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CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2016

CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.12 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 10 Jun 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.12 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

OpenKeeper, another open source game engine, this time for Dungeon Keeper II

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jun 2016

I really do love open source game engines. Keeping older titles alive on new platforms and bringing bug fixes with them. This time Dungeon Keeper II gets the treatment.

The Wine Staging Team has released their patch-set for Wine 1.9.11

By sobkas, 1 Jun 2016

Wine Staging 1.9.11 has been released this weekend. This release is a small update containing only a few improvements targeting different applications.

Simutrans, the open source transportation simulation game is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2016

Simutrans is a bit of an oldie in the open source gaming world, but it's pretty good and it has now found its way onto Steam.

Rotorcross, an open source multirotor racing simulator has a Linux version

By Liam Dawe, 31 May 2016

Apparently Rotorcross is becoming a thing where you race drones and it actually sounds like a pretty cool idea for a game. The code is open source too, but it's built with Unity.

New set of GPU benchmarks and adventures in OpenGL 4.3

By Samsai, 31 May 2016

Quite recently there have been quite a few advancements on the open source side of GPU drivers so I figured it would be the perfect time to talk about these changes and run some updated benchmarks.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.11 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 27 May 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.11 has many small changes including 21 bugfixes.

Intel & Nvidia Fermi Mesa OpenGL driver has now finished up OpenGL 4.3 support

By Liam Dawe, 24 May 2016

Oh wow, didn't expect this so soon. The Mesa driver for Intel graphics and Nvidia Fermi (GeForce 400, GeForce 500) on Linux have now reached OpenGL 4.3 compliance with "ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior" now being done.

There is now an open source driver and GTK3 based UI for interacting with the Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe, 23 May 2016

Open source rocks! A fellow named kozec has created a user mode driver (based on another) and a UI for interacting with the Steam Controller.

Come watch another round of the GOL OpenRA tournament tonight, last one before the final!

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2016

Apologies for the late notice on this, we will try better next time. Tonight is the last OpenRA game before the final! Come watch it on Twitch at 7PM UTC.

Minetest, the open source sandbox game inspired by InfiniMiner & Minecraft has a major new version

By Liam Dawe, 20 May 2016

Minetest is an open source game and game engine much like Minecraft and available for free. It has recently released a major new version.

OpenRW, an open source engine for Grand Theft Auto III

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2016

I love open source! OpenRW joins the ranks of game engines like OpenMW (Morrowind), OpenRA (Command & Conquer, Red Alert) and many more.

Intel's Mesa OpenGL driver has now finished up OpenGL 4.2 support

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2016

Not long after gaining OpenGL 4.0 support, Intel's Mesa driver is now able to support OpenGL 4.2 and it's not far off 4.3.

The open source Mesa driver for Intel graphics finally reaches OpenGL 4

By Liam Dawe, 16 May 2016

Intel's Mesa has been lagging behind for quite some time, but today it looks like the wait is over. The Mesa Intel driver finally has OpenGL 4 support.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.10 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 16 May 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.10 has many small changes including 25 bugfixes.

OpenApoc, the open source engine for X-COM: Apocalypse shows impressive progress

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2016

I actually really liked where XCOM went with X-COM: Apocalypse, it had issues sure, but it had some interesting features. Like OpenXcom, OpenApoc will be a fully featured open source engine. The new video showing their progress is fantastic.