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Second Life's Open Source Fairy Tale

Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don't know who will use it, nor do they know how things will progress.

The fairy tale version is that…

Second Life to go Open Source

Aiming to take advantage of its already-impressive momentum, San Francisco's Linden Lab, developer of the Second Life virtual online world, will announce Monday that it is taking the first major…

X3: Reunion Announced for Linux

Linux Game Publishing has announced they are to publish a Linux version of the hit title X3: Reunion. A sequel to X2: The Threat (already available for Linux), X3 features the most visually…

PlaneShift Open Source MMORPG Developers Wanted

PlaneShift is an Open Source MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game) which is in a steady process of development . Technically PlaneShift is based on CrystalSpace (with CAL3D and CEL…

Freeing a MMORPG - Free Ryzom

Free Software Foundation announces that it will officially support the Free Ryzom campaign with a pledge of $60,000.

The Free Ryzom campaign was established to purchase the online game and…

Second Life linux client alpha on Debian

The game’s name is Second Life, and yes, its linux client is the most hassle-free version I’ve ever dealt with. Simply download the package, extract and run the game. There’s no compile-and-…

Why We Need an Open Source Second Life

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last six months, you will have noticed that the virtual world Second Life is much in the news. According to its home page, there are currently…

Blizzard Unbans Linux World of Warcraft Players

World of Warcraft players using Cedega (the Linux-based Windows emulator) had their bans lifted after an investigation by Blizzard in cooperation with the Cedega development team revealed that the…

Linux Users Banned From World of Warcraft?

"Many Cedega (formerly WINEX) users claim to have been mistakenly caught up in a security sweep of the U.S. game servers performed by Blizzard's World of Warcraft Game Master (GM) staff. Affected…

Why Gaming Sucks On Linux

Despite last week's article about running World of Warcraft on Linux with CodeWeavers' CrossOver, I can't help but feel a sense of despair when I think of gaming under Linux. It seems that over…