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Free and open source space trading game Endless Sky gets a 0.9.14 polishing release

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2021

Bringing the fun of the original Escape Velocity series, the free and open source Endless Sky has another release out with version 0.9.14 with an aim to polish it up a little.

Eight years later Arx Libertatis 1.2 is out now with support for high resolutions

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2021

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Arx Libertatis is an improved, cross-platform and open source engine for the 2002 game Arx Fatalis. After a long period of no updates a huge new release is out.

XWayland 21.1.2 is out now with support for hardware accelerated NVIDIA on the 470 driver

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2021

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A day many have been waiting for is here. Following on from NVIDIA releasing the NVIDIA 470.42.01 Beta driver that finally supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland, a brand new release of XWayland is out now.

VKD3D-Proton 2.4 is out with performance improvements for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jul 2021

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VKD3D-Proton is the project that Valve funds to act as a translation layer between Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Steam Play Proton and a big new release is out.

The 'Big Balance Update' is out now for Warzone 2100

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

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After many years of upgrades for the free and open source Warzone 2100, the team hacking away at the code have issued a fresh update to focus on balancing issues.

Heroes of Might and Magic II reimplementation sees a big AI improvement

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jul 2021

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fheroes2 is ensuring that the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II can never die, and with the latest version out now it's more interesting to play than ever before.

Linux Foundation launches the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jul 2021

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This could be the start of something truly big for game development (amongst other things), with the Linux Foundation pulling together some huge names to launch the Open 3D Foundation and the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard. UPDATED.

Game manager Lutris 0.5.8.4 out as a small fix-up before the next major release

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

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The free and open source game manager Lutris has a fresh release up, although it's mostly a fix-up release as work is ongoing for the next major release due soon.

DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging both had new releases lately

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

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Running DOS classics? Well, there's plenty of ways to choose from with multiple projects looking to speed up the development on DOSBox with both DOSBox-X and DOSBox Staging seeing new releases.

Wine 6.12 is out now with theme work, Network Store Interface beginnings

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

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The Wine 6.12 development release is out now, containing plenty more new features and bug fixes to help run Windows games and applications on Linux.

Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.0 'Arlong' is out now and goes multi-platform

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

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Not only does the alternative open source Epic Games Store client Heroic Games Launcher have a new release out with 1.8.0 'Arlong' it's also gone multi-platform.

NVIDIA puts out a new release of their open source NVAPI interface

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

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With the absolutely huge NVIDIA 470 driver release now out the door, NVIDIA has just put up a fresh release of their open source NVAPI interface.

ScummVM adds support for Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy and The Journeyman Project 2

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jul 2021

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Have time to play some more classics? The latest release of ScummVM might not be out yet but they have announced some more titles will be playable.

Linux Kernel 5.13 rolls out with early Apple M1 support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2021

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Another Linux Kernel release is out now with Linux 5.13 bringing with it, amongst plenty of other things, initial and early support for the new Apple M1 chip.

Unvanquished gets a small bug-fix release for graphical issues and a Flatpak

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2021

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Unvanquished, the free and open source humans vs aliens strategic shooter had another update recently, although mostly a cleaning up build from the recent big release.

AMD releases FidelityFX Super Resolution, source code dropping mid-July

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2021

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Today AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution, their attempt to answer NVIDIA's DLSS and the source code to it is coming soon for developers to look at.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games sees a small bug fix release ahead of the big 1.8

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2021

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Heroic Games Launcher is an application built on top of the a command-line client called Legendary, and Heroic has a fresh bug fix release out to help ahead of a major release.

Classic open source RTS Warzone 2100 has a Beta out for the upcoming 4.1 release

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jun 2021

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After the huge 4.0 release back in April that added in the Vulkan renderer, a new update for Warzone 2100 is in need of testing as they clean up a backlog of bug fixes.

Theme Hospital game engine reimplementation CorsixTH 0.65 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2021

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Another fantastic free and open source game engine reimplementation just had a new release. This time it's CorsixTH 0.65 for playing Theme Hospital on modern systems.

GemRB 0.9.0, the game engine reimplementation for the likes of Baldur's Gate

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2021

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Less than a month after the last release, the Infinity Engine reimplementation for the likes of Baldur's Gate and other RPGs has another big release with GemRB 0.9.0.

Category: Open Source