Google has announced the list of students for this year's [Summer of Code](http://socghop.appspot.com). For ScummVM, the accepted students and their respective projects can be found in our [landing page](http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/scummvm) of the GSoC '09 site. The ScummVM team and especially the mentors welcome our students this year: Denis, Michal, Norbert, Joakim and Jody. Welcome guys, good luck and enjoy coding this summer :-)
It was not that long since our previous release, and now [here](/downloads/) is a new bugfix release hot off the press! The list of fixed bugs is quite long, and you could read all of it in the [release notes](https://downloads.scummvm.org/frs/scummvm/0.13.1/ReleaseNotes), but here is a summary for those of you who are too lazy to follow the links and eager to play the games better. SAGA: *Inherit the Earth* is completable again; AGOS, Groovie, Sword2: fixed many sound-related issues; Parallaction: fixed a bug in one of the puzzles; squashed a number of bugs in the GUI. Also iPhone, Symbian, WinCE ports are much improved and NDS and PS2 ports are back again since 0.11.0. We won't bother you anymore with the details. Go, [download ScummVM](/downloads/) and enjoy your play!
[](https://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=ScummVM&project_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fscummvm%2F) The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2009 have started. We invite you to support our little project by casting your vote. The natural category for ScummVM would be *Best Project for Gamers*, though if you feel that we could be *Best Project*, we wouldn't mind much; a project can be nominated for more than one category this year. The Scary Robot is the mascot of these Awards, and in order to vote for ScummVM, click the mascot or [this link](https://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=ScummVM&project_url=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fscummvm%2F). We hope to see you in the finals! P.S. For the live photosession of the Scary Robot see [Fingolfin's blog](http://blog.quendi.de/2009/05/07/sourceforgenet-community-choice-awards-2009/).
Since ScummVM 0.10.0 there has been unannounced support for subtitles in the *Broken Sword 1* cutscenes. Now we finally managed to provide a package with subtitles for the following languages: English, Brazilian, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian. Also, subtitles for the English demo are provided. You can grab the package from the [downloads](/downloads/#extras) page. At the moment we still lack Czech subtitles, thus if you're willing to help us with providing them, please contact sev.
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but now ScummVM's website runs new flashy code. Fredrik Wendel aka \[vEX\] has been working on it for several months now, and under the hood it is a complete rewrite with keeping the old design intact... Well, almost. Now browsing screenshots has a new sleek design, navigation links are more logical (with keeping the backwards compatibility, so don't worry about your old links), SCUMM MD5 tables have better design, and the FAQ lost its magic numbers in the links. Also we are proud to announce that Fredrik has been appointed official webmaster for the project, so now you can put all your complaints into his capable hands. :P
[](http://conf.ellak.gr) The 3rd free/open source software developers [conference](http://conf.ellak.gr) ([EL/LAK](http://www.ellak.gr)) is taking place in Athens, Greece on June 19 and 20. Among the various open source software and related talks, this year ScummVM will also be participating with a presentation on June 20th. The presentation intially aims to cover basic principles on how ScummVM works, its internal architecture and developer team layout. But we can also talk about adventure games in general, Google Summer of Code, open source gaming subjects or what ever else comes up! So if you're around and interested, go forth and [register](http://www.ellak.gr/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=registers) for the conference and come by for a meet & greet. See you there!
Consider the following an official "press release", and note that the *exact* wording is dictated to cyx and fingolfin by the settlement terms. > *In December 2008, members of the ScummVM team discovered that three games for the Nintendo Wii console ("Freddi Fish: The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds", published in Germany under the name "Fritzi Fisch und der verschwundene Schatz"; "Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside", published in Germany under the name "Pyjama Pit: Keine Angst im Dunkeln"; and "Spy Fox: Dry Cereal", published in Germany under the name "Spy Fox in: Das Milchkartell") made use of ScummVM, without complying with the terms of the GPL license. They sent a warning letter to the German distributor of these games, Atari Deutschland GmbH, who was not aware that ScummVM was used in the creation of the games. Atari Deutschland GmbH established contact with Mistic Software Inc., the developers of the games.* > *Mistic Software Inc. responded by denying that members of the ScummVM team hold any rights to the particular code they used. The dispute was ultimately settled in May 2009 by Mistic Software Inc. paying all legal fees and making a donation to the Free Software Foundation as a sign of good will, without acknowledging copyright infringement.*
There are certain speculations about the case, some of them are really wild. Unfortunately, no one approached any of us and there are only a few real facts in those blog posts. Thus, in an attempt to stop these potentially misleading messages, I made a [blog post](http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/06/gpl-scummvm-and-violations.html) on my personal blog. I hope that I provided enough information there. If not, ask me for more details.
If you want to be the envy of everyone in your neighborhood, be sure to be seen around in your beautiful new [ScummVM T-shirt](http://combobreaker.com/?page_id=886/). Designed with the cooperation of the ScummVM team, this understated and elegant item will truly show off your adventure game leanings to the initiated. Plus, [combobreaker.com](http://combobreaker.com/) are donating to the ScummVM project for each one sold! [](http://sf.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=438) While we're on the subject of helping ScummVM, please vote for your favorite point-and-click adventure game engine interpreter in the [Sourceforge Community Choice Awards](http://sf.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=438). Thanks to all the people that nominated us, we've made it through to the final round. If you click the link, ScummVM will be pre-selected in the Best Project for Gamers category, and you can go on and choose your favorite open-source projects in the other categories.
