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Using the Epic Store on Linux is even easier with the latest Heroic Games Launcher updates

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2021

Epic Games don't support Linux with their store, so the community continues building around it with the Heroic Games Launcher that can run plenty of games from the Epic Store.

Free and open source strategy shooter Unvanquished gearing up for big new release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2021

Unvanquished is a free and open source first-person shooter that blends in elements of a strategy game, it's a bit like Natural Selection and they're in the process of doing a big new release.

Google open sources VR painting app Tilt Brush

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2021

Tilt Brush, a popular VR app that lets users paint in a 3D space. Originally from Skillman & Hackett, it was later acquired by Google and now they've open sourced it.

Try out Luxtorpeda, a Steam Play tool to run games in native game engines

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2021

There's quite a few games available on Steam that either don't support Linux, or do support Linux but like the Windows release there's a better way to run it perhaps with an open source game engine. Luxtorpeda will help with that.

Lutris game manager v0.5.8.3 out, requires contributors to agree to a CLA

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

For regular Linux gamers, Lutris is pretty much a household name by now. For those that aren't - Lutris is a game manager allowing you to sort through all your games from various stores.

Empire building terminal game Arcane Fortune adds trade, nobility, assassination

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

Inspired by the likes of Dwarf Fortress, Civilization, SimCity and more we have the free and open source Arcane Fortune which continues to expanding in features.

Free and open source modern level editor LDtk has a huge new release

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2021

LDtk (prev called LEd) is an in-development free and open source level editor, one that's modern and designed to be as user-friendly as possible designed by a former dev on Dead Cells.

Interested in Godot Engine and games made with it? GodotCon is up on January 23

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jan 2021

Tomorrow, January 23 there's going to be an online GodotCon that's going live on YouTube. This is a chance for anyone interested to learn more about the free and open source game engine Godot Engine.

Open source PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play client Chiaki has a final release

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jan 2021

The developer of Chiaki, a free and open source Remote Play client that supports both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 has gone out with a bit of a bang.

Wine compat layer devs discuss new Kernel interface to better match Windows NT

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

Wine developer Zebediah Figura has sent in a proposal to work on a new Linux Kernel interface for Wine synchronization primitives, one that gets closer to performance and behaviour of Windows NT.

Godot Engine gets a sixth 3.2.4 beta with a new CPU lightmapper

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2021

The Godot team just keep on adding in big new features to make this one of the best free and open source game engines around and the next Beta update for Godot 3.2.4 is out now.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin launching along with Linux support this Summer, third update out now

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin is a dark fantasy-horror FPS powered by the original Quake engine from publishers 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment and developer KillPixel Games.

Proton 5.13-5 is now up bringing in some of the experimental changes

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

The Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Steam for Linux has levelled up some more with the latest Proton 5.13-5 now available to everyone.

Wine compatibility layer version 6.0 released

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

Wine, the compatibility layer designed to run Windows games and applications on other systems has a big 6.0 release now officially available with thousands of improvements.

Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs to get OpenGL 3.1 with Mesa 21.0 - first RC up

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

With the first Mesa release of 2021 for open source Linux GPU drivers upcoming with Mesa 21.0 hitting the Release Candidate stage, Collabora have been busy bringing up OpenGL on ARM Mali GPUs.

Revolutionary Games continue building up their free evolution game Thrive

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Starting off as nothing but a tiny little cell in a massive world, Thrive is a free and open source evolution sim backed up by the power of science.

Experimental Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu adds Linux AppImage for easier launching

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

While still highly experimental and quite a hassle to setup legitimately, the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu is still another fine example of open source.

The open source Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher has a big overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2021

Work on Heroic Games Launcher, the open source Linux alternative to the Epic Games Store continues rapid improvements with a huge new release out now.

GNOME Shell to get an Activities Overview design revamp in GNOME 40

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

GNOME Shell is already quite different to how traditional desktop environments feel, and they're planning to mix things up again with some design overhauls for GNOME 40.

NES-style free chiptune music maker FamiStudio has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2021

Free, open source and a lot of fun to get mixing, FamiStudio is a wonderful application for making some retro tunes and there's a new release available.

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