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Boxtron, the Steam Play tool to run games through a native DOSBox on Linux has a new release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 17, 2020

Boxtron is another awesome Steam Play tool! Covered here a few times now, like Proton it enables you to play games on Linux that don't have a Linux build setup on Steam only this is for DOSBox games.

Valve give a little more info on what 'Gamescope' actually does for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, Jan 16, 2020

Recently, a Valve developer revived steamcompmgr (the SteamOS compositing and window manager) and renamed it to Gamescope. After writing about it yesterday here on GOL, they've now given some more info on what it actually does.

Cortex Command has a Community Project that aims to keep the game alive

By Liam Dawe, Jan 15, 2020

Remember Cortex Command? Data Realms released a Linux build for the Humble Indie Bundle 2 in 2010, sadly the Linux version never really progressed much but since it was opened sourced last year it can live on and it is alive.

If you want to make some ASCII art, animations and games check out Playscii

By Liam Dawe, Jan 13, 2020

Playscii from developer JP LeBreton seems like a sweet open source application, giving you some handy tools for making ASCII art and it also acts as a game engine too.

Wine 5.0 has a fifth Release Candidate, getting real close to final now

By Liam Dawe, Jan 11, 2020

The 5.0 stable release of Wine is really closing in now, with a fifth Release Candidate being released today with some more bug fixes noted.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

By Liam Dawe, Jan 10, 2020

Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8, 2020

When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else so please send help.

Minigalaxy, the free and open source Linux client for GOG has a new release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8, 2020

Progressing quickly, Minigalaxy is becoming quite a nice streamlined Linux client for managing GOG games since GOG themselves don't yet support Galaxy on Linux.

Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project

By Liam Dawe, Jan 7, 2020

Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.

UnCiv, a free and open source remake of Civilization V

By Liam Dawe, Jan 7, 2020

What do you do when you want to keep the mechanics of a game you love alive? If you're developer Yair Morgenstern, you remake it yourself like they did with UnCiv.

Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up

By Liam Dawe, Jan 7, 2020

Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.

FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6, 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.1 is out with tons of improvements

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6, 2020

SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of the open source gaming space has a fresh new release out with version 1.1.

Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3, 2020

Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 2, 2020

Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.

You can now easily control the AMD Wraith Prism RGB colouring on Linux with CM-RGB

By Liam Dawe, Jan 2, 2020

Thanks to an open source project, you can now quite easily adjust the colouring on the fan of the AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine aiming for Vulkan support by 'mid 2020'

By Liam Dawe, Jan 2, 2020

Juan Linietsky, lead developer of the FOSS game engine Godot Engine has written a retrospective article while also going over future plans for Godot Engine.

devilutionX, an open source game engine for the original Diablo sees a big release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 2, 2020

devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.

Another progress report is up for RPCS3, the PlayStation 3 Emulator

By Liam Dawe, Dec 28, 2019

The volunteers behind the status updates of the PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 have a new report available, with RPCS3 now up to 1,431 titles playable which is amazing.