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Wer Insurgency kostenlos abstauben will, bekommt bei Steam für kurze Zeit Gelegenheit dazu. Hier alle Infos.



Insurgency verfolgte 2014 ein hehres Ziel: Die dichten Infanteriekarten eines Call of Duty mit einem gnadenlos fordernden Taktik-Realismus-Anspruch zu verbinden. Der Multiplayer-Shooter basiert ursprünglich auf einer Mod, avancierte dann zum eigenständigen Spiel, erwarb sich eine treue Fan-Gemeinde - und ist jetzt auf Steam komplett kostenlos.

Bis zum 15. August, 19 Uhr, könnt ihr die Vollversion von Insurgency eurer Steam-Bibliothek hinzufügen. Das Spiel bleibt auch nach Ablauf der Frist in vollem Umfang verfügbar, sofern ihr das Geschenk bis zum Stichtag eingelöst habt. Durch die Aktion erfreut sich das Spiel aktuell einer ziemlich üppigen Spielerzahl: 27.874 Leute zocken zum Zeitpunkt dieser Newsmeldung Insurgency.

Doch mit rund 3.000 Leuten zeugt auch der reguläre Monatsdurchschnitt von einer durchaus aktiven Community. Die ganze Aktion ist übrigens als Promo für den Nachfolger zu verstehen:

Insurgency: Sandstorm soll am 18. September 2018 erscheinen - spätestens dann dürfte die Community aufs neue Spiel wechseln. Doch bis dahin bleibt ja noch ein wenig Zeit, sich einzuschießen.

Quelle : www.gamestar.de

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LaunchBox is a portable box art based games database and launcher for DOSBox, emulators, and PC games. LaunchBox aims to be the one-stop shop for gaming on your computer, for both modern and historical games.

Get Up and Running Right Away

It includes automated import processes for Steam and D-Fend Reloaded in order to help get you up and running as quickly as possible. Game box-art and metadata is automatically downloaded from TheGamesDB.net, a community-based online database that allows anyone to contribute. More import processes are planned for the near future, including Origin, DBGL, and batch ROM imports.

Freeware

Release Notes

New Premium Feature: Platform, playlist, and platform category-specific background music is now available in Big Box! Enable it in the Big Box Sound options and place your music in the LaunchBoxMusicBackgroundPlatforms[Platform Name], LaunchBoxMusicBackgroundPlaylists[Playlist Name], and LaunchBoxMusicBackgroundPlatform Categories[Platform Category Name] folders.
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now has a new Options window with a bunch of box configuration options for premium users: Background Opacity, Colorize Backgrounds to Match Images, Text Outline Opacity, Text Outline Thickness, and Align Text
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now has full controller support
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next game hover icons have been implemented
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next custom spacing options have been implemented
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next box image and cache optimizations and performance improvements
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now has a small progress bar at the top to show when images are caching in the background
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the default background settings properly
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now resets to the default background when changing to a new platform/filter
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now works with clear logo backgrounds
Improvement: Show Versions has been implemented in LaunchBox.Next
Improvement: The LaunchBox.Next list view now retains its sorting on refresh and between filters
Improvement: "Use Random Color Theme On Startup" has been implemented in LaunchBox.Next
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next will now jump to the new game when a new game is added
Improvement: A maximum width has been added to the LaunchBox.Next side bar in order to prevent issues with it being too large
Improvement: Music playback has now been implemented in LaunchBox.Next
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now contains a volume control in the bottom right
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the "Colorize Game Dividers" option
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the "Colorize Scrollbars" option
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now obeys the "Colorize Background Fade" option
Improvement: New option in LaunchBox.Next for centering the text
Improvement: New option in LaunchBox.Next for showing or hiding the subline
Improvement: Added automatic music and background music support for .sid, .ac3, .alac, .amr, .dts, .xm, .it, .mod, .ape, .opus, .qcp, .nsf, and .spc file formats. These formats were previously playable by LaunchBox and Big Box but not automatically picked up when searching for music files.
Improvement: LaunchBox.Next now has an option to return to the OG interface, and the OG interface now prompts the user to try LaunchBox.Next, with options to always use .Next or stop prompting as well
Improvement: The "Minimize on Game Launch" and "Restore on Game Exit" options have been implemented in LaunchBox.Next
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next was not resetting to the default image group when switching to All Games or any filter that does not have a specific image group specified
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next "Search" field is now translated
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next exiting issues while switching to Big Box
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next disappearing boxes bug
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next possible Options freeze
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next stability issues, most prominently when launching games
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next side bar combo box and search box not sizing properly for custom fonts
Fixed: Playlists are now sorted properly via the playlist's sort settings in LaunchBox.Next
Fixed: Occasional multi-select issues with games not being unselected in LaunchBox.Next
Fixed: Rare Big Box threading null reference errors
Fixed: Rare splash screen threading error
Fixed: Rare image format error in Big Box Coverflow
Fixed: French translation error on deleting games from a playlist
Fixed: Greek translation error in Add/Edit dialog
Fixed: LaunchBox.Next videos playing in the background while playing games

