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Oolite 1.84 released, the open source open-world Elite-like game is maturing

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2016

Oolite 1.84 has recently been released and brings with it a new camera mode which will help make some awesome screenshots and other stuff too.

Mesa patches greatly improve Bioshock Infinite performance for the RadeonSI AMD driver

By Liam Dawe, 2 Aug 2016

For those of you using the RadeonSI driver for AMD graphics cards, you may be interested to know that a developer named Marek has sent in patches to significantly improve performance for Bioshock Infinite.

New version of the itch store app released, as slick as ever

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jul 2016

The itch developers have been hard at work making their open source store app even better for you, and it's lovely.

HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework needs funds on IndieGoGo

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jul 2016

HaxeFlixel, a free and open source cross-platform game framework that was used in the creation of Defender's Quest is needing a bit of funding on IndieGoGo.

Fancy playing Quake with the Vulkan API? Now you can

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jul 2016

I'm a little late on reporting this due to being ill, but Quake has been ported to Vulkan and it's open source of course.

The Battle for Wesnoth, the great open source fantasy strategy game is now on Steam Greenlight

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jul 2016

The Battle for Wesnoth is probably one of the all time great open source games. It's been around for a long time, it's well polished and now it's looking to get on Steam.

Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator is now feature complete

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jul 2016

On the github pull request to bring in the Vulkan backend for the Dolphin emulator, it now reads as feature complete.

Looks like the open source Mesa driver has hit OpenGL 4.5 support with Intel

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jul 2016

A pretty incredible milestone for open source graphics, as it appears that Mesa along with the Intel driver has hit OpenGL 4.5.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.15 Is Now Available

By sobkas, 23 Jul 2016

The Wine team released today another development release of their software. Version 1.9.15 has many small changes including 22 bugfixes.

OpenTomb is an open source game engine for Tomb Raider 1-5

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2016

OpenTomb is yet another beautiful open source game engine, and this one supports Tomb Raider 1-5. Fantastic to see more of this in my inbox!

VR Funhouse from Nvidia to be open sourced this summer

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jul 2016

VR Funhouse is currently a Windows only advanced VR game, but the interesting thing is that Nvidia claim they will open source it.

New version of the itch store app is out, better Arch Linux compatibility and other fixes

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jul 2016

Oh my word I do love itch and their store app. It's open source (MIT license), it's beautiful and it actually works really well now.

SC Controller, the open source driver and GUI for the Steam Controller is making lovely progress

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2016

SC Controller is really coming along nicely. Since I mentioned it on GOL it has been through a few new releases.

REGoth Engine, an open source reimplentation for the game 'Gothic'

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2016

REGoth Engine was pointed out in the forum, as it's another lovely open source reimplentation and this time it's for the classic game 'Gothic'.

Major new release of open source livestreaming kit 'OBS Studio' fixes Linux window capture issues

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jul 2016

OBS Studio is a fantastic bit of open source software for livestreamers, but the Linux version has been plagued with crashing often when capturing a window—no more!