SuperTux 0.3.0 released Friday, December 22, 2006 Add Comment Edit SuperTux 0.3.0 was released is now out in the wild. This is a preview of milestone 2 , so expect something a little rough on the edges. S... Read More
Battle Just Started 0.1.0 Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Add Comment Edit Battle Just Started is a fun multiplayer 3D tank game. It has slightly cartoonish graphics and a basic AI (so you can play single player) ... Read More
Free Ryzom Thursday, December 14, 2006 Add Comment Edit The Free Ryzom Campaign is an effort to make the code and the artwork of MMORPG Ryzom available under copyleft licenses. Just today the F... Read More
Wizardy Tuesday, December 05, 2006 Add Comment Edit Ok, technically not a Free game nor really a game, but the damn thing is almost always right. Almost freaky. Try this little flash game, W... Read More
It's A Graveyard Out There Monday, December 04, 2006 Add Comment Edit Jono Bacon, a Gnome developer, gives an insight into just why Flightgear is so damn cool. The SuperTuxKart team is looking at another rel... Read More
Railroad Tycoon now Freeware Thursday, November 30, 2006 Add Comment Edit The original Railroad Tycoon has been released as freeware . Download it from 2kgames.com who seem to be the official handlers of the free... Read More
VDrift gets AI, Ecksdee update Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Add Comment Edit VDrift continues to improve at a rapid rate, with somebody contributing rudimentary AI drivers . The next release should, therefore, be a ... Read More
UFO:AI 2.0rc6 Sunday, November 19, 2006 Add Comment Edit UFO:AI 2.0rc6 is out ( changelog ). "This release candidate should really be the final one for the 2.0 series." With working re... Read More
Angels Fall First Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Add Comment Edit If you thought yesterday's news was big, Free Gamer comes with an equally impressive post for today! Angels Fall First The prolific arti... Read More
TA:Spring Rewrite Monday, October 23, 2006 Add Comment Edit There's a storm of comotion in the TA:Spring community after the lead developers announced intentions to rewrite the entire Spring engi... Read More
VDrifting Away Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Add Comment Edit Free Gamer has been on hiatus. Sorry! Sometimes these things happen... VDrift made a new release yesterday. Hero of Allocrost released ... Read More
A Bit Artifical Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Add Comment Edit Today I'd like to highlight two Artifical Intelligence based games - The breve Simulation Environment and NERO: Neuro-Evolving Robotic ... Read More
Slow News, XMoto, SuperTuxKart Monday, September 18, 2006 Add Comment Edit It's been slow news on Free Gamer, partly influenced by alcoholic intake and partly by the fact not too much happened in the last severa... Read More
Unidentified Flying Objects Friday, September 15, 2006 Add Comment Edit UFO: Enemy Unknown was released by Microprose over a decade ago. For those not familiar with it and it's predecessors, or for nostalg... Read More
Sauerbraten, Site Upgrade Thursday, September 14, 2006 Add Comment Edit Sauerbraten There's a new Sauerbraten download and this one is looking beautiful. Just check out the screenshot... wow! This update ... Read More
Nexuiz 2.1, Savage Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Add Comment Edit Nexuiz 2.1 is out ( changelog ). Not much to say other than this builds upon the success of Nexuiz 2.0 and continues to establish Nexuiz ... Read More
Oh So Evil Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Add Comment Edit I don't know how this game isn't more well known, but I only just found out about XEvil . This game is a cross between Commander Ke... Read More
Brutal Chess, Warzone, Balder2D Monday, September 11, 2006 Add Comment Edit Does anybody remember Battle Chess ? I loved that game. I think it was one of the games that really got me hooked on using a PC after year... Read More
New Releases on the Horizon Saturday, September 09, 2006 Add Comment Edit There are imminent releases for OpenCity and Pingus . OpenCity 0.0.4beta is looking a lot more playable than it's version number sugges... Read More
Hero of Allacrost Friday, September 08, 2006 Add Comment Edit Hero of Allacrost Hero of Allacrost is a Free single player 2D RPG game that's been in development for some time without any real relea... Read More
Review: Fish Fillets NG Thursday, September 07, 2006 Add Comment Edit Fish Fillets NG is the fan-project result of the open sourcing of the original commercial title Fish Fillets from Altar Interactive. It is... Read More
