Design your own video game adventures.
Atmosphir is a free video game / creation tool for Mac & PC. Design mode lets you create enormous 3D platforming levels filled with fun gameplay elements like power-ups and fireballs, while Play mode lets you explore through the thousands of diverse user-created challenges being uploaded every day.
Download for: windows or macintosh
New version of Virtual Box is out Download: Windows – Linux – Mac Os X
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Mahjongg (also known as Shanghai, or Taipei) is a solitaire tile removal game. Ivory is a freeware electronic version of it.
features:
* 3D graphics, allowing movement around the game in all dimensions
* Multiple (very nice) tile sets and graphic themes
* “Fortune cookie” messages
Available for windows(java), linux and macintosh.
Java is required to play.
Download: Windows – Linux – Macintosh
A Tron clone in 3d.
Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It’s an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player there are new game modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.
Download: Windows – Linux – Macintosh
ByteJacker posted a list of the 10 best free games for the year 2008. You can download the entire list here or go to the respective link site for the single download.
ABOUT VMWAROS, www.vmwaros.org
WmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS desktop envirnoment available in two formats: a bootable live-DVD installable on the hard drive, and a disk image for VMware. The AROS Research Operating System is a open source lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level, while improving on it in many areas.
ABOUT AROS, www.aros.org
Do you remember the good old Amiga times? Computing was funny and almost never a pain. AmigaOS was really easy to understand and, thanks to its elegance and optimisation, could run excellent applications on low-spec machines, without wasting hardware resources. But it was ages ago. The AROS Research Operating System tries to port al the good things of AmigaOS on other platforms, being an open-source re-implementation (rewritten from scratch) of Amiga API and environment.
GOG.com offers Beneath a Steel Sky and Lure of Tempress.
Both are point-and-click adventure games by Revolution Software. Beneath a Steel Sky places you in the shoes of Robert Foster, the sole survivor of a plane crash in cyberpunk Australia’s Outback. Raised in the wasteland, you were forcibly “reintegrated” into the city. Now your plan is to get out. Lure of the Temptress is set in a fantasy world, where you become a peasant named Diermot. After an attempt to bring order to a rebellious town goes wrong, you’re flung from your mount and wake up in a dungeon. It is your duty to escape and rid the town of its evil enchantress and her minions.
To download you must register with gog.com
This games are freeware by many years, the gog versions add the full support for windows xp-vista without the need to use DosBox or ScummVM. Beneath a Steel Sky comes with some goodies like wallpapers and a comic book.
Nexuiz is a free open-source first person shooter that runs on Windows, Linux and OSX.
From the Author’s Blog….
In order to bring awareness of our upcoming independent game, Overgrowth, we are giving away free copies of the game that started it all: Lugaru!
Lugaru is a cult classic, indie video game that was created by David Rosen when he was in high school. It is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Since its launch, it has been sold for $19.95 without exception — until now!
This Christmas, we are giving it away for free!
All you have to do to have your free copy emailed to you on Christmas Eve is join this Facebook event and join the Overgrowth Facebook Page. Don’t open it until Christmas Day! Make sure you’re a fan of the Overgrowth Facebook Page, and be sure to invite your friends to this event!
