from wherever they are. The player has to destroy baddies while not getting destroyed themselves, and shoot health crates when shields get low. Sounds easy, but the reality is something else entirely.

Read more at LinuX-gamers.net

I wanted to write about Pink Pony for a long time, but never came around to it. It’s a Tron-like racing game and features hearts, ponies (also ai-controlled ones), graphic shaders and split-screen multiplayer support. Your aim is to collect hearts and to not run into your foes’ trails. Last pony standing wins!

Download it for Win32 or as an easy-to-compile source tarball.

Unfortunately, the game does not support older graphics cards. If you are capable and willing to add legacy support, you can find the source repository here. If you have ideas for more features, please post them (or just comment this blog article).

Read more at Free Gamer

Quake Live, the project by id Software that effectively puts the classic but popular Quake III: Arena game and puts it in the web browser, is now available for Linux. Linux gamers interested in running this first person shooter just need to go to QuakeLive.com and install a plug-in for their web-browser…

Read more at Phoronix

A new Development release is ready. This is the fourth release in the 1.7.x tree. This release includes hundreds of changes. Some of the most significant changes and improvements are listed in this forum thread.
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 the Windows package and the MacOSX packages are ready. You can find them at the download page. Once the others are done you can find them at the download page, too. Please keep in mind that it is a development release which might include quite many bugs. If you find one, report it.

FreeCol 0.8.4 has just been released. This release fixes several bugs.