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Portal - a puzzle game in first person. The game takes place in the laboratories of the fictional company Aperture Science. Unlike other games of Valve, in that there are no weapons – only device that creates portals with which to solve various puzzles, playing for a girl named Chell. Portal is available free of charge to participants beta-testing Steam for Linux, which took place last year.

Left 4 Dead 2 - first-person shooter. You play in a ubiquitous virus, brainwashed people with immunity to it. You – Survivors. Your goal – to destroy all infected. Your team consists of four people: Coach, Nick, Rochelle, Ellis. The game has six campaigns as well as guns you have to take first-aid kit and a defibrillator to revive fallen comrades.
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On a system that is Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for porting a popular game engine, Torque 2D MIT on the platform Android. As the name implies, the engine is distributed under a free license MIT.

At the moment, the engine supports platforms Windows, OS X, iOS. Upon successful completion, the company Max Gaming promises about a month to port the engine to devices based on Android 2.3 + (including Ouya).On account of Max Gaming few games based on the Torque engines, including issued under Linux. They have also been fulfilled porting T2D on XBOX 360 and other engines from iOS to Android.

In addition, with the successful financing of the project Nathan Martin (Nathan Martin) from the community of T2D, together with the employee Max Gaming Tim Newell (Tim Newell) promise to perform porting of the engine for Linux.
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Red Orchestra: Ostfont 41-45 - game in the genre of tactical first-person shooter (tactical FPS), devoted to the actions of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front of World War II. Available multiplayer modes and practice with bots.

The game includes the following classes:

• Shooter / Schütze,
• Shooter auto / Schütze mit MK,
• Submachine / Stoßtruppe,
• Gunner / MG-Schütze,
• The squad / Gruppenführer,
• Sapper / Sharfschütze,
• PT-Soldat/Pak-Soldat,
• The crew / Panzerbesatzung,
• Tank commander / Panzerführer. (more…)

Kickstarter thing continues to grow, and after the huge success which had Wasteland 2 by Brian Fargo, inXile with studio and Double Fine Adventure from Tim Schafer of Double Fine Productions studio in the arena goes notorious company Obsidian Entertainment. Names Fergus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Tim Kane and Josh Sawyer can tell a lot avid cult RPG, well, those who have not heard these names, have heard about games like Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1 and 2 and Fallout New Vegas, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Alpha Protocol, and many others who participated in the development of these people.

So, meet - Project Eternity . At the moment, has already collected more than 1 million 840 thousand dollars, and there is still 24 days. Now it is known that the engine will be used by Unity, the game will be DRM-free version of the game and will be for Linux (it officially announced in updates to the game site ). Spread the game will probably be through the site Good Old Games (gog.com). Plans to revive the developers on a new engine all the advantages of games Infinity Engine.
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GarageGames will make its first publication in 2001, set up by the popular sci-fi Egoshooters Tribes 2 3D Engine Torque 3D is available under an open source license.

This is from a press release out of the company. The Torque Game Engine is to be released under the MIT license and loud GarageGames as “best open source gaming technology in the world, the future of game development, sustainable change.”

The engine torque is supported by Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Besides Tribes 2 is based on a number of other popular games Torque, including Frozen Synapse, Blockland and “Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa”. Torque 3D has been developed according to GarageGames for maximum flexibility and performance across a wide range of hardware and comes with a complete suite of tools that will enable developers to program quality games and simulations. Torque 3D supports from windows as well as a browser-based development house.
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The Python Game Programming Challenge is challenging the participants of the Week 9 to 16 September 2012, a complete game. Registration begins in the next few days.

Participation is possible for both individual and for teams. A week before the start of a topic is specified, the programmers put in Python. They must not use any existing code, but have the game “from scratch” writing. The use of libraries, however, is permitted in addition may involve the participants existing graphics and music.
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The new, the first in this year’s version of the game Unknown Horizons - 2012.1.

The game is an economic strategy in real time with indirect control, like The Settlers or Caesar. The setting is based on the historical realities of the 17-18 centuries. The player leads a group of migrants: founded a small settlement on the island and seeks to develop it to a thriving city, build buildings, controls the level of taxes and sees to it that the residents were provided with everything necessary, fighting, or trading with neighboring settlements and so on. Unknown Horizons has a rather good graphics and music. It is possible to play on the network.

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Alternativa3D - cross-platform game engine, implemented in Flash , is now available as Open Source. Its source code is published on the site GitHub under a free license MPL Ver.2.0 .

There was a new release of the increasingly popular 3D-shooter Xonotic 0.6, dated to the second birthday of the project. Since the previous release was six months, and that’s what game developers are now our attention:

• The long-awaited implementation of ClientSide QuakeC for games on the network, which means that the transfer process of animation, the level of detail models and other graphical niceties to the client during multiplayer battles. Thus, without loss of quality FPS and there was an increase in overall performance when playing over the network.For developers, this feature greatly facilitated the process of working on future versions and test code.

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The developers of the popular aivasimulyatora Flightgear pleased fans of the game with a new version. In particular, among all the innovations and improvements are the following:

• Improvement of “artificial intelligence” and the decision-making mechanism for the surrounding objects;
• The new aircraft (now the total number exceeds 80);
• Sound of other aircraft (computer-controlled in single-player or other players in multiplayer games);
• Simplifying the process of landing aircraft by automatically selecting the appropriate runway and show the direction of landing;

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