Category: Open Source

This update hauls the new graphical engine "Antartica". The highlight of this new engine is the improved light and shadow rendering which makes STK 0.8.2 looks much better than previous versions.

The newly open-sourced game engine Godot received its first major release today! In the middle of the winter game-jam too, even though the release candidates have been out for a week or so.

The Original Strife: Veteran Edition is apparently the original hybrid of FPS and RPG games. It has been revamped, and placed onto Steam. The engine is even open source and included with the game.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.33 bringing many new features and as many as 29 bugfixes.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.32 bringing many new features and as many as 46 bugfixes.

Today I would like to share with you three retro throwbacks which I think are worth taking a look at.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.31 bringing many new features and as many as 51 bugfixes.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.30 bringing many new features and as many as 50 bugfixes.

A few days ago I published an article about three Kickstarter projects from Argentina and what they had to say about Linux. One of those was OKAM Studio’s The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy, and I briefly mentioned their open source GODOT Engine - which will be the subject of this article.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.29 bringing many new features and as many as 44 bugfixes.

SpringRTS is an open source real time strategy game engine with lots of games available to play online or against AI bots.

Wildfire Games has released a new alpha of their open source real-time strategy game. Alpha 17 is titled ”Quercus” and contains numerous gameplay balance fixes and ability to place soldiers on top of walls among other things.

With the release of a new Linux kernel, gamers now have more controller options. With the release of the stable 3.17 kernel by Linus Torvalds, the Xbox One controller is now initially supported (without vibration) under Linux.

After more than a year in development, the real time strategy game Annex: Conquer the World 4.0 has now been released, boasting nearly twice the game content, including new armies, new modes of play, new maps, new tile-sets, and a much more refined gameplay. As of version 4.0 the game has now also been released under a FOSS license.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.28 bringing many new features and as many as 21 bugfixes.

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams a classic game from another era has been open sourced and is on github.

More driver improvements on the ever changing driver. Mesa 10.3 just came out and the results are in! Here's a look at how the open source driver for AMD GPU's is performing in games.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.27 bringing many new features and as many as 22 bugfixes.

Arena Vex, a remake of the popular Warcraft 3 map Warlock, has been officially released for Linux. Arena Vex is an online multiplayer knock-out arena with loads of intense action and tactical gameplay that’s great for LAN parties and competitive play.

Lutris is an interesting open source application to help you manage your games from different sources, and they have released a fresh batch of builds.