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(September 02, 2010) Microsoft to increase Xbox Live subscription fee The cost of subscribing to Xbox Live Gold will increase by £1 per month, Microsoft has confirmed. Microsoft has announced that it will be increasing the cost of subscriptions to its online gaming portal, Xbox Live. From November 1, Xbox Live Gold subscribers will have to pay £5.99 per month rather than £4.99 per month for access to the online gaming and movie download portal. Gamers in the United States and Canada also face a similar price increase. Full story on the Telegraph website.
(September 01, 2010) PlayStation 3 'hacked' PS3 owners can buy a 'modchip' to hack their console and allow games to be copied and played from a hard drive. A special USB powered PlayStation 3 'modchip' has been released which claims to allow games to be copied and played from a hard drive. The PlayStation 3 console is the only current-gen console not to be jailbroken and is famous among hackers for its security. The USB 'modchip' has been produced by PSJailbreak and claims to be the first easy solution to hacking the PlayStation console. Full story on the Telegraph website.
(August 31, 2010) Fable III video game preview Fable III offers a darker, deeper and altogether more compelling adventure than its predecessors, writes Nick Cowen. No one can argue against the fact that dark days are upon us; this country has fallen on hard times. The sun still shines over most of the lush, green countryside but the dirty grey veil from the cities encroaches by the day as forests are stripped in the name of progress. Industry has been given free reign to motor full steam ahead, and while this has been profitable for some, the level of poverty in the country has risen. The nation's ruler is issuing edicts which he says will pull the country forward and boost its productivity Full story on the Telegraph website.
(August 27, 2010) The resurrection of the Commodore 64 Commodore USA is set to launch a new version of the classic gaming PC, the Commodore 64. The Commodore 64 is set to make a commercial comeback in time for Christmas. The classic all-in-one personal computer, which first went on sale in 1982, has not been sold officially since 1994. New company Commodore USA is hoping to produce a machine with an almost identical chassis to the original C64, with the original, thick, chunky keys, off-white housing, and the striped rainbow logo, but using significantly upgraded internal parts. The ?rst version of the C64 was a true phenomenon at the time, and original models still sell on eBay for around £20. Full story on the Telegraph website.
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Action Games
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Abuse run and gun video game
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Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com, and published by Origin Systems/Electronic Arts. It was released in 1996, and runs on DOS and Linux operating systems.
An improved port of the game was released for Mac OS by Bungie Studios and for the Acorn Archimedes by R-Comp Interactive.
In 2009 it was ported to AmigaOS 4 as well. Furthermore, the game has been ported to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. The game's source code has been in the public domain since the late 1990s, along with some of the Shareware content.
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Abuse
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BZFlag 3D Tank Battle Game
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BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game.
The name originates from "Battle Zone capture the Flag". It runs on Irix, Linux, *BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It's one of the most popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to be developed and improved to this day. It's one of the most popular open source games ever.
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BZFlag
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Neverball
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Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
Also available from the web site is Neverputt - a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game, built on the physics and graphics engine of Neverball.
Neverball and Neverputt are both known to run under Linux, Win2K/XP, FreeBSD, and Mac OSX. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is required. A 500MHz processor is recommended.
Both games are free and available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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Neverball
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Blocktality Top-down Shooter Game
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Blocktality is a top-down shooter in which the main character 'Sphero' is fighting against the cuboids for the freedom of his people.
The game play involves fast-paced combat interspersed with interesting physics puzzles.
Blocktality was developed by three students, Mike Cook, Joe Flint, and Max Lazaroff from the University of Michigan for EECS-494: Computer Game Design & Development in Fall of 2006.
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Blocktality
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Adventure and Role Playing Games
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Adonthell Role Playing Game
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Adonthell is the combined effort of like-minded people to create a free (as defined by the Free Software Foundation) role playing game for various operating systems.
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Adonthell
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Aleph One free and open-source first-person shooter engine
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Aleph One (formerly known as the Marathon Open Source Project) is a free and open source first-person shooter engine based on the source code of Bungie Studios' Marathon 2: Durandal.
The project commenced in early 2000, when Bungie released the code shortly before being acquired by Microsoft and spurred the fan community to further develop it. Since that time, Aleph One has become a successful project in terms of development and community support.
