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Serious Engine 1 now working on Linux and Mac thanks to Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon

By Liam Dawe, Apr 4, 2016

Porting machine Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon shared a screenshot on twitter of the work he has put into the open source release of Serious Engine 1 working on Linux & Mac.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.7 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Apr 1, 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.7 has many small changes including 42 bugfixes.

Open source RTS '0 A.D.' alpha 20 Timosthenes released

By Liam Dawe, Apr 1, 2016

Good news strategy game and open source lovers, as 0 A.D. alpha 20 is now available and has a number of new features.

Xamarin announces Mono will be put under an MIT license

By Liam Dawe, Mar 31, 2016

Pretty nice news here. Recently Microsoft purchased Xamarin the creators of Mono, and now it will be opened up under the MIT license.

Wyrmsun, the retro-themed & open source RTS is now free on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Mar 29, 2016

Wyrmsun is an open source RTS game that released on Steam a while back, and it's now switched to being free.

ScummVM adds support for Myst in their daily builds

By Samsai, Mar 28, 2016

I haven't really used ScummVM even though I've heard good things about it but it's possible that this might change with these news. Support for Myst and Myst: Masterpiece Edition has now been added to the daily builds and is ready for testing.

The next alpha for the open source RTS 0 A.D. is coming soon, some highlights included

By Liam Dawe, Mar 28, 2016

The 0 A.D. developers sent word out today that the packaging for alpha 20 has begun, and release candidate testing will happen soon. I've done some highlights of what's to come!

OpenToonz, animation software with features used by Studio Ghibli releasing this month

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21, 2016

Not exactly gaming news, but could be useful for developers. Dwango has obtained the rights to the animation software Toonz used by Studio Ghibli and plan to release an open source version named OpenToonz.

OpenTTD 1.6.0-RC1 released, fine tuning the great open source simulation game

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2016

OpenTTD 1.6.0-RC1 has been released for the open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe".

The Wine Development Release 1.9.6 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Mar 18, 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.6 has many small changes including 32 bugfixes.

The Atomic Game Engine is now open source and on github

By Liam Dawe, Mar 17, 2016

More good news for developers, as the Atomic Game Engine is now open source under the MIT license. It's available on github right now.

Serious Engine 1 Linux source code is coming

By Liam Dawe, Mar 15, 2016

Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a long time Linux game porter is working on getting the Serious Engine 1 source code release working on Linux, with official blessing.

Sunday fun: Theme Hospital on Linux using the open source CorsixTH engine

By Liam Dawe, Mar 13, 2016

It has been quite some time since I mentioned CorsixTH, and I bet some of you don’t even know it exists! Theme Hospital is a brilliant game from many years ago where you build your own hospital.

Croteam releases Serious Engine version 1.10 as free software

By Samsai, Mar 11, 2016

Here's something interesting for the fans of libre software. Croteam, the developers behind the Serious Sam games and The Talos Principle, have opened up the source code for Serious Engine v. 1.10 under the GPLv2 license.

Open Source game engine Godot has a new major release, lots of new stuff

By Liam Dawe, Feb 23, 2016

I do hope Godot becomes popular, as it looks like it has some really great features and it's fully open source!

PPSSPP, the open source PSP emulator has a major new version, will use Vulkan in future

By Liam Dawe, Feb 22, 2016

For those who like a bit of emulation in their lives, PPSSPP has release a major update to their open source emulator recently.

Nvidia releases an open-source Vulkan C++ API, it's now on github

By Liam Dawe, Feb 16, 2016

Nvidia have been busy, they have released vkcpp which as a C++ API to work with Vulkan, as Vulkan itself is a C API.

The open source project 'xoreos' released version 0.0.4 'Chodo'

By DrMcCoy, Feb 1, 2016

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.

Jason Ekstrand from Intel speaks about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016

By Liam Dawe, Jan 31, 2016

Jason Ekstrand, a developer hired by Intel has done a presentation about Vulkan at FOSDEM 2016. The slides are interesting, but not too in-depth to overwhelm you.