Mars, TCE, Wesnoth, Pong2 Thursday, August 31, 2006 Add Comment Edit Ah, the recent spate of Free game / Free Gamer activity continues. I will be away for the weekend so there will be respite. However, not t... Read More
SuperTuxKart Lives, MTP Target! Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Add Comment Edit SuperTuxKart has finally emerged as a game in it's own right, with a release planned for September 10th . I'm looking forward to p... Read More
Niwki Deluxe Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Add Comment Edit These days my conscience starts playing up when I don't update FG. Here I am, sat at work, fretting over not having posting an update f... Read More
Yet More Free Game Updates... Friday, August 25, 2006 Add Comment Edit Ultimate Stunts 0.6.2 is out. I always loved the original Stunts 4D game that inspired this. Ultimate Stunts looks a little more free form... Read More
Snippets and Tidbits Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Add Comment Edit Due to personal reasons Free Gaming has been a bit slow lately. Here's a few snippets... Next version of True Combat: Elite will have ... Read More
Freeciv Beta + Mania Drive Update Friday, August 18, 2006 Add Comment Edit There's been an update to Mania Drive . This one introduces a beginners storyline, which is a welcome addition to any non-expert driver... Read More
The Silver Lining Demo Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Add Comment Edit There is a demo of The Silver Lining (formely known as King's Quest IX) available for download ! For those who don't know, King... Read More
ORTS - A Free Software RTS Game Engine Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Add Comment Edit OTRS Well, look what we have here. Joining the likes of Boson , Glest , and TA:Spring / TA3D is another Free 3D RTS game: ORTS . The inter... Read More
Gusanos on Linux Saturday, August 12, 2006 Add Comment Edit Thanks to Nicklas Marcusson who took the time to email me his findings on running Gusanos on Linux . Without further ado: I saw in your pre... Read More
Clanlib update, Pingus to follow? Friday, August 11, 2006 Add Comment Edit Recently the ClanLib team released version 0.8.0 upon the indie game development world. This "game SDK" boasts an impressive num... Read More
New Mistlands Download Tuesday, August 08, 2006 Add Comment Edit What is Mistlands ? It's a graphically impressive 3d open source rpg! At the end of July they released Milestone 5, just over a year s... Read More
Intermission! Monday, August 07, 2006 Add Comment Edit Sorry for the lack of posts... damn laptop died and it's taken several days to sort it out. Between that and an unusually time-sapping ... Read More
Freecol, VDrift, Sauer... heaven! Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Add Comment Edit I'll start by noting I messed up my last post. Despite making the post on the 23rd, it was dated the 18th so any frequent readers may h... Read More
Freeciv3? Part I Sunday, July 23, 2006 Add Comment Edit There was an interesting discussion over on the Freeciv mailing lists on the goals of the project . Freeciv developer Per started the conver... Read More
Some Cool Game Updates Friday, July 21, 2006 Add Comment Edit UFO:AI Hot off the press is the 2.0 rc3 release from the UFO:AI team , which is shaping up as a flagship open source game after it briefly ... Read More
Essential Open Source Tools for Windows Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Add Comment Edit Windows is not a platform oft associated with open source software, but we can not escape from the fact that the majority of computers worl... Read More
More Upcoming Releases Saturday, July 15, 2006 Add Comment Edit There is a release imminent for Mars: Land of No Mercy , which got it's own .org domain name recently. This isometric strategy mech gam... Read More
VDrift - More Cars & Tracks Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Add Comment Edit There's a significant update to VDrift , the open source drift racing game. Now it has a decent selection of cars and tracks, 19 and 12... Read More
Freecol vs Swecol Monday, July 10, 2006 Add Comment Edit The 0.5 release of Freecol is imminent ! I've been looking forward to this. Freecol is one of the best looking open source games with... Read More
Dedication's What You Need Saturday, July 08, 2006 Add Comment Edit ...if you wanna be a record breaker! Oooo ooo... </singing> One of the great things about Free software games is that people are ... Read More