Category: Open Source

Unvanquished has released like clockwork their 25th alpha release, this time ripping out their old renderer completely.

It’s pretty common knowledge Nvidia users get some good drivers at the trade-off of binary blob drivers (or not, depending on your ethics) and that AMD are often left in the dust, but how can open source drivers change that?

This is very interesting, Nothing To Hide is a game where you are your own watchdog, a game of anti-stealth and it looks pretty cool.

Platinum Arts Sandbox Game Maker is an easy to use Game Maker featuring in game and coop editing based on the Cube 2 Engine. Now Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight Projects have been launched to greatly accelerate and increase the features in the engine.

Just a couple of days left to vote for the open source Linux game Project of the Month March 2014. GamingOnLinux supports this with the winner getting an image on the scrolling carousel for an entire month.

Wine developers surprised today world with an early release coming from development branch of their software. As always version number was increased, this time to 1.7.13. This action may surprise some people, but as always developers were able to push out many new features and 63 bugfixes.

I thought it was about time I gave some limelight to some really great open source game engines that work on Linux, from official open source games to unofficial open source engines to allow you to run games on Linux that you couldn't normally!

Good news developers, Godot Engine is now open source for you to tinker with. Could this be a real alternative to Unity for developers who want to develop games directly on Linux?

BlastEm has released a new major update recently adding some highly needed features, it's always good to see old systems get preserved through emulators.

Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.12 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 89 bugfixes.

The latest and greatest Unvanquished has been released to the masses with a lot of new goodies including a modernized file system.

The Castle Doctrine a game of home defence and burglary that I showed you way back in April of 2013 and it has come a very long way since then, it has now found itself onto Steam.

With just over $1000 raised and less than $500 to go, only one week remains on the crowdfunding campaign to re-build the unique & unconventional FPS game "Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet" using a modern open-source cross-platform engine.

Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.11 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 46 bugfixes. It includes a preparation work for D3D command stream.

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.28.0! This behemoth of a release includes many large features, such as Combat AI, Magic, Vampirism, terrain bump/specular/parallax mapping, and many other things. There's also a heap of bug fixes, many thanks to our relentless developers!

A new development report is available for the open source RTS game 0 A.D. and it looks very promising, lots of work going into the next alpha folks!

Wine developers have today released a maintenance version of Wine 1.6.2. As it's only a minor update, it doesn't introduce any new functionality, except update to liblcms version 2, only various fixes including 36 fixed bugs.

Unvanquished is a fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements, pitting technologically advanced humans against hordes of highly adaptable aliens. The player can choose from either team, providing a fresh gameplay experience on both sides of the conflict.

Livestreaming is seriously a lot of fun and it's something I've wanted to do for a long time. Thanks to projects like FFmpeg and Libav you can also do that on Linux with relative ease, but little under a year ago I started my own project to make it even easier.

After a holiday recess, Wine developers have again released a new version: 1.7.10. It contains many new features and 48 bugfiexs.