0 A.D. Alpha 25 enters feature-freeze soon, get a sneak-peak of what's coming
0 A.D. Alpha 25, the very impressive free and open source RTS is closing in on the next release and it's entering a Feature Freeze soon to focus on stability.
Category: Open Source
Feel the need for a little karaoke? Check out UltraStar Play and UltraStar Deluxe
Two interesting projects we've not covered here before are UltraStar Deluxe and the newer UltraStar Play, both open source games aimed at karaoke fans.
Fate of Dynasty is a wonderful short, free and open source puzzle game out now
Short on time and want to try something new? It's Free Game Monday™! Come check out Fate of Dynasty which is open source.
Time for a brewed awakening with the Wine 6.8 release out now
Wine, that glorious bit of tasty open source software has a new 6.8 development release now available.
Open source Linux GPU drivers Mesa 21.1 released
Developer Eric Engestrom has announced the availability of Mesa 21.1, the latest release for Linux open source graphics drivers powering Intel, AMD and more.
Steam Play Proton 6.3-3 is out now with Origin Overlay working, vkd3d-proton v2.3.1
Ready for another fun week testing out more games? Valve have you covered with the latest update to Proton.
Taisei, a free and open source fan game based on Touhou Project has a new update out
A little bullet hell / shoot 'em up for your Monday morning wake up call? Taisei, a free and open source fan game based on the Touhou Project has a fresh release.
VKD3D-Proton 2.3.1 rolls out along with a quick-fix to Proton Experimental
Valve contractors and CodeWeavers continue tweaking VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 over Vulkan with another fresh update out now, and a small update to add it into Proton Experimental.
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux version 1.5.8 is out fixing a critical bug
Have plenty of games on the Epic Games Store? The Heroic Games Launcher continues maturing to allow you to download and play them on Linux through a native application.
Collabora using AI to enhance VR hand tracking in Monado, the open-source OpenXR runtime
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) is continuing to be a very interesting space with lots of innovation going on and Collabora are at the front of this with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.
It's your time to Wine with the 6.7 release out now
It's Friday and it's been two weeks so that can only mean one thing! We get to have a little Wine, as a treat.
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer VKD3D-Proton 2.3 is out with early DirectX Raytracing support
Even more progress towards having a layer that will translate Direct3D 12 nicely over to Vulkan, as the VKD3D-Proton project just had a fresh release out.
Godot Engine 3.3 is out with plans for 3.4 while 4.0 with Vulkan is still in progress
The free and open source game engine Godot Engine has a huge new feature release out, so big they had to change the version number and they have some big plans for long-term support.
Stealth puzzle-platformer Moonshot - The Great Espionage looks like it could be amusing
Moonshot - The Great Espionage from developer NimbleBeasts is looking good, and it's coming to Steam in June along with full Linux support built with Godot Engine.
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion improves further in the open source re-implementation OpenLoco
OpenLoco continues advancing and bringing Chris Sawyer's Locomotion another step further to being as great as OpenTTD for Transport Tycoon Deluxe with a new OpenLoco 21.04 release out now.
System76 announce COSMIC, their own GNOME-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS
Pop!_OS from Linux hardware vendor System76 is set to get a massive upgrade when Pop!_OS 21.04 releases, as they've announced COSMIC - their very own desktop environment.
OpenHV, a free and open source RTS based on the unreleased Hard Vacuum has a stable build
If you're looking out for a new real-time strategy (RTS) to play you're in luck. Recently, OpenHV has a first stable release powered by the OpenRA game engine.
Build engine port backed by GZDoom tech 'Raze' has a 1.0 release with Vulkan support
Raze is a fresh attempt to bring together many different games under one roof including Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior and Exhumed/Powerslave.
Grape times ahead with the release of Wine 6.6 noting plenty of fixes
No wine-ing about the puns please. Jokes aside, the tasty compatibility tech that is Wine has a new development release available today with Wine 6.6.
Xwayland work for hardware accelerated NVIDIA support has been merged in
Another exciting moment for fans of Wayland and the future of Linux, especially if you're an NVIDIA user, as the work to provide hardware accelerated rendering for NVIDIA GPUs was merged in for Xwayland.
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