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.
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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.
FNA 20.05 (XNA4 reimplementation) is out with a brand new 3D graphics library 'FNA3D'
Ethan Lee, porter of many games to Linux (and macOS) and the creator of the XNA4 reimplementation FNA today announced the release of FNA 20.05 and a brand new 3D graphics library FNA3D.
Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR
Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.
If you have the retro gaming itch RetroPie 4.6 is out with support for the Raspberry Pi 4
Ah the Raspberry Pi, a seriously cool and highly versatile little device and a perfect way to build a retro gaming station with the power of Linux thanks to projects like RetroPie.
Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too
VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.
Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released
The Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, Fedora, has a brand new release today with Fedora 32 showing off some of the latest of what open source has to offer.
Free first-person shooter 'Tomatenquark' releasing soon based on Cube 2: Sauerbraten
Coming soon to Steam Early Access, Tomatenquark is another attempt to revive a classic free and open source first-person shooter.
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