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

By Liam Dawe, Oct 8, 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.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine 3.2 Alpha released

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7, 2019

With months of development behind them, Godot Engine 3.2 hits the first Alpha release with a ton of new and improved features for this FOSS game engine.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine just gained a new Platinum sponsor

By Liam Dawe, Oct 2, 2019

The excellent free and open source game engine Godot Engine just announced that Heroic Labs are now supporting their development as a Platinum level sponsor.

ScummVM 2.1.0 is now ready for testing with support for more major classics

By Liam Dawe, Sep 17, 2019

ScummVM, the clever bit of software enabling many classic point-and-click adventure games to run nicely on modern systems has a big new release in need of some testing.

GTA: San Andreas is being remade (unofficially) in Unity and it supports Linux

By Liam Dawe, Sep 5, 2019

Have any fond memories of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? You might want to take a look at this new unofficial remake being made in Unity as it supports Linux.

The FOSS 2D game engine GDevelop continues advancing the 5.0 release

By Liam Dawe, Sep 5, 2019

GDevelop, a FOSS (Free and open-source software) 2D game engine seems to be really coming along nicely for the current overhaul.

openblack is a FOSS game engine for Black & White currently under development

By Liam Dawe, Sep 3, 2019

How about a little open source to start your Tuesday morning? Work is going into the openblack project, to create a modern open source game engine for Black & White (2001).

Godot Engine continues advancing the Vulkan rendering system, 3D work has begun

By Liam Dawe, Sep 2, 2019

Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky has another progress report up on the status of moving over to Vulkan and it's sounding great.

Unity 2019.3 beta released with a revamped Editor UI and lots of rendering improvements

By Liam Dawe, Aug 28, 2019

The team over at Unity continue advancing the game engine with some impressive work going on and the first Unity 2019.3 beta is now available.

2D game editor ct.js goes open source and it's closing in on a new major release

By Liam Dawe, Aug 21, 2019

With an aim to make 2D game development learning fun, ct.js recently went open source to allow anyone to jump in and try it as well as help push it further.

FOSS game engine "Godot Engine" making fantastic Vulkan API progress

By Liam Dawe, Aug 5, 2019

Godot Engine developer Juan Linietsky continues pushing ahead with Godot's move to Vulkan, with another impressive progress report now available and it all sounds great.

Unity 2019.2 released with lots of new features, improvements and fixes

By Liam Dawe, Jul 31, 2019

Further pushing what game developers are able to make, Unity 2019.2 is now officially available with plenty of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

FOSS game engine "OpenRCT2" for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a fresh release out

By Liam Dawe, Jul 11, 2019

Ready to build some fantastic rides again? FOSS game engine OpenRCT2 has a brand new release available for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Linux.

The FOSS game engine "Godot Engine" is progressing on Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, Jul 2, 2019

Due for the Godot Engine 4.0 release, Vulkan support sounds like it's coming along nicely for this FOSS game engine as detailed in the latest progress report.

OpenVIII, an in-development open source game engine for Final Fantasy VIII

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25, 2019

Any fans of Final Fantasy VIII reading? You're going to want to keep an eye on the in-development game engine OpenVIII.

The next release of OpenRA for classic Command & Conquer games will allow single-player saving

By Liam Dawe, Jun 7, 2019

OpenRA will finally be letting you save your single-player games in the coming release, along with more helpful features it's looking good.

Unity have now properly announced Linux support for the Unity Editor

By Liam Dawe, May 30, 2019

After releasing Unity 2019.1 back in April, it was mentioned that the Unity Editor for Linux was moving on from experimental status and now it's very much official.