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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player releases in November

By Liam Dawe,
Another revamp of a classic is on the way with the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Single-Player project, which has announced a release on November 19, 2021.

Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 25 to release in June with feature-freeze imminent

By Liam Dawe,
Wildfire Games have given an update on the status of 0 A.D. Alpha 25, which they've now confirmed the feature freeze will begin on June 6 to focus on getting it release ready.

1998 classic strategy game Signus: The Artefact Wars sees a full open source release

By Liam Dawe,
Signus: The Artefact Wars, originally a commercial release in 1998 was later open sourced in 2002 and it just got an updated re-release with all the data too.

Bitmapflow helps artists generate inbetweens for animated sprites

By Liam Dawe,
Are you developing games? Making awesome gifs of things and whatever else? Bitmapflow is a very clever application that will generate extra parts of animations to make them smoother.

rpg-cli turns your filesystem into a 'JRPG-inspired' terminal game

By Liam Dawe,
If you've used the Linux command-line before you've likely done plenty of CD commands to change directory - but what if that was an RPG? Not that you asked but rpg-cli answered.

OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other with Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Not specifically gaming related but we love to cover industry stuff too, that might be interesting for some of our more technically minded users. Collabora have mentioned that thanks to work done on Mesa, OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other.

Heroic Games Launcher for running Epic Store titles on Linux 1.7.0 release is out

By Liam Dawe,
As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux with their store, the Heroic Games Launcher picks up that slack and it has a new release now available for you.

GZDoom 4.6.0 rolls out with widescreen graphics for Heretic and Hexen

By Liam Dawe,
GZDoom continues maturing as a game engine to play the classics including the Doom series, Heretic and Hexen and more along with developers using it to make their own games (like the upcoming Selaco).

Theme Hospital game engine reimplementation CorsixTH gets a big new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Doctor needed in the surgery! CorsixTH, the wonderful free and open source game engine reimplementation for the incredible classic that is Theme Hospital has a big new Beta out.

Notable developer from The Dark Mod team passes away

By Hythlodaeus,
Grayman, a key team member of the standalone free and open source stealth game The Dark Mod has passed away.

Get ready for a busy weekend testing as Wine 6.9 is out now - nice

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest from the Wine hackers is out now with the nice Wine 6.9 development release going out.

Reverse engineered PlayStation classic Driver 2 reimplementation has a Beta out now

By Liam Dawe,
Originally PlayStation exclusive and later ported to the Game Boy Advanced, Driver 2 lives on again with the REDRIVER2 game engine reimplementation project.

If you love Heroes of Might and Magic II do check out this open source reimplementation

By Liam Dawe,
Heroes of Might and Magic II is an absolute classic right? Released back in 1996, it lives on thanks to fheroes2.

Godot Engine needs more funding for post-4.0 development

By Liam Dawe,
While Godot Engine has been going from strength to strength, the co-creator and technical lead Juan Linietsky has reminded people how they rely on support to keep going.

Microphone noise suppression app NoiseTorch has a new release with early PipeWire support

By Liam Dawe,
Are you in a noisy environment? Need to filter out all the nuisances? NoiseTorch for Linux seems like a really great open source tool you need to check out.

NVIDIA update their NVAPI open source interface helping "Windows emulation environments"

By Liam Dawe,
Back in July 2020, NVIDIA announced the open source release of various parts of the NVAPI interface to help "Windows emulation environments" and they've now produced a much newer version.

NVIDIA 465.31 driver out, plus NVIDIA takes another shot at limiting crypto

By Liam Dawe,
A few bits of NVIDIA news to cover today with some small and some big news including drivers, hardware and open source.

Augustus, the open source enhanced reimplementation for Caesar 3 gets a huge upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for more classic city-building? Caesar 3 is a wonderful game from the late 90s and thanks to Augustus (a fork of another project, Julius), you can get a more modern experience with it.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition now playable on Linux with Proton GE

By Liam Dawe,
The big new release of Mass Effect Legendary Edition from BioWare and EA is only supported for Windows on PC, but with Proton GE you should now be able to play it on Linux.

Steam Play Proton gets a few quick fixes in the 6.3-4 release out now

By Liam Dawe,
Valve / CodeWeavers have releases another update to the current stable Proton series with the 6.3-4 release.
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