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Some random FPS engine news

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...