OpenRA has a huge new testing release out with savegame support
OpenRA, the open source game engine for classic RTS games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 has a brand new big testing release available.
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Roberta, a new Steam Play compatibility tool to play games with a native ScummVM
Following on from the Boxtron tool to run Steam games through a native Linux version of DOSBox, the same developer has now put out Roberta to do the same for ScummVM.
alTrace, a new open source debugging tool for apps and games that use OpenAL
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon has released a new open source tool today named alTrace, to help developers of games and software using OpenAL.
OBS Studio has a fresh release candidate available for a major new version
OBS Studio, the free and open source video livestreaming and recording software is my one and only stop for video capturing and it continues to mature.
2D game editor ct.js goes open source and it's closing in on a new major release
With an aim to make 2D game development learning fun, ct.js recently went open source to allow anyone to jump in and try it as well as help push it further.
Mixing Tower Defense with production chains, the free and open source game Mindustry has a big update
Could this be your next time sink? Mindustry merges together Tower Defense style gameplay with production chains from the likes of Factorio.
Based on the classic FPS Warsow, the new Warfork is now live in Early Access
Fast-paced arena shooter Warsow has been forked, updated under the name of Warfork and it's now in Early Access on Steam.
wsPublish, an open source Steam Workshop Interop Library released
How about a little open source news to get your Monday flowing? Game porter Ethan Lee recently announced the release of wsPublish, an open source Steam Workshop Interop Library with a little history.
Not quite time to wine down yet, with Wine 4.14 released to lift your spirits
Ah yes, one of my favourite days of the week. The day I get to unleash more glorious puns about Wine with another release now available for those of you wanting to run Windows games and applications on Linux.
FOSS local multiplayer game Superstarfighter sees a great new release
Superstarfighter is a FOSS local multiplayer game made with Godot Engine that continues to impress me and the latest update is out now with more great features.
pyLinuxWheel and Oversteer, two open source tools for managing Steering Wheels on Linux
Don't get frustrated by the lack of official support from Logitech for their steering wheels on Linux, reclaim your hardware with these two handy open source tools.
The Dreamcast emulator Flycast has made some amazing progress lately
In a post on the official Libretro website, the team notes that open source Dreamcast emulation with Flycast (a fork of Reicast) has progress along tremendously.
The Goldberg Steam Emulator has a new release, marking one year
The Goldberg Steam Emulator is an interesting project and one that could be important if Steam ever goes fully offline.
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 continues to show off amazing progress, June's report is up
The RPCS3 team continue hacking away at their code for this impressive PlayStation 3 emulator and they've reached another milestone.
Collabora detail more work going into Monado, their open source OpenXR runtime
With the 1.0 release of the OpenXR 1.0 specification, Collabora have begun to detail more work going on with Monado their open source OpenXR runtime for Linux.
FOSS game engine "Godot Engine" making fantastic Vulkan API progress
Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky continues pushing ahead with Godot's move to Vulkan, with another impressive progress report now available and it all sounds great.
Boxtron, a Steam compatibility tool to run games through a native Linux DOSBox
Here's something that's awesome! Thanks to the new features in the Steam client on Linux that came with Steam Play, you can add in other compatibility tools to run games through and Boxtron is one such tool.
Pegasus Frontend, another open source game launcher has Linux support
Not one I've covered before: Pegasus Frontend, a free and open source (GPL) game launcher that seems pretty sweet has Linux support.
Valve's new "ACO" Mesa shader compiler for AMD GPUs now has vertex shader support
For our third bit of Valve news today, they also recently announced that their Mesa shader compiler "ACO" had a bit of an upgrade recently as well.
xrdesktop, a new Valve-funded open source project to bring Linux desktops into VR
Valve seem to be pushing Linux support even harder now, with the announcement of the open source xrdesktop project from Collabora.
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