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FNA, the open source reimplementation of Microsoft's XNA first official release

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2015

I'm a big fan of FNA, as the quality of the ports made with Ethan Lee's project are really quite awesome. Ethan announced recently that FNA has now had its first official release.

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OpenRA Christmas 2015 Release (20151224)

By Guest, 29 Dec 2015

The OpenRA development team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and they are proud to announce the Christmas 2015 release of OpenRA.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.0 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 26 Dec 2015

After release of stable version 1.8, Wine team opened a new development branch, 1.9. While it still doesn't include as many new features as previous development releases, there are 43 fixed bugs.

GOL Cast: Wandering Around Morrowind in OpenMW

By Samsai, 20 Dec 2015

You might have heard about OpenMW, the open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine which, naturally, allows you to play Morrowind on Linux. Let's test it!

Wine 1.8 was finally released

By sobkas, 20 Dec 2015

Today a new stable Wine 1.8 version was released. After a 17 months of hard work and nearly 13,000 individual commits it's here. And it brings lots of new shiny features in its sack(because it's December, pick your holiday of choice).

openage, an open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2015

These are the types of projects I can really get behind. Much like CosixTH for Theme Hospital, openage is aiming to be a full open source engine for Age of Empires II.

AMD announce 'GPUOpen', open source tools like Nvidia's GameWorks

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2015

AMD are stepping up their open source game again, as they have announced GPUOpen to rival Nvidia's GameWorks.

The Itch store now has an open source and multiplatform store application

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2015

The games store Itch has released the first proper public version of their own store client like Steam and GOG Galaxy, but simply named "Itch". It's open source too, so that's cool.

Fourth release candidate of Wine 1.8 is out

By sobkas, 13 Dec 2015

Wine development team released today the fourth release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. 26 bugs were fixed.

Third release candidate of Wine version 1.8 is out

By sobkas, 4 Dec 2015

Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8 Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.

OpenMW 0.37 released, now with the new OSG renderer

By Samsai, 1 Dec 2015

It seems to be the season for new versions of excellent open source gaming projects. OpenMW, the open source recreation of the Morrowind engine, has a new version which brings important rendering updates.

The Dark Mod became more graphically impressive in their last update

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2015

We missed covered the last update to The Dark Mod back in February, and I'm glad someone emailed it in as its becoming quite impressive.

Wine 1.8-rc2 released, brings more stability

By Liam Dawe, 27 Nov 2015

The Wine developers are continuing towards a stable 1.8 released, and they have released Wine 1.8-rc2.

A 2015 Thanksgiving Retrospection About The Open Source Project 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy, 27 Nov 2015

xoreos (a F/OSS reimplementation of Bioware's Aurora engine) developer DrMcCoy reflects on the project's progress over the past year, and offers thanks to supporting contributors and the community.

0 A.D. Alpha 19 “Syllepsis” Released

By Samsai, 26 Nov 2015

A new alpha release of the open source RTS 0 A.D. has just been released. The new release has various technical improvements and a couple of new gameplay and AI features.

Wyrmsun, A 2D RTS Game Inspired By The Classics, On SteamOS & Linux

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2015

Wyrmsun is yet another game we totally missed, mainly due to it not appearing in the SteamOS + Linux new releases. Valve really need to fix games showing up there if they add a Linux version to an existing release later on.

GOL Cast: Destroying Frakloads Of Toasters In Diaspora: Shattered Armistice

By Samsai, 29 Oct 2015

Ever wanted to fly a high-speed interceptor in a big dogfight against a superior enemy force like in Battlestar Galactica? Well, it's possible thanks to Diaspora: Shattered Armistice! Let's go kill some toasters!

Endless Sky, An Open Source & Open World Space Sim Inspired By Escape Velocity

By Liam Dawe, 24 Oct 2015

People say we don't cover enough open source, well here's a good one for you. Endless Sky is something I've only recently discovered, and I sort of fell in love with it.

Digging Up A 1999 Fossil With Freespace 2, Have You Tried It? It’s Excellent.

By Liam Dawe, 21 Oct 2015

Freespace 2 is a space combat simulator game from way back in 1999, it may be old, but it has an official open source engine and you should really give it a run.