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OpenRCT2, the open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a major update

By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Aug 2020

You don't always have to give up classics, thanks to open source. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living on with a fresh update of the re-implementation OpenRCT2.

Jagged Alliance 2 game engine 'Stracciatella' has a big new release

By Liam Squires-Hand, 5 Aug 2020

The community working to keep the classic Jagged Alliance 2 alive with the Stracciatella game engine have put out their first release in a few years.

xoreos, the FLOSS game engine for titles like Knights of the Old Republic has a new update

By Liam Squires-Hand, 3 Aug 2020

xoreos is an in-development effort to create a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the BioWare Aurora Engine that powers games like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

Godot Engine to get various improvements thanks to the Google Summer of Code program

By BTRE, 30 Jul 2020

The open source Godot game engine is a really amazing project that’s quickly becoming even more amazing. Development continues unabated and, thanks to dedicated programmers, there’s plenty to look forward to in the works.

Event-driven open source game engine GDevelop adds a live preview feature

By Liam Squires-Hand, 29 Jul 2020

GDevelop is an in-development free and open source game engine, one that is powered by a drag and drop event system and it continues bringing in new and fun features.

Unity 2020.1 game engine released, Unity acquires the Bolt visual scripting asset

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Jul 2020

Unity Technologies have released the latest version of the Unity game engine with Unity 2020.1 with lots of new features and bug fixes included.

Godot 4.0 will get SDF based real-time global illumination

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Jun 2020

While we already briefly mentioned SDF based real-time global illumination was coming in our post on the recent Godot Engine 3.2.2 release, Godot's Juan Linietsky has now explained the upcoming feature in more detail.

OpenRA working to support C&C Remastered assets, Tiberian Sun work continues

By Liam Squires-Hand, 30 Jun 2020

The team behind OpenRA have confirmed their continued commitment to working on the game engine to support Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on modern platforms.

Godot Engine 3.2.2 is out with 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer

By Liam Squires-Hand, 26 Jun 2020

Godot Engine 3.2.2 is an update to the current latest stable branch of the open source game engine, which does pull in some big new features.

Theme Hospital continues living on with a new CorsixTH release

By Liam Squires-Hand, 16 Jun 2020

CorsixTH is the wonderful free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, featuring plenty of improvements and modern system support.

Morrowind lives on with a major new OpenMW release out

By Liam Squires-Hand, 15 Jun 2020

Morrowind is a much loved RPG classic and thanks to open source it continues living on modern platforms with OpenMW.

Godot Engine 3.2.2 RC 1 is out towards a feature-packed release

By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Jun 2020

Godot Engine is progressing and getting close to a new release with Godot 3.2.2 and it's going to be quite feature-filled with a new Release Candidate ready for testing.

Defold Foundation awarded a grant to bring support of Web Monetization

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Jun 2020

The Defold Foundation recently announced another partnership, as they've secured a grant from Grant for the Web to bring in support for the Web Monetization API.

GZDoom 4.4.0 is out and the last to have 32bit builds

By Liam Squires-Hand, 10 Jun 2020

GZDoom, the extremely versatile and very popular open source enhanced Doom game engine has a big new release out and they're going to drop 32bit support.

Unity 2019.4 LTS is out for developers needing a more stable base

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Jun 2020

The Unity team have today release 2019.4 LTS (Long-Term Support), a culmination of all the work done across the previous "TECH" releases.

FOSS game engine GDevelop gets a sweet new dark theme

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Jun 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful free and open source game engine, one that's cross-platform and it continues to get more powerful. It also has theme support with a new dark theme landing that looks great.

Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH new release in testing

By Liam Squires-Hand, 4 Jun 2020

CorsixTH is a brilliant free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, enabling it to play smoothly on modern systems and other improvements.

Godot Engine editor running in a web browser is now a thing

By Liam Squires-Hand, 29 May 2020

Godot Engine just keeps on advancing in new and interesting ways. This free and open source game engine can now be run in a web browser - yes really.

Heroic Labs becomes a Defold game engine sponsor

By Liam Squires-Hand, 26 May 2020

Recently, game developer King transferred the source code for the Defold game engine over to a new Defold Foundation where they opened up the source and now they have a new sponsor.