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Quadrilateral Cowboy, Thirty Flights of Loving & Gravity Bone all now on GitHub

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2020

BLENDO Games have today put three more of their previous titles up on GitHub as open source. These are Quadrilateral Cowboy, Thirty Flights of Loving and Gravity Bone.

Open source shape-factory building sim shapez.io is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2020

After discovering shapez.io on the game store itch.io recently, and finding out it was open source, I fell a little in love with the idea and now it's on Steam.

Morrowind lives on with a major new OpenMW release out

By Liam Dawe, Jun 15, 2020

Morrowind is a much loved RPG classic and thanks to open source it continues living on modern platforms with OpenMW.

Godot Engine 3.2.2 RC 1 is out towards a feature-packed release

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13, 2020

Godot Engine is progressing and getting close to a new release with Godot 3.2.2 and it's going to be quite feature-filled with a new Release Candidate ready for testing.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud levels up with a new release

By Liam Dawe, Jun 11, 2020

MangoHud has become the go-to Linux gaming overlay for us and from comments we've seen, a lot of other people too. It continues to get better!

GZDoom 4.4.0 is out and the last to have 32bit builds

By Liam Dawe, Jun 10, 2020

GZDoom, the extremely versatile and very popular open source enhanced Doom game engine has a big new release out and they're going to drop 32bit support.

Supply Chain is a free game about understanding just-in-time supply chains

By Liam Dawe, Jun 9, 2020

Supply Chain, a free and open source game developed to hopefully generate some thought and discussion about supply chains and their issues.

FOSS game engine GDevelop gets a sweet new dark theme

By Liam Dawe, Jun 8, 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful free and open source game engine, one that's cross-platform and it continues to get more powerful. It also has theme support with a new dark theme landing that looks great.

Open source Panfrost driver for modern Mali GPUs expands OpenGL support

By Liam Dawe, Jun 8, 2020

Collabora have written up a post about their recent work on the Panfrost driver, a free and open source driver for powering modern Mali GPUs found in many devices.

Interviewed - Veloren, an upcoming FOSS multiplayer voxel RPG

By Liam Dawe, Jun 5, 2020

Today we have something a bit special for you, an interview with one of the team working to produce the free and open source multiplayer voxel RPG named Veloren.

FOSS transport building sim OpenTTD adds official Ubuntu 20.04 packages

By Liam Dawe, Jun 5, 2020

Want to jump into the latest version of OpenTTD and you're on the latest Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? Good news, they now have some official packages setup for it.

KeeperRL Alpha 30 adds Gnomes and enemies that steal your lair

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4, 2020

Michał Brzozowski, developer of long-running roguelike KeeperRL, announced the release of the Alpha 30 and it's big with some seriously fun sounding features.

Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH new release in testing

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4, 2020

CorsixTH is a brilliant free and open source game engine for Theme Hospital, enabling it to play smoothly on modern systems and other improvements.

AMD Wattman-like open source app CoreCtrl adds NAVI support

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4, 2020

CoreCtrl, a free and open source Linux app that's been compared to AMD's official Wattman has a brand new release out.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin to officially launch in February 2021

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4, 2020

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, another popular retro-FPS throwback from KillPixel and 3D Realms now finally has a release date of February 25, 2021.

Blender 2.83 is out as the first ever LTS, gains initial VR support

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4, 2020

Long-term support has come to Blender with the release of 2.83, meaning teams can stick to it for two years without major breakage worries or changes to their flow.

shapez.io, an open source factory building sim about making shapes

By Liam Dawe, Jun 3, 2020

Inspired by Factorio, we have another base-building factory sim with shapez.io and the beauty of it is that it's open source under the GPL.

EA open sources code from Command & Conquer Remastered Collection

By Liam Dawe, Jun 1, 2020

As they said they would late last month, it appears Electronic Arts have gone ahead and uploaded some of the source code for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.