The Wine Development Release 1.9.20 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.20 has many small changes including 18 bugfixes.
Category: Open Source
The Talos Principle now renders correctly in 'radv', the open source AMD Vulkan driver
Good news for Vulkan and AMD GPU fans, as David Airlie has put up a new blog post letting us know that The Talos Principle now renders correctly in this new open source AMD Vulkan driver.
The GameCube and Wii emulator 'Dolphin' can now boot every GameCube game
Little late on this due to inbox spam (too many games getting released!), but it seems Dolphin the GameCube and Wii emulator can now boot every GameCube game in the official library.
Freespace 2 looks set to gain an open source mission editor
Freespace 2 is about to gain an open source mission editor named wxFRED2. Freespace 2 has been open source for a long time, but the editor is always something we lacked.
OpenMW 0.40 released, playing Morrowind on Linux natively gets closer to perfection
OpenMW 0.40 is the latest release of the open source game engine for playing Morrowind. It's crazy how far along it is now, close to feature complete by the looks of it.
Pixar Film Production show off how they use Linux and OpenGL, open sourced a major tool
This isn't exactly related to gaming, but Pixar Film Production have shown off their work using Linux + OpenGL in animating films. They say it can be used for games too and it's now open source.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.18 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.18 has many small changes including 26 bugfixes.
The Dark Mod 2.04 update released after a year of fixes
The Dark Mod is a completely free first-person stealth game inspired by Thief. The game had a big release recently and we totally missed it.
The Wine Stable Release 1.8.4 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today fifth stable release of 1.8 branch of Wine. Version 1.8.4 has many small changes including 50 bugfixes.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD can now run Dota 2
A pretty good milestone has been achieved with the open source Vulkan driver for AMD that Dave Airlie has been working on with Bas Nieuwenhuizen. It can now run Dota 2.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.17 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.17 has many small changes including 53 bugfixes.
A reason for poor performance on AMD plus Mesa has been found and a patch is in progress
Marek Olšák has recently sent word to the AMD mailing list that they have found a reason for some games performing poorly using Mesa. Another developer noted that a patch is already in progress.
Godot Engine 2.1 released, open source game engine
After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvelous Godot Engine 2.1. Just like 2.0, this version focuses almost exclusively on further improving usability and the editor interface.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.16 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.16 has many small changes including 43 bugfixes.
Oolite 1.84 released, the open source open-world Elite-like game is maturing
Oolite 1.84 has recently been released and brings with it a new camera mode which will help make some awesome screenshots and other stuff too.
Mesa patches greatly improve Bioshock Infinite performance for the RadeonSI AMD driver
For those of you using the RadeonSI driver for AMD graphics cards, you may be interested to know that a developer named Marek has sent in patches to significantly improve performance for Bioshock Infinite.
New version of the itch store app released, as slick as ever
The itch developers have been hard at work making their open source store app even better for you, and it's lovely.
HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework needs funds on IndieGoGo
HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework that was used in the creation of Defender's Quest is needing a bit of funding on IndieGoGo.
Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can
I'm a little late on reporting this due to being ill, but Quake has been ported to Vulkan and it's open source of course.
The Battle for Wesnoth, the great open source fantasy strategy game is now on Steam Greenlight
The Battle for Wesnoth is probably one of the all time great open source games. It's been around for a long time, it's well polished and now it's looking to get on Steam.
- VacuumTube is the best way to watch YouTube on Steam Deck, SteamOS
- SaveState is an open source versatile game save backup manager - now with Linux support
- XWVM is a modern Unity engine to play STAR WARS - X-Wing, first Alpha out now
- Point and click adventure The Mystery of Doomsday Valley confirmed for Linux
- Steam Deck, SteamOS will now stop bugging you to install updates multiple times
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