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FNA 20.09 is out with the new FNA3D, brings experimental Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe,
A big day for the FNA project, as they've released a massive new release which pulls in FNA3D, the new modern and much more advanced 3D graphics library for FNA.

ScummVM 2.2.0 is coming soon, developers need help testing

By Liam Dawe,
With the next release of ScummVM upcoming, the team have put out a call to arms for helping testing a bunch of new titles that will be supported with ScummVM 2.2.0.

Event-driven FOSS game engine GDevelop adds dynamic 2D lights, more features

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source game engine and editor GDevelop continues maturing, with new features constantly being pulled it to make it more powerful.

Open source 3D creation suite 'Blender' has a major new release

By Liam Dawe,
Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite continues going from strength to strength, with a brand new release out now. Let's go over the highlights.

Ludo is a new sleek front-end for Libretro, as an alternative to RetroArch

By Liam Dawe,
If you find the RetroArch a little overwhelming and want something different as a front-end for Libretro, have a look at the newly announced Ludo.

Wine compatibility layer sees a 5.16 development release

By Liam Dawe,
Released just before the weekend began, the Wine team have put out the 5.16 development release as they continue chasing Windows compatibility.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart has a big 1.2 release out

By Liam Dawe,
The classic FLOSS racing game returns with more enhancements, as SuperTuxKart now has the 1.2 release officially available. Here's a run over the highlights and what's new.

Recording and livestreaming software OBS Studio has a major new build in testing

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and pretty essential for anyone doing livestreaming and/or recording videos on Linux; OBS Studio has a new Release Candidate out for testing.

Ventoy is my new favourite tool for Linux distro-hopping

By Liam Dawe,
Do you distro-hop on Linux often? Ventoy might be the tool you're looking for and it's quite possibly my new best friend.

Make retro Game Boy games with the open source GB Studio, now with colour in the 2.0 Beta

By Liam Dawe,
GB Studio is a free and open source retro adventure game creator that allows you to visually make games that can work cross-platform on Linux, macOS, Windows…and the Game Boy.

Linux Steering Wheel manager 'Oversteer' has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Have a Steering Wheel that you need to tweak on Linux for your favourite racing games? Oversteer can help with that a lot and a new release is up.

Ubisoft renews their funding commitment to Blender

By Liam Dawe,
The good news for the open source application Blender just keeps flowing, after Unity announced their support for funding Blender only recently, now Ubisoft will be continuing with their funding as they've renewed their relationship with Blender.

PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword now runs in RPCS3 emulator

By Liam Dawe,
The people working on RPCS3 sure do some amazing work, this PlayStation 3 emulator is truly the stuff of dreams for game preservation and another big title is now playable.

Blender pulls in another funding partner with Unity

By Liam Dawe,
Joining many other companies that seemingly woke up to actually supporting free and open source software, Unity has now pledged funding towards Blender.

NVIDIA and accelerated Xwayland gets closer with code that 'sounds unpleasant'

By Liam Dawe,
Red Hat developer Adam Jackson has opened a new merge request for the Mesa project, with what they're calling GLX Delay, to bring accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver.

Baldur's Gate engine remake GemRB celebrates 20 years with a new release

By Liam Dawe,
GemRB, a fine example of an open source game engine reimplementation for the Infinity Engine that powered the classic RPGs including Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment games celebrates two big things.

Five years later, free and open source DDraceNetwork is now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
DDraceNetwork, originally just a mod for the platform shooter Teeworlds that eventually spawned its own game is now up and free on Steam.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.5.1 released

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to be the go-to for people needing a good HUD while gaming, MangoHud has a new release up.

Powerful Linux video editor Kdenlive gets a huge new release

By Liam Dawe,
Promising to be more stable and feature-filled, the Linux video editor Kdenlive has a massive new release out.

Roguelike shoot 'em up Good Robot is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
Fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up Good Robot released in 2016 from Pyrodactyl has now had the code opened up under the MIT license.
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