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Aleph One
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Allegiance Space Simulation Game
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Allegiance is a free, online, multi-player space simulation game, providing a mix of real-time strategy and player-piloted space combat gameplay. The game is set circa 2150, shortly after the destruction of Earth by an asteroid, forcing the remnants of humanity to the stars in search of new land and resources.
You pilot spacecraft, flying in a team with other players, defending and attacking sectors in space. Allegiance challenges your tactical ingenuity, your ability to function in a team and your prowess at blowing stuff up. Experienced players take command and lead their teams to victory or defeat.
Initially developed by Microsoft Research, the game was later released under a shared source license in 2002 and is now maintained and developed by volunteers.
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Allegiance
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Armagetron
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Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron.
It's an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player, there are new game modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.
Armagetron Advanced is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and OpenBSD, and is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. Armagetron Advanced is free software.
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Armagetron
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Battle City Free Online Tank Wars Game
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Players build, defend and attack cities in an endless quest for control and dominance.
To win you must drop the Orb on the enemy cities Command Center. The Command Center is always heavily guarded so teamwork is essential. Bomb buildings and destroy defensive infrastructure using your cities weapons.
You begin ranked as a Private and earn promotions based on how many points you gain. Work your way up to the rank of General by Orbing cities and blowing up tanks.
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Battle City
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Crown and Cutlass Pirate Action/Adventure Game
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Crown and Cutlass is a 3d pirate action/adventure game in the spirit of the old Pirates! game. It is simultaneously being developed in Linux and Windows, with a strong emphasis on cross-platform compatability.
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Crown and Cutlass
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Daimonin Online Game
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Daimonin is a free mmorpg, a so-called 'free to play' online game. You don't have to pay for playing. There are also free downloads available.
Daimonin is open source, with the daimonin source code available on the game project pages on the daimonin web site. You can join the team on the developer groups pages.
Daimonin is not only a mmorpg community, its an online game community. You can communicate with other daimonin players, write game blogs, upload pictures of you or game screenshots of your mmorpg character.
Game design does not mean game programming. You can join the team as a game artist, map or rpg maker or AI and quest designer.
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Daimonin
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Egoboo Computer Game
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Egoboo is an open source, cross-platform computer game. It's a three-dimensional dungeon crawling adventure that borrows a lot of elements from the roguelike genre.
Egoboo is still under development (as of January 2010), but it is fully playable.
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Egoboo
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Eternal Lands FREE MMORPG
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Eternal Lands is a FREE MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) currently under development (as of February 2010).
It is currently fully playable and with new features and functionality being added all the time.
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Eternal Lands
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Exult Game
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As computers evolve, we risk losing classic games from the not-so-distant past. One of these, Ultima 7, an RPG from the early 1990s, still has a huge following, and many consider it to be one of the most immersive games ever produced.
Exult is a project to recreate Ultima 7 for modern operating systems, using the game's original plot, data, and graphics files.
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Exult
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FreeDroid Open Source Role Playing Game
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FreedroidRPG is a mature open source sci-fi isometric role playing game. It strives to provide an immersive ambience backed by refined graphics and music tracks.
Besides the hack'n'slash action phases, dialogs with dozens of NPCs take care of storytelling. The player can fight with melee or ranged weapons, take control of his enemies by hacking, and remotely execute code on enemy robots.
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FreeDroid
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NetHack Role Playing Game
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NetHack is one of the oldest computer role-playing games still played and developed. The latest version of the game, NetHack 3.4.0, was released in March 2002.
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NetHack
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PlaneShift Role Playing Game
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PlaneShift is a Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account. There are no time limits or additional constraints. Servers and bandwidth are donated by sponsors.
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PlaneShift
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XU4 - Remake Ultima IV
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XU4 is a remake of the computer game Ultima IV. The goal is to make it easy and convenient to play this classic on modern operating systems. XU4 is primarily inspired by the much more ambitious project Exult.
XU4 is a cross-platform application thanks to SDL. It is available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux and more.
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XU4
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Umbra Open Source Role Playing Game
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Umbra is an open source computer role-playing game written in Python. The world is randomly-generated for new play every time, but there is an eventual goal and storyline.
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Umbra
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Goblin Hack Game
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Goblin Hack was the world's first smooth-scrolling ASCII graphics adventure game.
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Goblin Hack
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Arcade Games
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Armagetron Advanced Multiplayer Game
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Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3D that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It's an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player there are new game modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.
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Armagetron
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Chromium B.S.U.
