Gaming Daily A-Z

The public domain audibook project LibriVox got hacked (not the first time it seems ). There was no open announcement yet [edit: here's the blog post ] but as a forum user I received an email: A hacker broke into the LibriVox forum and got access to our complete database including emails and encrypted passwords. We have locked them out of the system, and we’ve fixed the vandalism, but they still have our database. In the interests of full disclosure, here is some extra information: (1) The database contained every piece of communications sent through the forum, including all private messages. This information is now in the possession of the hacker. (2) All forum passwords in the database are encrypted. However, if your password was very simple, it will be trivial for the hacker to break the encryption using "brute-force" techniques. They will likely attempt exactly this, so if you use the same password on any other Internet service, you should immediately change your pas...

A PARPG Content Creation Refactoring Sprint was  announced  on May 23, 2011. Here are instructions on how to join and help: Register at Assembla Add and resolve tickets Join the #parpg  channel each Sunday at GMT  8PM

New Pages of Adventure graphics. OpenGameArt is looking for a hosting sponsor. The target is a dedicated server with following min. specs: Quad core, 64 bit CPU 4GB RAM 500GB hard drive space 1TB monthly transfer 1 gigabit connection 64-bit CentOS, RedHat or Fedora Root access and Autonomy

Quick Sunday afternoon rundown of recent strategy game updated... 0AD got a new beta 5 release , which improvements in rendering & AI code, a completely new faction (Iberians), and a new map: MegaGlest also got updated recently ( Version 3.5.1 ), bringing various fixes and performance improvements. Furthermore I can report that both the sable and the development version of Battle for Wesnoth have been updated, and I strongly recommend everyone (who has not played this game for a while) to retry this classic in the newest development version. EvolutionRTS , a nice looking (but sadly CC-by-NC-ND licensed) game based on the SpringRTS engine also saw an update to version 1.3 this month ( check out this gameplay video ). Hmmm, what else? Ahh, UFO:AI was ported to Android , and and the change of Warzone2100 from SDL to qt (which is not exactly a game framework) raised some eyebrows, but will probably make the game more easily portable and better integrated into your favorite deskto...

Funto's edit of the FGDWiki* made me realize that Newton switched to the free-as-in-freedom zlib license I did not follow development on the HPL1 (Penumbra: Overture) engine but this might mean that there are no closed dependencies any more. *having a forum account will allow you to edit this wiki!

On 2. July, the second Free-as-in-freedom USB Game Key will be released by the French-language based team LanPower . The GameKey light serie 2 is a compilation of portable FOSS games, mostly compatible with both Windows and Linux. English, German, French, Italian and Spanish translations are available for the GUI. If you would like to add your translation to the mix, here are the translation files: English  | French . (contact:  asso.lanpower A ✜ T free.fr)

This is a 0:46 soundwalk of BOFH . Music not turned off. [ download ogg vorbis ]