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Godot Engine 3.2.4 gets a second Beta with lots of improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine continues seeing upgrades to the current 3.x series while the work is ongoing to bring Vulkan support the upcoming Godot 4.0. The second Beta of Godot Engine 3.2.4 is out now.

OpenMW, the open source game engine for Morrowind sees great progress

By Liam Dawe,
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a true classic for many reasons, and it continues living on with the OpenMW free and open source game engine.

Valve contractor working to add Direct3D 12 support to APITrace for VKD3D-Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Valve contractor Joshua Ashton, who originally created the Direct3D9 to Vulkan layer D9VK which was eventually merged with DXVK, is now working to help VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan.

The advanced Caesar III game engine Augustus has a new release up

By Liam Dawe,
To play the classic city-builder Caesar III on modern platforms there is the FOSS game engine Julius, however there's also a more advanced version called Augustus that had a major new release.

Help out with FOSS as the Budgie Desktop team need translations help

By Liam Dawe,
Ever tried or heard of the Budgie Desktop? It's a modern and feature rich Linux desktop environment from the Solus Linux team and they need a little help.

Beyond All Reason aims to revive the RTS style of Total Annihilation

By Liam Dawe,
Total Annihilation is still to this day, one of the best RTS games ever made. I'll engage in fisticuffs with anyone who disagrees and Beyond All Reason is pursuing the ideal of Cavedog's classic.

The classic Driver 2 has a new reverse engineered open source game engine

By Liam Dawe,
Any of our readers remember Driver 2? I remember spending absolutely hours driving around in this classic PlayStation game and now maybe you can relive it or experience it for the first time.

Open source game manager Lutris sees the big 0.5.8 release out now

By Liam Dawe,
Keeping your games together from different services and stores can be a breeze with the likes of Lutris, a free and open source game launcher and manager.

Free and open source flight sim 'FlightGear' has a brand new release

By Liam Dawe,
FlightGear is a rather advanced free, open source flight simulator that's very much alive and kicking with a big new release now available.

OpenRazer 2.9.0 is out, adding plenty of new Razer device support on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Enjoy your fancy Razer hardware on Linux? You should probably check out OpenRazer, which is a nice big collection of drivers for Linux.

OpenGL on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' continues maturing with 'near-native performance'

By Liam Dawe,
On the Collabora blog, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has given an exciting update to Zink, an open source Mesa Gallium driver for Linux that provides OpenGL on top of Vulkan.

Windows compat layer Wine 5.21 out, supports helpful Vulkan extensions for debugging

By Liam Dawe,
The hackers working away on the Wine compatibility layer for running Windows games and apps on Linux tagged a new development release with Wine 5.21.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
Supporting newer and more advanced Windows games like Control and Death Stranding, the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release.

If you play World of Warcraft on Linux with Wine, check out WowUp for addons

By Liam Dawe,
While it's true that World of Warcraft doesn't support Linux, it has been playable on Linux for years thanks to the Wine compatibility layer and it appears even sorting addons is now a breeze.

FPS game engine GZDoom 4.5.0 is out as the first 64bit only release

By Liam Dawe,
GZDoom, the modder-friendly OpenGL and Vulkan source port based on the DOOM engine has a major new release up as they drop support for 32bit.

GOverlay app adds support for the Linux instant-replay tool ReplaySorcery

By Liam Dawe,
GOverlay is the super useful user interface for managing overlays like MangoHud and the vulkan post processing layer vkBasalt. Now though, it's been extended to be even more useful.

Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs in Mesa 20.3 will have some Bifrost support out of the box

By Liam Dawe,
The continuing battle to have open source Linux graphics drivers support everything possible continues, with the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs hitting more milestones.

Open source OpenXR (VR/AR) runtime 'Monado', now passes conformance tests

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a huge milestone for the in-development open source OpenXR runtime Monado, as Collabora have announced a fresh milestone in its life.

RetroArch will soon get the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2

By Liam Dawe,
Feel the need to run some classic PlayStation 2 games? It's set to get a lot easier, as the RetroArch team have reported on their work with PCSX2.

Get building in RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 with a new release of OpenRCT2

By Liam Dawe,
Build up and maintain an amusement park in the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in the free and open source modern game engine OpenRCT2.
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