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Changelog

Improvement:

The minimum box size and maximum aspect ratio options in LaunchBox.Next have been expanded to allow for Steam Banners with minimal borders

Fixed:

The Play Count and Last Played fields were not updating when launching games via a double-click in LaunchBox.Next
Applying a License.xml file was showing an irrelevant error in LaunchBox.Next

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Changelog

Please note that the original LaunchBox interface has been completely removed and replaced with the LaunchBox.Next interface for this beta (the same will be for the 8.6 official release). This was done in order to allow much quicker development going forward, solve a number of long-standing stability and flexibility problems caused by the previous interface, and solve fragmentation problems.
LaunchBox now supports custom themes just like Big Box. Check out the new LaunchBoxLBThemes folder, and change the theme under Tools > Options > Visuals.
A new "Disable Mouse Cursor Across All Apps" option in available in Big Box under Options > Mouse; this option will hide the mouse cursor completely while Big Box is open, in all apps.
Fixed: Some message boxes were not centering properly
Fixed: Several background music priority/overlap bugs have been fixed in Big Box
Fixed (hopefully): Controller input in Big Box was experiencing occasional hiccups on some systems
Fixed (hopefully): Setting controller buttons in LaunchBox was occasionally glitching out

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Note: The original LaunchBox interface has been completely removed and replaced with the LaunchBox.Next interface. This was done in order to allow much quicker development going forward, solve a number of long-standing stability and flexibility problems caused by the previous interface, and solve fragmentation problems. Please let us know on the forums if you have issues with the new interface.
New Premium Feature: LaunchBox now supports custom themes just like Big Box! Check out the new LaunchBoxLBThemes folder, and change the theme under Tools > Options > Visuals.
New Premium Feature: A new "Disable Mouse Cursor Across All Apps" option is available in Big Box under Options > Mouse; this option will hide the mouse cursor completely while Big Box is open, in all apps.
New Premium Feature: Big Box now has options to allow or disable sleep, reboot, shut down, switch image type, switch view, and switch filter type (view type) while locked
New Feature: A new "Import MAME Arcade Full Set" wizard has been added to LaunchBox (under Tools > Import); this wizard will allow you to import a full set of the latest version of MAME games, and will work with merged, split, or non-merged sets. As a result, MAME imports no longer have to be tied to files.
New Feature: When importing a full set via the new "Import MAME Arcade Full Set" wizard, clones are optionally imported into additional apps. This allows you to have all clones accessible without cluttering your collection.
New Premium Feature: Now that MAME/Arcade metadata is much more accurate, the MAME/Arcade playlists have been overhauled to use the auto-filtering playlist system instead of a list of games (which turns out to be much more effective and also more performant). In addition, many new playlists have been added, including playlists for 2-player and 4-player games, as well as various genres like Beat Em Ups, Racing Games, etc. These new playlist options are available in the new "Import MAME Arcade Full Set" wizard as well as the "Create Missing Arcade/MAME Playlists" option from the Tools menu. Please keep in mind though that you will need to update and overwrite your metadata for your MAME games or the new playlists will not work properly.
Improvement: The LaunchBox MAME metadata (used to filter and gather metadata for MAME games on import) has been updated to the MAME 0.201 data, and a new backend system has been put in place to easily update the data for new MAME versions in the future. Hooray!
Improvement: The Download Metadata and Media and Import ROMs from Files wizards have been updated to prioritize the new, more accurate MAME data
Improvement: The LaunchBox.Next and LaunchBox image cache folders have been consolidated into a new LaunchBoxImagesCache-LB folder, and the Big Box image cache has been changed to LaunchBoxImagesCache-BB. These changes should take effect upon starting LaunchBox or Big Box.
Improvement: The LaunchBox main menu is now being cached on startup so that it opens quicker on first launch
Improvement: Many new platform/category/playlist theme videos have been added to the video downloader thanks to RetroHumanoid, PaDeMoniuM, CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT, dragon57, harryoke, and uv777bk from the forums, as well as prioritization options for each
Improvement: Any plugin errors that occur will no longer prompt the user; however, for developers, the errors will still show up in the debug logs
Fixed: Some message boxes were not centering properly
Fixed: Several background music priority/overlap bugs have been fixed in Big Box
Fixed: Controller input in Big Box was experiencing occasional hiccups on some systems
Fixed: Setting controller buttons in LaunchBox was occasionally glitching out
Fixed: Controllers were lagging sporadically in Big Box on some systems (especially underpowered systems). If you still experience controller lag in Big Box, please make sure that the "Use All Controllers" setting in Big Box is disabled.
Fixed: Gif images were not displaying in the LaunchBox Game Details Sidebar
Fixed: The list view in LaunchBox was not sorting secondarily by title when other columns were the primary sort
Fixed: LaunchBox was occasionally creating Manuals, Music, and Videos folders in emulator directories
Fixed: LaunchBox (.Next) was missing plugin support for the Tools menu
Fixed: LaunchBox (.Next) was missing LEDBlinky support
Fixed: LaunchBox (.Next) was missing plugin events for LaunchBox for startup completed and shutdown beginning

