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Unity 2019.1 is out, finally moving the Linux editor from Experimental into Preview

By Liam Dawe, Apr 16, 2019

The Unity game engine continues advancing at a truly rapid pace, with Unity 2019.1 being released today.

CorsixTH, the open source game engine for Theme Hospital has a brand new beta

By Liam Dawe, Apr 15, 2019

For those who love their classics, Theme Hospital can be revived using the open source CorsixTH game engine which just had a big update.

Godot Engine awarded 50K USD from Mozilla, more exciting features planned for Godot Engine 3.2

By Liam Dawe, Apr 11, 2019

Sounds like everything is going extremely well for the crew behind Godot Engine, with quite a few announcements to go over!

GZDoom 4.0.0 released with their experimental Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, Apr 9, 2019

GZDoom, the incredibly popular game engine for Doom and all sorts of mods and entirely new games has a major release now available.

Open source Morrowind game engine OpenMW has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 28, 2019

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

OpenRA for classic Command & Conquer games has a fresh release now out

By Liam Dawe, Mar 15, 2019

OpenRA, the open source game engine for the classics Command & Conquer titles (and a personal favourite) has a brand new release available.

OpenRCT2, the open source game engine for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 was updated

By Liam Dawe, Mar 14, 2019

Some fresh news about a wonderful open source game engine this morning, as OpenRCT2 for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a new release out.

Godot 3.1 is out, a massive upgrade for this impressive open source game engine

By Liam Dawe, Mar 13, 2019

After going through 11 beta builds and 3 release candidates, Godot 3.1 is officially out with tons of new features.

A Vulkan renderer is in the works for GZDoom

By Talon1024, Mar 11, 2019

One of the GZDoom developers, dpJudas, has been working diligently on the Vulkan renderer for GZDoom.

Minetest, the free and open source voxel game engine has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, Mar 6, 2019

For those of you who enjoy sandbox voxel games like Minecraft, check out Minetest which just had a major update.

NBlood, an open source port of the classic FPS 'Blood' using EDuke32

By Liam Dawe, Feb 22, 2019

Based on the EDuke32 game engine, NBlood is a new open source port of the classic FPS Blood. From what Voidpoint (Ion Maiden) said on Twitter, it's using their version of the game engine too.

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

By Liam Dawe, Feb 20, 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.

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

By Liam Dawe, Feb 11, 2019

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

Unity 2018.3.4 is out with some important fixes for Linux games

By Liam Dawe, Feb 4, 2019

The Unity team have pushed out another point release with Unity 2018.3.4 and it does include some well needed Linux fixes.

The first Unity 2019.1 beta is out with Vulkan improvements, Linux editor improvements and more

By Liam Dawe, Feb 1, 2019

The people over at Unity have put out the first beta for the first major release of the year and there's tons of new and improved bits for game devs and Linux gamers.

The free and open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has a third 3.1 beta out

By Liam Dawe, Jan 28, 2019

No need to wait for Godot, the third beta of Godot Engine 3.1 is officially out for you to break it apart and report issues.

The FOSS game engine 'Godot Engine' has a very exciting 2019 planned for features

By Liam Dawe, Jan 14, 2019

While the big Godot Engine 3.1 release isn't out yet (soon), they're already working out a list of exciting features for the next few versions.

The KKnD remake using the OpenRA game engine is coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe, Jan 5, 2019

Keeping tabs on various open source projects, one I'm quite keen to see progress further is the KKnD and KKnD2 remake. They just recently pushed out a new build to improve it further.