OpenRA is a really great project for people who remember games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Tiberian Sun & Dune 2000 as this engine uses the units and building from those games using the legally released free downloads for them in a much more up to date engine.

You have ~20 days to vote for your favourite project of the month for May. The projects are open source engines for commercial games/commercial content.

I thought it was about time I gave some limelight to some really great open source game engines that work on Linux, from official open source games to unofficial open source engines to allow you to run games on Linux that you couldn't normally!

The Open Source Command & Conquer: Red Alert project has just released a special christmas gift. A new stable release is available pre-packaged for multiple Linux distributions and also via Desura.

OpenRA is the open source engine for playing with old westwood/ea RTS game units like Command & Conquer and Red Alert. So glad these guys are keeping them alive, it is a pitty they can't support the original campaigns though.

OpenRA the free and open source RTS engine for playing with Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 unit-sets has a new testing version with some interesting new features to try out.

OpenRA the Open Source Time Strategy game engine that recreates the early Command & Conquer titles released another huge jump, with over 1,100 changes and improvements by 17 authors.

Highlights Some of the highlights in this release include: Significantly improved AI. UI improvements to the menus and lobby. New UI for replays, spectators and defeated players. New construction radiu...

The OpenRA team ...

Sorry about all the downtime over the weekend, our old host was taken over by another company about 6 ish months ago and they just wheren't very good. Have now switched to a new host who has already proven their worth by having awesome s...