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Monday, July 07, 2008

PlaneShift 3d mmorpg 0.4.01 released!

The new client for the free 3d fantasy mmorpg PlaneShift is now available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Download it from the project home page http://www.planeshift.it

New Features:
- Support for fires, including campfires and torches.
- Customizable Chatbubbles (alignment, text colour, etc)
- Maps can be named, just like books.
- An Identification Skill is now needed to view the quality of items.

Read the full Changelog here.
posted at 11:53 AM. tags: .

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Vendetta Online announces Voice Chat support on all platforms

Although the feature has been in testing for a few weeks, developers of the 3D Space MMO "Vendetta Online" announced today that integrated Voice Chat is now considered to be production-ready and released across all client platforms, including Windows, MacOS X, Linux/32 and Linux/64. For more information, see their recent Newspost:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/h/news.html
posted at 01:49 AM. tags: .

Thursday, July 03, 2008

lan.linuX-gamers.net [G I M M E 5]

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This summer is lan-party-time, once more.

The linuX-gamers.org e.V. invites you to join their party. Here you will meet other people playing games using the open sourced operating system.

They found a real great place at the Algau in Tannheim-Egelsee, Germany. The setting is beautiful (romantic view of the Alps), the location is arranged, the weather is hot, and the girls are pretty.

The only thing still missing is you!

The lan-page has been published now and they are awaiting your registration. Please feel free to tell them your special ideas, what you want to see or do at the party.

So, come on, one little step and you'll be one of them! See you there!
posted at 04:50 PM. tags: .

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Easy To Use Kid Friendly 3D Game Maker Platinum Arts Sandbox Beta 2.2.0 Release!

Homepage | Platinum Arts 2.2.0 Download | Platinum Arts | Doom 3 Coop

Here are just some of the goodies included in Sandbox Beta 2.2.0

* New Maps - Save The Princess (3D Platformer with speed boost power ups!), Forest
* New Quests - Apple Picking on Village, and rescuing the princess on Save The Princess
* New Cloud Options - Now clouds can be added that scroll above the landscape! Height can even be adjusted. Also the Skybox can rotate making the clouds appear to move.
* New easy to use Sandbox launcher thanks to James "ZKAT8IT" Burns!
* New Characters can be added - Now characters and animals such as bears can be added!
* Numerous menu changes and enhancements - Menus have been tweaked to improve ease of use and they can also be customized for color, font, etc.
* Basic Multilingual Support - WE NEED TRANSLATORS!! Please see here for more information:
http://www.kids.platinumarts.net/wiki/index.php?title=Translations
* Available now in English, Dutch (thanks Ben 'gamshobny' Tilma!), and Swedish (thanks Lucas Orsvärn!).
* Editing made even easier!! Can change flying speed by using + and - keys!
* Many Graphical Enhancements - Many map updates, nicer looking waterfalls, rain, scrolling clouds, some redone textures, etc.
* Numerous bug fixes and features added "under the hood".
* Improved Jukebox and Musicpack implementation
* New Music and a lilypad model!
* And MANY more! (really there are lots!!)
NOTE: If your old maps look strange in this new version, please type /remip in the console!!

Platinum Arts 2.2.0 Download
http://www.kids.platinumarts.net/fireboard/Downloads-Tech-Support-and-Feedback/

Thanks for your interest, and I hope you enjoy it!! A special thanks to Hirato who really has been the hero of this release and has advanced Sandbox so far. Remember to check our wiki if you need help! Also remember our irc channel is irc.oftc.net #sandbox or you can click here:
http://Kids.PlatinumArts.Net/irc/irc.html
Kids joining MUST have parental permission!! I cannot be responsible for things other people say in there. Take care and enjoy!
-mike
posted at 07:53 AM. tags: .

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Jack Keane for Linux will be coming

Homepage | Article

Referring to the above linked article on linuxgames.com, Thomas Steiding from Runesoft announces that Jack Keane will be ported to Linux, too! This is great news!
posted at 07:53 AM. tags: .

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Ankh 2: Heart Of Osiris demo

[ Homepage ] | [ Torrent ]

Runesoft has recently published a demo of the Ankh sequel "Ankh2: Heart of Osiris" and liflg started seeding it via their bittorrent tracker. Ankh 2 is a classical adventure with sweet graphics, elaborated and funny story.

