Gaming Daily A-Z

Doesn't seem like the other authors of this blog are big FPS fans, so I guess I have to keep you updated about the other nice releases of last week ;) Too bad my current PC is not capable of running any of those though :( Xonotic 0.1 preview release So people have been nagging about this in the comment section already... and I agree, the first release of the Nexuiz fork Xonotic is a pretty cool thing: Xonotic 0.1 For more videos head over to this Youtube page . Graphics are really a big improvement over the patchwork that was Nexuiz, however the player animation (blending) is still somewhat lacking. Sources tell me that this is actually a current limitation of its Darkplaces engine , but since everything of that game is GPL, someone should take up the challenge and change that ;) World of Pandman 1.5 Not quite as FOSS (because of un-free media), but still fun is the new World of Padman 1.5 release: World of Padman 1.5 Their website just says that there are a lot of changes, so be...

Rejoice! Now you can become the CEO of a multinational evil energy empire on your home PC. Build as many nuclear power plants as you always wished, destroy the world's climate with coal electrification and make a big advertisement campaign to greenwash your evil plans with some wind-mills ;) Energy Tycoon You can download this great looking game called Energy Tycoon , for Windows and Linux, and the source-code is available under a MIT/BSD like license. It includes some non-free parts however (e.g. irrklang AFAIK) and the media license is unclear, but it's rare that such a polished game shows up as open-source more or less out of nowhere. Quick selection of other news A rather interesting GPL licensed racing project was recently released for the Blender game engine (BGE): SAAB-91 Virtual Race . Interesting especially because it seems to have some sort of official support by the designers of the car, but currently it is still at a very early stage. It's also nice to see th...