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Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.
You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel.
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Chromium
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ClanBomber Multiplayer Game
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ClanBomber is a free (GNU General Public License) Bomberman-like multiplayer game that uses ClanLib, a free multi platform C++ game SDK. It is recommended to play ClanBomber with friends (3-8 players are really fun).
ClanBomber2 is a DirectFB port of Clanbomber 1.0.x, it adds network play but Windows support has beed dropped. An SDL port might be released in the future, reviving Windows support and expanding to new platforms.
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ClanBomber
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Frozen Bubble
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Colorful 3D rendered penguin animations, 100 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, nights and nights of 2p/3p/4p/5p game over LAN or Internet, a level-editor, 3 professional quality digital soundtracks, 15 stereo sound effects, 8 unique graphical transition effects, 8 unique logo eye-candies.
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Frozen Bubble
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Groundfire
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Groundfire is a free, open source game which currently works on Windows and Linux. Designed and programmed entirely by Tom Russell.
Groundfire is based on an old Sega Saturn game; 'Death Tank' which was bundled free as a hidden bonus game with the Saturn version of Duke Nukem 3D.
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Groundfire
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GLtron
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The first version of GLtron was written in June 1998 for a college course by the author, Andreas Umbach. The program is now released under the GNU General Public License.
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GLtron
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LBreakout2
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The successor to LBreakout offers you a new challenge in more than 50 levels with loads of new bonuses (goldshower, joker, explosive balls, bonus magnet ...), maluses (chaos, darkness, weak balls, malus magnet ...) and special bricks (growing bricks, explosive bricks, regenerative bricks ...).
If you are hungry for more you can create your own levelsets with the integrated level editor. There is also an experimental two player mode (via LAN) available.
Winner of the No Starch Press SDL Game Contest.
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LBreakout2
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SolarWolf
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SolarWolf was originally based on SolarFox, which ran on the Atari 2600. The point of the game is to scramble through 60 levels collecting space boxes along the way, with each level getting harder than the previous one.
Obstacles like bullets, mines, and asteroids cover your every move. Beat the Skip timer and grab the powerups.
SolarWolf runs on nearly every platform. Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, BeOS, and a large variety of Unix platforms.
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SolarWolf
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Space Invaders OpenGL
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Space Invaders OpenGL is a 2D/3D game based on the old arcade classic (by Toshihiro Nishikado) in which you must destroy enemy ships by shooting them up.
This version of the classic game was developed in OpenGL under Visual C++, and is still in development. It should run under Windows 98/XP/Vista with a 3D accelerator card and OpenGL drivers.
The project has been on stand by since May 2004.
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Space Invaders OpenGL
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Trackballs 3D Marble Game
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Trackballs is a marble game inspired by the 80s' Atari classic Marble Madness.
By steering a marble ball through a labyrinth filled with sharp objects, pools of acid, and other obstacles, you collect points. When the destination is reached, you continue on to the next, more difficult level - unless time runs out!
Unlike marble madness, the game uses 3D graphics even though the original game had no real use for it. Also the game is fully programmable with a scripting extension (Guile), and includes a level editor so that you can create new levels.
Trackballs is an open source game that was developed as a hobby project by Mathias Broxvall, with the help of contributions from various people around the world. The game is primarily developed for Linux but ports to other operating systems also exist. Since the source code of the game is available and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, anyone can contribute to the game with changes, translations into new languages, additional levels, etc.
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Trackballs
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Board Games
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Brutal Chess Game
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Brutal Chess features full 3D graphics, an advanced particle engine, and several different levels of intelligent AI, inspired by the once popular "Battle Chess" released by Interplay circa 1988.
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Brutal Chess
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DJ-Backgammon
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A graphical, easy to use backgammon game. You can play against the computer or across the network. There is also a general server that allows an arbitrary number of connections. Works on Linux and Windows. Also a Breton translation.
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DJ Backgammon
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GNU-Backgammon
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GNU Backgammon is a backgammon application that works on many operating systems. It can play, analyse and teach backgammon. Its evaluation engine is based on artificial neural networks.
GNU Backgammon is free software and released under the GNU General Public License.
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GNU Backgammon
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GNU-Chess
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GNU Chess is a chess program from the Free Software Foundation. GNU Chess can use XBoard or WinBoard as its graphical user interface.
GNU Chess is free software and released under the GNU General Public License.
