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The deep roguelike Tales of Maj'Eyal has a big update out now, new DLC on the way

By Liam Dawe, Oct 25, 2019

The free and open source roguelike Tales of Maj'Eyal just had a huge update for everyone, with a lot more to come.

Embark Studios, AMD and Adidas are all now supporting Blender development

By Liam Dawe, Oct 23, 2019

The team behind the free and open source 3D creation suite, Blender, are once again celebrating as they've managed to secure even more funding from some interesting names.

Rapid Rescue, a new little open source local multiplayer strategy game made in Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe, Oct 23, 2019

How do you like your news in the morning? I like mine open source with coffee. Today, a game called Rapid Rescue came across the GOL news-desk built with Godot Engine.

Another OpenRA preview build is up needing testing, Tiberian Sun support is coming along

By Liam Dawe, Oct 22, 2019

Work continues on the open source game engine OpenRA which allows you to play Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on Linux and other modern platforms with support for Tiberian Sun progressing well.

vkBasalt, an open source Vulkan post processing layer for Contrast Adaptive Sharpening

By Liam Dawe, Oct 21, 2019

This is an interesting open source project! vkBasalt is a new Vulkan post processing layer that currently supports Contrast Adaptive Sharpening.

Need an easy way to manage a Linux game server? LinuxGSM is great and recently passed 100 supported titles

By Liam Dawe, Oct 21, 2019

A project that perhaps isn't as well known as it should be: LinuxGSM makes managing Linux game servers easy and they recently hit a fun milestone.

Boxtron, the Steam Play compatibility tool for DOSBox brings more improvements in another update

By Liam Dawe, Oct 21, 2019

The Speedy Staging 0.5.3 of Boxtron is out, further improving this Steam Play compatibility tool for DOSBox gaming on Linux.

DXVK 1.4.3 released helping games with a large number of different shaders

By Liam Dawe, Oct 18, 2019

No doubt some of our readers will be in for a busy weekend testing, with another release of DXVK now officially available.

Roguelike dungeon simulator 'KeeperRL' expands modding and adds Steam Workshop support

By Liam Dawe, Oct 17, 2019

Sometimes you just want to be an evil wizard, build a dungeon and look after some imps. KeeperRL lets you do just that and it just had a big new update with much better modding support.

Chiaki, the open source and cross-platform PS4 Remote Play client now supports the PS4 7.0 update

By Liam Dawe, Oct 14, 2019

Sony recently upgraded the system software on the PlayStation 4 which broke compatibility with the open source Remote Play client Chiaki. The developer acted quickly and a new release is up.

The GTA: San Andreas remake in Unity has a new release out

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11, 2019

SanAndreasUnity, an open source remake of the game engine for GTA: San Andreas that aims to be cross-platform has a new release out, with better Linux support included.

Pegasus Frontend, the customizable open source graphical game launcher has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11, 2019

Pegasus Frontend is certainly promising, an open source graphical game launcher you can use across Linux, MacOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, Android and more.

GGPO, a rollback networking SDK for peer-to-peer games has gone open source

By Liam Dawe, Oct 9, 2019

Oh how I do love to see more projects go open source! GGPO, a rollback networking SDK for peer-to-peer games that's designed to help hide network latency in fast-paced games that requires precise inputs is now on GitHub.

Using the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux just got a whole lot easier with streamdeck_ui

By Liam Dawe, Oct 9, 2019

If you're a livestreamer, video creator or anything like that then the Elgato Stream Deck seems like an incredible useful bit of kit. However, it doesn't have official Linux support. Not so much a problem now.

Looking to make 2D games? Perhaps the Orx game engine might be suitable for you

By Liam Dawe, Oct 9, 2019

One we've never covered before at all is the free and open source Orx. A lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine.

OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena

By Liam Dawe, Oct 8, 2019

A fun open source game engine project we've not covered here before is OpenTESArena, an open source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena and it just had a new release.

The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7, 2019

Following on from Ubisoft and Epic Games becoming Blender sponsors, NVIDIA have also thrown a bucketful of money into the ring.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine 3.2 Alpha released

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7, 2019

With months of development behind them, Godot Engine 3.2 hits the first Alpha release with a ton of new and improved features for this FOSS game engine.

Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust

By Liam Dawe, Oct 4, 2019

Move over Cube World, there's a new open source voxel RPG in town under development called Veloren and it supports Linux too so there's a bonus point for you.