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The RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 25 Mar 2020

Ready to jump back into a classic? OpenRCT2, the free and open source game engine for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems has a fresh release up.

Freeablo, a modern cross-platform open source game engine for the original Diablo

By Liam Dawe, 7 Mar 2020

Diablo is a classic and it can live on forever thanks to open source. Freeablo is a cross-platform free and open source game engine and it just had a massive update.

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over - here's the winners

By Liam Dawe, 8 Feb 2020

The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over, there were thousands of votes across many categories and we have the winners in.

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If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

devilutionX, an open source game engine for the original Diablo sees a big release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.

The Sunday odds and ends Linux and gaming section

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2019

Sunday is a day to do the dishes, hoover the halls, wipe the decks and probably play a whole lot of video games. Here's our Sunday section of interesting things.

The GTA: San Andreas remake in Unity has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2019

SanAndreasUnity, an open source remake of the game engine for GTA: San Andreas that aims to be cross-platform has a new release out, with better Linux support included.

OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2019

A fun open source game engine project we've not covered here before is OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena and it just had a new release.

Open source Morrowind game engine OpenMW has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2019

Time for another adventure? OpenMW, the free and open source game engine for Morrowind just had a brand new release.

OpenMW progresses towards supporting Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout plus shadows are back

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2019

OpenMW, the excellent open source game engine for Morrowind has made some interesting progress towards supporting later games like Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

GOG has another sale on for the 'Lantern Festival' with some good Linux games going cheap

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2019

It seems there's a game sale for every possible event in the world now, not that I am complaining as it's good for our wallets.

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The open source Morrowind game engine 'OpenMW' is going to officially bring in multiplayer

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2019

This is quite exciting! OpenMW is now looking to officially merge in the TES3MP multiplayer fork as an optional game feature.

OpenRCT2, the re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has another fresh release out

By Liam Dawe, 26 Aug 2018

For those who love the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, OpenRCT2 looks like a rather decent open source game engine to give it a new lease of life especially as it continues to be updated.

Open source Morrowind game engine OpenMW 0.44 released

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jul 2018

For those wanting to play Morrowind on Linux, the latest version of the open source game engine OpenMW is out with a new spell search bar and more.

OpenSAGE, an early WIP game engine for Command & Conquer: Generals adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2018

OpenSAGE is an open source game engine that aims to be a re-implementation of SAGE, the RTS engine used in Command & Conquer: Generals and other RTS titles from EA Pacific.

XLEngine for Dark Forces and Daggerfall is now open source

By Liam Dawe, 9 Apr 2018

XLEngine is another project to allow you to play classic games on modern systems, this one is for Dark Forces and Daggerfall and it's now open source.