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An Update On The Open Source Project 'Xoreos' Concerning Sonic Chronicles

By DrMcCoy, Jun 7, 2015

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.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.44 Is Now Available

By sobkas, May 29, 2015

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.44 have many small changes including 59 bugfixes.

OpenMW Version 0.36.0 Released

By Samsai, May 29, 2015

The Morrowind game engine reimplementation OpenMW has taken another step towards 1.0. Version 0.36.0 doesn't bring much in the way of features for the game engine but has plenty of bug fixes.

Open Source Development Environment Godot Engine 1.1 Out

By Juan Linietsky, May 23, 2015

After half a year of work, Godot, the most advanced open source self-contained game development environment reached version 1.1.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.43 Is Now Available

By sobkas, May 15, 2015

Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.7.43 have many small changes including 26 bugfixes.

Version 0.3.5 Of The Open Source Platformer SuperTux Released

By Cpukiller, Apr 27, 2015

SuperTux 0.3.5 already released two weeks ago, but i still want to publish a news item on this because I think it's important to feature the open source games.

Sol, A Platformer With Retro Sensibilities, Released and Reviewed

By BTRE, Apr 27, 2015

Sol, a new platformer with a cheery sense of humor and with plenty of throwbacks to games of yesteryear, has been released. Most strikingly, the game features a myriad of accessibility options and is licensed under the GPLv3.

SuperTuxKart Open Source Racer 0.9 Released With New Game Engine

By Liam Dawe, Apr 22, 2015

SuperTuxKart is now much more beautiful thanks to the hard work of the developers, and they have released a new major version.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.41 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Apr 17, 2015

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.41 bringing many new features and as many as 41 bugfixes.

An Update On The Open Source Project 'Xoreos' Concerning The Witcher

By DrMcCoy, Apr 14, 2015

KeeperRL, A Dungeon Simulator With RPG & Roguelike Elements Now On Steam

By Liam Dawe, Apr 4, 2015

KeeperRL is an interesting, and open source roguelike with RPG elements that is now on Steam. The code is open source, but the graphical version is not.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.40 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Apr 4, 2015

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.40 bringing many new features and as many as 29 bugfixes.

The GOL Nouveau Experiment – Conclusion

By Samsai, Apr 1, 2015

I have now spent two weeks using the open source Nouveau driver on my desktop and I have some results here. Let's see how well Nouveau did for me!

Livestreaming Software OBS Studio Major Update

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26, 2015

The awesome open source OBS Studio livestreaming software has been updated, and it has some new pretty major stuff.

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Tales of Maj'Eyal Roguelike RPG Has A Major Update & On Sale, Some Thoughts Thrown In

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21, 2015

Tales of Maj'Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.39 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Mar 21, 2015

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.39 bringing many new features and as many as 24 bugfixes.

OpenClonk 6 Reimplements Fog Of War

By ArminS, Mar 17, 2015

The open source project OpenClonk published another bigger update. The new update provides a bunch of graphical improvements: Fog of War, Shaders for materials, objects and particles.