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Unknown Horizons is a FREE and open-source, real-time 2D strategy game for Windows and Linux. The game emphasis on economy and city building:

Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

Unknown Horizons is loosely oriented on Sunflowers Anno series however not a clone of these comercial games nor an engine to play the original content.

Key Unknown Horizons gameplay elements:

Urban development

* Build a blooming metropolis from scratch with residential areas, industrial estates, service trade and lots of sights.

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LordsAWar! version 0.1.6, a clone of the turn-based strategy game Warlords II, has been released with the following changes:

* updated license to gplv3+.
* added graphics for medals that get awarded to army units.
* added new “inactive” unit graphics in stack display.
* improved the “create a new game” experience.
* improved the speed of map graphic redraws.
* improved the editing of stacks, heroes, and backpacks in the scenario editor.
* fixed various crashing bugs.
* added new neutral city mode of “defensive”.
* updated the user’s manual.

Download: http://lordsawar.com

A new Development release is ready. This is the eighth release in the 1.7.x tree. This release includes bugfixes as well as graphics and translations updates. Have a look at this forum thread for some additional information about this release.
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.

The authors of Game Editor let us know that the game creation app is now open source:

Game Editor is a powerful game creation application that lets you design and create exciting, interactive games for the Windows, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile, Smartphone, GP2X and Linux markets.

In development since 2002, the game creation tool Game Editor finally becomes Open Source. By using a dual license system, the Game Editor developer wants to create a self suported open source model, by selling a license to users that’s won’t to create open source games, sharing the reveneus with the developers thats have contributed to the code. The users thats create GPL games can use the software without pay anything.

Read more at LinuxGames

Version 7.32 of Alien Arena has been released today for windows and linux users! This release fixes some critical bugs with version 7.31, as well as adding some new content and other features.

Some of the new features in this release:

• Fixed bug with Nvidia 191.xx drivers causing game to crash on startup
  
• Dynamic world shadows using shadowmaps
  
• Game no longer automatically sets video settings on first run.
  
• New level, Dm-zion2k9!
  
• Splash damage triggers hit indicator.
  
• New spawn effects.
  

For a complete changelog look HERE

The developer staff brings you the release of Warzone 2100 2.2.4.

This release is network incompatible with previous versions. (You cannot play multiplayer games with previous versions of Warzone.)

We squashed some more bugs, some balance changes, and other numerous things.

For a complete list see the Changelog.

As always: Please report all bugs, without them, we can’t fix them!
Since there is some confusion on how to handle bug reports, I have decided to post the bug reporting guidelines here:

Bug Reporting
Bugs are different kinds of errors and glitches that sometimes can even lead to crashes. Due to the limited resources of the Warzone 2100 Project not everything can be tested prior to release. In order to be able to fix those bugs we need you to report those bugs. For the bug reports to be the most helpful we put up this page as a guide to writing good bug reports.
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Did you ever want to fly a plane yourself, but lacked the money or ability to do so? Are you a real pilot looking to improve your skills without having to take off? Do you want to try some dangerous maneuvers without risking your life? Or do you just want to have fun with a more serious game without any violence? If any of these questions apply to you, PC flight simulators are just for you. The FlightGear flight simulator is an open-source software, multi-platform, it is primarily aimed at civilian flight simulation. It should be appropriate for simulating general aviation as well as civilian aircraft.

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Vega Strike is an free and Open Source 3D Action-Space-Sim (works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) that lets you trade, fight, and explore in a vast universe .

Vega Strike aims to insert players into a large, dynamic universe with diverse factions of varying disposition to the player and to each other, and an economy model where trade, combat and exploration are all profitable. Financial gains allow the player to buy upgrades and/or better vehicles, thus enabling him/her to advance into more dangerous and profitable missions. The player can have varying levels of relations with factions. Negative relations can form if the player kills some of a given faction’s ships. Positive relations can be formed if the player destroys ships that are part of an enemy to a given faction. Players can either buy and sell cargo, or accept missions from the Mission Computer, as well as talking to people in the local bar at the space station/planet. In the tradition of some precursor games, individuals of significant plot importance are often found in bars.

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And now a brief break from business-oriented coverage on WorksWithU. As a history Ph.D. student by day and free-software geek by night, I find that my poles of interest rarely converge. That’s why I was so excited when the real-time historical strategy game 0 A.D. was switched to an open-source license in July. I’ve been meaning since then to give it a try, and finally found the time and hardware necessary to do that. Here are the results.

Set in antiquity and designed with historical accuracy as a priority, 0 A.D. is a real-time strategy game that supports Linux, Windows and OS X. The developers, Wildfire Games, originally intended to distribute it as freeware, but decided to open-source the code last summer in hopes that it would speed the development process.

The game is not yet really playable, but it runs.

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Warzone 2100 is a free, real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX which offers campaign, tutorial, multi-player and single-player skirmish game modes, unit designer, unit experience system, and everything you would expect from a modern RTS game.

Warzone 2100 Features:

* 400+ Technologies to research
* 2,000+ different units to design
* 3 Large campaign maps to conquer
* 24 Fast play mission maps for extra action
* Intelligence Display sets objectives dynamically
* Interactive message system
* Fast Play Interface graphically Based
* Quick Screen Navigation
* Fast Find System for units & structures
* Set Factories to constant production
* Automatically send each factory’s units to where you want them
* Cross-Platform internet/intranet multiplayer with up to 8 players
* Challenging Computer-AI

Read more at Web Upd8