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A 2016 Thanksgiving retrospection about the open source game engine 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy, 24 Nov 2016

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.

'VCMI' is an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2016

Fans of the classics may be interested to know about 'VCMI', an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Fusion 3, the next generation game engine and editor from Clickteam will support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 27 Sep 2016

Clickteam are the company behind some really cool tools like Fusion, previously called Multimedia Fusion. They did an AMA today where a developer noted their Fusion 3 editor is running on Linux and other platforms.

OpenMW 0.40 released, playing Morrowind on Linux natively gets closer to perfection

By Liam Dawe, 6 Sep 2016

OpenMW 0.40 is the latest release of the open source game engine for playing Morrowind. It's crazy how far along it is now, close to feature complete by the looks of it.

Unity 5.5 beta released for Linux, the first release from a unified codebase

By Liam Dawe, 1 Sep 2016

The day has finally arrived! The Linux developers at Unity have shipped their first build of the Linux Unity editor that is from a unified codebase.

Godot Engine 2.1 released, open source game engine

By Daniel Ramirez, 10 Aug 2016

After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvelous Godot Engine 2.1. Just like 2.0, this version focuses almost exclusively on further improving usability and the editor interface.

Unity game engine 5.4 released, Linux builds now updated

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jul 2016

The Unity game engine has release the next major version 5.4, the Linux builds have also just been updated to the 5.4 release.

OpenTomb is an open source game engine for Tomb Raider 1-5

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2016

OpenTomb is yet another beautiful open source game engine, and this one supports Tomb Raider 1-5. Fantastic to see more of this in my inbox!

Game Pencil Engine has plans to support Linux and get on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2016

Game Pencil Engine is an interesting looking game engine that's planning Linux support soon and it's trying to get on Steam.

REGoth Engine, an open source reimplentation for the game 'Gothic'

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2016

REGoth Engine was pointed out in the forum, as it's another lovely open source reimplentation and this time it's for the classic game 'Gothic'.

Cold Beam Games developer claims he is working on a multi-platform engine - Linux is included

By -Daniel-Palacio-, 10 Jul 2016

It's definitely great — and not that usual — when developers are prudent enough to conceive their games from the ground to be multi-platform. That appears to be the case with the developer of the small studio Cold Beam Games.

Want to play the classic racer Need For Speed II SE on Linux? There's an open source engine for that

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jun 2016

A classic racer from the 90's, Need For Speed™ II SE has an open source game engine allowing you to play it on Linux.

Armory 3D, a new game engine for Blender that will be open source

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2016

Armory 3D promises to make Blender become much more powerful for game developers and it certainly looks interesting.

CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2016

CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.

OpenKeeper, another open source game engine, this time for Dungeon Keeper II

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jun 2016

I really do love open source game engines. Keeping older titles alive on new platforms and bringing bug fixes with them. This time Dungeon Keeper II gets the treatment.

The Linux version of the Unity3D editor has been updated

By Liam Dawe, 25 May 2016

The Unity3D editor for Linux has been updated once again to bring it up to speed with the Windows version.

OpenRW, an open source engine for Grand Theft Auto III

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2016

I love open source! OpenRW joins the ranks of game engines like OpenMW (Morrowind), OpenRA (Command & Conquer, Red Alert) and many more.

OpenApoc, the open source engine for X-COM: Apocalypse shows impressive progress

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2016

I actually really liked where XCOM went with X-COM: Apocalypse, it had issues sure, but it had some interesting features. Like OpenXcom, OpenApoc will be a fully featured open source engine. The new video showing their progress is fantastic.