Inspired by Settlers II, the open source Widelands has a new test build up
Settlers II is an absolute classic and Widelands does a pretty good job of carrying the torch. Recently, a huge new update went out in the form of a Release Candidate.
Category: Open Source
NVIDIA open sourced part of NVAPI SDK to aid 'Windows emulation environments'
NVIDIA sneakily put out a little open source release recently, with a part of the NVAPI SDK now under the MIT license.
Open source voxel game engine Minetest has a new release
Inspired by Minecraft and Infiniminer, the open source and highly moddable voxel game engine Minetest has a new release available now.
More progress on Easy Anti-Cheat in Wine / Proton coming
With the current in-progress community development effort to get Easy Anti-Cheat working in the Wine / Proton compatibility layers, they continually hit new milestones.
Playing SpringRTS games on Linux gets easier with Flatpak
SpringRTS, the free and open source game engine for playing various real-time strategy games is now even easier to get running on Linux.
Free and open source space RPG 'Destination Sol' has a big 2.0 release
Destination Sol might not be a name known to all but it's a sweet little space exploration RPG that's free and open source, plus it's getting big updates.
VKD3D-Proton is the new official Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer for Proton
While the Proton compatibility layer already has DXVK for translating DirectX 9/10/11 into Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton has become the official version for translating Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan.
FOSS Linux game launcher 'Lutris' has a new bug-fix release out
It's free, it's open source and it helps you manage your thousand+ game library, a fresh update of the game launcher Lutris has arrived.
Charge Kid, a new open source platformer where each jump is a puzzle
Up for some more open source gaming fun? Charge Kid, released on June 30 is a platformer that makes you think about your jumps and turns every single one into a puzzle.
Arcade shooter with a massive skill tree 'BYTEPATH' goes open source
A few years after release, adnzzzzZ has released the source code for their crazy skill-tree arcade shooter BYTEPATH.
Proton GE compatibility layer has a big new release up
Proton GE, the community-built fork of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux has a big new release out.
Wine 5.12 is out - better RawInput and WebSocket API support
The Wine compatibility layer continues progressing, with the latest development release Wine 5.12 out now.
Thief inspired FOSS stealth game The Dark Mod has a massive new release
The Dark Mod, a free and open-source first-person stealth game inspired by the Thief series has a huge new release up.
Craft slick chiptune music for games or fun as FamiStudio adds Linux builds
FamiStudio, a pretty fun looking program designed for people making chiptune music and NES homebrewers recently had a big new release and it came with their first Linux build.
Open source OpenXR runtime 'Monado' expands with multi-application support
Monado is the in-development OpenXR runtime for VR / AR on Linux and Collabora continue to make excellent progress on bringing it up to eventually support more platforms and features.
Godot 4.0 will get SDF based real-time global illumination
While we already briefly mentioned SDF based real-time global illumination was coming in our post on the recent Godot Engine 3.2.2 release, Godot's Juan Linietsky has now explained the upcoming feature in more detail.
OpenRA working to support C&C Remastered assets, Tiberian Sun work continues
The team behind OpenRA have confirmed their continued commitment to working on the game engine to support Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on modern platforms.
Cadmus is a new Linux UI for managing microphone noise suppression
Are your voice chat friends getting bothered by your fancy new loud mechanical keyboard? Or perhaps you're doing an audio recording and need everything in the background to shutup - enter Cadmus.
PSP emulator PPSSPP has a big new release out
Remember the PSP? The classic Sony handheld lives on thanks to open source with the PPSSPP emulator.
Godot Engine 3.2.2 is out with 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer
Godot Engine 3.2.2 is an update to the current latest stable branch of the open source game engine, which does pull in some big new features.
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