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Digital Anvil

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Digital Anvil was a games development company formed in 1996 and acquired by Microsoft in 2000. They released the games Starlancer and their flagship title Freelancer. Digital Anvil employees were moved to Microsoft Game Studios in November 2005, before Digital Anvil was officially dissolved in January 2006.

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FWs 2.0 Coding Update

Dec 01, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

This update gives an in-game video of all the new ships we've put into the mod, courtesy of RedMonkey and the rest of the First Strike Modelers/Texturers....

FWs 2.0 gets models from the First Strike Mod!

Nov 27, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 8 comments

FWs 2.0 has made contact with the modders at the First Strike mod. Through their generous nature, the FS mod team have given FWs mod team the rights to...

No more capital ship flipping in FWs

Nov 26, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

FW's 2.0 have now found a way to prevent capital ships from flipping on each other when a smaller object, or another capital ship, collides with it.

Freelancer: Black Dawn - Update at Dawn

Nov 25, 2008 Freelancer:Black Dawn 0 comments

This is an exciting time for us at the FL:BD Dev Team. We are very close to an internal combat prototype release. Our dedicated server will come online...

Engine Glow Tweaking.

Nov 14, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

After finishing up with the ship coding, I made my start on the coding regarding the engine glow. This project had me starting from the ground up, working...

Freeworlds 2.0 - Designing systems

Nov 14, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

An example of a developer's blog on systems coding pre-work

Ship Coding

Nov 12, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

This is an update on the ship coding work done for 2.0, from the perspective of a new coder to the team. It details what I have been messing around with...

Freeworlds 2.0 (under development) - systems layout

Nov 04, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 4 comments

Layout of FreeWorlds 2.0 (under development) systems. Dynamic economy.

We just released New Universe 1.7

Oct 19, 2008 New Universe mod 3 comments

We are proud to announce the release of New Universe 1.7. Join our server/community and play the evolution of freelancer.

Freelancer Black Dawn Update at Dawn

Sep 28, 2008 Freelancer:Black Dawn 0 comments

Freelancer Black Dawn Update at Dawn, this update covers some important topics, which you need to get to speed on!

We are still here!

Sep 06, 2008 Freelancer:Black Dawn 0 comments

Just a very quick update for everyone, nothing fancy or that informative.

More new ships

Aug 31, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 5 comments

Templar and Zaxx have been hard at work creating new ships/bases for use in 2.0.

New Universe 1.7 preview

Aug 28, 2008 New Universe mod 0 comments

New Universe 1.7 coming soon check out our Group for preview screenshots and videos.

FW Base Redesign

Aug 22, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

Zaxx has been hard at work remaking all the base scenes for all the important bases in the mod. See below for some of his fine work.

Freeworlds 2.0 Re-texturing Project

Aug 22, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 1 comment

Templar has been hard at work retexturing some of Eville Jedi's wonderful models.

Freeworlds 2.0 Ship Replacement

Aug 14, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 1 comment

We're in the process right now of putting Eville Jedi's models, from the Warlords Mod, into our game. We have our texture team re-texturing them and putting...

Shattered Worlds Initial Release a Total Success

Aug 10, 2008 Shattered Worlds 0 comments

At the urging of fans, the Shattered Worlds DevTeam releases its first version of the modification and pulls it off with style.

Freeworlds 2.0 Base Development

Aug 08, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

Zaxx Kredda has been working very hard at recreating all the bases in FW 2.0. Just look at the pictures and see how this total conversion is proceeding!...

Galactica 2.0 mod Download

Aug 08, 2008 Galactica 2.0 0 comments

<<<<<<<<<< GALACTICA 2.0 mod by Gibbon >>>>>>>>>> Welcome to the Galactica 2.0 mod. This is a TC (Total Conversion mod) featuring the Battlestar Galactica...

The Freeworlds 2.0 Blogs

Aug 03, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

Our site is currently hosting the blogs of our developers. Please use the link and look at what amazing things we're doing to the Freelancer engine!

Freeworlds 18.32 Auto-Updater

Jul 30, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 0 comments

Freeworlds has recently developed an auto-updater that works wonderfully for the mod. Any changes made to the server files can be transmitted quickly...

Freelancer: War-Torn

Jul 30, 2008 Freelancer: War-Torn 0 comments

A Brief Introduction to the war-torn MOD which is being aimed to be released at the end of august

Freeworlds 2.0 Development

Jul 22, 2008 Freeworlds 16.61 1 comment

Freeworlds 2.0 is now underway. Follow the development blog of Sushi on our forums

Freelancer: War-Torn

Jul 18, 2008 Freelancer: War-Torn 2 comments

Back in action and ready to get <insert profanity> (stuff) done

Version 1.6 is about to be Unleashed!!

Jul 17, 2008 Nightstalkers Universe Mod 0 comments

Version 1.6 will be up and running on the Olympus Complex Server by Thursday night PST. This version adds 8 systems and about 100 new ships. I have removed...