Category: Open Source

Godot Engine is nearly ready to level up with the big 3.0 release, they've put out a second release candidate for testing.

DECEIVER is a cyberpunk pre-apocalyptic philosophical shooter with parkour and robotic drones that's come to Linux next year, come see the trailer. You can sign up for a demo and the game engine is open source too!

OBS Studio 21.0.1 is a pretty big release and it sounds really quite exciting too, with the possibilities that come with Luajit/Python3 scripting support.

Godot Engine 3.0 is going to be a pretty big release for this open source game engine and the first release candidate is now available.

RPCS3, the open source emulator for the Playstation 3 has a new progress report out and it's looking really good.

OpenRA is a fantastic game engine, which enables you to play Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux. The latest test release is rather nice too.

Typical really, the day after I do a review of 2017 and mention how AMD announced they would finally release it, but still didn't, they then go and do it today.

It's been a long time since the last CorsixTH release, well over a year in fact, so it's good to see this open source game engine still alive.

This is sad, very sad. A developer from The Libretro Team has written up a blog post on the libretro site asking for us and others to highlight an ongoing problem of code getting ripped off.

0 A.D. is a pretty game, probably one of the nicest looking open source games around and this latest development update gives us an idea of what they've been doing.

Mesa 17.3.0 is the latest version of the open source graphics drivers and it has officially released today.

OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind has been updated again bringing in a few new features and plenty of bug fixes.

While a lot of people have likely moved onto the newer editions of games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, GemRB is still being updated if you wish to play the originals on Linux.

The advanced open source game engine Godot has managed to secure funding from Enjin Coin, which should go a long way to wards hiring a second developer.

Wine 2.22 is now officially available as the latest development release on the road to the official Wine 3.0 release.

The free and open source racing game SuperTuxKart has officially released 0.9.3 which comes with a number of improvements.

Alex Smith of Feral has been granted the right to push code into Mesa, a continuing sign of the commitment of Feral to Mesa and Vulkan.

Heard of Zero-K? It's an open source RTS that uses the Spring RTS Engine and it's actually pretty good. They're going to release it on Steam, with a campaign currently under development.

With the release of the source code to both Doom 3 and the later BFG Edition, there now exists three options for Linux users wanting to play the game. Having gone through Doom 3 again, I decided it was time for me to compare them and give my thoughts on both the game and which of the three versions are best for Linux users in 2017.

Open source racing game SuperTuxKart has release 0.9.3 RC1 they're calling the 'Halloween Update'. Sounds like progress is going well!