The Wine Development Release 1.9.6 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.6 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.
Category: Open Source
The Atomic Game Engine is now open source and on github
More good news for developers, as the Atomic Game Engine is now open source under the MIT license. It's available on github right now.
Serious Engine 1 Linux source code is coming
Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a long time Linux game porter is working on getting the Serious Engine 1 source code release working on Linux, with official blessing.
Sunday fun: Theme Hospital on Linux using the open source CorsixTH engine
It has been quite some time since I mentioned CorsixTH, and I bet some of you don’t even know it exists! Theme Hospital is a brilliant game from many years ago where you build your own hospital.
Croteam releases Serious Engine version 1.10 as free software
Here's something interesting for the fans of libre software. Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up the source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.
Open Source game engine Godot has a new major release, lots of new stuff
I do hope Godot becomes popular, as it looks like it has some really great features and it's fully open source!
PPSSPP, the open source PSP emulator has a major new version, will use Vulkan in future
For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.
Nvidia releases an open-source Vulkan C++ API, it's now on github
Nvidia have been busy, they have released vkcpp which as a C++ API to work with Vulkan, as Vulkan itself is a C API.
The open source project 'xoreos' released version 0.0.4 'Chodo'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Jason Ekstrand from Intel speaks about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016
Jason Ekstrand, a developer hired by Intel has done a presentation about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016. The slides are interesting, but not too in-depth to overwhelm you.
Superpowers, a HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games now open source
This is pretty awesome news, a very promising HTML5 development environment for 2D & 3D games has become open source!
Disassembling NWScript bytecode with the open source project 'xoreos'
xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
Mesa 11.1.1 available, has patches for GRID Autosport
Good news open source GPU driver users, Mesa 11.1.1 has launched and it even includes some patches for GRID Autosport.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.1 Is Now Available
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.1 has many small changes including 38 bugfixes.
The open source app for the Itch games store has a major update
Ah goodie, it's update day for the Itch app, this is becoming one of my favourite days. I love the effort put into it, and this release is no different with it now translated to 30+ languages.
Feel like fragging? You can do that in your browser with QuakeJS
Here's an interesting thing I stumbled upon while I was looking up ioquake3 stuff. QuakeJS is a port of the ioquake3 engine to Javascript and WebGL and it plays original Quake 3 maps.
FNA, the open source reimplementation of Microsoft's XNA first official release
I'm a big fan of FNA, as the quality of the ports made with Ethan Lee's project are really quite awesome. Ethan announced recently that FNA has now had its first official release.
OpenRA Christmas 2015 Release (20151224)
The OpenRA development team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and they are proud to announce the Christmas 2015 release of OpenRA.
The Wine Development Release 1.9.0 Is Now Available
After release of stable version 1.8, Wine team opened a new development branch, 1.9. While it still doesn't include as many new features as previous development releases, there are 43 fixed bugs.
GOL Cast: Wandering Around Morrowind in OpenMW
You might have heard about OpenMW, the open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine which, naturally, allows you to play Morrowind on Linux. Let's test it!
- 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
- Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam
- Proton Experimental gets fixes for Fallout 3, Skyrim Special Edition, The Witcher 3, Intel CPUs and more
- DELTARUNE is now on Steam with Chapters 1-4 available
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