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Using the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux just got a whole lot easier with streamdeck_ui

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2019

If you're a livestreamer, video creator or anything like that then the Elgato Stream Deck seems like an incredible useful bit of kit. However, it doesn't have official Linux support. Not so much a problem now.

Looking to make 2D games? Perhaps the Orx game engine might be suitable for you

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2019

One we've never covered before at all is the free and open source Orx. A lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine.

OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2019

A fun open source game engine project we've not covered here before is OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena and it just had a new release.

The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

Following on from Ubisoft and Epic Games becoming Blender sponsors, NVIDIA have also thrown a bucketful of money into the ring.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine 3.2 Alpha released

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

With months of development behind them, Godot Engine 3.2 hits the first Alpha release with a ton of new and improved features for this FOSS game engine.

Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct 2019

Move over Cube World, there's a new open source voxel RPG in town under development called Veloren and it supports Linux too so there's a bonus point for you.

The handy Steering Wheel Manager 'Oversteer' has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 4 Oct 2019

For those of you with a Steering Wheel and play plenty of racing games on Linux, Oversteer is one of those essential and very handy tools.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine just gained a new Platinum sponsor

By Liam Dawe, 2 Oct 2019

The excellent free and open source game engine Godot Engine just announced that Heroic Labs are now supporting their development as a Platinum level sponsor.

Athenaeum, the FOSS game launcher and updater has a big new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Oct 2019

Athenaeum, which is described as a "libre replacement for Steam" by the developer just recently had a big new release out.

Chiaki, an open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client is out and it works on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2019

Streaming is all the rage now right? How about streaming your PlayStation 4 to your Linux box using Chiaki, a new open source Remote Play client.

Mindustry the Factorio-like tower-defense game is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2019

Oh no, this is going to be very bad for my free time. It was bad enough with Factorio having a huge update recently and now Mindustry is available on Steam.

A developer from Epic Games adds an offscreen video driver to SDL 2

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2019

Something that came across the desk this morning is a note about Epic Games contributing to the cross-platform development library SDL 2.

D3D9 over Vulkan gets even better as D9VK 0.21 'Lollihop' is out

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Developer Joshua Ashton continues doing some great work, as another release of the D3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK is out.

Twitch now officially sponsor OBS Studio development and more in the latest progress report

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

I honestly don't know where we would be without OBS Studio now, it's a fantastic bit of free and open source software for recording videos and doing livestreams. It seems Twitch agree.

Running DOSBox games from Steam on Linux just got better with a fresh release of Boxtron for Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2019

Love your classic games? Have a lot of those classics on Steam? You need to grab Boxtron, the unofficial Steam Play tool that allows you to use a native DOSBox with Steam games even if they don't have a Linux build up.

The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2019

Back in early July, Valve announced their work on a new AMD GPU shader compiler for Mesa named ACO and now they're trying to get it pulled into Mesa directly. UPDATED.

Video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2019

The team building the free and open source video capture and livestreaming software, OBS Studio, have announced the 24.0 release.

ScummVM 2.1.0 is now ready for testing with support for more major classics

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2019

ScummVM, the clever bit of software enabling many classic point-and-click adventure games to run nicely on modern systems has a big new release in need of some testing.

The FOSS strategy game 0 A.D. seems to be coming along very nicely

By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2019

Things on the news front for the FOSS RTS game 0 A.D. have been quiet recently but they certainly haven't been sitting on their hands, a lot of work has been going on in the background.