Gaming Daily A-Z

With many thanks to ghoulsblade and hagish of SFZ fame, there is a new Free Gamer forum . :-) Unfortunately there is no way to transfer to old database over and even if it was possible the majority of useful content was posted during the period of data loss (anything after June 30th). However, lessons learned, this new forum should be more responsive (freeforums.org was slow), have better uptime (freeforums.org was frequently down) and is far more customizable (i.e. expect a FG theme in the near future etc). Parallel Universe There's a new release of Privateer Gemini Gold . Bug fixes and some improved artwork prompted the team to release 1.02a just a month after 1.02 - release early, release often so this is a good thing in my book. I'm not sure if they have addressed the reported high difficulty level of the game though. If you find PGG too difficult, check out Privateer Remake and/or Parallel Universe . Or wait for the new Vega Strike release which is coming in August....

PR: Parallel Universe Too busy to post properly today. :-( Ecksdee is not dead (news update) Parallel Universe (a mod for Privateer Remake - which itself is a Vega Strike mod) now has a gallery Interstate Outlaws is definitely open source (confirmed with the author) SoulFu author leaves game to community development but still under dubious license More information on the latter two tomorrow.

Parallel Universe , a modification of Privateer Remake , has gotten itself a rather smart website and community forums . There's a good bit of work going on over there and the feedback on PU is generally pretty good. Definitely worth a look for space game fans. It is also part of a rather complex development scene based around Privateer & Wing Commander games. I'll get back to that in a bit. A couple of Ubuntu users have posted their first serious effort at a game, Slingshot . It's a fairly simple 2D affair, take it in turns to shoot at each other, your shots being affected by the gravity pulls of planets. I've mentioned Egoboo Resurrection a few times - a continuation of the classic game Egoboo. I've not really mentioned that it's only released for Windows despite the original predominantly being a Linux game. It just comes down to a lack of Linux based contributors. However there's another "branch" called Egoboo 2.x which has binari...