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Looks like the open source Mesa driver has hit OpenGL 4.5 support with Intel

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Jul 2016

A pretty incredible milestone for open source graphics, as it appears that Mesa along with the Intel driver has hit OpenGL 4.5.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.15 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 23 Jul 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.15 has many small changes including 22 bugfixes.

OpenTomb is an open source game engine for Tomb Raider 1-5

By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Jul 2016

OpenTomb is yet another beautiful open source game engine, and this one supports Tomb Raider 1-5. Fantastic to see more of this in my inbox!

VR Funhouse from Nvidia to be open sourced this summer

By Liam Squires-Hand, 14 Jul 2016

VR Funhouse is currently a Windows only advanced VR game, but the interesting thing is that Nvidia claim they will open source it.

New version of the itch store app is out, better Arch Linux compatibility and other fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Jul 2016

Oh my word I do love itch and their store app. It's open source (MIT license), it's beautiful and it actually works really well now.

SC Controller, the open source driver and GUI for the Steam Controller is making lovely progress

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Jul 2016

SC Controller is really coming along nicely. Since I mentioned it on GOL it has been through a few new releases.

REGoth Engine, an open source reimplentation for the game 'Gothic'

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Jul 2016

REGoth Engine was pointed out in the forum, as it's another lovely open source reimplentation and this time it's for the classic game 'Gothic'.

Major new release of open source livestreaming kit 'OBS Studio' fixes Linux window capture issues

By Liam Squires-Hand, 12 Jul 2016

OBS Studio is a fantastic bit of open source software for livestreamers, but the Linux version has been plagued with crashing often when capturing a window—no more!

Mesa 12 released, Vulkan for Intel, OpenGL 4.3 and more for open source graphics users

By Liam Squires-Hand, 9 Jul 2016

Wow, Mesa 12 has officially been released and it's a huge release for them! Intel now supports Vulkan, their OpenGL is up to 4.3 and more.

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The Wine Development Release 1.9.14 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 8 Jul 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.14 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

Barony, a 3D first-person roguelike goes open source

By Liam Squires-Hand, 8 Jul 2016

Barony, a pretty cool looking 3D first-person roguelike has opened up the engine under the GPL license and is now on github.

Habitat from Lucasfilm Games, one of the early MMO games is now open source on github

By Liam Squires-Hand, 7 Jul 2016

A little bit of gaming history just got the MIT license treatment. Habitat from Lucasfilm Games is now available under the MIT license on github.

Open source racer SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 officially released with a new website

By Liam Squires-Hand, 2 Jul 2016

SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 is now officially available with new tracks, AI for more game modes, ghost racers and more.

Major new version of the open source itch store application

By Liam Squires-Hand, 1 Jul 2016

The latest and greatest itch app for the itch games store is now available, it's a pretty huge release.

Google open sources SwiftShader, a library for high-performance graphics rendering on the CPU

By Liam Squires-Hand, 29 Jun 2016

Google has today opened up SwiftShader, a software library for high-performance graphics rendering on the CPU.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend

By Liam Squires-Hand, 27 Jun 2016

I love emulators, I think they are a fantastic way to keep old platforms alive. Even with the grey area around roms I think they are really interesting. Dolphin is now working on a Vulkan backend.