Category: Open Source

The Itch.io games store has always been nice, but icing on the cake is that they are now creating an open source desktop client in Qt 5.

Yesterday a video was published on http://www.xonotic.org which showcased a preview version of the new 0.8 update and all its new features and a couple of new CTF maps.

For those of you who still don't know about it, OpenMW is an open source reimplementation of the Morrowind engine, the third game in the Elder Scrolls series.

CorsixTH is one of my all time favourite open source projects, so I hope it lives a long healthy life. They have just released version 0.40 which includes some exciting new features to make it more complete.

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.