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Screw light guns. I'm all about light BIKES!

http://armagetronad.net/

Not at all I've been in training for years!

I see the other 10% of their revenue coming from the new game "LightCycles 3D"
Which I sadly will probably buy a copy of.

A video game published by Disney probably won't run on Linux, unlike Armagetron Advanced.

It is released under the GPL version 2, which last time I checked is pretty much the definition of "free software". It is a free as in speech, free as in beer, and free as in free software free.

Clicking on the "About" or "Download" pages on http://www.armagetronad.net/ will clearly show you that it is free.

Free! Free I say!

While you are waiting for "Tron 2" go on ahead and play Armagetron. It's quite a lot of fun, and is one of the games of choice for my lan parties now. http://www.armagetronad.net/

• Super Mario War
  
• Armagetron
  
• Liero
  
• Any of the worms series games

I've been playing a fair bit of OpenArena:

http://openarena.ws/?about

Open sourced Quake III code with new models and textures and whatnot.

Battle for Wesnoth is a good networked turn-based strategy game, my girlfriend likes it too.

http://www.wesnoth.org/

Zombies is a fun single player game that's open source (Windows and Mac only):

http://www.codenautics.com/zombies/

For anyone who liked Tron, there's a maddeningly difficult game called Armagetron Advanced that lets you race the bikes:

http://www.armagetronad.net/

There's a good list of open source games for windows here:

http://osswin.sourceforge.net/games.html

And a big list of general open source games over on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

They're not Flash games, but they're Free.

Check out Scorched3D. *VERY* fun game, and the latest version looks just great.
Armagetron Advanced is also a great free game, even though the grafics may not be your cup of vodka.

Additionally, you might find some very fun and good looking games by checking open source game- or 3D- engines. The showcase forum at ogre3D is a good start.

The point is: there are some great looking, fun Open Source games out there they don't get reviewed or advertised in such a way that you'll hear about them often.

With some ARMAGETRON! http://armagetronad.net/ (linux pkgs and sourcecode incl)

I absolutely agree. I saw this topic and the games I immediately thought of were Tron and Bolo, both of which are available for (at least) Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. You can't go wrong with high-speed, first-person Tron.

• bzflag http://www.bzflag.org/
• armagetronad http://www.armagetronad.net/
• warsow http://www.warsow.net/
• alien arena http://red.planetarena.org/
• xmoto http://xmoto.sourceforge.net/
• tumiki fighters http://tumiki.sourceforge.net/ this is a port of a win game tho
• frozen bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
• sturmbahnfuhrer http://www.sturmbahnfahrer.com/
• globulation 2 http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page/

No, not entirely. It's the PC gaming business that they say is suffering, not PC gaming. There are plenty of games that are free from the onset that are fun. http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/
http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
http://asteroids3d.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lynn
http://toppler.sourceforge.net/
http://blockattack.sourceforge.net/
http://source.bungie.org/
http://www.secretmaryo.org/
http://www.realtech-vr.com/nogravity/
http://www.classicgaming.com/worminator/
http://www.nexuiz.com/
http://www.armagetronad.net/
http://www.meatfighter.com/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://wesnoth.org/
http://cubeengine.com/

This story comes right after the release of Armagetron Advanced 0.2.8.0. They have rpm (x86), autopackage (x86), autopackage (x86_64), dmg (ppc-OSX), and Windows binary versions (and source code, of course). I easily installed the Autopackage on my Debian Sid (I wish more project released autopackages). Play it for a while, IMO it's the best lightcycle game around.

http://www.armagetronad.net/downloads.php

(BTW, an old /. post linked to this http://tinyurl.com/8g6pz picture from Kingdom Hearts 2 featuring a Tron character next to Donald Duck. Hey, Tron's Disney after all ;-) )

Andûr

Both free, for Windows/MacOSX/Linux.

Galaga - No one loved Atari? You just have to get a better score than that!
Tetris - The old gameboy version, very addictive.
Armagetron AD [ http://www.armagetronad.net/ ] - A very nicely done Tron light cycle clone.

There's certainly more than 100 IPv6 websites in the world... even Armagetron Advanced's website supports IPv6.

Armagetron is now Armagetron Advanced - http://armagetronad.net/

BTW, here's a link to CVS snapshots ("betas").
Not many servers making use of the new features, but "HexaTRON Server" is the one in the screenshot.

For those who want to run a server, here is an index of maps-- if you have any to add, email me to add them.