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Open source cross-platform event-driven game engine 'GDevelop' now on itch, progressing well

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2018

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.

Free and open source RTS 'Wyrmsun' has a big update with a new civilization, new buildings and more

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2018

Wyrmsun, the free and open source retro-looking RTS just had a sizeable update with some great new stuff included.

Free and open source racing game 'Yorg' has a new release with a new track, a new camera and more

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2018

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.

Space sim 'Helium Rain' has left Early Access, code is open source

By Liam Dawe, 12 Oct 2018

Helium Rain, the space simulation and strategy game from Deimos Games has left Early Access as a rather impressive game.

Mojang to open source more of Minecraft with two libraries already on GitHub

By Liam Dawe, 9 Oct 2018

I have to admit, I am quite surprised by this. Mojang (owned by Microsoft) are to open source more of Minecraft.

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Classic open source strategy game Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2018

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.

VK9 for getting Direct3D 9 over Vulkan has hit their 28th milestone

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2018

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.

Dungeon crawler, Ebony Spire: Heresy, will be getting an anniversary update next month

By BTRE, 28 Sep 2018

A recent post by the developer has detailed plans going forward for the title and there’s big changes incoming.

OpenRA for playing classic Command & Conquer titles has a fresh release up with AppImages for Linux builds

By Liam Dawe, 23 Sep 2018

The excellent open source RTS game engine OpenRA, which allows you to play classic Command & Conquer titles has a new release out.

PlayStation 3 emulator 'RPCS3' is coming along nicely with some major improvements

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2018

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.

Nintendo 3DS emulator 'Citra' sounds like it's coming along rather nicely

By Liam Dawe, 21 Sep 2018

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 will have support for simplex noise generation which looks incredibly useful

By Liam Dawe, 19 Sep 2018

Godot Engine 3.1, the big upgrade coming to the open source game engine has gained another exciting feature with simplex noise generation.

Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further

By Liam Dawe, 8 Sep 2018

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 4X strategy game has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 3 Sep 2018

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.

Wine 3.15 is out, includes fixes for League of Legends, World of Warcraft and more

By Liam Dawe, 31 Aug 2018

Not to be outclassed by Valve's fork, Wine itself has pushed out another update with Wine 3.15 becoming available today.

Open source game engine 'Godot Engine' has the first 3.1 version alpha available

By Liam Dawe, 31 Aug 2018

Godot Engine, the incredibly impressive open source game engine is pushing ahead towards the massive 3.1 update with the first alpha.

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.

Looks like AMD just open sourced their V-EZ Vulkan wrapper

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2018

Back in March, AMD announced the V-EZ Vulkan wrapper, with an aim to make Vulkan development easier. Now it seems they have open sourced it.

RTS game Krush Kill 'N Destroy to be unofficially revived with the OpenRA game engine

By Liam Dawe, 20 Aug 2018

Krush Kill 'N Destroy 1 and 2 are two classic real-time strategy titles from the 90's and a team of coders are looking to revive them using the open source OpenRA game engine.

The Communist Dogifesto, an open source first-person shooter has a big update

By Liam Dawe, 17 Aug 2018

The Communist Dogifesto has quite an amusing setting, with Russian space dogs aboard a space station becoming really rather intelligent and taking it over. It's open source and it just had a rather big update.

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