Category: Open Source

SpringRTS is an open source real time strategy game engine with lots of games available to play online or against AI bots.

Wildfire Games has released a new alpha of their open source real-time strategy game. Alpha 17 is titled ”Quercus” and contains numerous gameplay balance fixes and ability to place soldiers on top of walls among other things.

With the release of a new Linux kernel, gamers now have more controller options. With the release of the stable 3.17 kernel by Linus Torvalds, the Xbox One controller is now initially supported (without vibration) under Linux.

After more than a year in development, the real time strategy game Annex: Conquer the World 4.0 has now been released, boasting nearly twice the game content, including new armies, new modes of play, new maps, new tile-sets, and a much more refined gameplay. As of version 4.0 the game has now also been released under a FOSS license.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.28 bringing many new features and as many as 21 bugfixes.

Commander Keen in Keen Dreams a classic game from another era has been open sourced and is on github.

More driver improvements on the ever changing driver. Mesa 10.3 just came out and the results are in! Here's a look at how the open source driver for AMD GPU's is performing in games.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.27 bringing many new features and as many as 22 bugfixes.

Arena Vex, a remake of the popular Warcraft 3 map Warlock, has been officially released for Linux. Arena Vex is an online multiplayer knock-out arena with loads of intense action and tactical gameplay that’s great for LAN parties and competitive play.

Lutris is an interesting open source application to help you manage your games from different sources, and they have released a fresh batch of builds.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.26 bringing many new features and as many as 48 bugfixes.

Good news for any Unity3D developers! Ludosity has open sourced their Steamworks wrapper and made it free.

The third part in my articles on giving some limelight to open source games, this time I have a completely different set to show you!

Not major news, but good news nonetheless. Ioquake3 is the veaily modified engine that was originally used for the Quake III Arena game.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.25 bringing many new features and as many as 35 bugfixes.

The original Ace of Spades FPS game can now be played cross-platform and has some shiny new graphics.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.24 bringing many new features and as many as 44 bugfixes.

Unvanquished continues to get more beautiful and feature complete with the latest alpha to arrive. Time to take a look!

OpenRA is the excellent open source engine to allow you to play with the units & buildings from the Red Alert and Command & Conquer series of games. They have released their July engine version with some awesome additions.

Wine development team was able to produce a new experimental release today. 1.7.23 bringing many new features and as many as 42 bugfixes.