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GNU Chess
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GNU-Go
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GNU Go is a free program that plays the game of Go. GNU Go has played thousands of games on the NNGS Go server. GNU Go is now also playing regularly on the Legend Go Server in Taiwan, on the WING server in Japan, and many volunteers run GNU Go clients on KGS. GNU Go has established itself as the leading non-commercial go program in the recent tournaments in which it has taken part.
GNU Go is free software and released under the GNU General Public License.
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GNU Go
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JavaRisk Board Game
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JavaRisk v2 is a strategic game roughly based on the board game Risk.
The game features network support for multiplayer games, hot-seat sessions for playing with friends on one PC & a challenging Ai. An implementation of the original Risk is also provided.
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JavaRisk
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JGammon Backgammon Client
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JGammon is a Backgammon client with nice graphics written in Java.
It allows a TCP-based network-game. It supports saving and loading of board setups, undoing moves, "secure dice" and has got its own chat client and help system. A computer player is included.
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JGammon
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josé Graphical Chess Tool
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You can store chess games in a database (backed by MySQL). You can view games and edit variations and comments. You can play against a "plugged-in" chess engine and use it for analysis.
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josé
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KnoGa Board Game
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KnoGa a small Game like "Kniffel" or "Yatzee".
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KnoGa
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MegaMek Board Game
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MegaMek is an unofficial, online version of the Classic BattleTech board game. MegaMek is open source, free software. The software is licenced under the GNU General Public License.
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MegaMek
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Scid: A Free Chess Database Application
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Scid ("Shane's Chess Information Database") is a chess database application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS operating systems.
With Scid you can maintain a database of chess games, search games by many criteria, view graphical trends, and produce printable reports on players and openings. With Scid you can also play against various engines, or on Internet (FICS).
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Scid
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Scrabble 3D Board Game
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Scrabble3D is a highly customizable Scrabble game that not only supports Classic Scrabble and Superscrabble but also 3D games and own boards.
You can play local against the comuter or connect to a game server to find other players.
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Scrabble
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Stratego Board Game
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The Stratego game is a board game where one player battles against the computer using his armies of pieces.
The object of the game is to capture the enemy flag, by moving pieces towards the enemy and trying to capture enemy pieces.
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Stratego
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The Genius Chess Game
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"The Genius" is a chess engine, complete with its own user interface, game saving and reopening capability.
It can be used to play against humans and uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to select the best moves. It can play at four different levels, with each level increasing the thinking time of "The Genius", thereby enabling it to play better moves.
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The Genius
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Yahtzo! Yahtzee!® Game for Windows
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Yahtzo! is a Yahtzee!® game for Windows machines, specifically programmed in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.
In order to run Yahtzo!, you'll need the Microsoft .NET Runtime. Yahtzo! has full-featured scoring and game-saving capabilities, and most importantly...it won't let you cheat. It also incorporates a high-scores table.
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Yahtzo !
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Card Games
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Java Solitaire Card Game
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A Java implementation of the famous Klondike solitaire game. The game is available in English and French.
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Java Solitaire
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Calculation Card Game
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This is a free version for Windows of the popular card game 'Calculation'. When played with six or more waste piles it is an easy game to learn and play, making a pleasant way to while away a few minutes. Or when played with fewer waste piles it becomes a challenging game requiring careful thought and planning.
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Calculation
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PySolitaire Python Solitaire
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PySolitaire is a fork of PySol Solitaire that runs correctly on Windows and has a nice clean installer. PySolitaire (Python Solitaire) is a collection of more than 300 solitaire and Mahjongg games.
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PySolitaire
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Platform Games
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Pingus Lemmings-Like Game
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Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game covered under the GNU General Public License. It features currently 22 playable levels and runs under a wide variety of operating systems (Linux, Windows, etc.).
Pingus was started at the end of 1998 with the simple goal to create a Free (as in freedom, not as in free beer) LemmingsTM clone. The Free means you get the sources and are allowed and encouraged to change and distribute them.
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Pingus
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Secret Maryo Chronicles Game
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Secret Maryo Chronicles is an open source two-dimensional platform game with a design similar to classic computer games. SMC has computer support to a great degree by using an accelerated Open Graphics Library for the best possible graphic design and stock performance.
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Secret Maryo
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Super Mario War Multiplayer Game
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Super Mario War is a Super Mario multiplayer game. The goal is to stomp as many other Marios as possible to win the game. It's a tribute to Nintendo and the game Mario War by Samuele Poletto.
