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Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 31, 2010 3 Comments

Several months ago I’ve posted about the cRPG in developments called Venetica.
The company behind this game – Deck13, made many games which where ported to GNU/Linux and MacOS (by Runesoft) and I wrongly assumed that Venetica will have the same fate.
Despite using the FOSS cross platform Ogre3D engine like they did [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 26, 2010 One Comment
Organic Indie Preorder Pack (Overgrowth and NS2) Postmortem

Some time ago I’ve wrote about Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds offering both of their in development games (Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2) for a single price of $40 .
This offer was limited to one week and the preorderes where successful behind their imagination.

“Originally, we had 1100 preorders of Overgrowth, since announcing preorders a [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 24, 2010 One Comment
Fishing Cactus Are porting Their Mojito Engine To GNU/Linux !

Fishing Cactus the developers of many games meant for digital distribution platforms have announced that they are porting their game engine Mojito to GNU/Linux :

“With the mondial crysis, it’s important to think about the people who are in need. They maybe can’t buy a fully functional Mac or an expensive Windows [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 21, 2010 One Comment
Fragoria – English Version Goes Beta !

Fragoria is a Flash based web browser MMORPG with beautiful graphics and was available in Russian and German since 2008.
Now the English closed beta has been started and you can apply here.

Fragoria offers : classes, skills,leveling, pets, huge world, PvP, magic , crafting system and more !
And it’s all free to play !

Welcome [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 16, 2010 2 Comments
QuantZ For GNU/Linux Released !

Today I got this email about QuantZ release :

Dear all,

QuantZ is now ready and on sale on our website!!!
www.gamerizon.com/games/QuantZ

QuantZ for Linux is on sale and we decided to sell it for $6.50 till the end of January.

We really would like to thank you for all your help, your support, your comments regarding the Linux [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 10, 2010 One Comment
Hacker Evolution: Untold For GNU/Linux Goes Beta !

Hacker Evolution: Untold which is available for MacOS and Windows for quite some time now goes Beta on GNU/Linux and beta testers are needed !

If you want to take part in the beta testing please make contact at this page : http://www.exosyphen.com/page_contact.html

While the original Hacker-Evolution won’t be [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 10, 2010 2 Comments
Why You Should Use OpenGL And Not DirectX

A few days ago there was a very interesting article on Wolfire Games Blog, the indie company behind lugaru and Overgrowth who recently collaborated with Unknown Worlds on releasing Natural Selection 2 with Overgrowth + access for all Alphas and Betas for only 40USD.

From [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 6, 2010 4 Comments
Overgrowth & Natural Selection 2 Preorder Pack !

The indie game studios Wolfire Games and Unknown Worlds have just announced that their upcoming games Overgrowth and Natural Selection 2 are available for preorder with alpha access for both games at the price of one ! just for 40USD !
This offer is for a limited time of 6 days [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 5, 2010 3 Comments
Mystery of Solarus DX – Zelda Remake !

Are you a Zelda fan ?
If so then you would be happy to know that a new FOSS project to clone Zelda and fix the “flaws” released it’s first “demo version” .
Mystery of Solarus DX is licensed under the GPL and is available in 4 languages : English, French, German and Dutch [...]

Written By: Maxim Bardin on January 4, 2010 6 Comments
Welcome to 2010 !

Hello All and thank you for visiting this blog so far…
In this post I’ll summarize LGN Blog States, talk a little about the games that were released this year and make predictions for the future to come…

As you can see from the graph below LGN blog is becoming more popular each month [...]

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