Pegasus Frontend, the customizable open source graphical game launcher has a new release up
Pegasus Frontend is certainly promising, an open source graphical game launcher you can use across Linux, MacOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, Android and more.
Category: Open Source
GGPO, a rollback networking SDK for peer-to-peer games has gone open source
Oh how I do love to see more projects go open source! GGPO, a rollback networking SDK for peer-to-peer games that's designed to help hide network latency in fast-paced games that requires precise inputs is now on GitHub.
Using the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux just got a whole lot easier with streamdeck_ui
If you're a livestreamer, video creator or anything like that then the Elgato Stream Deck seems like an incredible useful bit of kit. However, it doesn't have official Linux support. Not so much a problem now.
Looking to make 2D games? Perhaps the Orx game engine might be suitable for you
One we've never covered before at all is the free and open source Orx. A lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine.
OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena
A fun open source game engine project we've not covered here before is OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena and it just had a new release.
The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA
Following on from Ubisoft and Epic Games becoming Blender sponsors, NVIDIA have also thrown a bucketful of money into the ring.
FOSS game engine Godot Engine 3.2 Alpha released
With months of development behind them, Godot Engine 3.2 hits the first Alpha release with a ton of new and improved features for this FOSS game engine.
Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
Move over Cube World, there's a new open source voxel RPG in town under development called Veloren and it supports Linux too so there's a bonus point for you.
The handy Steering Wheel Manager 'Oversteer' has a new release out
For those of you with a Steering Wheel and play plenty of racing games on Linux, Oversteer is one of those essential and very handy tools.
FOSS game engine Godot Engine just gained a new Platinum sponsor
The excellent free and open source game engine Godot Engine just announced that Heroic Labs are now supporting their development as a Platinum level sponsor.
Athenaeum, the FOSS game launcher and updater has a big new release
Athenaeum, which is described as a "libre replacement for Steam" by the developer just recently had a big new release out.
Chiaki, an open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client is out and it works on Linux
Streaming is all the rage now right? How about streaming your PlayStation 4 to your Linux box using Chiaki, a new open source Remote Play client.
Mindustry the Factorio-like tower-defense game is now on Steam
Oh no, this is going to be very bad for my free time. It was bad enough with Factorio having a huge update recently and now Mindustry is available on Steam.
A developer from Epic Games adds an offscreen video driver to SDL 2
Something that came across the desk this morning is a note about Epic Games contributing to the cross-platform development library SDL 2.
D3D9 over Vulkan gets even better as D9VK 0.21 'Lollihop' is out
Developer Joshua Ashton continues doing some great work, as another release of the D3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK is out.
Twitch now officially sponsor OBS Studio development and more in the latest progress report
I honestly don't know where we would be without OBS Studio now, it's a fantastic bit of free and open source software for recording videos and doing livestreams. It seems Twitch agree.
Running DOSBox games from Steam on Linux just got better with a fresh release of Boxtron for Steam Play
Love your classic games? Have a lot of those classics on Steam? You need to grab Boxtron, the unofficial Steam Play tool that allows you to use a native DOSBox with Steam games even if they don't have a Linux build up.
The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)
Back in early July, Valve announced their work on a new AMD GPU shader compiler for Mesa named ACO and now they're trying to get it pulled into Mesa directly. UPDATED.
Video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio has a big new release out
The team building the free and open source video capture and livestreaming software, OBS Studio, have announced the 24.0 release.
ScummVM 2.1.0 is now ready for testing with support for more major classics
ScummVM, the clever bit of software enabling many classic point-and-click adventure games to run nicely on modern systems has a big new release in need of some testing.
- Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
- Heroic Launcher for Epic, GOG, Amazon games on Linux / SteamOS v2.17 released
- The 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller is a top premium-feeling controller
- Dune: Awakening will have BattlEye enabled for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck
- SteamOS Manager for BIOS updates, TDP and GPU clock controls now open source
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