While a lot of people have likely moved onto the newer editions of games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale, GemRB is still being updated if you wish to play the originals on Linux.
The advanced open source game engine Godot has managed to secure funding from Enjin Coin, which should go a long way to wards hiring a second developer.
Wine 2.22 is now officially available as the latest development release on the road to the official Wine 3.0 release.
The free and open source racing game SuperTuxKart has officially released 0.9.3 which comes with a number of improvements.
Alex Smith of Feral has been granted the right to push code into Mesa, a continuing sign of the commitment of Feral to Mesa and Vulkan.
Heard of Zero-K? It's an open source RTS that uses the Spring RTS Engine and it's actually pretty good. They're going to release it on Steam, with a campaign currently under development.
With the release of the source code to both Doom 3 and the later BFG Edition, there now exists three options for Linux users wanting to play the game. Having gone through Doom 3 again, I decided it was time for me to compare them and give my thoughts on both the game and which of the three versions are best for Linux users in 2017.
Open source racing game SuperTuxKart has release 0.9.3 RC1 they're calling the 'Halloween Update'. Sounds like progress is going well!
Another open source game engine has been advancing recently, this time it's openage, the game engine for playing games like Age of Empires, Age of Empires II (HD) and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.
Another classic game is getting closer to being fully playable natively on Linux. The project to recreate The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall in the Unity engine has hit an important milestone and now the the main quest is completely playable.
For fans of the classic first-person dungeon crawlers, Ebony Spire: Heresy looks like it might scratch the itch.
OpenMW, the open source Morrowind game engine continues advancing with recent blog posts highlighting some changes sounding rather great.
DwarfCorp allows you to take on an expedition of dwarves looking to make it big in untamed lands. I gave this Early Access title a look to see how it’s shaping up.
OpenRA, the fantastic open source game engine to run games like Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 has a new release today.
Following on from the OpenGL shader cache, RADV the open source Vulkan driver for AMD cards can also now make use of a shader cache.
This is awesome. Argentum Age is an open source collectible card game that supports both singleplayer and multiplayer.
SC Controller is the rather fantastic open source configuration tool for the Steam Controller, only now it's expanding to cover more gamepads.
It's been quite a while since SpringRTS had a new release and it's been a long time since I played it, but it's good to see that it's alive.
TIC-80, a 'fantasy computer' for making, playing and sharing tiny games is now officially open source under the MIT license.
DwarfCorp, an open source fantasy real-time strategy game finally has a proper public release, it's now in Early Access.