The open source itch games client has updated again
For fans of the awesome itch games website, the client has been updated once again with a number of bug fixes.
Category: Open Source
Haswell should now see OpenGL 4.2 thanks to recent work in Mesa
Mesa is continuing to progress rapidly, as of today Haswell should now support OpenGL 4.2 ready for the next release of Mesa.
A Valve developer has released a tool to debug AMD graphics cards on Linux
Andres Rodriguez sent in a message to the mesa-dev mailing list announcing 'gputool' for debugging AMD graphics cards on Linux. It's also open source under the GPL, so that's awesome.
Inexor, a fully open source fork of the FPS game Sauerbraten
It seems some developers got fed-up with some assets of the FPS game Sauerbraten being restricted, so they have forked it into the Inexor project.
Lugaru campaign now fully playable in Overgrowth, Lugaru HD now fully open source including the data
Two interesting bits of news for you! First up, Wolfire Games have updated Overgrowth with another alpha build and the Lugaru campaign is now finished. On top of that, Wolfire has made the data files for Lugaru HD fully open now too.
Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers
Divinity: Original Sin is one game that the open source Mesa drivers currently cannot run without hacks, but it looks like the Mesa team has been testing it.
Mesa 13.0.3 released with numerous bugfixes
The open source OpenGL implementation Mesa has a new release 13.0.3 which, as the minor version bump indicates, brings a number of bug fixes to RadeonSI and Intel.
Intel Haswell now has support for OpenGL 4
The Mesa developers are as usual continuing their effort to get the open source Linux graphic drivers up to scratch. Intel Haswell (gen7) now has support for OpenGL 4.
Voxeliens, a game I covered back in 2012 has gone open source
Voxeliens, a game I haven't seen much on since I wrote about it back in 2012 has officially gone open source a few days ago. It's a retro-style arcade shooter and it's essentially a 3D voxel-based version of Space Invaders.
Rich Geldreich, a former Valve developer, has an interesting blog post about Valve supporting Linux and OpenGL
It's always interesting to read about what happens inside of Valve. Rich Geldreich, who previously worked at Valve has blogged about his experience inside Valve during Valve's push towards Linux.
Dune Legacy, the open source Dune 2 game engine has a major update
Dune Legacy is the fantastic open source game engine that allows you to play Dune 2 on modern systems. It has recently had a major update.
The original 'POSTAL' is now open source under the GPL
The original version of the classic shooter 'POSTAL' is now officially open source under the GPL license. That's a pretty nice move by RWS.
'gifine' is a pretty simple open source tool for making small gifs and videos
Something I've wanted for a while was an easy way to make simple gif animations or videos of small sections of my screen. Thankfully, gifine has come along and seems to fit my needs perfectly.
The open source 'OpenMW' has released 0.41.0 to further improve Morrowind on Linux
OpenMW, the open source engine for playing Morrowind has matured a little more with the release of 0.41.0.
OBS Studio 17.0.0 adds support for capturing previous x minutes and a Linux memory leak fix
OBS Studio 17.0.0 has been released and it's a pretty fun one. It now has a feature that allows you to capture a snapshot of a specific time before hitting a hotkey.
The open source itch games client has been updated yet again
The itch developers sure do work fast, as another two versions of this open source game client has been released.
VK9, the open source project to implement d3d9 over Vulkan reaches another milestone
The developer of VK9, the project that aims to implement d3d9 over Vulkan, emailed in to let me know they have hit another milestone.
The open source itch client has been updated with major new features
The client for the game store itch has been updated again and it has some really useful stuff this time.
Open source game engine 'Godot' is working on a new 3D renderer
Godot, the open source game engine for 2D and 3D games is going to get a brand new 3D rendering system and the developers have given some updates on it.
Stefan Achatz, the developer who helps get Roccat devices properly working on Linux to end his work
Sad news for fans of Roccat hardware as the sole developer working on Roccat device support, Stefan Achatz, is stepping down from his work.
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- Dying Light is getting a free graphical update, plus Dying Light 2 will get a new game mode
- The Last of Us Part I added AMD FSR3.1 Frame Generation and Super Resolution
- NTSYNC for Proton / Wine now in Linux kernel 6.14 that "Should make many SteamOS users happy"
- The ridiculous Steam Brick just makes me want a proper Steam Machine
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