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Assetto Corsa Rally announced for Early Access in November
19 Oct 2025 at 1:54 pm UTC

Oh, full VR support! That might be a must buy if it runs on Linux.

Megabonk is Risk of Rain 2 fused with Vampire Survivors and it's glorious
23 Sep 2025 at 9:02 pm UTC

Contrary to other survivor games, this plays better with a controller. A bit silly overall, but it is a nice time waster indeed.

The golden age of real-time strategy returns? Dying Breed releases October 7
19 Sep 2025 at 2:30 pm UTC Likes: 4

https://www.openhv.net/ [External Link] is an excellent FOSS game with similar graphics (based on OpenRA).

ChimeraOS dev announced Kazeta, a new Linux OS aimed at recreating a classic console experience
1 Sep 2025 at 11:28 am UTC Likes: 1

Ok, fine... passion project and all that. But I am not going back to this no matter how rose tinted my glasses for the past are.

Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
24 Apr 2025 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 4

One of the reasons why there are no really good alternatives is because Discord sucks all the oxygen out of the room. Even big established FOSS projects use it for their internal communication and spend development time on integrations and bots.

Linux support for Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour is coming along now it's open source
31 Mar 2025 at 6:53 pm UTC

Looks like you can only buy it as part of a bundle on Steam?

CS:Legacy announced as a full standalone remake of Counter-Strike 1.6
17 Mar 2025 at 12:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

https://github.com/eukara/FreeCS [External Link]

Is cooler.

They are also working on a reimplementation of Team Fortress 2 in its original state using the same open-source engine.

Vulkan Quake port vkQuake 1.32 adds external WAD, WAD3, and Half-life format support
17 Jan 2025 at 1:51 pm UTC Likes: 1

You can run Half-life maps with FTEQW and FreeHL.

Selaco won IndieDB's 2024 Indie of the Year Award plus a big sales milestone was hit
6 Jan 2025 at 4:02 pm UTC

I hope this will finally put the nay-sayers to rest that you can't make a commercially successful open-source game.

The Talos Principle: Reawakened announced that rebuilds and expands the original in Unreal Engine 5
11 Dec 2024 at 1:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

Maybe they could open-source the Serious Engine if I don't plan to develop it further?

Edit: apparently they already did with an much older version: https://github.com/Croteam-official/Serious-Engine [External Link]