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What about Gnome apps then?

What about Gnome apps then?

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about KDE apps. I went through the default stack of programs available in the desktop environment,…

KDE apps – Any good?

KDE apps – Any good?

What is the one big advantage that Linux distributions have over Windows? If you ask me, that would be the fact that distributions…

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun

Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall…

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Space Miners in Space

3rd August 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

Stephen Cameron, creator of our favourite spaceship bridge simulator, has just added mining to Space Nerds in Space.

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Battle for Wesnoth doesn’t want your money

28th July 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

It’s sink or swim time for Battle for Wesnoth. The fantasy turn-based tactical game has been so long in every distro’s repository that…

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Space Nerds in Space – The Interview

31st May 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

We met up with Stephen Cameron and Jeremy Van Grinsven, creators of Space Nerds in Space on FreeNode to talk about space simulators,…

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Space Nerds in Space

15th May 2015 by Paul Brown 2 comments

Space Nerds in Space (or SNiS for short) is a collaborative space exploration game with a twist: Each player is responsible for one…

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New KDE5 – Now with Added Intelligence!

16th March 2015 by Paul Brown No comments.

Inge Wallin, a developer of KDE’s office productivity suite, Calligra, has just released the very first KDE-specific AI library. Wallin, who has previously…

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Christmas is coming (III): The Gift of Freedom

24th December 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

It may sound hackneyed, it may sound trite, but many of the best things in life are free. Seriously. Even for Christmas. And…

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Christmas is coming (II): Free Board Games

16th December 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Although video games have reigned supreme as Christmas presents for kids (and many adults) for some years now, traditional board games are making…

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Terasology – The Beautiful Minecraft Clone

22nd September 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Now that Minecraft and Mojang belong to Microsoft, things don’t bode well for multiplatfom playing or open modding and APIs within the game.…

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From Windows to Linux, Part 3: Games

20th August 2014 by dedoimedo 9 comments

The third part of our migration slash conversion adventure takes us into the realm of gaming. Alongside Office really, this is the big…

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Pioneer – A game of lonely space adventure

14th July 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Pioneer is an open-ended space RPG-adventure game, much in the spirit of Elite and similar classics. You can make a living by trading…

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Minetest, the Free & Open Sourced alternative to Minecraft, joins Pling

10th June 2014 by Paul Brown 3 comments

The Minetest project, a completely free and open implementation of Minecraft, is now part of Pling. Minetest mimics the aesthetics of Minecraft (which,…

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Develop a CC0 game and win $1,000

19th May 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Creative Commons is running what they’ve dubbed a “Public Domain Jam”: You have until the 24th to develop a CC0 (Public Domain) game…

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