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OpenRA for playing classic Command & Conquer titles has a fresh release up with AppImages for Linux builds

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2018

The excellent open source RTS game engine OpenRA, which allows you to play classic Command & Conquer titles has a new release out.

PlayStation 3 emulator 'RPCS3' is coming along nicely with some major improvements

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2018

More glorious news for emulation today with the latest RPCS3 (a PlayStation 3 emulator) giving an update on their progress and it's damn fine too.

Nintendo 3DS emulator 'Citra' sounds like it's coming along rather nicely

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2018

For those who like to use their PC to emulate other platforms, the Citra emulator for the Nintendo 3DS just put out a progress report and it's very promising.

Godot Engine 3.1 will have support for simplex noise generation which looks incredibly useful

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2018

Godot Engine 3.1, the big upgrade coming to the open source game engine has gained another exciting feature with simplex noise generation.

Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2018

Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.

FreeOrion, the free and open source 4X strategy game has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2018

FreeOrion, the free and open source strategy game inspired by the Master of Orion series pushed out a new update a few days ago with a lot of improvements.

Wine 3.15 is out, includes fixes for League of Legends, World of Warcraft and more

By Liam Dawe, 31 Aug 2018

Not to be outclassed by Valve's fork, Wine itself has pushed out another update with Wine 3.15 becoming available today.

Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has the first 3.1 version alpha available

By Liam Dawe, 31 Aug 2018

Godot Engine, the incredibly impressive open source game engine is pushing ahead towards the massive 3.1 update with the first alpha.

OpenRCT2, the re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has another fresh release out

By Liam Dawe, 26 Aug 2018

For those who love the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, OpenRCT2 looks like a rather decent open source game engine to give it a new lease of life especially as it continues to be updated.

Looks like AMD just open sourced their V-EZ Vulkan wrapper

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2018

Back in March, AMD announced the V-EZ Vulkan wrapper, with an aim to make Vulkan development easier. Now it seems they have open sourced it.

RTS game Krush Kill 'N Destroy to be unofficially revived with the OpenRA game engine

By Liam Dawe, 20 Aug 2018

Krush Kill 'N Destroy 1 and 2 are two classic real-time strategy titles from the 90's and a team of coders are looking to revive them using the open source OpenRA game engine.

The Communist Dogifesto, an open source first-person shooter has a big update

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2018

The Communist Dogifesto has quite an amusing setting, with Russian space dogs aboard a space station becoming really rather intelligent and taking it over. It's open source and it just had a rather big update.

SC Controller, incredibly useful UI/Driver for the Steam Controller has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2018

If you ever have issues with games not picking up your Steam Controller correctly, you should probably take a look at the excellent SC Controller project.

The Xenko Game Engine recently became free and open source

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2018

The Xenko Game Engine recently released their 3.0 update which came with a surprise announcement of it now being free and open source.

NetHack: Legacy is a remastered version of the original NetHack due out this month

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2018

NetHack: Legacy follows on from it's older brother with the aim to make NetHack a bit more modern and accessible.

Open source Morrowind game engine OpenMW 0.44 released

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2018

For those wanting to play Morrowind on Linux, the latest version of the open source game engine OpenMW is out with a new spell search bar and more.

The fast-paced free shooter 'Xonotic' is now available as a Flatpak package for easy install

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jul 2018

Not to be outdone by Snap packages, Flatpak's are also getting in on the fun so you can also now get Xonotic from Flathub.

The space 4x strategy game 'Star Ruler 2' is now open source

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jul 2018

Star Ruler 2 from Blind Mind Studios has officially become open source and not just the game engine, it seems it's the whole thing.

A new version of CorsixTH, the open source game engine for Theme Hospital is on the way

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2018

Need something to keep you going while you wait for Two Point Hospital? CorsixTH allows you to play Theme Hospital on Linux with a modern game engine.