Gaming Daily A-Z

You know you wake up sometimes and look in the mirror and GAH WHO IS THAT CREe... ah was me today. After a dab of water, some tasty scran, and the gleam is back in my eye. Acer to make an "Open Standards" console ? Intriguing. People selling FOSS games on ebay ? Scandalous - but is it illegal? Navy Seals: Covert Ops Y'know how people go " True Combat: Elite would be ace if it was open source" - well it appears we've always had the option of Navy Seals: Covert Operations . Just brought to our attention , this mostly-complete and apparently rather fun Quake 3 nearly-TC is struggling to keep going. I'd never heard of it before, which means their public relations policies either didn't exist exist or completely failed. Why a nearly-TC? Well during the process of moving from mod to total conversion, the development stalled . The developers put it in a Google Code project and moved on, which is a shame because it looks like a very good game. They...

Goonies F1 Spirit Road Fighter Daimonin A good open source platform game that never gets a mention is The Goonies: 20th Anniversary Edition . This game is a remake of the classic NES / Master System version by Konami. The same team is also responsible two rather fun arcade top-down racing games, F1 Spirit and Road Fighter , which are also remakes. I'm not sure what the source license is for these (ack, there goes my Free Software credibility) but you can get the source and the games compile / run on the 3 major platforms (y'know, Lin/Win/Mac). There's not-so-recent updates to Daimonin , the 2D isometric fantasy MMORPG that seems to play second fiddle to the likes of Eternal Lands and Planeshift due to it not coming with the fancy 3D 3Dness. I mean, everybody wants 3D, and those who don't play nethack. So there's no room for anything else. Especially not something as addictive as Daimonin. I'm not going near that game again, I barely escaped the first t...