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FOSS voice chat application Mumble has finally put out the massive 1.3 overhaul

By Liam Dawe,
Move over Discord, Mumble has rolled back into town with a massive new release for this open source voice chat application.

Game manager Lutris just had a huge update with D9VK, Discord Rich Presence and more

By Liam Dawe,
Need something to manage all your games from different places? Lutris is pretty handy and it just had a huge upgrade.

If you need help managing NVIDIA Optimus check out this little tool

By Liam Dawe,
Canonical developer Martin Wimpress shared an update to their handy NVIDIA Optimus GPU switcher, might be worth a look if you're in need of something to make it easier.

GTA: San Andreas is being remade (unofficially) in Unity and it supports Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Have any fond memories of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? You might want to take a look at this new unofficial remake being made in Unity as it supports Linux.

FOSS fantasy turn-based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has a new Beta, still porting to Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
The team behind the popular free and open source fantasy turn-based strategy game Battle for Wesnoth have announced the start of a big new release.

The FOSS 2D game engine GDevelop continues advancing the 5.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
GDevelop, a FOSS (Free and open-source software) 2D game engine seems to be really coming along nicely for the current overhaul.

Fluid Simulation is one of the most mesmerising things I've seen in a while

By Liam Dawe,
Fluid Simulation is something you all need to try out for a few minutes to de-stress. A nice casual experience for a tired mind perhaps.

The FOSS racer Yorg has recently released a big update with local multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
Always great to see free and open source games continue to mature. The racing game Yorg just recently put out a big a new release and it's coming along nicely.

openblack is a FOSS game engine for Black & White currently under development

By Liam Dawe,
How about a little open source to start your Tuesday morning? Work is going into the openblack project, to create a modern open source game engine for Black & White (2001).

A big new release of the RTS Warzone 2100 has finally made it out the door

By Liam Dawe,
Warzone 2100, a proper classic real-time strategy game that's open source just had the first update in some years.

Godot Engine continues advancing the Vulkan rendering system, 3D work has begun

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky has another progress report up on the status of moving over to Vulkan and it's sounding great.

DXVK 1.3.3 is out, a small and tidy release for the D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Philip Rebohle pushed out a fresh update to DXVK yesterday with a couple little fixes and improvements.

D9VK 0.20 'Frog Cookie' is out further advancing this great D3D9 to Vulkan layer

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Joshua Ashton has just today released another build of D9VK code-named 'Frog Cookie', further polishing this D3D9 to Vulkan layer that was forked from DXVK.

The emulation and media player front-end RetroArch just had a huge new release

By Liam Dawe,
Today is a big day for the emulation scene, as RetroArch have officially announced a big new release. While it's used for other things, RetroArch is most noted for making emulation a bit easier.

OpenRA has a huge new testing release out with savegame support

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA, the open source game engine for classic RTS games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 has a brand new big testing release available.

Roberta, a new Steam Play compatibility tool to play games with a native ScummVM

By Liam Dawe,
Following on from the Boxtron tool to run Steam games through a native Linux version of DOSBox, the same developer has now put out Roberta to do the same for ScummVM.

alTrace, a new open source debugging tool for apps and games that use OpenAL

By Liam Dawe,
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has released a new open source tool today named alTrace, to help developers of games and software using OpenAL.

OBS Studio has a fresh release candidate available for a major new version

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio, the free and open source video livestreaming and recording software is my one and only stop for video capturing and it continues to mature.

2D game editor ct.js goes open source and it's closing in on a new major release

By Liam Dawe,
With an aim to make 2D game development learning fun, ct.js recently went open source to allow anyone to jump in and try it as well as help push it further.

Mixing Tower Defense with production chains, the free and open source game Mindustry has a big update

By Liam Dawe,
Could this be your next time sink? Mindustry merges together Tower Defense style gameplay with production chains from the likes of Factorio.
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