The game uses artwork and sounds from Nintendo games. The publishers hope that this non-commercial fangame qualifies as fair use work; they just wanted to create the game to show how much they adore Nintendo's characters and games. The game is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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Super Mario War
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SuperTux Jump'n Run Sidescroller Game
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SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games covered under the GNU General Public License.
The Milestone 1 release of SuperTux features: 9 enemies, 26 playable levels, software and OpenGL rendering modes, configurable joystick and keyboard input, new music, completely redone graphics.
SuperTux is available for Windows, Linux, MacOSX as well as numerous other more exotic systems.
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SuperTux
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Tower Toppler Platform Game
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In this game you have to help a cute little green animal switch off some kind of "evil" mechanism. The "power off switch" is hidden somewhere in high towers. On your way to the target you need to avoid a lot of strange robots that guard the tower.
That sounds all like a normal jump and run game. What makes this game different is that you walk arond the tower which is revolving on the screen, so that you only see the 180o that are currently visible.
The game is a reimplementation of the old game known as Tower Toppler or Nebulus. It was available for PC, Atari, C64.
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Tower Toppler
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Wormux Platform Game
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Have the mascots of your favorite free software titles battle it out in the Wormux arena using dynamite, grenades, baseball bats and other bazookas.
Exterminate your opponent in a 2D environment with toon-style scenery.
Each player controls the team of his choice (penguin, gnu, firefox, wilber,...) and must destroy his adversary using more or less casual weapons.
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Wormux
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Xrick Platform Game
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Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980s and early 1990s, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks, avoiding traps, from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle.
xrick is a clone of Rick Dangerous, known to run on Linux, Windows, BeOs, Amiga, QNX... download and install the game, learn how to play, and enjoy!
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Xrick
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Shooter (First Person) Games
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AssaultCube First Person Shooter Game
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AssaultCube is a FREE multiplayer first-person shooter game, based on the CUBE engine. Taking place in realistic environments, with fast, arcade gameplay, it's addictive and fun!
With efficient bandwidth usage, it's low-latency and can even run over a 56Kbps connection. It's tiny too, weighing in at a lightweight 40 MB package available for Windows, Mac and Linux. On the correct settings, it can even run on old hardware (Pentium III and above).
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AssaultCube
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Cube First Person Shooter Game
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Free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast old school gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on.
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Cube
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Cube 2 (Sauerbraten) First Person Shooter Game
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Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS (see above).
Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features and eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.
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Cube 2
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Fight Win Prevail First Person Shooter Game
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Fight Win Prevail (or FWP for short) is a hobbyist multiplayer first person shooter.
The game is set in an imaginary universe where fearless pilots fight to the death with their futuristic vehicles. Gameplay lies somewhere between the Mechwarrior-series and Quake 3. It is faster and more action-orientated than in Mechwarrior, but tries to avoid the 'jump-around-like-crazy-and-fire-at-everything-that-moves'-gameplay known from Quake 3.
Fight Win Prevail is a pure multiplayer game and does not have a real singleplayer mode. Our primary target are LANs, but the game is playable over the internet, too.
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Fight Win Prevail
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Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion
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Hammer of Thyrion is a cross-platform port of Raven's Hexen II source. It is based on an older linux port, Anvil of Thyrion. HoT includes many bug fixes, improved sound and video modes, opengl improvements and documentation among many others.
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Hexen II
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IOQuake3 First Person Shooter Game
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This project, ioquake3 (or ioq3 for short,) aims to build upon id Software's Quake 3 source code release. The source code was released on August 20, 2005 under the GPLv2. Since then, new features have been added, and bug fixes have been made.
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ioQuake3
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OpenArena First Person Shooter Game
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OpenArena is a community-produced deathmatch FPS based on GPL idTech3 technology. There are many game types supported including Free For All, Capture The Flag, Domination, Overload, Harvester, and more. There are 17 unique player models to choose from and 12 weapons.
Please note that this game contains adult content, and is NOT suitable for children.
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OpenArena
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Tremulous First Person Shooter Game
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Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more...
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Tremulous
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Strategy Games
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0 A.D. historical real-time strategy open source game
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0 A.D. is a historical real-time strategy open source game, published by Wildfire Games, and concentrates on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D..
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0 A.D.
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