Features:
- Classic adventure game
- A completely new and zany story in new, strange and fascinating locations
- A brand new exciting story
- Get to know new characters and familiar faces
- Sophisticated graphics with dynamic light, shadow and glow effects
- supreme voice acting
- Cinematic full-motion sequences
- and, as always, pitchblack humour

The full version is available through ixsoft.
posted at 06:04 AM. tags: .

Friday, June 27, 2008

Wine 1.1.0 released

Homepage | Download

A new developement version of wine has been released today, new features in this release include:

  • Many more gdiplus functions implemented.
  • Improved graphics tablet support.
  • Many Richedit fixes and improvements.
  • Support for HWND_MESSAGE windows.
  • A lot of new MSHTML functions.
  • Many fixes in MSI registry handling.
  • Initial implementation of the inetmib1 DLL.
  • Improvements to the quartz renderers.
  • Various bug fixes.
For more detailed information take a look at the official announcement.

posted at 03:06 PM. tags: .

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

LGP Introduces Linux Game Copy Protection

Homepage | Article | LGP Statement


For seven years Linux Game Publishing has been selling their Linux-ported games with no form of copy protection on their CD/DVDs, but beginning with their forthcoming port of Sacred: Gold that will be changed. Linux Game Publishing has developed their own Internet-based game copy protection system for Linux, and in this article we have more details on this scheme as well as their motives behind this work.
posted at 05:03 PM. tags: .

Monday, June 23, 2008

Zero Ballistics Beta for Linux available

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Zero Ballistics is a unique blend of first person shooter and tank combat, focusing on multiplayer gaming exclusively. An open beta version is now available and - surprise, surprise - there is a Linux client available!

Features of the open beta are:
  • Three levels set in an alpine environment
  • Three different main weapons, and one secondary weapon
  • Three different skills
  • Deathmatch and Team Deatchmatch modes
  • Best of all, it's absolutely FREE to play
I tested the beta yesterday afternoon and this game is very enjoyable
posted at 04:01 AM. tags: .

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Freeciv v2.1.5 - new stable release

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A new stable version of freeciv is available since this week. New features mainly include:
  • Fixes for bootstrap and compilation issues.
  • Fixes for rulesets, for example making Civ1 ruleset playable
  • Fixes for several bugs concerning player handling and game loading
  • Fixes for a number of corner case crashers.
  • Fix a memory leak in the readline code.
  • Fix for bug that prevented the adding of items to the top of global worklists.
  • Fix citybar view options.
  • Updates to Estonian, Korean, Greek, Turkish, Catalan, Swedish, Spanish, and German translations.


posted at 08:04 AM. tags: .

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Sauerbraten CTF Edition

Homepage | Downloads

This week version 2008_06_17 of Sauerbraten has been released. The Capture The Flag edition of this fast paced first person shooter comes up with lots of changes and additions like new single player campaigns, new multiplayer maps, new rendering and editing features and much more, a detailed list of which can be found at the sauerbraten forum or in the full package, which is about 300MB. A patch to the previous release (about 3MB) is also available.

posted at 06:02 AM. tags: .

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Technical blog post: Optimizing the Quake2 renderer

Homepage | Blog

Jay Dolan from the Quake2World project has recently blogged about some of the performance enhancements he's made to the Quake2 engine over the past 2 years. The post is directed towards other engine coders working with GPL Quake technology, and has a number of links to technical resources (source code) to provide context around the optimizations discussed. The blog post can be nabbed here.
posted at 04:01 AM. tags: .

Friday, June 20, 2008

Phoronix: AMD Makes An Evolutionary Leap In Linux Support

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Less than a year ago we shared with you the revolutionary steps AMD was taking to deliver significant improvements to their once infamous proprietary Linux display driver and at the same time the work they were doing to foster the growth of an open-source driver for their latest graphics card families. These steps have certainly paid off for both AMD and the Linux community at large. AMD's proprietary driver is now on par with NVIDIA's Linux driver and there are two open-source ATI drivers picking up new features and improvements on an almost daily basis. AMD also continues to publish new programming guides and register information on a routine basis for their latest and greatest hardware. This has been truly phenomenal to see, but AMD has now evolved their Linux support by taking it a large step further. AMD is in the process of pushing new high-end features into their Linux driver -- such as Multi-GPU CrossFire support -- and with the ATI Radeon HD 4850 they have even begun showing off Tux, the Linux mascot, on their product packaging and providing Linux drivers on their product CDs!
posted at 07:21 AM. tags: .

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Wine 1.0 released

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The Wine team proudly announces the availability of version 1.0!
It lasted 15 years to get the first stable release of wine.

