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Classic free and open source platformer 'SuperTux' has a new alpha release out

21 Nov 2018

SuperTux, a name I've not heard in quite some time, a free and open source platformer inspired by Super Mario Bros is still chugging along and it's heading towards a new release.

First-person dungeon crawler 'Delver' now has an open source engine and editor

18 Nov 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Developer Priority Interrupt has officially released the game engine and editor behind their first-person dungeon crawler as open source.

The open source racer 'SuperTuxKart' is looking for testers to try their new online play

13 Nov 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of Linux open source gaming is finally getting online multiplayer. They're also now asking for testers.

The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is out, impressive stuff

9 Nov 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

RPCS3, the open source PlayStation 3 emulator is coming along nicely. The latest progress report goes over some recent work with various improvements.

Open source cross-platform event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' now on itch, progressing well

1 Nov 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

GDevelop is an open source cross-platform event-driven game engine that's quite promising. It's currently closing in on a new major release and it's also now on itch.io.

Free and open source RTS 'Wyrmsun' has a big update with a new civilization, new buildings and more

31 Oct 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Wyrmsun, the free and open source retro-looking RTS just had a sizeable update with some great new stuff included.

Free and open source racing game 'Yorg' has a new release with a new track, a new camera and more

31 Oct 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

For those who love their arcade-style racing games Yorg is actually quite amusing. The developers just release Yorg 0.10 and it's quite an improvement.

Space sim 'Helium Rain' has left Early Access, code is open source

12 Oct 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Helium Rain, the space simulation and strategy game from Deimos Games has left Early Access as a rather impressive game.

Mojang to open source more of Minecraft with two libraries already on GitHub

9 Oct 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

I have to admit, I am quite surprised by this. Mojang (owned by Microsoft) are to open source more of Minecraft.

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Classic open source strategy game Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries has a new release out

30 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries holds a special place in my heart, as one of the earliest strategy games I played. It continues to live on now it's open source and a fresh release is out.

VK9 for getting Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit their 28th milestone

29 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

While we've talked a lot about DXVK recently, let's not forget other interesting projects like VK9 (formerly SchaeferGL) which aims to give Direct3D 9 over Vulkan.

Dungeon crawler, Ebony Spire: Heresy, will be getting an anniversary update next month

28 Sep 2018

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By BTRE

A recent post by the developer has detailed plans going forward for the title and there’s big changes incoming.

OpenRA for playing classic Command & Conquer titles has a fresh release up with AppImages for Linux builds

23 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

The excellent open source RTS game engine OpenRA, which allows you to play classic Command & Conquer titles has a new release out.

PlayStation 3 emulator 'RPCS3' is coming along nicely with some major improvements

21 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

More glorious news for emulation today with the latest RPCS3 (a PlayStation 3 emulator) giving an update on their progress and it's damn fine too.

Nintendo 3DS emulator 'Citra' sounds like it's coming along rather nicely

21 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

For those who like to use their PC to emulate other platforms, the Citra emulator for the Nintendo 3DS just put out a progress report and it's very promising.

Godot Engine 3.1 will have support for simplex noise generation which looks incredibly useful

19 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Godot Engine 3.1, the big upgrade coming to the open source game engine has gained another exciting feature with simplex noise generation.

Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further

8 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.

FreeOrion, the free and open source 4X strategy game has a new release

3 Sep 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

FreeOrion, the free and open source strategy game inspired by the Master of Orion series pushed out a new update a few days ago with a lot of improvements.

Wine 3.15 is out, includes fixes for League of Legends, World of Warcraft and more

31 Aug 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Not to be outclassed by Valve's fork, Wine itself has pushed out another update with Wine 3.15 becoming available today.

Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has the first 3.1 version alpha available

31 Aug 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Godot Engine, the incredibly impressive open source game engine is pushing ahead towards the massive 3.1 update with the first alpha.