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

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 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.

Lutris 0.5 beta 2 is out to further refine the experience and it's looking great

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2019

Lutris, the excellent all-in-one game manager solution is really starting to show off now. The latest beta has some nice improvements to tidy it all up.

The free and open source game engine 'Godot Engine' is closing in on the big 3.1 release

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2019

Announced today, Godot Engine 3.1 alpha 5 is now officially available and the last alpha before they really lock it down to focus on critical issues.

Wyrmsun, the free and open source RTS adds seasons and better modding support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2019

Wyrmsun, the classic free and open source RTS had an update recently which amongst other things added in seasons to show the passing of time in game.

Open source platformer SuperTux gets its first new stable release in quite some time

By BTRE, 3 Jan 2019

Here’s one that we missed in the holiday scramble. Following an alpha release, the penguin-themed platformer has its first big update in two years.

The free and open source RTS 0 A.D. has re-released Alpha 23 fixing issues

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

While Alpha 23 of the free and open source RTS 0 A.D. was released way back in May of 2018, it did come with some issues and they've put out an updated version now to improve it.

The latest progress report for the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is impressive again

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

The team behind the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 put out their November progress report at the end of last month, showing some impressive work once again.

Late last year Quake 2 gained Vulkan support thanks to one dedicated coder

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

It appears we missed this one from December last year, vkQuake2 is Quake 2 amplified with Vulkan support.

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, the classic open source RTS has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jan 2019

Just before the end of 2018, the open source classic RTS Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries had a fresh release out.

Doomsday Engine for playing classic Doom, Heretic and Hexen has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2018

Earlier this month, the Doomsday Engine which runs classic titles like Doom, Heretic and Hexen had a new release out.

The KKnD remake using the OpenRA engine has a first release out

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2018

KKnD, the classic strategy game is being revived and the new open source project has the first release out.

KeeperRL had a pretty big release recently, adding in some modding support and lots more

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2018

KeeperRL is a great little game, one that mixes in roguelike and RPG elements with dungeon building and another release went out recently.

Mindustry, an open source sandbox Tower Defense game that's a little like Factorio

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

Mindustry is a free and open source Tower Defense game that pulls in elements rather similar to Factorio and it seems like it could be quite good.

Unvanquished, the free and open source shooter has a huge new release now out

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2018

After being quiet for some time, the Unvanquished team is back and they have quite a lot to show off in the new release of their free and open source shooter.

EmptyEpsilon, a free and open source spaceship bridge sim

By Liam Dawe, 7 Dec 2018

If you like your sci-fi co-op games, EmptyEpsilon might be one to take a look at which is free and open source.

Mesa 18.3.0 for those of you using the open source drivers

By Liam Dawe, 7 Dec 2018

For those of you using Intel and AMD (and some older NVIDIA cards) Mesa 18.3.0 was officially released today.

NVIDIA have now made PhysX open source

By Liam Dawe, 3 Dec 2018

Popping up a little while ago on Twitter, NVIDIA has announced that they've now put PhysX under an open source license.

A 2018 Thanksgiving retrospection about the open source game engine 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy, 27 Nov 2018

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.

Classic free and open source platformer 'SuperTux' has a new alpha release out

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2018

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.