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A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2016

SC Controller is really awesome! It's a standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller. It was pointed out to me that it has a new gestures feature and I was asked to do a video. Here's a quick look at this fun new feature.

The Wine development release 1.9.23 is now available

By sobkas, 12 Nov 2016

The Wine team released yesterday another development release of their software. Version 1.9.23 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.

Mesa 13.0.1 RC released, bug fixes and up to 30% performance increase in the Intel Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe, 12 Nov 2016

Not long after the big Mesa 13 release, we have a release candidate ready for a point release. It's an interesting one too, as it will include a performance improvement to the Intel Vulkan driver, as well as assorted bug fixes.

0 A.D. Alpha 21 Ulysses released, check out this beautiful open source strategy game

By Liam Dawe, 8 Nov 2016

0 A.D. Alpha 21 Ulysses is the latest and greatest open source real time strategy game, and probably one of the most high quality open source games around.

'VCMI' is an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2016

Fans of the classics may be interested to know about 'VCMI', an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

Mesa 13 released, featuring OpenGL 4.5 for all vendors and AMD gains Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2016

This release is a bit massive when it comes to actually looking at the features. Everything we have been hyped about recently is now in the stable release.

Marek has sent in another Mesa commit to help improve OpenGL performance, using threading

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2016

Marek, the well known contributor to Mesa has been working on some form of Mesa OpenGL threading, and his test showed a 70% improvement for Borderlands 2.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.22 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 29 Oct 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.22 has many small changes including 25 bugfixes.

Looks like Mesa has hit OpenGL 4.5 for the open source Nvidia 'nvc0' driver

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2016

It looks like in the last few days the 'nvc0' driver for Nvidia cards in Mesa has hit OpenGL 4.5 compatibility, joining Intel and AMD.

Widelands, the open source settlers-like real-time strategy game is preparing for a new major release

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2016

Oh boy, I used to absolutely adore Settlers when I was younger on my Amiga! Widelands is an open source strategy game much like the original, and a new release is on the way.

The awesome open source RTS engine 'OpenRA' has a new release, with more original Command & Conquer missions

By Liam Dawe, 15 Oct 2016

I do love 'OpenRA', especially fun when we did our online Linux tournament. The new release is really great too, with it implementing more of the single-player missions from the original Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.21 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 14 Oct 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.21 has many small changes including 18 bugfixes.

Looks like the beautiful open source RTS '0 A.D.' is closing in on the next release, Alpha 21

By Liam Dawe, 13 Oct 2016

It has been nearly 7 months since the last release of the rather good looking open source RTS 0 A.D. and they only have 8 tickets left open to finish, 4 of which are patches with code basically ready.

Mesa has now hit full OpenGL 4.4 support for AMD radeonsi and Intel

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

As of today Mesa now has full OpenGL 4.4 support (with 4.5 already done) for both AMD radeonsi and Intel (i965/gen8+). Mesa won't actually expose any higher than OpenGL 4.3 until Mesa (well, someone) pays up for the Conformance Tests.

Another performance improvement is on the way for AMD users on the radeonsi driver

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2016

The AMD developer Marek Olšák sent over a patch to Mesa for the AMD radeonsi driver that he found by luck, and it improves DiRT: Showdown on Ultra settings by 15%. It's likely of course that this can help other games too.