See the Wine homepage for more information about downloads.
posted at 01:20 AM. tags: .

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Platinum Arts Sandbox Beta 2.2 On The Way!

[ Homepage ]

Platinum Arts Sandbox Beta 2.2 will be arriving soon to a webpage near you! We're currently planning on releasing June 26. For anyone who is unfamiliar with Sandbox, here is a bit about it:
"Sandbox is a game design tool based on the Cube 2 engine that allows users to quickly and easily create and edit their own worlds in game, even cooperatively. It is free, open source, and easy to use for Kids and Adults."

We're extremely excited that Sandbox is being used in many schools now throughout the world ranging from Elementary through College levels!!!! As a result one of our new features is the ability to support different languages! However, we are desperately in need of translators. If you can help or know anyone that would be willing please contact us! Here are some other features that are in store for 2.2:
  • New Maps - Save The Princess (3D Platformer), Forest
  • New Quests - Apple Picking on Village, and rescuing the princess on Savetheprincess
  • New Cloud Options - Now clouds can be added that scroll above the landscape! Height can even be adjusted. Also the Skybox can rotate making the clouds appear to move.
  • New Characters can be added - Now characters and animals such as bears can be added!
  • Numerous menu changes and enhancements - Menus have been tweaked to improve ease of use and they can also be customized for color, font, etc.
  • Basic Multilingual Support - WE NEED TRANSLATORS!!
  • Many Graphical Enhancements - Nicer looking waterfalls, rain, scrolling clouds, some redone textures, etc.
  • Numerous bug fixes and features added "under the hood".
  • Improved Jukebox and Musicpack implementation
  • And MANY more! (really there is lots!!)
Be sure check http://Kids.PlatinumArts.Net often for more details! We can't wait to get this release out to you and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do :) For anyone interested in getting a sneak peak and/or helping out we do have an open SVN that you can learn how to access here:
http://www.kids.platinumarts.net/wiki/index.php?title=Development
posted at 04:19 AM. tags: .

Thursday, June 12, 2008

linuX-gamers.net live 0.9.3 released

Homepage | Torrent | Md5Sumnew_logo

Recently our chief developers released an new version of linuX-gamers.net live-DVD.
This version was used on the Linuxtag in Berlin.

Changes v0.9.3 (linuxtag2008-release):
  • Base and mastering environment rebuilt to support custom mastering
  • Easy network configuration gui
  • Support for chipsets of recent boards
  • Easy display setup gui
  • Video settings saved to usbstick

The webpage does not contain all recent changes, yet. This will change in short time. Stay tuned.
posted at 04:20 AM. tags: .

Friday, June 06, 2008

Wine 1.0-RC4 released

Homepage | Download

The wine project today released its fourth release candidate of wine 1.0.
As usual only bugfixes made it into this release. For a list read the announcement.
posted at 02:02 PM. tags: .

Friday, June 06, 2008

New Duke Nukem Forever video

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The Jace Hall shows an interview with Jace Hall interviewing Scott Miller & George Broussard. Hall also shows a video about Duke Nukem Forever.

posted at 08:04 AM. tags: .

Friday, June 06, 2008

Alien Arena 2008 version 7.10 released today.

Homepage | Changelog



Version 7.10 of Alien Arena 2008 has been released by COR Entertainment today.
Some of the new features include seven new/rebuilt maps, improved lighting and visibility, optimizations for performance increases, map voting system, contrast filter, and improvements to the the Galaxy server browser.
A number of bugs have been addressed as well:
1. Stack smashing errors in Ubuntu
2. Reflective water problems with some ATI drivers
3. Normalization cubemap errors with some ATI drivers
4. The "no team" bug
5. Duel queues now correct themselves if errors occur
6. Bot/player slot overlaps on botkick servers
posted at 01:01 AM. tags: .

Thursday, June 05, 2008

SuperTuxKart 0.5 released

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It offers 6 new and improved tracks, a new game mode ('Follow the Leader'), new Grand Prix, new menu, some new music, and translations into German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. The new tracks and game modes need to be unlocked: you have to fulfill a challenge in order to use them. If all challenges are done, a preview of the upcoming skidding support can be tested.
A quick screendump of the new Canyon track is here
More screenshots can be fond here.

Windows, Linux and MacOS-downloads are available on the downloads-page.
An Ubuntu-Package can be found on getdeb.

Have Fun,

Constantin from STK
posted at 08:05 AM. tags: .
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