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Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 adds more content support

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2022

fheroes2 is a constantly improving game engine reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II. A new version was just released recently and it's become the absolute best way to play this classic.

Online multiplayer for OpenMW (Morrowind) TES3MP is alive again

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

OpenMW is a fantastic open source game engine reimplementation for Morrowind, plus there's the online fork of TES3MP which has sprung back to life with a new release.

ProtonUp-Qt adds support for Lutris Flatpak, new batch update feature

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2022

ProtonUp-Qt is the fantastic and simple way to download and upgrade the Linux compatibility tools Proton-GE, Luxtorpeda, Boxtron or Roberta for Steam and works with both Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher too.

OpenMW brings many new features for Morrowind in the new 0.47.0 release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Nov 2021

Rejoice RPG fans! There's a fresh and fancy new release of OpenMW, the free and open source game engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine recreation fheroes2 v0.9.8 out now

By Liam Dawe, 6 Oct 2021

Play the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II thanks to fheroes2, a fantastic game engine recreation project allowing you to play it cross-platform and it's open source.

Keeping the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II alive fheroes2 0.9.7 is out

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2021

fheroes2 is a game engine reimplementation for the absolute classic that is Heroes of Might and Magic II. It's free, open source and a new release is out now.

Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda gets some needed upgrades and better KDE Plasma support

By Liam Dawe, 9 Aug 2021

Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play tool (like Proton, Boxtron) that allows you to run games from Steam with compatible game engines that have Linux native builds.

Heroes of Might and Magic II reimplementation sees a big AI improvement

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

fheroes2 is ensuring that the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II can never die, and with the latest version out now it's more interesting to play than ever before.

GTA III and Vice City reverse-engineered code is back up on GitHub

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

After Take-Two put up a DMCA claim against the reverse-engineered source code for GTA III and Vice City, it's now properly back up online on GitHub.

OpenMW 0.47.0 for Morrowind is coming with a Release Candidate available

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2021

Want to play more of the classic The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind? OpenMW is your friend. This free and open source game engine reimplementation has a new build that needs testing.

If you love Heroes of Might and Magic II do check out this open source reimplementation

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2021

Heroes of Might and Magic II is an absolute classic right? Released back in 1996, it lives on thanks to fheroes2.

The Elder Scrolls: Arena open source reimplementation OpenTESArena 0.13 is out

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2021

Have fond memories of the classic The Elder Scrolls: Arena from the early 90s? A dedicated fan is rebuilding it with OpenTESArena, an open source game engine reimplementation.

Take-Two Interactive hit the DMCA nuke on GTA III and Vice City reverse engineered effort

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2021

It was only recently that we picked up the news of both GTA III and Vice City getting a fully working reverse engineered game engine, along with plenty of upgrades. Sadly, and expectedly, it got nuked from orbit.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine Daggerfall Unity now feature complete

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2020

Daggerfall Unity is the open source game engine built with Unity for running the 1996 classic The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall and it's coming along very nicely.

The monthly roundup - November 2020

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2020

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for November 2020, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover.

OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind sees great progress

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2020

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a true classic for many reasons, and it continues living on with the OpenMW free and open source game engine.

The classic Driver 2 has a new reverse engineered open source game engine

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2020

Any of our readers remember Driver 2? I remember spending absolutely hours driving around in this classic PlayStation game and now maybe you can relive it or experience it for the first time.

Check out Sonic 3 A.I.R., a fan-made remaster now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 10 Nov 2020

As someone who grew up with early Sega consoles, the Sonic games were part of my first gaming experiences and you can relive some of it with Sonic 3 A.I.R.