Liberated Games Launches

Crusader writes "Two LinuxGames staff members have launched Liberated Games, a site devoted to cataloguing full commercial titles that have been released for free by the developer or publisher, either with the full source code or without. The current list is available here; the site tracks releases for all major computer platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), so feel free to submit any missing games to the list."

great turn around!

[physicsboy500]

Sweet! Now I don't have to liberate them myself!

First of 2 Steps

[Hidyman]

Now if we could just liberate them from the /. effect.

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The Name

[illuminata]

Well, it's nice that they start a site for this and all, but did they really need to say that the games were "liberated"?

It sounds more like these games feel like riding horseback on a beach because they got a fresh squirt of Summer's Eve or something.

Yet again, for some reason, people who say that their software was "liberated" kinda remind me of douches. Am I wrong?

perhaps the most surprising thing is

[Anonymous Coward]

... that LinuxGames has two staff members!

Evidently not too liberated...

[ArbiterOne]

... the server's /.ed already. Correction: The server has become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Re:Duke Nukem 3D on Linux!

[stefanlasiewski]

Maybe you can add some features, recompile the source and name the game "Duke Nukem' Forever".

Re:Proposed Liberation Militia?

[ultranova]

What we need is a persuasive liberation militia. There are hundreds of thousands of games still enslaved by their developers on many aging platforms such as the C64, Nintendo, Etc.

Fortunately, some upstanding citizens have realized their responsibility and have formed underground networks to liberate the poor captives and transport them into safety.

As always, the officials are after these groups of freedom fighters, and many have fallen, but the rest fight on. And there is good news too: in the past, the captive games, once freed, were taken to secret safe houses (called "ftp sites" by the underground), but nowadays, a number of networks are moving the captives around constantly, making it almost impossible to recapture them.

Three hurrays for the brave freedom fighters, past, present and future members of Razor, Myth, Khan, Origin and others. And to the brave, upstanding citizens, who risk arrest helping liberated games continuing their run on the wild. Hurray ! Hurray ! Hurray!

Freedom for all games, now!

Most games are liberated, some (like Half-Life 2) before they are even released ;).

Slashdotted...

[jmcmunn]

I wish more of "you linux geeks" would check out the list of Linux games, then maybe you'd be too busy playing games to slashdot every link in the articles I am trying to read! :-)

Re:great turn around!

[Cipster]

It also looks like we liberated the server of al it's bandwidth...

Re:great turn around!

[sharkey]

liberated the server of al it's bandwidth...

And possibly Tom, Dick and Harry its processor cycles and Steve its memory, too.