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OpenToonz, animation software with features used by Studio Ghibli releasing this month

By Liam Dawe, 21 Mar 2016

Not exactly gaming news, but could be useful for developers. Dwango has obtained the rights to the animation software Toonz used by Studio Ghibli and plan to release an open source version named OpenToonz.

OpenTTD 1.6.0-RC1 released, fine tuning the great open source simulation game

By Liam Dawe, 18 Mar 2016

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OpenTTD 1.6.0-RC1 has been released for the open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".

The Wine Development Release 1.9.6 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 18 Mar 2016

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The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.6 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.

The Atomic Game Engine is now open source and on github

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 15 Mar 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 13 Mar 2016

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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

By Samsai, 11 Mar 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 16 Feb 2016

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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'

By DrMcCoy, 1 Feb 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2016

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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'

By DrMcCoy, 16 Jan 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2016

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Good news open source GPU driver users, Mesa 11.1.1 has launched and it even includes some patches for GRID Autosport.

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The Wine Development Release 1.9.1 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 9 Jan 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2016

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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

By Samsai, 6 Jan 2016

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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

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2015

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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.

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OpenRA Christmas 2015 Release (20151224)

By Guest, 29 Dec 2015

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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.

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