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Open source game development levels up with Godot Engine 3.4 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Probably the most exciting free and open source game engine around, Godot Engine has a brand new release available.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 6.21 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
More fixes and new features are ready for another development release with Wine 6.21 going out, the compatibility layer for Windows games and applications.

OpenMW brings many new features for Morrowind in the new 0.47.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
Rejoice RPG fans! There's a fresh and fancy new release of OpenMW, the free and open source game engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Steam Play compatibility tool Luxtorpeda gets controller support, new tooling

By Liam Dawe,
Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play compatibility tool (like Proton) that allows you to run games from Steam using various different game engines and reimplementations.

Warzone 2100 the 'Spectre Update' is out with game replays, spectating and more

By Liam Dawe,
The Spectre Update is live now for Warzone 2100, the real-time strategy game originally developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive that's nowadays free and open source.

Zink driver (OpenGL on top of Vulkan) has Bioshock Infinite working, close to OpenGL 4.6

By Liam Dawe,
Zink is something quite wonderful. A Linux Mesa driver that creates an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan and it just keeps on getting more impressive.

The Battle for Wesnoth hits new landmark with release 1.16

By Hythlodaeus,
After three years of continuous development, the FOSS strategy classic has finally put out a new stable release.

X.Org 21.1.0 sees a release with Variable refresh rate support in the modesetting driver

By Liam Dawe,
After three years without a full release, X.Org 21.1.0 has finally landed with new features and a lot of bug fixes.

Little Big Adventure 1 & 2 get open sourced under the GPL

By Liam Dawe,
Little Big Adventure 1 and 2 are two classic titles originally developed by Adeline Software International and now they've both had their engine source code officially released.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu has a new Resolution Scaler, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

By Liam Dawe,
yuzu, the free and open source Nintendo Switch emulator has advanced once again with the introduction of a brand new Resolution Scaler enabling you to play games at much higher resolutions.

Wine 6.20 rolls out continuing the PE module conversion

By Liam Dawe,
Just before the weekend landed the Wine team released Wine 6.20 as the latest development version with all the latest code.

DXVK Native 1.9.2a is out for translating Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan for Linux games

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK Native is the fork of the original translation layer DXVK, the part of Proton that translates Direct 3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan but this is meant for Linux native builds and a new release is out now.

PS3 emulator RPCS3 can now boot all games released for the console

By Liam Dawe,
An incredible milestone for RPCS3, the free and open source cross-platform PlayStation 3 emulator as their compatibility list has hit the ability to boot all known games.

Julius 1.7 is out, an open source re-implementation of the classic Caesar III

By Liam Dawe,
Julius is another shining example of an open source game engine re-implementation done well and a major update is out.

Proton Experimental sees another small update fixing up Fallout 76, updating VKD3D-Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Proton Experimental continues to see rapid development to give us more great fixes to run Windows games under Linux.

VKD3D-Proton v2.5 is out for Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan, improving DirectX Raytracing

By Liam Dawe,
VKD3D-Proton is the project that translates Microsoft's Direct3D 12 to Vulkan, another big part of Steam Play Proton and there's a new release out.

Hugely popular mobile roguelike Shattered Pixel Dungeon is coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a free and open source roguelike RPG that originally had a focus on mobile where it's proven very popular and now it's getting upgrades to come to Steam.

Steam Play tool Luxtorpeda for running games in native Linux engines sees a major upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Play allows Linux gamers to use many different compatibility layers like Proton for running Windows games but Luxtorpeda instead makes games use an available native Linux game engine.

OpenTTD 12.0 is out now improving multiplayer for fans of Transport Tycoon Deluxe

By Liam Dawe,
Based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the free and open source OpenTTD has release version 12.0 as the multiplayer update.

Apple is now funding Blender development joining many big names

By Liam Dawe,
There's apparently absolutely no stopping the Blender train, with the developer announcing that Apple has now joined their development fund.
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