| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8258 | 4 | 2008-04-28 21:41:26 | <a href="/images/freeciv-2.1.0.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/freeciv-2.1.0.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="160"></a> <em>Category: </em>strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.61"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.61" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.61"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.61" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.61"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.61" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.61"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.61" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.61"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.61" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> An empire-building strategy game <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Prevent server crash during explore. <li>Improve client robustness and error logging. <li>More GTK2 client support for saving server settings, add buttons on dialogs. <li>Updated sentence fragments, plurals, text, and translations; specifically Catalan, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish.</ul> | Freeciv 2.1.4 | updated | Freeciv |
| 8259 | 4 | 2008-04-29 06:06:03 | <a href="/images/batty_junior_demo1.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/batty_junior_demo1.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>arcade<br> <em>Description:</em> Breakout (bat and ball) style game <p>Arkanoid style game based on "Batty" for the Sinclair Spectrum. Break the bricks, collect the power-ups and avoid the bombs dropped from the UFO. | Batty Junior Demo 1b | new | Batty Junior |
| 8260 | 4 | 2008-04-29 07:02:49 | <a href="/images/BallZIIP1.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/BallZIIP1.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><font color="#FF8" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> BallZ is a collect-em-up <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Default screen resolution has been lowered to make it compatible with the Linux Asus EEE PC <li> <li>Joypad support has been added, to allow users with only one mouse to play. <li> <li>Slight graphic enhancements</ul> | BallZ II 1.0.0.1 | updated | BallZ II |
| 8261 | 4 | 2008-04-29 07:13:51 | <a href="/images/jackkeane.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/jackkeane.jpg" alt="Jack Keane packaging" align="right" height="167" width="118"></a> <a href="http://www.linuxgames.com/">Linuxgames.com</a> reports that there is another adventure of German developer Deck 13 available for preorder: Jack Keane.<br />The game takes place in a Monkey Island like setting and uses the same technology as the Ankh games (the OGRE engine).<p>As with the two Ankh games, there are 200 preorders needed for the port to happen. You can either preorder at <a href="http://ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?ref=Products/de/RSJKEANEDV.html">ixsoft</a> (40 Euro) or at <a href="http://www.tuxgames.com/details.cgi?gameref=147&&referrer=happypenguin">tuxgames</a> (60 $) | Jack Keane Preorder | default | |
| 8262 | 4 | 2008-04-29 19:03:58 | <a href="/images/hedgewars-0.9.3-006.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/hedgewars-0.9.3-006.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="150"></a> <em>Category: </em>strategy<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a><a href="#" title="4.30"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="4.30" border="0"></a></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Worms clone <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Switch to OpenGL rendering <li>Massive graphics update <li>New animations, weapon sprites <li>New themes 'Snow' and 'Nature' <li>Many new sounds</ul> | Hedgewars 0.9.3 | updated | Hedgewars |
| 8263 | 4 | 2008-04-29 21:58:14 | <a href="/images/bayonet_charge.jpg"><img src="/images/thumbs/bayonet_charge.jpg" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="180"></a> <em>Category: </em>strategy<br> <em>Description:</em> A standalone glest mod <p>During the early 1800's armies trampled across Europe from country to country destroying everything in their wake, but what if time as we know it had splintered off. What if in some other dimension of time...<br />something else happened entirely.</p> <p>In this RTS you start out in a village, and build a small militia. Then go on to create barracks, and training facilities. If you can keep up with the demands of your army as it grows, and out fox your opponent.. well you know... :) </p> | Demonionic a playable beta | new | Demonionic |
| 8264 | 4 | 2008-04-29 22:37:34 | <a href="/images/TuxWordSmith.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/TuxWordSmith.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="155"></a> <em>Category: </em>kids<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color="#FF8" size="-1"><font color="#FF8" size="-1">(not yet rated)</font></font> <p> <em>Description:</em> Multi-language word scrabble <p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>includes support for the Greek and Cyrillic (Russian, Ukranian) character sets</ul> | TuxWordSmith 0.6.3 | updated | TuxWordSmith |
| 8265 | 4 | 2008-04-30 13:09:34 | <a href="/images/2322775550_11805f291d_o.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/2322775550_11805f291d_o.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="187"></a> <em>Category: </em>board<br> <em>Description:</em> Generic board game for KDE <p>Tagua (previously known as KBoard) is a generic board game suite for KDE, including games like Chess, Shogi, Xiangqi and variants. Tagua is based on a powerful plugin system that allows many games to share the same graphical framework, game history handling, interoperability with AI engines and connectivity to network servers. <ul>Features <li>playing against game engines (gnuchess, crafty, etc...) <li>local editing of games with support for nested variants <li>FICS / ICS network play support <li>themeable graphics and animations <li>new games can be added as plugins </ul> <ul>Included Games <li>Chess <li>Crazyhouse <li>Shogi <li>Minishogi <li>Minichess </ul> | Tagua 1.0 alpha2 "Raigor" | new | Tagua |
| 8266 | 2 | 2008-05-01 01:15:15 | <a href="/images/jigzo.png"><img src="/images/thumbs/jigzo.png" align="right" alt="" width="200" height="147"></a> <em>Category: </em>kids<br> <em>Description:</em> <p>jigzo (previously glpuzzle) is a jigsaw puzzle game. Choose from 12 puzzles of various difficulties (4 to 25 pieces), or add your own puzzles. Move the pieces around to create the target picture. jigzo uses OpenGL for smooth movement and eye-candy.</p> | jigzo 0.5.1 | new | jigzo |
| 8267 | 7378 | 2008-05-02 08:17:14 | Michael Simms, of <a href="http://linuxgamepublishing.com">Linux Game Publishing</a>, sez: <blockquote> We are about to announce our newest title, but we thought we would resurrect an old favorite. <a href="http://competition.linuxgamepublishing.com">The Image Competition</a> is back! <br> Guess the title of the game we are about to announce and win the first copy made! </blockquote> | Guess The LGP's Newest Title | default |