Category: Open Source

In another win for open-source the developers behind Natural Selection 2 have opened up the code they use to parse HLSL calls into OpenGL's GLSL.

Now this is putting Humble back on the map for Linux gamers, a weekly sale where some of the proceeds go towards open source projects!

Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.15 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 53 bugfixes.

Lars Doucet, the developer of Defenders Quest has written an interesting blog post about Flash and his thoughts on Flash dying.

Paragon the great looking space trading and combat game has hit alpha 5 bringing in lots of goodies for you space pirates!

OpenMW the open source engine to play Morrowind on Linux has a brand new version finally includes a much needed save/load feature.

Valve mentioned at Steam Dev Days that they were working on an OpenGL debugger, they have now delivered. Vogl is now on github for all to see.

Unvanquished is one of the most promising looking open source games around, and they need help with programming!

I am sure there are a few Sega fans following us here, so this one is for you! Duck Marines is a free software remake of the ChuChu Rocket party game.

Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.14 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 56 bugfixes.

Puppy Arcade is a FREE retro gaming operating system, with many emulators included for different systems & consoles, plus the multi-system rom browser 'Rom-Loader', and many other exclusive tools.

Unvanquished has released like clockwork their 25th alpha release, this time ripping out their old renderer completely.

It’s pretty common knowledge Nvidia users get some good drivers at the trade-off of binary blob drivers (or not, depending on your ethics) and that AMD are often left in the dust, but how can open source drivers change that?

This is very interesting, Nothing To Hide is a game where you are your own watchdog, a game of anti-stealth and it looks pretty cool.

Platinum Arts Sandbox Game Maker is an easy to use Game Maker featuring in game and coop editing based on the Cube 2 Engine. Now Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight Projects have been launched to greatly accelerate and increase the features in the engine.

Just a couple of days left to vote for the open source Linux game Project of the Month March 2014. GamingOnLinux supports this with the winner getting an image on the scrolling carousel for an entire month.

Wine developers surprised today world with an early release coming from development branch of their software. As always version number was increased, this time to 1.7.13. This action may surprise some people, but as always developers were able to push out many new features and 63 bugfixes.

I thought it was about time I gave some limelight to some really great open source game engines that work on Linux, from official open source games to unofficial open source engines to allow you to run games on Linux that you couldn't normally!

Good news developers, Godot Engine is now open source for you to tinker with. Could this be a real alternative to Unity for developers who want to develop games directly on Linux?

BlastEm has released a new major update recently adding some highly needed features, it's always good to see old systems get preserved through emulators.