Gaming Daily A-Z

Julius' endless poking has sent me over the cliff of post-guilt, fortunately, lots of projects have been jumping up and down for attention of late, so I have quite a bit of content to redeem myself with. RPGs OSARE OSARE showing off powers Pfunked and recently released an update to the promising OSARE This brings "powers" to the game, the classic Hack 'n Slash abilities that encompass magic, melee and ranged special attacks. No skimping on them here either, intricate systems such as block-counter based attacks and time stopping magic spells definitely differentiate OSARE's powers from the more generic "Do x damage" spells more commonly found. The new powers do bring in a bit of a balance issue though, but such is the nature of RPGs Dawn RPG Dawn RPG Dawn-RPG has also been updating steadily throughout the year; I kind of forgot about the project and should be punished appropriately :P Main recent additions are sound an music (from the illustrious OGA...

Hello again from the dark side of the moon (at least it's equally remote ;) ). Today I have some assorted news of projects previously featured and one new one. Lets start with the latter: ArcanumAlive or OpenArcanum is a engine re-implemention and assets replacement project for the game Arcanum . It somewhat recently also got a Linux port , and seems to be progressing nicely so far/ again . ArcanumAlive Some RTS news Totally unrelated, the previously featured MegaGlest has been updated to version 3.3.7 which brings a series of nice improvements to the game (including a MacOSX port). Some time ago a much improved version of the WW2 themed RTS Spring1944 was released, and the engine it is based on also got a bunch of updates lately. Finally some FPS news For the readers with a short attention span, I left the FPS news for the very last (so that they don't read it :p). Recently Irritant the creator of AlienArena released some news about the upcoming version, called 2011. The...

Quite literally, as I am posting this via a satellite connection from the other side of the world ;) But if those lazy co-authors spend all their time playing games instead of bringing you the latest FreeGaming news, then I have to come to the rescue no matter what! For those that are disappointed that the blog isn't updated more regularly... well tough luck :p There is our planet feed though, and you can also hang out on the forums... or *gasp* try to get involved in a project yourself! Mission X, side scrolling action This pretty nice, old school, side scrolling shooter (written in Java) can be found here . Check out the video below: Mission X Lots of eye-candy over at the 0 A.D. webpage Amazing amount of nice looking stuff, and progress updates (f.e. implementation of the "shadow of war" feature) has been recently added to the 0 A.D. website. I know you are probably following that game anyways... but a quick reminder can hurt ;) 0 A.D. landscape Red Eclipse Sadly I c...