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Master of Orion inspired strategy Remnants of the Precursors had a new release

By Liam Dawe,
1
The original Master of Orion was certainly something special, and I personally put endless hours into the sequel. Remnants of the Precursors aims to play into your nostalgia and try to modernize the original mechanics.
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Collabora give an overview on the status of Zink, the OpenGL over Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
9
It seems the OpenGL over Vulkan driver, Zink, has been coming along at a ridiculously impressive pace. Open source consulting firm Collabora has given an overview on how it's doing.
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Free and open source Settlers II inspired strategy game Widelands 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
1
The day is finally here after nearly 20 years, Widelands is a strategy game heavily inspired by the classic Settlers II and the big 1.0 release is out now.
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Veloren, the free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG has a major release out

By Liam Dawe,
6
Want to try another quality free and open source game? Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
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OpenMW 0.47.0 for Morrowind is coming with a Release Candidate available

By Liam Dawe,
1
Want to play more of the classic The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind? OpenMW is your friend. This free and open source game engine reimplementation has a new build that needs testing.
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The fantastic Linux gaming overlay MangoHud has a new version out

By Liam Dawe,
8
MangoHud, the all in one solution to show off various performance metrics for Linux gaming, has a brand new version out now with more options.
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Widelands, the Settlers II inspired strategy game has a 1.0 Release Candidate out

By Liam Dawe,
3
Remember Settlers II? Well, Widelands has been going for a long time as a free and open source game inspired by it and they're progressing towards the big 1.0 release.
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Manage Linux gaming overlays with the new release of Goverlay

By Liam Dawe,
3
Want to configure the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery? Check out the latest release of Goverlay.
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KDE Plasma 5.22 is out now with a focus on 'stability and usability' and more Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
25
Stability and usability are the keys to the new KDE Plasma 5.22 release that's officially available today.
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The open source original Soldat is looking for a new maintainer

By Liam Dawe,
0
The absolute classic that is Soldat, which went fully open source back in 2020 is now in need of someone to take over as the original creator has announced.
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fheroes2 for playing Heroes of Might & Magic II adds The Price of Loyalty campaign support

By Liam Dawe,
1
fheroes2 is a game engine reimplementation project we highlighted recently for playing Heroes of Might & Magic II on modern systems, and they have a big new release available.
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Collabora continue enhancing Wine for Wayland, now with Vulkan and multi-monitor support

By Liam Dawe,
1
Currently in the experimental stages, Collabora continue hacking away at the code for Wine to enable full Wayland support and they've reached some big new milestones with Vulkan and multiple monitor support.
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Proton 6.10 GE is out as a recommended upgrade for users of this community-built version

By Liam Dawe,
1
Proton GE, the community-built version of Proton has a fresh major upgrade with Proton-6.10-GE-1 out now. This is also a recommended upgrade by the developer.
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Open source Infinity Engine reimplementation GemRB 0.8.8 out now

By Liam Dawe,
7
While we have Beamdog taking care of the newer Enhanced Edition generation of classic RPGs like Baldur's Gate, we also have the free and open source GemRB reimplementation which has a big update out.
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Git yourself some Wine with the new 6.10 development release

By Liam Dawe,
1
Another Friday, another two weeks and so a fresh development release is out of the compatibility layer Wine.
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HyperRogue turns the non-Euclidean roguelike into a VR experience and it's wild

By Liam Dawe,
4
As if it wasn't confusing enough travelling through the non-Euclidean of HyperRogue, it's now also available to play through in different VR modes.
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Cross-platform open source lighting control OpenRGB has a huge release out with plugins

By Liam Dawe,
7
OpenRGB is the excellent cross-platform open source application for controlling RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.
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Attempt 4 - Collabora sends in futex2 patches for the Linux Kernel to help Wine / Proton

By Liam Dawe,
8
Here we go again, open source consulting firm Collabora have sent in the futex2 patches to the Linux Kernel for a fourth time now even more work has been done with the aim to help Wine and Steam Play Proton.
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It's been over "20 years in the making", Blender 2.93 LTS is out now

By Liam Dawe,
21
The Blender team today are making quite the super-effective splash about the Blender 2.93 LTS release mentioning how it's been "20 years in the making".
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OBS Studio 27.0 out with service integration, browser dock support and Wayland on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
4
OBS Studio 27.0 is now officially out marking one of the biggest releases they've ever done, especially if you're a Linux user and it's looking great.
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