We're glad to announce the first Hedgewars release! Current features include:

• Many weapons: Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Bazooka, UFO, Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Fire Punch, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mine, Rope, Pneumatic pick, Parachute, Air Attack
  
• 2 nice-looking maps
  
• Land generator with many templates and themes
  
• Demo support
  
• Quite agressive bots
  

Net game support is disabled for now, and will be included in the next release. Have fun with great game Hedgewars!

Hello! I'm the founder of the Hedgewars project. Also I'm the lead developer of this project.
As you maybe know, the game is developed for two years since October, 2004.

And now, it is the time for the first release! 

Last week the developing process tourned into the phase called 'feature freeze'. This means no new features until the release, just bugfixes. After small bugfixing, there is much work on website, making packages, promoting the game. Cannot say for sure, what will be the exact date of the release, but I think we'll end up preparing in a week.