diff --git a/games/gnushogi/Makefile.common b/games/gnushogi/Makefile.common
index 9c1e7de8b6f2..41c476ad6caf 100644
--- a/games/gnushogi/Makefile.common
+++ b/games/gnushogi/Makefile.common
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
 #
 
 GNUSHOGI_PORTNAME=	gnushogi
-GNUSHOGI_PORTVERSION=	1.3.2
-GNUSHOGI_MASTER_SITES=	http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/
+GNUSHOGI_PORTVERSION=	1.4.0
+GNUSHOGI_MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_GNU}
 GNUSHOGI_DISTNAME=	${GNUSHOGI_PORTNAME}-${GNUSHOGI_PORTVERSION}
+GNUSHOGI_MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	${GNUSHOGI_PORTNAME}
+USE_BZIP2=		yes
 
 DISTINFO_FILE=	${.CURDIR}/../../games/gnushogi/distinfo
diff --git a/games/gnushogi/distinfo b/games/gnushogi/distinfo
index 46b29128e0f8..2612a2b78be2 100644
--- a/games/gnushogi/distinfo
+++ b/games/gnushogi/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (gnushogi-1.3.2.tar.gz) = 1daebfb4268f0d7fe7103c86ec45da76bb8ef4fafef936e4163a74d97ec8f5c6
-SIZE (gnushogi-1.3.2.tar.gz) = 602613
+SHA256 (gnushogi-1.4.0.tar.bz2) = 466730f54ee6d6ad61a06ccfccf2dc63e47559697116b143b93c624a9ca9b301
+SIZE (gnushogi-1.4.0.tar.bz2) = 644998