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The free and open source game engine 'Godot Engine' is closing in on the big 3.1 release
Announced today, Godot Engine 3.1 alpha 5 is now officially available and the last alpha before they really lock it down to focus on critical issues.
Category: Game Engine
Doomsday Engine for playing classic Doom, Heretic and Hexen has a new release
Earlier this month, the Doomsday Engine which runs classic titles like Doom, Heretic and Hexen had a new release out.
OpenXRay, an enhanced game engine for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat shows off Linux progress
OpenXRay, an enhanced game engine for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat has shown off progress towards running it on Linux.
A 2018 Thanksgiving retrospection about the open source game engine 'xoreos'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Unreal Engine 4.21 is out, now defaults to the Vulkan API on Linux
Epic Games have released Unreal Engine 4.21 and it includes some interesting stuff on the Linux side of things.
Open source cross-platform event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' now on itch, progressing well
GDevelop is an open source cross-platform event-driven game engine that's quite promising. It's currently closing in on a new major release and it's also now on itch.io.
EA's experimental Halcyon game engine has Vulkan and Linux support
It seems EA are doing some rather interesting things with their experimental Halcyon game engine which includes Vulkan and Linux support.
Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has the first 3.1 version alpha available
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
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.
The Xenko Game Engine recently became free and open source
The Xenko Game Engine recently released their 3.0 update which came with a surprise announcement of it now being free and open source.
Open source Morrowind game engine OpenMW 0.44 released
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.
A new version of CorsixTH, the open source game engine for Theme Hospital is on the way
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.
Unity game engine 2018.2 is now out with experimental Vulkan support in the editor
The extremely popular Unity game engine has just put out the official release of the 2018.2 build with lots of goodies.
The open source project 'xoreos' released version 0.0.5 'Dawn Star'
Fashionably (?) late, but still finally there, a new release of xoreos arrives! xoreos is a re-implementation of BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives).
Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' to get an impressive third-person shooter demo
The lead developer of the open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has shown off a video of an upcoming third-person shooter demo and it's impressive.
OpenSAGE, an early WIP game engine for Command & Conquer: Generals adds Linux support
OpenSAGE is an open source game engine that aims to be a re-implementation of SAGE, the RTS engine used in Command & Conquer: Generals and other RTS titles from EA Pacific.
Shockolate is a new cross-platform source port of System Shock 1
Fancy playing System Shock 1 using an open source game engine that's cross-platform? Give me some Shockolate.
Open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 'OpenRCT2' updated again
Want to play some RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on a modern game engine that supports Linux? OpenRCT2 is what you need and it's been updated.
Unity 2018.1 stable is out, as is a Unity 2018.2 beta with Vulkan support in the Editor & High-DPI scaling
With Unity 2018.1 released and out in the wild, the Unity developers aren't sitting idle as they've already pushed out a Unity 2018.2 beta with some fun changes.
The first results of the GZDoom survey are out, 10% are on Linux
Recently GZDoom was updated and with it they added in a new hardware survey, the first results are now available.
- Proton Experimental gets fixes for Rocket League, Crimson Desert, Helldivers 2 and more
- If you drop (or throw) your new Steam Controller it will scream at you
- Linux security flaws Dirty Frag and Copy Fail are a good reminder to stay up to date
- SteamOS 3.8.4 Beta brings further Steam Machine support and fixes for experimental nested desktop mode
- PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 devs battling "AI slop code pull requests"
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