Gaming Daily A-Z

The commercial abandonware 2002 game No One Lives Forever ( trailer ) has been released under the GPLv2 . The NOLF2 source code has been released under the GPLv2 by Touchdown Entertainment. Along with the game source code, you will find the engine source code, as well the tools behind it. It's great news for the entire NOLF2 modding community, since now we'll be able to keep the game alive! I have uploaded the package to free services since the Touchdown Entertainment website is down: http://www.multiupload.com/WBO4EQHRAE It isn't yet clear what license the assets are released under, but as with most commercial game source releases I suspect that it is not part of the source release. Do these commercial source pseudo-Free releases have any merit beyond giving loyal followers a way to keep their fun alive? It has been of great benefit to have had the ID engines released as Free software, but they were the platform for a number of very significant free projects that wo...

The Arx Fatalis porting effort has been going full steam ahead; a lot of developments on that project. They recieved a  Wiki sponsored by the PARPG guys, made  subreddit  to post updates to and have quite a few repositories where the different team members are working on the seperate goals of the project. Development wise, they recently achieved ingame rendering on linux using Winelibs. This is not the ideal solution for the project, but they want to get something workable ASAP so it is the quickest. As you can surely see, there's a lot that still needs doing; but it's tremendous progress in the short amount of time that they've been working on it so far.

A user named Black Mage decided to port Arx Fatalis to OpenGL and started a thread on our forums. Everybody interested in working on the game is welcome to join. Currently the developer is interested in getting the code to compile at all. Should you have problems registering at our forums, please contact me: qubodup@gmail.com