Gaming Daily A-Z

I guess quite a few people were waiting for this to finally happen :) Have a look at the release announcement here and the full change-log here . They also did a nice introduction video a few months ago: Haven't got the chance to try it myself yet, but this is high on my list of open-source games to play!

Great news from the people behind the idTech4 powered stealth FPS The Dark Mod : They are making great steps to leave their Doom3 mod legacy behind and a standalone version should not be all that far from now. New The Dark Mod replacement artwork You can follow the progress here on their forums , and maybe you can also give them an helping hand. Interestingly there are two other recently updated Doom3 mods, that could easily fit in as The Dark Mod mods , e.g. going stand alone with The Dark Mod's help. The first one is a Hexen remake, called Hexen: Edge of Chaos : And the other one is a prequel to the Arx: Fatalis ( engine also FOSS , btw.) game, called Arx: End of Sun : Sadly both of them use proprietary themes (and one could even argue that The Dark Mod is borderline infringing on one too), but I am still looking forward to try out these nice community creations once they become stand-alone!

Ha, you probably read it here first, since it is just an hour ago that it was uploaded! https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl Have fun tinkering with it! P.S.: A good dev forum for it is Doom3world .

Fast games for slow summer news weeks... but actually some of these news are a bit older already also :p To start out... yes RedEclipse got a (smaller) new release a few days ago, codenamed Supernova (Version 1.1). The release notes can be found in our/their forums , but it plays as great as before (except for the annoying hit sound :p ). Edit: game-play video from one of our forum users. Noteworthy news related to that (albeit not strictly FOSS related): RedEclipse also got included into Desura now ( Moddb 's indie friendly answer to Steam, even with an upcoming Linux port). To avoid complains in the comments... I mention this here even though it is a closed source game distribution platform, simply because it can be a great way to promote (and maybe even sell?) FOSS games, and if we would finally be able to attract the modding community (which is largely represented on Moddb) to work with FOSS engines instead, it would be win-win for everyone involved. Despite its unfree cont...