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Veloren, an open source RPG inspired by Cube World has a new release
Need a new place to meet up with friends? Veloren is a free and open source open-world RPG that just recently had a massive new release with a focus on firming up the content.
Category: Open Source
Direct3D to Vulkan gets even better with DXVK 1.7
Today the latest and greatest in Direct3D to Vulkan translation for the Wine (and Proton) compatibility layers has released with DXVK 1.7.
Caesar III open source game engine 'Julius' has a new release
Julius, a constantly improving free and open source game engine to play the classic Caesar III on modern systems has a brand new release available.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall continues living with Daggerfall Unity
Daggerfall Unity is a recreation of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall built on the Unity game engine, with the project source code also available.
Move over Stream Deck, give me some Stream Pi
The Stream Deck from Elgato is a nifty little bit of hardware, helping out anyone who does video content have access to a ton of commands at the touch of a button and now it has some more open competition with the Stream Pi.
FOSS game engine GDevelop has a UI overhaul to improve the flow
GDevelop is a free and open source game engine that uses an event-sheet style of making games, dragging and dropping instead of programming line after line.
AMD relaunch their GPUOpen website and expand the open source FidelityFX toolkit
AMD have given their GPUOpen website, a place that hosts various resources for game developers with open source and open standards at its heart, a new look.
Space Station 14 is another attempt to capture the spirit of the classic BYOND multiplayer RPG
Just like Unitystation, Space Station 14 is another game attempting to revive the classic RPG Space Station 13 with cross-platform support on a more modern platform.
Godot 4.0 continues advancing with a new modernized lightmapper
While Godot Engine 4.0 will come with Vulkan API support, it's also bringing in a ton of new advanced rendering options to make it a more enticing target for bigger titles and capable of making more beautiful games.
The FOSS real-time strategy 0 A.D. gains FXAA, more animals and a lot more ready for Alpha 24
0 A.D. is a free and open source in-development real-time strategy game from Wildfire Games, one that hasn't seen a big release for quite some time but work continues with it pulling in lots of goodies.
xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve
Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.
Castle Game Engine looking to improve gamepad support thanks to SDL2
Castle Game Engine might not be as well known as other free and open source game engines, however it does look rather useful and the developers continue to pull in improvements.
Get immersed in a classic MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with Mudlet
Open source, free and cross-platform is what we like to see here. Sometimes we cover some real classic gaming too and today we're talking a bit about entering a MUD with Mudlet.
dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release
DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.
RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes
The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.
Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta
Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.
You can now use the Discord Overlay on Linux thanks to a new community project
Once again the developer community is picking up the slack where the official stuff isn't working on Linux. This time it's the turn of the Discord Overlay.
Linux gaming overlay 'MangoHud' improves OpenGL support, better NVIDIA detection and more
MangoHud has firmly filled a hole in tools available for Linux gamers, benchmarking and more. A handy HUD that works across OpenGL and Vulkan games and a fresh build went up.
Endless Sky, a free and open source space trading & combat game expands with a new update
Endless Sky, a free and open source classic 2D space game continues expanding with the first stable release in quite some time.
Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release
OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.
- It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
- NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX
- Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes
- Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
- Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' [updated]
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