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Free first-person strategy shooter 'Unvanquished' releases version 0.52 Beta

By Liam Dawe, May 14, 2021

After a long time of waiting with the last proper release in 2018, the Unvanquished team have managed to do it! The next version 0.52 Beta is officially out now and waiting to be played.

Proton GE gets some big updates but you may need to remove old Wine prefixes

By Liam Dawe, May 14, 2021

Proton GE (GloriousEggroll) is a community-built version of the Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux through Steam Play.

Vircadia, the free and open source 3D virtual world is going to the web

By Liam Dawe, May 11, 2021

Vircadia, the open source successor to the former High Fidelity VR project, a 3D virtual world for VR and desktops is now going to be coming to your web browser.

Check out Sonic Robo Blast 2, a 3D open-source Sonic the Hedgehog fangame built from Doom

By Liam Dawe, May 11, 2021

A reader recently let us know of Sonic Robo Blast 2, a 3D free and open source sonic game built from the open source Doom Legacy game engine.

0 A.D. Alpha 25 enters feature-freeze soon, get a sneak-peak of what's coming

By Liam Dawe, May 10, 2021

0 A.D. Alpha 25, the very impressive free and open source RTS is closing in on the next release and it's entering a Feature Freeze soon to focus on stability.

Feel the need for a little karaoke? Check out UltraStar Play and UltraStar Deluxe

By Liam Dawe, May 10, 2021

Two interesting projects we've not covered here before are UltraStar Deluxe and the newer UltraStar Play, both open source games aimed at karaoke fans.

Fate of Dynasty is a wonderful short, free and open source puzzle game out now

By Liam Dawe, May 10, 2021

Short on time and want to try something new? It's Free Game Monday™! Come check out Fate of Dynasty which is open source.

Time for a brewed awakening with the Wine 6.8 release out now

By Liam Dawe, May 8, 2021

Wine, that glorious bit of tasty open source software has a new 6.8 development release now available.

Open source Linux GPU drivers Mesa 21.1 released

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2021

Developer Eric Engestrom has announced the availability of Mesa 21.1, the latest release for Linux open source graphics drivers powering Intel, AMD and more.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-3 is out now with Origin Overlay working, vkd3d-proton v2.3.1

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2021

Ready for another fun week testing out more games? Valve have you covered with the latest update to Proton.

Taisei, a free and open source fan game based on Touhou Project has a new update out

By Liam Dawe, May 3, 2021

A little bullet hell / shoot 'em up for your Monday morning wake up call? Taisei, a free and open source fan game based on the Touhou Project has a fresh release.

VKD3D-Proton 2.3.1 rolls out along with a quick-fix to Proton Experimental

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2021

Valve contractors and CodeWeavers continue tweaking VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 over Vulkan with another fresh update out now, and a small update to add it into Proton Experimental.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux version 1.5.8 is out fixing a critical bug

By Liam Dawe, Apr 26, 2021

Have plenty of games on the Epic Games Store? The Heroic Games Launcher continues maturing to allow you to download and play them on Linux through a native application.

Collabora using AI to enhance VR hand tracking in Monado, the open-source OpenXR runtime

By Liam Dawe, Apr 26, 2021

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (XR) is continuing to be a very interesting space with lots of innovation going on and Collabora are at the front of this with Monado, the open source OpenXR runtime.

It's your time to Wine with the 6.7 release out now

By Liam Dawe, Apr 23, 2021

It's Friday and it's been two weeks so that can only mean one thing! We get to have a little Wine, as a treat.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer VKD3D-Proton 2.3 is out with early DirectX Raytracing support

By Liam Dawe, Apr 22, 2021

Even more progress towards having a layer that will translate Direct3D 12 nicely over to Vulkan, as the VKD3D-Proton project just had a fresh release out.

Godot Engine 3.3 is out with plans for 3.4 while 4.0 with Vulkan is still in progress

By Liam Dawe, Apr 22, 2021

The free and open source game engine Godot Engine has a huge new feature release out, so big they had to change the version number and they have some big plans for long-term support.

Stealth puzzle-platformer Moonshot - The Great Espionage looks like it could be amusing

By Liam Dawe, Apr 19, 2021

Moonshot - The Great Espionage from developer NimbleBeasts is looking good, and it's coming to Steam in June along with full Linux support built with Godot Engine.

Chris Sawyer's Locomotion improves further in the open source re-implementation OpenLoco

By Liam Dawe, Apr 14, 2021

OpenLoco continues advancing and bringing Chris Sawyer's Locomotion another step further to being as great as OpenTTD for Transport Tycoon Deluxe with a new OpenLoco 21.04 release out now.

System76 announce COSMIC, their own GNOME-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS

By Liam Dawe, Apr 13, 2021

Pop!_OS from Linux hardware vendor System76 is set to get a massive upgrade when Pop!_OS 21.04 releases, as they've announced COSMIC - their very own desktop environment.

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