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xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve

By Liam Dawe, May 8, 2020

Today the hackers over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.

Castle Game Engine looking to improve gamepad support thanks to SDL2

By Liam Dawe, May 7, 2020

Castle Game Engine might not be as well known as other free and open source game engines, however it does look rather useful and the developers continue to pull in improvements.

Get immersed in a classic MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) with Mudlet

By Liam Dawe, May 7, 2020

Open source, free and cross-platform is what we like to see here. Sometimes we cover some real classic gaming too and today we're talking a bit about entering a MUD with Mudlet.

dosbox-staging, a 'soft' forking of DOSBox to work on advanced features has a first release

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2020

DOSBox is about to get more advanced, with the community-made 'soft' fork dosbox-staging have a first proper release out.

RetroArch 1.8.6 is out with Savestate Compression, 3DS improvements and plenty of fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 6, 2020

The RetroArch team have put up another fresh release of their front-end for emulators, game engines and more. RetroArch 1.8.6 comes with some big new tricks.

Software news: Inkscape finally hits 1.0 and Krita 4.3.0 gets a first Beta

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2020

Two big bits of software news for artists to share today as two major bits of FOSS software have big new versions up with Inkscape and Krita.

You can now use the Discord Overlay on Linux thanks to a new community project

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2020

Once again the developer community is picking up the slack where the official stuff isn't working on Linux. This time it's the turn of the Discord Overlay.

Linux gaming overlay 'MangoHud' improves OpenGL support, better NVIDIA detection and more

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2020

MangoHud has firmly filled a hole in tools available for Linux gamers, benchmarking and more. A handy HUD that works across OpenGL and Vulkan games and a fresh build went up.

Endless Sky, a free and open source space trading & combat game expands with a new update

By Liam Dawe, May 4, 2020

Endless Sky, a free and open source classic 2D space game continues expanding with the first stable release in quite some time.

Classic Westwood strategy games live on as 'OpenRA' has a new major stable release

By Liam Dawe, May 3, 2020

OpenRA, the excellent free and open source RTS game engine for playing classic Westwood titles has a huge new release finally out as stable today.

FNA 20.05 (XNA4 reimplementation) is out with a brand new 3D graphics library 'FNA3D'

By Liam Dawe, May 1, 2020

Ethan Lee, porter of many games to Linux (and macOS) and the creator of the XNA4 reimplementation FNA today announced the release of FNA 20.05 and a brand new 3D graphics library FNA3D.

Open-source OpenXR runtime for Linux 'Monado' gets an improved compositor - runs Blender VR

By Liam Dawe, Apr 30, 2020

Those crazy-smart folks over at Collabora have continued hacking away on Monado, a fully open source OpenXR (VR / AR standard) runtime for Linux. Now it's progressed quite far and it can run Blender VR.

If you have the retro gaming itch RetroPie 4.6 is out with support for the Raspberry Pi 4

By Liam Dawe, Apr 30, 2020

Ah the Raspberry Pi, a seriously cool and highly versatile little device and a perfect way to build a retro gaming station with the power of Linux thanks to projects like RetroPie.

Missing out on VibranceGUI for Linux? There's a project for that and now a fork for AMD too

By Liam Dawe, Apr 29, 2020

VibranceGUI, a program on Windows that adjusts the colouring of your games as it's sent to your screen is quite popular and there's a similar project available for Linux. Now it's also not just for NVIDIA.

Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2020

The Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution, Fedora, has a brand new release today with Fedora 32 showing off some of the latest of what open source has to offer.

Free first-person shooter 'Tomatenquark' releasing soon based on Cube 2: Sauerbraten

By Liam Dawe, Apr 28, 2020

Coming soon to Steam Early Access, Tomatenquark is another attempt to revive a classic free and open source first-person shooter.

Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe, Apr 27, 2020

While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.

Open-source graphics rendering engine 'OGRE' has a major new release up

By Liam Dawe, Apr 27, 2020

OGRE, a classic open source graphics rendering engine has a major new release available and the first big release in some time.

Open source PS4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' major release up with VA-API support

By Liam Dawe, Apr 27, 2020

Giving you another way to enjoy your games from various sources on Linux, the free and open source PlayStation 4 Remote Play client 'Chiaki' has a new major update.

Collabora continue expanding the FOSS 'Panfrost' driver to cover Mali Bifrost GPUs

By Liam Dawe, Apr 23, 2020

Some interesting open source GPU driver news to share today, as Collabora continue working on their open source Panfrost driver to cover newer generations of Mali ARM GPUs.

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