xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.
SuperTux, a name I've not heard in quite some time, a free and open source platformer inspired by Super Mario Bros is still chugging along and it's heading towards a new release.
Developer Priority Interrupt has officially released the game engine and editor behind their first-person dungeon crawler as open source.
SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of Linux open source gaming is finally getting online multiplayer. They're also now asking for testers.
RPCS3, the open source PlayStation 3 emulator is coming along nicely. The latest progress report goes over some recent work with various improvements.
GDevelop is an open source cross-platform event-driven game engine that's quite promising. It's currently closing in on a new major release and it's also now on itch.io.
Wyrmsun, the free and open source retro-looking RTS just had a sizeable update with some great new stuff included.
For those who love their arcade-style racing games Yorg is actually quite amusing. The developers just release Yorg 0.10 and it's quite an improvement.
Helium Rain, the space simulation and strategy game from Deimos Games has left Early Access as a rather impressive game.
I have to admit, I am quite surprised by this. Mojang (owned by Microsoft) are to open source more of Minecraft.
Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries holds a special place in my heart, as one of the earliest strategy games I played. It continues to live on now it's open source and a fresh release is out.
While we've talked a lot about DXVK recently, let's not forget other interesting projects like VK9 (formerly SchaeferGL) which aims to give Direct3D 9 over Vulkan.
A recent post by the developer has detailed plans going forward for the title and there’s big changes incoming.
The excellent open source RTS game engine OpenRA, which allows you to play classic Command & Conquer titles has a new release out.
More glorious news for emulation today with the latest RPCS3 (a PlayStation 3 emulator) giving an update on their progress and it's damn fine too.
For those who like to use their PC to emulate other platforms, the Citra emulator for the Nintendo 3DS just put out a progress report and it's very promising.
Godot Engine 3.1, the big upgrade coming to the open source game engine has gained another exciting feature with simplex noise generation.
Released yesterday, both Mesa 18.1.8 as a bug-fix release and Mesa 18.2.0 as the latest full release of the open source graphics drivers are now out.
FreeOrion, the free and open source strategy game inspired by the Master of Orion series pushed out a new update a few days ago with a lot of improvements.
Not to be outclassed by Valve's fork, Wine itself has pushed out another update with Wine 3.15 becoming available today.
