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SuperTuxKart Open Source Racer Is Going Graphical With A New Engine

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2014

SuperTuxKart a lot of Linux users favourite little open source racer often compared to Nintendo's Mario Kart is to get a ton of graphical updates.

Unvanquished Open Source FPS & RTS Alpha 27, Jetpacks Included

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2014

Unvanquished has its monthly alpha release that features masses of underlying changes as usual to get us all excited for the stable release to come.

Warsow FPS 1.5 Released!

By Anon, May 3, 2014

After months of hard work and multiple test releases, we are proud to announce the long-awaited release of Warsow 1.5. The latest and greatest version introduces significant updates to all areas of the game.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.18 Is Now Available

By sobkas, May 2, 2014

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.18 brining many new features and as many as 80 bugfixes.

KeeperRL Open Source Dungeon Sim Updated, Crowdfunding Campaign Still Going

By Liam Dawe, Apr 29, 2014

KeeperRL is an open source dungeon simulator game inspired by Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. It gets better all the time and this update is no different. It also needs a little push on its crowdfunding campaign to make it even better.

ROCCAT Ryos MK Glow Review

By Xpander, Apr 27, 2014

Its a time to give my personal review about my new keyboard. Roccat Ryos MK Glow - a Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with good opensource Linux driver support.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.17 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Apr 18, 2014

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.17 brining many new features and as many as 89 bugfixes.

Eldritch, The Lovecraftian Action Roguelike Is Now Open Source

By Liam Dawe, Apr 15, 2014

In a move that shook the very core of the internet today, Eldritch a pretty damn good action-roguelike has opened up her innards.

Natural Selection 2's DirectX To OpenGL Convertor Now Builds Out Of The Box

By Liam Dawe, Apr 13, 2014

Not long ago the tool Unknown Worlds wrote to convert Natural Selection 2's DirectX calls into OpenGL was open sourced, it has now been updated to build properly.

KeeperRL, An Open Source Mix Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress Of Needs IndieGoGo Love

By Liam Dawe, Apr 10, 2014

Remember KeeperRL? That odd mix of Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress that we posted about recently is now on indiegogo looking for funds to reach a glorious "1.0" version.

Hold Onto Your Fedoras as Unvanquished The FPS/RTS Hybrid Has Set Loose Alpha 26

By Liam Dawe, Apr 7, 2014

Unvanquished continues to amaze with the 26th alpha version, wow that's a lot of alpha's for you. Usual assortment of new features and bug fixes.

KeeperRL A Dungeon Simulator Built On Top Of Roguelike Mechanics New Alpha

By Liam Dawe, Apr 5, 2014

KeeperRL is a Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress inspired dungeon simulator built on top of roguelike mechanics. You become a Sauron-like character, searching for ultimate knowledge of destruction.

GoldenEye: Source Is Now Open Source, Get Porting To Linux!

By Liam Dawe, Apr 5, 2014

GoldenEye: Source a Half-Life 2 modification is now open source and on github, so Linux developers it's time to get it on Linux.

The Wine Development Release 1.7.16 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Apr 4, 2014

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.16 brining many new features and as many as 50 bugfixes.

OpenTTD, An Open-Source Simulation Game 1.4 Major Release

By Liam Dawe, Apr 2, 2014

OpenTTD is an open-source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

The Open Source Game Corner, Highlighting Open Source Projects Part 2

By Liam Dawe, Mar 28, 2014

The second part in my articles on giving some limelight to open source games and engines, this time I have a completely different set to show you! How exciting!

Natural Selection 2's Direct3D HLSL to OpenGL GLSL Parser Open Sourced

By Liam Dawe, Mar 28, 2014

In another win for open-source the developers behind Natural Selection 2 have opened up the code they use to parse HLSL calls into OpenGL's GLSL.

Humble Weekly Sale To Support Open Source Projects, Nice!

By Liam Dawe, Mar 27, 2014

Now this is putting Humble back on the map for Linux gamers, a weekly sale where some of the proceeds go towards open source projects!

The Wine Development Release 1.7.15 Is Now Available

By sobkas, Mar 22, 2014

Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.15 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 53 bugfixes.