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Feral Interactive's open source 'GameMode' system performance booster has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2020

Feral Interactive don't just port a lot of games to Linux, they also work on some open source bits here and there. One of their projects is GameMode, which just got a new release.

Terminal Phase, a space shooter you can play in a Terminal window

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

Ever wanted to play a space shooter in your Terminal window? Well, now you can with Terminal Phase which was announced recently.

Planetary Sanitations Inc, a free and open source world exploration mecha roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

A game I completely forgot to cover some time ago is Planetary Sanitations Inc., a free and open source roguelike that has you exploring different worlds.

Need a distraction-free art application on Linux? Try out MyPaint

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

If you have a Wacom-style graphic tablet and you need a simple and distraction-free painting program, MyPaint seems like it could be a really good fit.

RetroArch to have the emulation 'Cores' as DLC when it releases on Steam, plus big updates

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

The team behind RetroArch, the open source and cross platform frontend/framework for emulators (and a lot more like open source game engines), have stated their plans for handling the various emulators it works with for the Steam release.

OpenRA for classic Westwood RTS games has a new build in need of testing

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Following on from a major release last year, the team working on OpenRA have a new test release up that requires testing.

Godot Engine 3.2 is almost here with a first Release Candidate

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Godot Engine, the quickly improving free and open source game engine is getting real close to a major release with the first Release Candidate now up for Godot 3.2.

Boxtron, the Steam Play tool to run games through a native DOSBox on Linux has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2020

Boxtron is another awesome Steam Play tool! Covered here a few times now, like Proton it enables you to play games on Linux that don't have a Linux build setup on Steam only this is for DOSBox games.

Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. After writing about it yesterday here on GOL, they've now given some more info on what it actually does.

Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2020

Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.

If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2020

Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.

Wine 5.0 has a fifth Release Candidate, getting real close to final now

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2020

The 5.0 stable release of Wine is really closing in now, with a fifth Release Candidate being released today with some more bug fixes noted.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else so please send help.

Minigalaxy, the free and open source Linux client for GOG has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

Progressing quickly, Minigalaxy is becoming quite a nice streamlined Linux client for managing GOG games since GOG themselves don't yet support Galaxy on Linux.

Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.

UnCiv, a free and open source remake of Civilization V

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

What do you do when you want to keep the mechanics of a game you love alive? If you're developer Yair Morgenstern, you remake it yourself like they did with UnCiv.

Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.

FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.