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RetroArch is getting hardware video decoding, manual content scanning and more

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2019

The team behind the RetroArch front-end used with emulators, game engines and media players have announced that it will be getting proper hardware accelerated video decoding soon.

vkBasalt, the Vulkan post-processing layer has another new release with new effects

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2019

Adding a little extra visual enhancement to games on Linux is getting more interesting, with the help of the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt which has a new build up.

Epic Games have awarded the FOSS game manager Lutris with an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2019

The Lutris team announced yesterday that Epic Games have now awarded them a sum of money from the Epic MegaGrants pot.

The Wine 4.21 development release is now available

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2019

They say Wine improves with age, well my puns certainly don't get any better so you can relax as this week I'm all out of juice for the release of Wine 4.21.

Lutris game manager 0.5.4 released with Python 3.8 support and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe, 28 Nov 2019

Managing games across multiple stores, emulators and compatibility layers doesn't need to be a hassle. Lutris takes the majority of that annoyance away and a big new release is now available.

The second Beta of Godot Engine 3.2 is out with more WebAssembly work

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2019

Just over two weeks after the first, the second Beta for the big upcoming Godot Engine 3.2 release is now available.

Godot Engine has a new Platinum sponsor with gambling game dev Interblock

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2019

Good news for Godot Engine, as they have another company supporting their work on the free and open source game engine.

Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt has a new release up with SMAA support

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2019

Continuing to boost the feature set of the post-processing layer for vkBasalt, a new release is up and it appears we missed a few smaller in-between releases too.

DXVK 1.4.5 released bringing further performance improvements for D3D11 and D3D10 to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2019

DXVK continues maturing with another exciting sounding release now available with DXVK 1.4.5, bringing in some performance improvements and plenty of bug fixes.

Time to play some classic Command & Conquer as OpenRA has a huge fresh stable release out

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2019

OpenRA, the free and open source game engine to bring classic Command & Conquer titles like Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Dune 2000 and eventually Tiberian Sun to modern systems has a big new release up.

SamRewritten is an open source Steam Achievements Manager for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 19 Nov 2019

Want an easy way to view, lock and unlock Steam Achievements on Linux? SamRewritten seems like a very handy application to do all of that and more.

Don't blaze it too hard for the release of Wine 4.20

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2019

Wine, that wonderful software that enables you to run Windows-only software on games on Linux has a new release out with Wine 4.20. Nice.

Red Eclipse 2 is a revamp of the classic free arena shooter coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2019

I will admit this is quite a surprise, Red Eclipse is a first-person shooter I haven't seen mentioned in a long time and it seems they're closing in on a big revamped release with Red Eclipse 2.

The first Beta of Godot Engine 3.2 has been released

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2019

The team behind the FOSS game engine, Godot Engine, have now released the first Beta in the 3.2 series so the full release is coming close now with lots of new goodies for game developers.

Godot Engine continues advancing Vulkan support, adopts new Code of Conduct

By Liam Dawe, 4 Nov 2019

The team behind the free and open source game engine, Godot Engine, have another progress report to share on Vulkan support coming to Godot Engine 4.0. Plus, they have a new Code of Conduct.

Our Wine release day puns are always in pour taste so none today for Wine 4.19

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2019

Wine, the glorious bit of software that enables people to use Windows applications and various Windows-only games on Linux has another new bottle opened up.

The Khronos Group has launched a unified samples repository for Vulkan learning

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Today, The Khronos Group announced their newest Vulkan initiative with the Unified Samples Repository. A new place to find what they say are high-quality Vulkan code samples reviewed by their team.

FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' integrates the Yarn Dialogue editor in the latest build

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Creating dialogue in your games with GDevelop just got a lot more advanced, as the team have integrated the Yarn Dialogue editor into their FOSS game engine.

The classic FOSS run and gun action game C-Dogs SDL just had a big new release

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

It's not just OpenTTD having a new release lately, as the seriously classic C-Dogs SDL also has a big new build to run and gun through.

FOSS building sim OpenTTD based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe has a new test release

By Liam Dawe, 31 Oct 2019

Based on the absolute classic Transport Tycoon Deluxe, the free and open source OpenTTD has a major new release build out that's in need of some testing.

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