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Whats new:>>

    Improvement: Swapped out the default Racing Games clear logo with a new one that is easier to see thanks to @letstalkaboutdune
    Improvement: Added a new BackgroundOpacity property to the LaunchBox BoxItemViewModel, primarily for @Grila's new LaunchBox custom theme

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    Improvement: Swapped out the default Racing Games clear logo with a new one that is easier to see thanks to @letstalkaboutdune
    Improvement: Added a new BackgroundOpacity property to the LaunchBox BoxItemViewModel, primarily for @Grila's new LaunchBox custom theme
    Improvement: Added a new SelectionChanged SystemEventType for plugins
    Improvement: Playlists can now be shown with platforms, underneath a specific platform category, or both
    Fixed: The PluginHelper.StateManager.GetAllSelectedGames() plugin method was not working properly in LaunchBox
    Fixed: When LaunchBox was closed while minimized, the window would be very small on the next startup
    Fixed: An "All" platform category was showing up in some situations that resulted in duplicated "All" items in the sidebar

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Open Sonic is a freeware remake of Sonic the Hedgehog featuring cooperative play where you can control three players simultaneously.

License: Open Source

https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensnc/

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Improvement: All playlist features are now available for free users instead of only for premium users
New Feature: Platform Categories, Platforms, and Playlists now have fully flexible nesting. Anything can be placed inside of anything else and nested multiple-levels deep in the Platform Categories view.

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The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based tactical strategy game with a fantasy theme.

The Battle for Wesnoth has you building up an, gradually turning recruits into. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host that none can stand against. Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.

Freeware

Changelog

Version 1.14.5

AI

    Fix AI ignoring teleport locations when moving leader to leader goals.

Campaigns

    Heir to the Throne:
        S6: Allow canceling an attack when a move+attack spawns enemy units (issue #3459)
        S6: Change the trigger for spawning undead reinforcements (issue #3459)
        S17: Add dialog explaining the lava game mechanic and an easter egg (issue #3473)
    Liberty:
        S3: Add story and war drums music
    Northern Rebirth:
        S12: empty sides are hidden
        S13: allied leaders whose death causes defeat won't leave their keep and the lich brothers and Krash got more gold
    Sceptre of Fire:
        S4: a cave entrance has been added.
        S5: Gryphon Riders are now available starting form S5 (formerly S3).
        S7: it's now impossible to kill all pursuers.
    Secrets of the Ancients:
        Fix dialog said by wrong unit & revert previous fix (issue #3294)
    The Hammer of Thursagan:
        S10: Fix objectives requiring too much of the player
    The South Guard:
        S2: the case where Deoran is not sent to the Citadel is handled better.
        S2: enemy units will no longer neutralize villages instead of capturing or burning them. This also means certain units will no longer be hidden in the Game Stats list.
        S4: bodyguards are never spawned next to other units, and always in forest.
        S5: zombies have now one castle with two leaders.
        S6a: mermen leave after this scenario and will no longer be available.
        S7a & S8a: a certain hero may now die.
    Tutorial:
        Show an undo reminder if one is out of moves, but can't end the turn yet.
        Added more information to the Status Table prompt about how to access it (issue #2883).
    Under the Burning Suns:
        New graphics for Eloh.

Multiplayer

    A New Land: Fixed village gold being 1 instead of 2.

