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NVIDIA have now made PhysX open source
Popping up a little while ago on Twitter, NVIDIA has announced that they've now put PhysX under an open source license.
Category: Open Source
A 2018 Thanksgiving retrospection about the open source game engine 'xoreos'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Classic free and open source platformer 'SuperTux' has a new alpha release out
SuperTux, a name I've not heard in quite some time, a free and open source platformer inspired by Super Mario Bros is still chugging along and it's heading towards a new release.
First-person dungeon crawler 'Delver' now has an open source engine and editor
Developer Priority Interrupt has officially released the game engine and editor behind their first-person dungeon crawler as open source.
The open source racer 'SuperTuxKart' is looking for testers to try their new online play
SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of Linux open source gaming is finally getting online multiplayer. They're also now asking for testers.
The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is out, impressive stuff
RPCS3, the open source PlayStation 3 emulator is coming along nicely. The latest progress report goes over some recent work with various improvements.
Open source cross-platform event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' now on itch, progressing well
GDevelop is an open source cross-platform event-driven game engine that's quite promising. It's currently closing in on a new major release and it's also now on itch.io.
Free and open source RTS 'Wyrmsun' has a big update with a new civilization, new buildings and more
Wyrmsun, the free and open source retro-looking RTS just had a sizeable update with some great new stuff included.
Free and open source racing game 'Yorg' has a new release with a new track, a new camera and more
For those who love their arcade-style racing games Yorg is actually quite amusing. The developers just release Yorg 0.10 and it's quite an improvement.
Space sim 'Helium Rain' has left Early Access, code is open source
Helium Rain, the space simulation and strategy game from Deimos Games has left Early Access as a rather impressive game.
Mojang to open source more of Minecraft with two libraries already on GitHub
I have to admit, I am quite surprised by this. Mojang (owned by Microsoft) are to open source more of Minecraft.
Classic open source strategy game Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries has a new release out
Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries holds a special place in my heart, as one of the earliest strategy games I played. It continues to live on now it's open source and a fresh release is out.
VK9 for getting Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit their 28th milestone
While we've talked a lot about DXVK recently, let's not forget other interesting projects like VK9 (formerly SchaeferGL) which aims to give Direct3D 9 over Vulkan.
Dungeon crawler, Ebony Spire: Heresy, will be getting an anniversary update next month
A recent post by the developer has detailed plans going forward for the title and there’s big changes incoming.
OpenRA for playing classic Command & Conquer titles has a fresh release up with AppImages for Linux builds
The excellent open source RTS game engine OpenRA, which allows you to play classic Command & Conquer titles has a new release out.
PlayStation 3 emulator 'RPCS3' is coming along nicely with some major improvements
More glorious news for emulation today with the latest RPCS3 (a PlayStation 3 emulator) giving an update on their progress and it's damn fine too.
Nintendo 3DS emulator 'Citra' sounds like it's coming along rather nicely
For those who like to use their PC to emulate other platforms, the Citra emulator for the Nintendo 3DS just put out a progress report and it's very promising.
Godot Engine 3.1 will have support for simplex noise generation which looks incredibly useful
Godot Engine 3.1, the big upgrade coming to the open source game engine has gained another exciting feature with simplex noise generation.
Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further
Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.
FreeOrion, the free and open source 4X strategy game has a new release
FreeOrion, the free and open source strategy game inspired by the Master of Orion series pushed out a new update a few days ago with a lot of improvements.
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