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Playing SpringRTS games on Linux gets easier with Flatpak

By Liam Dawe, Jul 7, 2020

SpringRTS, the free and open source game engine for playing various real-time strategy games is now even easier to get running on Linux.

Free and open source space RPG 'Destination Sol' has a big 2.0 release

By Liam Dawe, Jul 7, 2020

Destination Sol might not be a name known to all but it's a sweet little space exploration RPG that's free and open source, plus it's getting big updates.

VKD3D-Proton is the new official Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer for Proton

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2020

While the Proton compatibility layer already has DXVK for translating DirectX 9/10/11 into Vulkan, VKD3D-Proton has become the official version for translating Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan.

FOSS Linux game launcher 'Lutris' has a new bug-fix release out

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2020

It's free, it's open source and it helps you manage your thousand+ game library, a fresh update of the game launcher Lutris has arrived.

Charge Kid, a new open source platformer where each jump is a puzzle

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2020

Up for some more open source gaming fun? Charge Kid, released on June 30 is a platformer that makes you think about your jumps and turns every single one into a puzzle.

Arcade shooter with a massive skill tree 'BYTEPATH' goes open source

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2020

A few years after release, adnzzzzZ has released the source code for their crazy skill-tree arcade shooter BYTEPATH.

Proton GE compatibility layer has a big new release up

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2020

Proton GE, the community-built fork of the Proton compatibility layer for Linux has a big new release out.

Wine 5.12 is out - better RawInput and WebSocket API support

By Liam Dawe, Jul 3, 2020

The Wine compatibility layer continues progressing, with the latest development release Wine 5.12 out now.

Thief inspired FOSS stealth game The Dark Mod has a massive new release

By Liam Dawe, Jul 2, 2020

The Dark Mod, a free and open-source first-person stealth game inspired by the Thief series has a huge new release up.

Craft slick chiptune music for games or fun as FamiStudio adds Linux builds

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1, 2020

FamiStudio, a pretty fun looking program designed for people making chiptune music and NES homebrewers recently had a big new release and it came with their first Linux build.

Open source OpenXR runtime 'Monado' expands with multi-application support

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1, 2020

Monado is the in-development OpenXR runtime for VR / AR on Linux and Collabora continue to make excellent progress on bringing it up to eventually support more platforms and features.

Godot 4.0 will get SDF based real-time global illumination

By Liam Dawe, Jun 30, 2020

While we already briefly mentioned SDF based real-time global illumination was coming in our post on the recent Godot Engine 3.2.2 release, Godot's Juan Linietsky has now explained the upcoming feature in more detail.

OpenRA working to support C&C Remastered assets, Tiberian Sun work continues

By Liam Dawe, Jun 30, 2020

The team behind OpenRA have confirmed their continued commitment to working on the game engine to support Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on modern platforms.

Cadmus is a new Linux UI for managing microphone noise suppression

By Liam Dawe, Jun 29, 2020

Are your voice chat friends getting bothered by your fancy new loud mechanical keyboard? Or perhaps you're doing an audio recording and need everything in the background to shutup - enter Cadmus.

PSP emulator PPSSPP has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2020

Remember the PSP? The classic Sony handheld lives on thanks to open source with the PPSSPP emulator.

Godot Engine 3.2.2 is out with 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26, 2020

Godot Engine 3.2.2 is an update to the current latest stable branch of the open source game engine, which does pull in some big new features.

Classic and open source RTS 'Warzone 2100' has a new release

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25, 2020

Now this is a true classic I thoroughly enjoy seeing have a new life with open source! Warzone 2100, originally a commercial titles continues to evolve with a new release out now.

Vulkan support for older Raspberry Pi models is now a thing

By Liam Dawe, Jun 22, 2020

While work is underway officially to bring Vulkan API support to the Raspberry Pi 4, what about the older models? An NVIDIA engineer decided to get it done.

There's an app for that: use GOverlay to help configure MangoHud on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jun 20, 2020

Want to get started with the excellent Linux gaming overlay MangoHud? There's an app for that. A reminder of the wonderful GOverlay which just had a new release.