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Khronos Group open sources the OpenXR Conformance Test Suite for VR & AR

By Liam Dawe,
5
In another important step forwards for free and open standards, plus the future of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, the Khronos Group have open sourced their OpenXR testing suite.
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Unique puzzle-adventure 'OneShot' now has a Linux build on itch

By Liam Dawe,
9
If you've been itching to play the surreal puzzle adventure OneShot since it arrived on itch.io, we've got good news for you.
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Playing SpringRTS games on Linux gets easier with Flatpak

By Liam Dawe,
4
SpringRTS, the free and open source game engine for playing various real-time strategy games is now even easier to get running on Linux.
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Railway Empire is getting a Complete Collection on August 7

By Liam Dawe,
0
Publisher Kalypso Media and their in-house developer Gaming Minds Studios have announced that Railway Empire - Complete Collection is coming on August 7.
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Free and open source space RPG 'Destination Sol' has a big 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
2
Destination Sol might not be a name known to all but it's a sweet little space exploration RPG that's free and open source, plus it's getting big updates.
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Floor-destroying party game 'Hammer Dongers' adds rockets and new maps

By Liam Dawe,
4
Hammer Dongers is a great idea for a party game, pitting up to four people against each other in small levels with the ability to destroy the very ground beneath your feet.
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Make nefarious goods in Basement, now up on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
1
Basement, a game about building up a business making some questionable goods to fund development of a video game is now available DRM-free on GOG.
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VKD3D-Proton is the new official Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer for Proton

By Liam Dawe,
48
While the Proton compatibility layer already has DXVK for translating DirectX 9/10/11 into Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton has become the official version for translating Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan.
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The first DLC for Oxygen Not Included sounds huge, free update soon too

By Liam Dawe,
2
Klei Entertainment have been busy working behind the scenes on the next free update and first expansion for Oxygen Not Included and they've detailed what's coming.
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Dungeon exploring puzzler 'The Wizard: WizHarder Edition' announced

By Liam Dawe,
1
The Wizard: WizHarder Edition was announced recently, as an expanded and upgraded edition of the very popular free web game that's been going for 6 years now.
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FOSS Linux game launcher 'Lutris' has a new bug-fix release out

By Liam Dawe,
9
It's free, it's open source and it helps you manage your thousand+ game library, a fresh update of the game launcher Lutris has arrived.
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Valve silences the bots in Team Fortress 2, TF2 Classic Mod out now

By Liam Dawe,
4
Team Fortress 2 continues to have a bot problem but Valve are actually fighting back and the latest update takes another blunt approach to dealing with them.
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Starship action RPG 'Drox Operative 2' arrives on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
1
The currently in development space action RPG Drox Operative 2 can now be picked up DRM-free on GOG.
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Charge Kid, a new open source platformer where each jump is a puzzle

By Liam Dawe,
0
Up for some more open source gaming fun? Charge Kid, released on June 30 is a platformer that makes you think about your jumps and turns every single one into a puzzle.
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Arcade shooter with a massive skill tree 'BYTEPATH' goes open source

By Liam Dawe,
4
A few years after release, adnzzzzZ has released the source code for their crazy skill-tree arcade shooter BYTEPATH.
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Proton GE compatibility layer has a big new release up

By Liam Dawe,
19
Proton GE, the community-built fork of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux has a big new release out.
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What have you been playing on Linux? Come and have a chat

By Liam Dawe,
65
Ah Sunday, that special day that's a calm before the storm of another week and a time for a community chat here on GOL.
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Wine 5.12 is out - better RawInput and WebSocket API support

By Liam Dawe,
12
The Wine compatibility layer continues progressing, with the latest development release Wine 5.12 out now.
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Humble Choice for July is up with Railway Empire, EARTHLOCK and more

By Liam Dawe,
12
Humble Choice, the monthly curated bundle from Humble Bundle is up with a fresh set of games to pick from and claim to be yours.
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The Universim god game gets early-game love, a new explainer trailer plus more

By Liam Dawe,
0
A city builder that's also a sort-of god game sim and eventually it will also be a multi-planet strategy game? The Universim certainly has a grand plan and a new explainer trailer to help.
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