Category Archives: Games
Xonotic 0.7 released!
The best open source first person shooter released another mind-blowing version that brings it one more step closer to the 1.0 target.
Hedgewars 0.9.19 bring the freezer!
The latest chilled version of the popular open source worms-like game is here!
New cars in your garage with Stunt Rally 2.0!
A new major version of the Stunt Rally racing open source game released!
Enter the world of artificial intelligence with Robocode!
Learn how to develop basic artificial intelligence by playing this easy to learn game of fighting robot tanks!
0 A.D. Alpha 13 “Magadha” released!
The 13th alpha release of the most exciting open source real time strategy game is out!
Dead Cyborg is back with its second episode!
The “pay if you like” sci-fi graphical adventure Dead Cyborg is back with its second episode that was released a few hours ago, although the initial goal of the 3000usd wasn’t reached by 500usd… The story continues in the same post apocalyptic and toxic world that you woke up into, having no memory of the [...]
Valve’s Steam in Fedora 18
Alright, this is by far a non Free Software, but this is also the very best way that will push more people to Free Desktops and therefore to Free Software. I strongly believe that some software categories, or certain Applications is perfectly okay to stay proprietary, and one of these categories are games. I tried [...]
FlightGear 2.10 at landing altitude!
One of the most successful open source projects ever existed is about to release another major version, and as the release candidates were made available, I thought it would be a good time to take a look on what’s coming. FlightGear change logs have been ultra rich in the past versions and this one is [...]
Stunt Rally 1.9 brings more realism!
When Stunt Rally project initiated I was very skeptical about it. How can a fork of VDrift which is under extra-heavy development be stable and successful in any way? As new versions of Stunt Rally become available, I gradually rescind my negative thoughts about the project and actually already enjoy this racing game a lot!
Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Cube was one of the very few FPS games available for linux many years ago. Although it had an active community around it, things didn’t go well and Cube was never seriously developed and updated. Things have now changed and Cube 2 was released a few days ago bringing tons of improvements compared to the [...]
New Year’s Eve Gifts from Desura! (finished)
The holidays are on the way or already here for most of us, so free time is becoming a reality for everyone again. How about spending this time with some great games? Desura is kindly offering game titles presents to 5 lucky WoGue readers! All you have to do is choose your favorite title and [...]
Fedora gamers rejoice…with Mumble!
As Fedora is one of the “pure Gnome” distributions, it is very possible that it concerns a large part of our readers so here are some good gaming news for you! Mumble RPMs can help you with the popular Humble Indie Bundle game collections that don’t include an rpm package, thus not integrating well under [...]
Best Open Source Games
Linux gaming has acquired bigger dimensions lately, after the active involvement of well known commercial games developing studios and other independent efforts, but we should not forget to support the great selection of open source games that Gnome users can enjoy!
Win a copy of Sacred Gold for Linux! (finished)
Take part on the first ever contest by woGue, and win a free copy of the Linux Games Publishing Sacred Gold RPG game! Sacred Gold was initially released in 2004 for Windows and was ported to Linux by LGP in 2009. Lately it became the newest member of Desura Linux game list, and you now [...]
Raise ‘em with PokerTH!
Playing poker under Gnome is a relatively hard situation. There are almost no GTK poker clients, and those who are lack many things. The good news is that we can use the Qt based PokerTH just fine! PokerTH has been around for 6 years now making it a mature application that keeps the poker linux [...]
Let it roll with GNU Backgammon!
GNU Backgammon is a fun backgammon game, match and position analysis tool, statistical estimator and random generator based on a neural network. It can serve you as an application to use when you want to kill some minutes of your free time playing the wonderful game of backgammon, or improve your playing strength through game [...]
Gnome Games heading towards 3.6!
The Gnome Games package didn’t receive a ton of love and development since version 3.4 was released, but some changes, improvements, fixes and additions did happen apparently. Let’s take a look on the small changes that we should be expecting to see in a few months, concerning this small official part of the Gnome desktop [...]
Play Chinese Chess with GMChess!
Do you know what Xiangqi is? It is one of the most popular board games in China, and is in the same family as Western chess, but only with some minor differences that make it unique. It is like relearning chess all over again! GMChess offers you the opportunity to learn and play Chinese chess playing against an opponent AI [...]
Bother your mind with gbrainy!
GNOME’s brain teaser game is a great way to kill some free time and train your mind at the same time. It includes many mini puzzles and tests that will challenge your short term memory, logic, verbal aptitude and mental calculation skills. gbrainy is suitable for every age and skills category, since it can be [...]
Reach your matching limits, with Mahjongg!
GNOME’s Mahjongg is an one player matching game that is based on the ancient Chinese 4-player game Mahjong. The Mahjong Solitare games family has been available on computers since 1981, and is to be found in every platform and device nowadays. So, what is so great about this game?