I thought it was about time I gave some limelight to some really great open source game engines that work on Linux, from official open source games to unofficial open source engines to allow you to run games on Linux that you couldn't normally!
Good news developers, Godot Engine is now open source for you to tinker with. Could this be a real alternative to Unity for developers who want to develop games directly on Linux?
BlastEm has released a new major update recently adding some highly needed features, it's always good to see old systems get preserved through emulators.
Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.12 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 89 bugfixes.
The Castle Doctrine a game of home defence and burglary that I showed you way back in April of 2013 and it has come a very long way since then, it has now found itself onto Steam.
With just over $1000 raised and less than $500 to go, only one week remains on the crowdfunding campaign to re-build the unique & unconventional FPS game "Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet" using a modern open-source cross-platform engine.
Developers introduced a new point release 1.7.11 of a development branch of Wine. While keeping with a two week release cycle, They were able to push out many new features and 46 bugfixes. It includes a preparation work for D3D command stream.
The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.28.0! This behemoth of a release includes many large features, such as Combat AI, Magic, Vampirism, terrain bump/specular/parallax mapping, and many other things. There's also a heap of bug fixes, many thanks to our relentless developers!
Wine developers have today released a maintenance version of Wine 1.6.2.
As it's only a minor update, it doesn't introduce any new functionality, except update to liblcms version 2, only various fixes including 36 fixed bugs.
Unvanquished is a fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements, pitting technologically advanced humans against hordes of highly adaptable aliens. The player can choose from either team, providing a fresh gameplay experience on both sides of the conflict.
Livestreaming is seriously a lot of fun and it's something I've wanted to do for a long time. Thanks to projects like FFmpeg and Libav you can also do that on Linux with relative ease, but little under a year ago I started my own project to make it even easier.
Terasology is an open-source survival and discovery game with influences from Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and Dungeon Keeper. The game is in a pre-alpha state, but it's already fun to play!
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of "0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris", the fifteenth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. This alpha features a multiplayer lobby, skirmish maps, auras and more!
The Open Source Command & Conquer: Red Alert project has just released a special christmas gift. A new stable release is available pre-packaged for multiple Linux distributions and also via Desura.
Two weeks after the last release, Wine developer pushed the version 1.7.8. It contains many new features and 27 bugfiexs including a fix for a recently updated Steam client (3rd December 2013).
