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Open source racer SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 officially released with a new website

By Liam Dawe,
SuperTuxKart 0.9.2 is now officially available with new tracks, AI for more game modes, ghost racers and more.

Major new version of the open source itch store application

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest itch app for the itch games store is now available, it's a pretty huge release.

Google open sources SwiftShader, a library for high-performance graphics rendering on the CPU

By Liam Dawe,
Google has today opened up SwiftShader, a software library for high-performance graphics rendering on the CPU.

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend

By Liam Dawe,
I love emulators, I think they are a fantastic way to keep old platforms alive. Even with the grey area around roms I think they are really interesting. Dolphin is now working on a Vulkan backend.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.13 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.13 has many small changes including 34 bugfixes.

Open source strategy game Unknown Horizons is in need of developers

By Liam Dawe,
Unknown Horizons, an open source strategy game that has been around for quite some time is currently in need of help.

Want to play the classic racer Need For Speed II SE on Linux? There's an open source engine for that

By Liam Dawe,
A classic racer from the 90's, Need For Speed™ II SE has an open source game engine allowing you to play it on Linux.

The Wine Stable Release 1.8.3 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today fourth stable release of their software. Version 1.8.3 has many small changes including 54 bugfixes.

SuperTuxKart, the open source racer has a new release with new tracks

By Liam Dawe,
SuperTuxKart is the classic open source racer and it has a brand new version with new tracks. This is the first RC release that will become a major new release.

Armory 3D, a new game engine for Blender that will be open source

By Liam Dawe,
Armory 3D promises to make Blender become much more powerful for game developers and it certainly looks interesting.

Want to play Morrowind natively on Linux using OpenMW? Well it's on sale on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
OpenMW is the open source game engine for Morrowind that is really quite amazing. If you've been wanting to try it out but you don't own Morrowind, now is a good time. GOG has it on sale for cheap.

CorsixTH, the open source Theme Hospital engine has a major release

By Liam Dawe,
CorsixTH 0.60 has been released which features user campaigns, an in-game map editor and more. Really pleased to see it progress as TH is an absolute classic.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.12 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.12 has many small changes including 20 bugfixes.

OpenKeeper, another open source game engine, this time for Dungeon Keeper II

By Liam Dawe,
I really do love open source game engines. Keeping older titles alive on new platforms and bringing bug fixes with them. This time Dungeon Keeper II gets the treatment.

The Wine Staging Team has released their patch-set for Wine 1.9.11

By sobkas,
Wine Staging 1.9.11 has been released this weekend. This release is a small update containing only a few improvements targeting different applications.

Simutrans, the open source transportation simulation game is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Simutrans is a bit of an oldie in the open source gaming world, but it's pretty good and it has now found its way onto Steam.

Rotorcross, an open source multirotor racing simulator has a Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
Apparently Rotorcross is becoming a thing where you race drones and it actually sounds like a pretty cool idea for a game. The code is open source too, but it's built with Unity.

New set of GPU benchmarks and adventures in OpenGL 4.3

By Samsai,
Quite recently there have been quite a few advancements on the open source side of GPU drivers so I figured it would be the perfect time to talk about these changes and run some updated benchmarks.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.11 Is Now Available

By sobkas,
The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.11 has many small changes including 21 bugfixes.

Intel & Nvidia Fermi Mesa OpenGL driver has now finished up OpenGL 4.3 support

By Liam Dawe,
Oh wow, didn't expect this so soon. The Mesa driver for Intel graphics and Nvidia Fermi (GeForce 400, GeForce 500) on Linux have now reached OpenGL 4.3 compliance with "ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior" now being done.
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