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Grand strategy empire builder 'Arcane Fortune' has a new release and it went open source

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

Arcane Fortune is a game we briefly highlighted at the start of August as one that is inspired by the likes of Civilization, SimCity and Dwarf Fortress and it's getting bigger again.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2020

The latest and greatest in open source graphics drivers has released with Mesa 20.2.0, although you should wait on it if you're after a stable experience.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 continues living with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

OpenRCT2 is the free and open source game engine reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, adding in many advanced featured and cross-platform support.

Play more classics including one from 1976 with a new ScummVM release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

ScummVM, the awesome all-in-one solution for playing tons of classic adventure and RPGs has a brand new release available which expands the games supported.

Warzone 2100 to get a graphics boost with Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

The free and open source RTS Warzone 2100 continues advancing, with a big graphics rendering overhaul recently merged in ready for the next release.

Graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' to gain Vulkan support in the 2.3 release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2020

As another win for both open standards and modern graphics APIs, the classic and continually improving open source graphics rendering engine OGRE will get Vulkan support in the upcoming 2.3 release.

Wine 5.18 is out making use of the new vkd3d-shader library

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

The team hacking away on the Wine compatibility layer have put out another development build with Wine 5.18 now being made available.

Another Discord voice chat overlay for Linux appears with 'Discover'

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

Since the official Discord client doesn't currently support the Overlay on Linux, it's up to the community and another has been released named Discover.

Check out the open source 2D level editor 'LEd' from the former lead on Dead Cells

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

LEd is a very interesting project to follow for both game developers and people looking to get into it, a new free level editor with a firm aim on being user friendly.

SteamTinkerLaunch is a huge all in one Linux wrapper tool for gaming

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2020

You all love to tinker right? SteamTinkerLaunch is an open source project to bundle together tons of available extra options for running your Steam games.

Free and open source sprite editor 'Pixelorama' gets a massive upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2020

If you're working with sprites and pixel-art, you need to pay attention to Pixelorama as this free and open source program is coming on nicely and another massive upgrade is out now.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs go open source

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2020

Frictional Games have announced that they've now open source the game engine behind Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs as open source under the GPL.

System76 announce more Linux laptop models get open source firmware

By Liam Dawe, 22 Sep 2020

System76, the Pop!_OS Linux distribution maker and hardware vendor for laptops, desktops and servers has announced another open source firmware push.

vkd3d, the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library releases version 1.2

By Liam Dawe, 22 Sep 2020

Translating Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Wine makes a huge step forwards, as the Wine team have announced the release today of vkd3d 1.2.

First person dungeon-crawler 'Delver' properly open source again, pulls in lots of updates

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2020

After only recently being released on itch.io, it seems the team behind the chunky-pixel first-person dungeon crawler Delver aren't done.

Bevy seems like an impressive upcoming free and open source game engine made with Rust

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2020

Feeling a little rusty? After a new game engine for your next game development project? Have a look at Bevy, a cross-platform and open source data-driven game engine built in Rust.

C-Dogs SDL, the classic run and gun game has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 18 Sep 2020

C-Dogs SDL is something of a classic. A free and open source overhead run-and-gun game that continues being updated and a fresh release is out now.

Mindustry, one of the best open source games around has a huge upgrade in testing

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2020

Mindustry, a game that mixes in Factorio with Tower Defence and then goes wild from there is a fantastic example of how good a free and open source game can be.