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The Elder Scrolls: Arena open source reimplementation OpenTESArena 0.13 is out

By Liam Dawe, 29 Mar 2021

Have fond memories of the classic The Elder Scrolls: Arena from the early 90s? A dedicated fan is rebuilding it with OpenTESArena, an open source game engine reimplementation.

OpenRA has a massive new release improving the classic Westwood RTS games

By Liam Dawe, 22 Mar 2021

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A day I've been waiting for! OpenRA, the game engine reimplementation of Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 has a huge new release out for 2021 and a flashy new website.

Godot Engine team grows with another developer now working on rendering

By Liam Dawe, 2 Mar 2021

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Godot Engine is definitely going places and the more we hear about this free and open source game engine the more we love it. The team now has another member hired to work on rendering.

OpenLoco is a free and open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2021

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Just like there's the awesome OpenTTD for fans of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, there's also OpenLoco for players who want to play through the classic Locomotion.

Take-Two Interactive hit the DMCA nuke on GTA III and Vice City reverse engineered effort

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2021

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It was only recently that we picked up the news of both GTA III and Vice City getting a fully working reverse engineered game engine, along with plenty of upgrades. Sadly, and expectedly, it got nuked from orbit.

GTA III and Vice City get reverse engineered with a new game engine

By Liam Dawe, 17 Feb 2021

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Want to revisit the classic GTA III and Vice City? You should take a look at re3 and reVC which not only provide the source code, they also upgrade the experience for both.

Defold game engine planning Linux improvements through 2021

By Liam Dawe, 12 Feb 2021

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Defold, a free game engine with the source code available under a reasonable open license has released a roadmap for 2021 and it's sounding pretty good.

Play some classic RTS with a new test release of OpenRA

By Liam Dawe, 1 Feb 2021

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Closing in on a big new stable release, the OpenRA project to play the classic Command & Conquer real time strategy games has a new test release that needs more people to try out.

The Machinery game engine adds Linux support in Preview

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2021

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The Machinery, an upcoming game engine from people who previously worked on the likes of Stingray, Bitsquid, and Diesel engines released a new build with the first Preview of Linux support.

Free cross-platform game engine Defold is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2021

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Looking to make games? Defold is a pretty great option that has wonderful cross-platform support and it's free too, available under a pretty open license (but not open source).

YoYo Games developer of GameMaker Studio sold for $10M (updated)

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2021

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Game Maker and later GameMaker Studio is a very popular game engine with indie developers and YoYo Games just recently sold it off and it appears they did so at a loss. Update: Opera confirmed as the new owner.

Godot Engine gets a sixth 3.2.4 beta with a new CPU lightmapper

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

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The Godot team just keep on adding in big new features to make this one of the best free and open source game engines around and the next Beta update for Godot 3.2.4 is out now.

Fully playable Caesar 3 open source game engine Julius has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2021

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Another brilliant open source game engine, Julius is a fully playable replacement for the original 1998 release of the city-builder Caesar 3.

Godot Engine had a very productive 2020, lots coming to this FOSS game engine in 2021

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2021

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Godot Engine is probably the most promising free and open source game engine around, and they clearly had a very productive 2020 with big plans for 2021.

FOSS game engine written in Rust 'Bevy' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2020

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As another promising free and open source game engine written in Rust, Bevy continues maturing and there's a brand new release up for you to try out with lots of advancements.

YoYo Games expand their Linux support in GameMaker Studio 2 to the Raspberry Pi

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

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The Raspberry Pi sure is a versatile device and thanks to GameMaker Studio 2 from YoYo Games, it might even end up as more of a gaming unit with newly added support for exported games.

Godot Engine hires another developer, this time for physics fun

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2020

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Through 2020 it seems the free and open source game engine Godot Engine has gone from strength to strength, and they've managed to hire another developer.

Unity rolls out the Unity 2020.2 TECH release available now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2020

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Unity 2020.2 is the latest 'TECH' release with all the latest features, that eventually make their way into a more stable LTS release.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine Daggerfall Unity now feature complete

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2020

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Daggerfall Unity is the open source game engine built with Unity for running the 1996 classic The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall and it's coming along very nicely.

Unity acquires the open source MLAPI networking library

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2020

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Unity Technologies who work on the Unity game engine have announced that they have acquired the networking library MLAPI, along with the creator joining Unity.

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