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OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe“, a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
OpenTTD requires the original version of Transport Tycoon Deluxe data files in order to function.
OpenTTD is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0.
Download: OpenTTD 0.6.0 Beta 5
Nexuiz is a 3d deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive). The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since then it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times, and the game is still being updated and developed.
Download: Nexuiz 2.4
Project Torque is a MMORG (Massively Multiplayer Online Racing Game)
Game Features:
· Cutting Edge 3D Graphics
· Several Types of Game Modes
· 2-20 Player Races
· Advanced Experience and Licensing System
· Online Community features like Chat and Email within the Client
· Shop and Item Mall for Upgrades and Car Customization
· Online Rankings
· Tournaments
Download: Project Torque 2.0
VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. It’s powered by the excellent Vamos physics engine. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2. It is currently available for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows (Cygwin).
This game is in the early stages of development but is already very playable. Currently the game features:
· 19 Tracks: Barcelona, Brands Hatch, Detroit, Dijon, Hockenheim, Jarama, Kyalami, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Monaco, Monza, Mosport, Nrburgring Nordschleife, Pau, Road Atlanta, Ruudskogen, Spa Francorchamps, Weekend Drive, Zandvoort
· 28 Cars: 3S, AX2, C7, CO, CS, CT, F1, FE, FF, G4, GT, M3, M7, MC, MI, NS, RG, RS2, SB, T73, TC, TL, TL2, XG, XM, XS, Z06
· Compete against AI players
· Simple networked multiplayer mode
· Very realistic physics
· Mouse/joystick/keyboard driven menus
· and more
Download: VDrift 2008-02-23 RC | Media Gallery
mIRC Power Pack is a powerful script for mIRC designed specifically for gamers. It includes five different game browsers, allowing you to pick the tool that you like best. MPP’s Connection Manager is one of the very best, allowing you to connect to multiple IRC networks using different nicknames, email addresses and userid’s for each connection, unlimited perform sections for each connection, and it includes ETG VHost, GameSurge AuthServ and Protium/Dalnet NickServ login managers. You can even store your MPP settings in an unlimited number of User Profiles.
Download: mIRC Power Pack 8.0.0 RC13
Extra M.A.M.E. a small MS Windows compatible GUI wrapper for M.A.M.E., the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator authored by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME team. M.A.M.E. let’s you play thousands of old-school arcade games on your computer. Extra M.A.M.E. is smaller and easier to use.
Download: Extra M.A.M.E. 5.5
Vista Game Explorer Editor (VGEE) - The almost only program out there to edit the details and boxart in your Vista Game Explorer.
VGEE allows you to add your own information and box-art into the Games Explorer of Windows Vista. You can edit or delete existing games as well add new games.
Operating system: Windows Vista 32bit and 64bit versions.
Celestia is a free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A ‘point-and-goto’ interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that’s not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.
Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Download: Celestia 1.5.0 | Forum
Record Your Own Gaming Videos
WeGame can record your gameplay from some of your favorite games. Just start up the client, launch your game, and hit record!
Once you’re done recording, you can instantly publish your video to WeGame.com and have it seen by gamers around the world.
Operating Systems: Windows XP (Recommended), Windows Vista.
Download: WeGame Public Beta 1
Gamepe is IN-GAME MP3 Player, Windows Live Messenger Client and IRC Client do it all inside games without having to minimize (Alt+Tab) the game window
• Easy to use
• Same mIRC commands
• No lag
• Send & receive message from/to Microsoft MSN
• and much more…
Download: Gamepe 1.0
X360 Xplorer allows you to open and modify XBOX 360 image files. You can extract the contents of the ISO images and modify the data.
Download: X360 Xplorer 0.1 Beta
CheatBook-DataBase 2008 is a freeware “cheat-code tracker” Games utility that puts hints and cheats for (PC, Gamecube, Sega, Playstation, Walkthroughs, DVD, Playstation 2, Nintendo 64, Xbox, Gameboy Advance, Dreamcast, Super Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Wii, PSP, XBox 360) easily accessible from one central location. Covering more than 14200 Games. This Database represents all genres and focuses on recent releases.
CheatBook-DataBase 2008 is Freeware for Win95/98/2000/NT/XP/Vista
Download: CheatBook-DataBase 2008
The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.
FlightGear is known to run on Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX platforms allowing the user run on their platform of preference.
Download: FlightGear 1.0.0
A revolutionary platform for virtual building
As far back as 1999, a group of visionary LEGO product developers and engineers started thinking about letting people design their own LEGO products. They imagined people of all ages, anywhere in the world, being able create any design they could dream up using an intuitive, free tool for digital design.
The first milestone was achieved in July 2003, when version 1.0 of LEGO Digital Designer was released. In February 2004, an online 3D Gallery went live, allowing designers to share their ideas via the Internet. By 2005, thousands of LEGO Factory enthusiasts were designing, sharing and ordering their own custom models and the one-millionth copy of LEGO Digital Designer was downloaded on 25 September that year.
Right now, LEGO Digital Designer is quite simply the best virtual building system out there with its ‘Click-Stick’ method of 3D modeling winning praise from children, parents, teachers and design enthusiasts everywhere. And, as the virtual design platform behind a growing number of LEGO products, LEGO Digital Designer is here to stay. A host of improvements and new features are already in development, including an improved user interface, new connectivity, more life-like building, Technic compatibility and improved train building and animation. So stay tuned with LEGO Digital Designer, the future is yours.
Requirements: Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP. Mac OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.6
Download: LEGO Digital Designer 2.3
vSide is an immersive, interconnected virtual city environment where you can hang out, listen to music, chat, dance, and make friends.
System Requirements: Windows XP, Mac OS X.
Download: vSide Beta 2 | The Lounge Forums
Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth “The Mother Of All Games”. Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play.
Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems.
Download: Scorched 3D 41.1
You are a Navy Seal currently serving aboard the USS Volarus when your submarine is destroyed by an unidentified vessel. A Russian nuclear warship seems the most likely possibility. You escape the final blast and wash up on a tropical island. The situation, as you find out, is a much more grim that you originally anticipated. The fate of humankind now rests in your hands.
Mystery Island II takes elements from puzzle games, adventure games, and science fiction to create a fun and interesting experience. Players must find and use items to progress further in the game, ensure they stay alive, and finally defeat the aliens, saving Earth! The demo is available as a free game download.
Requires: Mac OS X 10.2 or later, Windows 2000 or later
Download: Mystery Island II 1.7.7
dimension3 is a 3D game “without content.” This engine is aimed directly at two groups:
Mod Makers
Mod makers have done wonderful things with other engines, but they are extending an engine that was basically designed for a single game. Dim3 is the opposite … an engine designed for all games!
These people can just download the binary and change almost everything about the engine from scripts and editors. In this way, they can make any number of games, for example:
• first-person shooter
• 3D adventure game
• 2D side scroller
• top-down RPG
• driving and racing
• network battles
… or many other types of game.
Coders
dim3 is open source, so anybody that wants to tinker with the actual code can do so. dim3 is designed to be completely changed without ever touching the code, but those that want to can dive in.
dim3 projects can be developed on OS X only, but dim3 projects can be run on OS X, Windows XP, and Linux.
Download: dimension3 2.2
Taking cues from the currently popular trend to cater to the realism-enthused, America’s Army is one of a new breed of team-based tactical first-person shooters. Costing approximately 6.3 million dollars to make and powered by next-generation Unreal technology, the title delivers a tried and true Counter-Strike style of multiplayer.
America’s Army is one of the five most popular PC action games played online. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror. The game is free.
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