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Citra, the work in progress Nintendo 3DS emulator now has a much improved OpenGL renderer

14 Mar 2018

For those who love emulation, you might want to know about Citra, a work in progress Nintendo 3DS emulator that we've never written about here before. It seems they've been hard at work too!

One Hour One Life, a very unique survival game where you can be another player's baby

28 Feb 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

I've not been this intrigued by a game for quite some time, One Hour One Life sounds like one of the most unique survival games I've ever seen.

SC Controller driver and UI for the Steam Controller has a fresh update

28 Feb 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

The incredibly useful SC Controller tool has a fresh update out that sees the return of AppImage support, a few new bits and some bug fixes.

Godot Engine to work on Vulkan support

27 Feb 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Speaking on their official blog, Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky writes about how the open source game engine will be getting Vulkan API support.

A new OpenRA release adds the full Harkonnen campaign for Dune 2000 and more

18 Feb 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

OpenRA, the fantastic open source game engine for classic Westwood strategy games has its first full release this year.

The Communist Dogifesto, a sci-fi FPS built on Linux is now out and it's open source

15 Feb 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

The Communist Dogifesto, a sci-fi first-person shooter recently released on Steam and itch. It's another game that's open source too and I took a look.

Have you played HyperRogue? A non-Euclidean roguelike that combines a free and paid model

14 Feb 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

HyperRogue is a non-Euclidean roguelike that has not only messed with my brain, it also combines a free and paid development model with code that's under the GPL.

Godot Engine, the open source game engine has evolved with the big 3.0 release

30 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

If you're a game developer on the look out for a game engine that's free and open source, Godot Engine 3.0 looks to be a safe bet.

Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has a second 3.0 release candidate

23 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Godot Engine is nearly ready to level up with the big 3.0 release, they've put out a second release candidate for testing.

DECEIVER is a cyberpunk pre-apocalyptic philosophical shooter that's heading to Linux

23 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

DECEIVER is a cyberpunk pre-apocalyptic philosophical shooter with parkour and robotic drones that's come to Linux next year, come see the trailer. You can sign up for a demo and the game engine is open source too!

OBS Studio 21.0.1 released with Luajit/Python3 scripting support and plenty more

23 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

OBS Studio 21.0.1 is a pretty big release and it sounds really quite exciting too, with the possibilities that come with Luajit/Python3 scripting support.

Open Source

Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has the first 3.0 release candidate available

15 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Godot Engine 3.0 is going to be a pretty big release for this open source game engine and the first release candidate is now available.

The PS3 emulator 'RPCS3' has a new development report out, progress is great

4 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

RPCS3, the open source emulator for the Playstation 3 has a new progress report out and it's looking really good.

A new test build of OpenRA is out, with the full Dune 2000 Harkonnen campaign

1 Jan 2018

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By Liam Squires-Hand

OpenRA is a fantastic game engine, which enables you to play Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux. The latest test release is rather nice too.

AMD have now officially open-sourced their 'AMDVLK' Linux Vulkan driver

22 Dec 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

Typical really, the day after I do a review of 2017 and mention how AMD announced they would finally release it, but still didn't, they then go and do it today.

CorsixTH, the open source game engine for Theme Hospital has a fresh update out

21 Dec 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

It's been a long time since the last CorsixTH release, well over a year in fact, so it's good to see this open source game engine still alive.

The Libretro Team and other emulators are being ripped off by companies trying to make a quick buck

20 Dec 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

This is sad, very sad. A developer from The Libretro Team has written up a blog post on the libretro site asking for us and others to highlight an ongoing problem of code getting ripped off.

The latest development report for the open source RTS '0 A.D.' shows progress is good

20 Dec 2017

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By Liam Squires-Hand

0 A.D. is a pretty game, probably one of the nicest looking open source games around and this latest development update gives us an idea of what they've been doing.