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

By Liam Dawe,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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.

Jagged Alliance 2 game engine 'Stracciatella' has a big new release

By Liam Dawe,
The community working to keep the classic Jagged Alliance 2 alive with the Stracciatella game engine have put out their first release in a few years.

Theme Hospital continues living on with a new CorsixTH release

By Liam Dawe,
CorsixTH is the wonderful free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, featuring plenty of improvements and modern system support.

Morrowind lives on with a major new OpenMW release out

By Liam Dawe,
Morrowind is a much loved RPG classic and thanks to open source it continues living on modern platforms with OpenMW.

FOSS transport building sim OpenTTD adds official Ubuntu 20.04 packages

By Liam Dawe,
Want to jump into the latest version of OpenTTD and you're on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Good news, they now have some official packages setup for it.

Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH new release in testing

By Liam Dawe,
CorsixTH is a brilliant free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, enabling it to play smoothly on modern systems and other improvements.

The Force Engine is a fresh attempt to rebuild the Jedi Engine

By Liam Dawe,
Recently appearing is a new open source game engine project called The Force Engine, with an aim to be an accurate version of the Jedi Engine that powered games like Dark Forces and Outlaws.

OpenTESArena - a modern game engine for The Elder Scrolls: Arena has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Now available free, The Elder Scrolls: Arena is something of a classic and it continues to live on with thanks to the free and open source game engine OpenTESArena.

The RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to jump back into a classic? OpenRCT2, the free and open source game engine for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems has a fresh release up.

Freeablo, a modern cross-platform open source game engine for the original Diablo

By Liam Dawe,
Diablo is a classic and it can live on forever thanks to open source. Freeablo is a cross-platform free and open source game engine and it just had a massive update.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over - here's the winners

By Liam Dawe,
The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe,
Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

devilutionX, an open source game engine for the original Diablo sees a big release

By Liam Dawe,
devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.
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