Category: Open Source

Another open source game engine has been advancing recently, this time it's openage, the game engine for playing games like Age of Empires, Age of Empires II (HD) and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.

Another classic game is getting closer to being fully playable natively on Linux. The project to recreate The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall in the Unity engine has hit an important milestone and now the the main quest is completely playable.

For fans of the classic first-person dungeon crawlers, Ebony Spire: Heresy looks like it might scratch the itch.

OpenMW, the open source Morrowind game engine continues advancing with recent blog posts highlighting some changes sounding rather great.

DwarfCorp allows you to take on an expedition of dwarves looking to make it big in untamed lands. I gave this Early Access title a look to see how it’s shaping up.

OpenRA, the fantastic open source game engine to run games like Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 has a new release today.

Following on from the OpenGL shader cache, RADV the open source Vulkan driver for AMD cards can also now make use of a shader cache.

This is awesome. Argentum Age is an open source collectible card game that supports both singleplayer and multiplayer.

SC Controller is the rather fantastic open source configuration tool for the Steam Controller, only now it's expanding to cover more gamepads.

It's been quite a while since SpringRTS had a new release and it's been a long time since I played it, but it's good to see that it's alive.

TIC-80, a 'fantasy computer' for making, playing and sharing tiny games is now officially open source under the MIT license.

DwarfCorp, an open source fantasy real-time strategy game finally has a proper public release, it's now in Early Access.

Uebergame, a free and open source FPS just had a fresh release with new maps, UI updates and plenty more.

It seems Valve have been busy. GPUVis is a Linux GPU profiler similar to GPUView on Windows. It's supposed to help track down Linux gpu and application performance issues.

The threaded GL dispatch code to speed up some Linux games currently uses a Whitelist and now more games have been added.

The open source graphics drivers, Mesa, have been updated to 17.2 which is a major new release bringing in many changes.

The developers of the open source game engine Godot, have put up a new official video to showcase some of the new features coming to Godot 3.0.

The open source game engine Godot has added support for glTF 2.0, the open standard from Khronos. It's a royalty-free specification for the transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by applications.

A fresh release of OpenMW, the open source game engine to play Morrowind has been released. There's not a huge amount of new features, but there's a lot of fixes.

Dolphin is one of my favorite open source projects and the progress they’ve made in the past few years is truly impressive. In their latest project blog post, the developers have outlined a very exciting new feature in the emulator, one which helps mitigate the issue of stuttering.