Cyphesis 0.5.20

According to The Linux Game Tome, Cyphesis 0.5.20 was released May 28. i have been checking the official Worldforge site and the forums, but nothing there yet. New in this version is data fully persistent, besides bug fixes and prfomance improvements.
Cyphesis is a small to medium scale MMORPG server with embedded AI. I have been looking at it, but it lacks documentation to easily start creating your own games.

Blender 2.49

The Blender guys, always attending users wishes, have been working to provide us a new version. This 2.49 was not in the plans, but the wait until 2.5, packed with lot of exciting features (including coffe making and dropping the garbage) was too long and they had to do something.
So, this one, even when it is not the big version we are expecting, brings new stuff.

A blog for newbies

Lately Im not posting this kind of announces, as they usually are quickly abandoned. But this blog author claims to be an experienced developer with several published titles for all major consoles and PC. I plan to follow it.

Day of the Freak Pride

Be proud freaks! Today is your day!

Now, the past

Reading Slashdot I found another interesting article, which complementes the previous one about the gaming future: the history of videocards.Take the time machine to the age of Voodoo cards and first Quake versions, when even a 486 CPU was enough to play 90% of the games.

Beej's guide to network programming

Interesting guide that covers network programming. The bad side is that it is mostly oriented to Unix platforms, or you have to install Mingw.

The future of gaming

I found this curious keynote in Slashdot today. By the way, you should read the comments in /. too.

Happy birthday me!

Today is my birthday, according to a lot of forums where Im subscribed. They have taken good care of remind me that I have lived a year more, totalizing 34.

Panda3D 1.6.1

Panda3D is a free 3D engine, licensed under a modified BSD license. I havent tested this one yet, but according to comments, it has received a lot of improvements lately.

Novatux, first cuban open source game

My friends from the FreeViUX group have surprised me today: they have presented a game project made with Blender Game Engine and GIMP. My congratulations for them!