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Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.

You can now easily control the AMD Wraith Prism RGB colouring on Linux with CM-RGB

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Thanks to an open source project, you can now quite easily adjust the colouring on the fan of the AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine aiming for Vulkan support by 'mid 2020'

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Juan Linietsky, lead developer of the FOSS game engine Godot Engine has written a retrospective article while also going over future plans for Godot Engine.

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

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

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

Another progress report is up for RPCS3, the PlayStation 3 Emulator

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

The volunteers behind the status updates of the PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 have a new report available, with RPCS3 now up to 1,431 titles playable which is amazing.

GB Studio, a free and open source retro adventure game creator

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

Want to create your own seriously retro games? The free and open source GB Studio can certainly help you to do that.

Classic free and open source platform battler 'Teeworlds' has a major new release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

How about a little classic platform battling this holiday season? Teeworlds has a brand new release available.

Free and open source transport sim OpenTTD has a second Beta towards a big new version

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

OpenTTD is a true classic, building upon what Transport Tycoon Deluxe started and expanding it across more platforms and keeping it alive many years later.

Minigalaxy, a new open source simple GOG client for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Find getting your Linux games from GOG a bit of a hassle since they don't support Galaxy on Linux yet? Enter the free and open source application Minigalaxy.

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, the classic open source RTS has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

After being made open source back in 2009, the absolute classic Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries lives on and another release is out now.

Logitech Steering Wheel manager pyLinuxWheel has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2019

Another sweet new release of pyLinuxWheel is up, giving you even more options for managing your Logitech Steering Wheel on Linux thanks to new features.

Free and open source racer 'SuperTuxKart' has a new test release out, online play improvements

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2019

SuperTuxKart continues getting even better. The 1.0 release back in April was huge, with SuperTuxKart 1.1 getting a first Release Candidate now to improve on the previous new features like online play.

The classic POSTAL is free to grab on Steam (not just GOG now)

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2019

After GOG recently announced the classic isometric shooter POSTAL was permanently free, Steam has now also done the same.

Doomsday Engine for classic Doom, Heretic and Hexen has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2019

Giving you another great way to play the classics, Doomsday Engine 2.2 has been released marking 20 years since the announcement of its creation.

Free and open source arena FPS 'Red Eclipse 2' is now out on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2019

The fast-paced arena styled first-person shooter Red Eclipse 2 has now officially released on Steam so anyone can jump in, as it's free and open source.

Krita, the FOSS painting program gets an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2019

Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too.

Open Joystick Display, a FOSS tool to show off gamepad input in videos

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2019

Do you create gaming videos or livestream? Open Joystick Display seems like an incredibly useful free, open source and cross-platform tool to display your inputs on-screen.