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HexaMine is puzzle game is based on idea of famous Minesweeper.
Classic Minesweeper quickly becomes boring for experienced player as he remembers most of restricted set of possible game situations, and nothing can challenge him to thing more then 3 seconds any more.

Proprietary MegaMiner by Astatix Software, has introduced mines with variable power to solve this problem, but it created a new one: there were too much situations when player had to guess rather then prove.

HexaMine has taken te idea of MegaMiner a lot further. Here are features, which allow HexaMine to present even most experienced player nontrivial challenging yet solvable game situations:
1) Different mine powers. Exactly as in MegaMiner.
2) Hexagonal grid. This reduces the number is possible situations for any single cell. This also makes surrounding of a cell look more like a circle, which is more intuitive.
3) Concept of close and far neighborhood. There is nothing new about first one, as it is just sum of mine powers of ajacent cells. Far neighborhood is entirely new concept. Think of real metal detector. It can pick up any mine within small radius, say of 1 meter. This is exactly the close neighborhood. But mentioned metal detector can also pick up larger objects within bigger radius, say 2 meters, although the signal is weaker. This is exactly the concept of far neighborhood. For each empty cell the close neighborhood threat is calculated as mentioned above, although for far neighborhood threat each mine is reduced by 1 category. Smallest mines are not taken into account, larger ones seem smaller. Both threats are specified for open empty cell.
4) In contrast to other known to me Minesweeper-like games, in HexaMine you never know neither number of mines of each power, nor exact total number of mines.

The bottom line, (1) and (4) creates mathematically finite but practically countless number of different game situations, while (2) and (3) give player enough information, although very complicate, to solve vast majority of them without need to guess.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Python (www.python.org)
PyGame (www.pygame.org)

Hexxagon is an ataxx clone.

The goal of the game is to conquer as much of the board as possible. This is done by capturing the opponents pieces or by cloning your own. The board is a hexagon built from smaller hexagons (Hence the name Hexxagon.)

Hexxagon is just like Ataxx apart from the board design. The Ataxx board is square and the Hexxagon board is hexagonal.

There is support for both X and console execution.

Hexxagon is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

License: free

Additional System Requirements:

HHexen is a source port of the original Hexen game by Raven Software. The main task of HHexen is to add an extra character class to play as, but along the way many features got added, such as OpenGL rendering, in-game key configuration, and other tweaks meant to bring Hexen up to year 2000 gaming standards.

License: shareware

HighMoon is an Artillery/Worms-like duel game in which two spaceships fight each other in open space. All shots are deflected by the gravitation of planets, moons and blackholes. So be careful not to destroy your own flying saucer.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL-Library, SDL-Image

From the page: "HLmaps is a Perl/CGI script for Half-Life game servers running on Linux, FreeBSD or WinNT. It allows web site visitors to view all the loaded maps, screen shots, download links and some file statistics in a nice, sortable table format." There is now a PHP port (by Brian Porter) based on Perl v1.1. All features currently available in the Perl release are implemented in the PHP release.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: Linux, FreeBSD or Windows Perl 5.x A web server supporting CGI or PHP Valve's Half-Life server program Optionally the MySQL database engine