Language and i18n

    Updated translations: British English, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Scottish Gaelic, Ukrainian

User Interface

    On laptop computers we now show how much battery you have left
    MacOS: Fixed moving the mouse with a touchpad also scrolling GUI dialogs
    MacOS: Add build number to OS version report
    Fix layout of Preferences window with some localizations (such as Czech)
    Load Game now shows the chosen difficulty with the same name that you originally selected
    Load Game now shows the modifications enabled in the selected savegame (issue #3495)
    Force leader sprites larger than 72x72 to be downscaled in Load Game (issue #3474)
    Add left padding to dialog messages shown with a portrait on the right (issue #1938)
    Addon Manager uses clearer terms for sort order
    Fix reversed sort order by unit level in Unit List and Recall List

WML engine

    Fixed [animate_unit] and [heal_unit] preventing unit halo from disappearing if the unit dies later (issue #3509)

Miscellaneous and bug fixes

    Fix some minor problems with the macOS package
    Fixed crash when trying to attack with a unit without usable weapons (issue #3424)
    Fast Micro AI: Fix bug crashing the AI when units with chance-to-hit specials without id are on map
    Fixed the debug mode Create Unit dialog crashing when changing the gender of the previous selection after causing the list to come up empty using the filter box.
    Allow searching by race and internal unit type id with the Create Unit filter box as well.
    wmlxgettext is now included in release packages, so a separate download is no longer required to use it with GUI.pyw.
    Fixed possible crash when leaving a game as an observer #3017
    Fixed require_scenario and require_era attributes.
    Fixed skip replay when joining mp campaigns.
    Fixed oos errors when undoing after ally chat.
    Fixed crash whe pressing Reset replay. #3439
    Fixed 'start game' locked when other players abort flg dialog. #3452
    Fixed game freezes on droiding when using dsu. #3453
    Fixed editor cannot add starting location for > 9 players.
    Fixed crash in ai code when a side has multiple leaders.
    Fixed random start time not working. #3515
    Fixed crash in lua tstring comparision. #3541
    Fixed objectives at scenario start use old/cached values of conditions/variables (issue #3544)
    Show an error message when trying to open the lua console not in debug mode
    On enemy side's turn, don't scroll to that side's leader if it's invisible
    Fixed crash in recall list when no units matched the filter (issue #3475)
    Fixed :droid ignore its second argument
    Fixed :droid giving no feedback when successful

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Changelog

Improvement: All playlist features are now available for free users instead of only for premium users
New Feature: Platform Categories, Platforms, and Playlists now have fully flexible nesting and can be nested multiple-levels deep in the Platform Categories views.
Improvement: Minor Big Box performance improvements
Fixed: Big Box was taking too long to fully exit (process was staying in task manager) when the Allow Sleep option was checked
Fixed: A particularly nasty Microsoft Windows Explorer bug in the Windows 10 October 2018 update was causing errors and crashes when clicking the Add Files button in the Import Games from Files wizard. Hopefully Microsoft fixes this bug soon, but in the mean time we've worked around it by hiding the title label of the wizard when clicking that button.

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Changelog

Improvement:

Empty playlists will now show up in the LaunchBox sidebar when viewing platform categories; this should reduce confusion when adding a new playlist and leaving it empty
When manually adding a new platform via right-click in the platform categories list, LaunchBox will now warn you that it's not recommended to manually add platforms and to use the import processes instead. It also warns the user that categories and playlists should be used instead of platforms for nesting purposes.

Fixed:

Add to Playlist functionality was accidentally still restricted to premium
Editing a playlist that had no parents was putting it back into the root by default

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Whats new:>>

Fixed: Generating MAME/Arcade playlists on importing games was still restricted to premium users (previously we removed the premium restriction for playlists)
Fixed: Launch With in Big Box is now sorted alphabetically
Fixed: The list type drop down in LaunchBox is now sorted alphabetically
Fixed: Field drop downs in the LaunchBox playlist editor are now sorted alphabetically
Fixed: The PluginHelper.DataManager.GetAllParents() plugin method was not working properly

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Changelog

- New Feature: A new "Auto-Generate Child Playlists" feature is available when right-clicking on platforms in the LaunchBox sidebar while in Platform Categories view; this option allows you to generate child playlists for All Games, Favorites, Genres, Regions, Play Modes, Developers, and/or Publishers and optionally put them in child categories.

- New Feature: The "Clean Up Images" process that is available under the Tools menu in LaunchBox is now called "Clean Up Media" and has been overhauled to support cleaning up videos, manuals, and music as well

- Improvement: LaunchBox performance has been significantly improved when loading up the platform categories list in the sidebar, specifically when dealing with categories and total game counts. Loading the counts is now threaded so they may not show up immediately and will load in the background for large collections.

