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Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2020

While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.

Open-source graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' has a major new release up

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2020

OGRE, a classic open source graphics rendering engine has a major new release available and the first big release in some time.

Open source PS4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' major release up with VA-API support

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2020

Giving you another way to enjoy your games from various sources on Linux, the free and open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' has a new major update.

Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.

The classic Escape Velocity: Override is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

Escape Velocity: Override, something of a classic from the 90s is getting remastered with Cosmic Frontier: Override and it's seeking funding on Kickstarter.

Linux game launcher 'GameHub' has a brand new release, with game tweaking support

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2020

GameHub is another game launcher available for Linux, one we've talked briefly about before, and it just recently had quite a nice looking update.

FOSS Ultima 7 game engine 'Exult' has a new big stable update after 16 years

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Ultima 7, what a classic. Released originally back in 1992 it continues to live on thanks to open source. Exult is a FOSS game engine for it and it finally has a fresh release.

Epicinium - a strategy game where nature is a finite resource, to release free and going open source

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2020

Epicinium is a name I've not heard in some time. After a failed Kickstarter in 2018, they're back with their strategy game and the team at A Bunch of Hacks have a new plan for it which includes open source.

Minigalaxy, the FOSS Linux client for GOG adds support for Wine

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

While GOG don't support their own Galaxy client on Linux (yet?), work continues by the community on Minigalaxy, a streamlined free and open source Linux client for GOG.

OpenRA has a new test release, plus the OpenRA powered RTS 'Fractured Realms' has a pre-release

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

OpenRA, the free and open source real-time strategy game engine for playing classic Westwood games has a new testing release up. Additionally, Fractured Realms, a game powered by OpenRA tech has a pre-release.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a fresh release up

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

Time to get building a massive theme park, as OpenRCT2 for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems with an enhanced feature-set has a new release up.

Direct 3D to Vulkan layer 'DXVK' 1.6.1 release out with plenty of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

DXVK when paired up with Wine (and integrated in Steam Play Proton) translates Direct3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan enabling better performance on Linux for a lot of Windows games. Today, a brand new release went up.

Work is underway to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

ASUS ROG (Republic Of Gamers) is a brand of special hardware primarily aimed at PC gaming and work is now underway by the community to better support their laptops on Linux.

Godot Engine powers up GLES2 with batching coming in Godot 3.2.2

By Liam Dawe, 19 Apr 2020

With a big release behind them this year with Godot 3.2, and while Vulkan support is being worked on for Godot 4.0, the team is also hard at work to improve the current version further.

GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2020

In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.

KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland

By Liam Dawe, 16 Apr 2020

Stick a fork in it! KDE's window manager KWin officially has a full fork with a new project called KWinFT, with an aim to support modern development practices and further expand Wayland support.

The AI generated text adventure 'AI Dungeon' can now be played online with others

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2020

AI Dungeon is absolutely fascinating. Every single adventure is different, as it's all powered by a fancy AI and now you and friends can join up for an adventure you're never going to forget.

Linux game manager 'Lutris' has a sweet new build up - better Wine support, new DXVK handling

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2020

Lutris is probably in my top 5 of free and open source Linux apps, as it's made gaming outside of Steam many times easier on Linux.

Free and open source Master of Orion clone 'Remnants of the Precursors' has a Beta release

By Liam Dawe, 14 Apr 2020

Remember the original Master of Orion? Remnants of the Precursors is a strict feature clone of the 1993 classic. It's free, open source and a Beta version is out now.