- Improvement: Items with children are no longer always sorted first in the LaunchBox side bar, which was a bit disorienting now that platform categories are more flexible

- Improvement: Big Box performance has been improved when loading up details for platform categories with many children

- Improvement: Switched the EmuMovies searches to send the file name before the title to improve accuracy (recommended by Circo)

- Improvement: A new ListCache.xml data file has been added that helps keep things running smoothly for collections with thousands of playlists

- Improvement: When adding a new playlist underneath a platform, a line will now automatically be created to filter to only games for that platform when checking the box to make it an auto-populate playlist

- Improvement: When bulk editing the associated emulator for games, LaunchBox will now automatically update the emulator for all additional apps that are also set to use the same emulator as the parent game

- Improvement: Attract mode in Big Box will now always move into or out of views when the number of items highlighted exceeds the total number of items

- Improvement: Performance has been significantly improved while populating the Big Box platform clear logo image cache for platforms, categories, or playlists that do not have default images

- Improvement: Scraping is now improved for no-intro ROMs with tildes (~) in the file names

- Improvement: Big Box alphanumeric indexes will now work properly with favorites-only lists. If no game is found that is not a favorite, Big Box will jump to the first favorited game that starts with that letter instead.

- Improvement: When deleting platforms, categories, or playlists from the sidebar in LaunchBox, warnings have been added to clarify a number of things and reduce confusion

- Improvement: The MAME arcade full-set import process now excludes hacks, prototypes, and bootlegs from the region prioritization process; this helps to ensure that hacks, prototypes, and bootlegs do not end up being used as the default ROM for a game.

- Improvement: Big Box will now use the parent platform's video if no video exists for the selected playlist or category

- Improvement: Big Box will now use the parent platform's background images if no background image exists for the selected playlist or category

- Improvement: When switching between platforms, categories, and playlists in Big Box, if the same video is used, it will no longer restart

- Improvement: Many new default clear logos for genres, play modes, All Games, and Favorites have been added thanks to the community

- Fixed: Generating MAME/Arcade playlists on importing games was still restricted to premium users (previously we removed the premium restriction for playlists)

- Fixed: Launch With in Big Box is now sorted alphabetically

- Fixed: The list type drop down in LaunchBox is now sorted alphabetically

- Fixed: Field drop downs in the LaunchBox playlist editor are now sorted alphabetically

- Fixed: The PluginHelper.DataManager.GetAllParents() plugin method was not working properly

- Fixed: Rare null reference error when loading game details in the sidebar in LaunchBox

- Fixed: Rare data issue with platform categories not showing up

- Fixed: Playlists were sometimes not updating when manually adding games to playlists

- Fixed: Incorrect counts could occasionally display in various places in LaunchBox and/or Big Box; this was previously due to hide games options not always being accounted for in game counts

- Fixed: Auto-populating playlists were sometimes not updating when game metadata changed

- Fixed: Game controllers were not navigating the drop-down lists in the Big Box filters popup

- Fixed: Big Box was still sometimes creating unnecessary/irrelevant empty video folders for playlists

- Fixed: The emulators list when bulk editing games was not sorted alphabetically

- Fixed: Additional applications in the LaunchBox game right-click menu were sometimes using the icon from the game's emulator instead of the icon from the additional application's emulator

- Fixed: Big Box was caching the nested name incorrectly for platform, playlist, and category wheel images; this was resulting in the wrong images showing up in rare cases

- Fixed: Big Box was not properly saving previous selections for deeply nested platforms, categories, and playlists

- Fixed: Big Box was not properly saving previous selected games for categories and playlists

- Fixed: Big Box attract mode was sometimes starting in the previous state (half-way through a spin) if it had previously been cut off

- Fixed: Big Box attract mode was sometimes starting up too quickly after returning from a game

- Fixed: On some very rare occasions, the Big Box update popup could previously cause stability issues

- Fixed: Opening additional apps PDFs was not working properly in Big Box when Big Box was configured to use the internal PDF reader

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Release Notes

Hey all, it looks like we'll be putting out a 9.1 fix release soon, mostly just because of some Big Box theme compatibility issues. The various Unified themes are having some issues with the new nested categories and playlists, and since they're some of the most popular themes we have, I felt that it was a priority to get them fixed up.
Improvement: Added a new property called KnownPlatformOrPlaylistTitle for the Big Box games views; this property should help Big Box themes (Unified and potentially other themes) to be more compatible with the new nested categories and playlists. It will return either the parent platform name or the known arcade playlist name when on nested categories and playlists.
Fixed: Automatically-populated playlists were showing duplicated games in some rare cases
Assuming this beta goes well, we'll push it out as an official release

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