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A new OpenRA test build is up for classic RTS action, with more single-player mission support

By Liam Dawe, Mar 30, 2020

The incredible people hacking away on OpenRA have a new test build up to provide a better experience playing Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000 on modern systems.

The RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 game engine 'OpenRCT2' has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 25, 2020

Ready to jump back into a classic? OpenRCT2, the free and open source game engine for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on modern systems has a fresh release up.

Collabora partnered with Microsoft to get OpenGL and OpenCL on DirectX

By Liam Dawe, Mar 24, 2020

A very interesting use of open source in action here from the incredibly smart team over at Collabora who teamed up with Microsoft engineers to get OpenGL and OpenCL via DirectX.

The big Stadia round-up from the 'Google for Games Keynote' - Splash Damage exclusive, open source and more

By Liam Dawe, Mar 24, 2020

Recently, Google held an online Google for Games Keynote and quite a lot of new information came out of it including new games to come to Stadia.

If you have problems with the Paradox Launcher, there's now an open source alternative

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23, 2020

Cities: Skylines, Stellaris and more now use the Paradox Launcher and for quite a lot of people it has caused some problems. Now, there's an alternative.

RetroArch 1.8.5 is out replacing the XMB UI with Ozone plus lots of bug fixing

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23, 2020

RetroArch is a wonderful and expansive front-end for tons of emulators and other gaming engines, it's just had a fresh release that entirely replaces the user interface.

DXVK the D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer 1.6 update out

By Liam Dawe, Mar 20, 2020

DXVK, the almighty translation layer that takes D3D 9/10/11 and spits out Vulkan, that paired up with Wine allows many Windows-only games to perform will on Linux has a new update out.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud and the GOverlay app for managing it both have new releases up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 19, 2020

MangoHud, the awesome Linux overlay for OpenGL and Vulkan games has another new release. GOverlay, the FOSS application designed to make configuring MangoHud easy has also been refreshed.

Death and Taxes goes open source after selling 'pretty well' to help others

By Liam Dawe, Mar 19, 2020

Death and Taxes, a narrative game about choosing who lives and who dies as the Grim Reaper is now officially open source.

BStone, a source port for Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Planet Strike adds a new OpenGL renderer

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2020

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold and Blake Stone: Planet Strike, two classics from the 90s have been revived thanks to the BStone open source game engine that continue seeing big updates.

OBS Studio 25.0 is out with lots of new features for video creators

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2020

The free and open source video livestreaming and capture software, OBS Studio, has a brand new release now available with lots of new goodies to play with.

vkBasalt the Vulkan post processing layer for Linux has a new release up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 16, 2020

Need to add some fancy effects to your Linux games? vkBasalt can help with that and a brand new release is now up.

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin engine source code released - a quick look

By Samsai, Mar 15, 2020

The developers of Wrath: Aeon of Ruin, an FPS game built on the Darkplaces engine, have seemingly been a bit sneaky and released the source code to their engine fork with little fanfare on GitHub.

MangoHud, the excellent Linux overlay layer adds OpenGL support in addition to Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, Mar 14, 2020

A huge update for the Linux overlay layer, MangoHud, as it can now work with OpenGL games in addition to Vulkan making it many times more useful and awesome.

GOverlay, the open source Linux app for managing overlays is progressing quickly

By Liam Dawe, Mar 13, 2020

GOverlay, the open source Linux application which currently works to help you really easily configure MangoHud has progressed quickly since the initial release.

A sweet new build of 'Minigalaxy' is out for easy GOG game managing on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Mar 11, 2020

No GOG Galaxy? Not so much of a problem right now with handy open source apps like Minigalaxy and a big new release is up.

HyperRogue the fascinating and confusing non-Euclidean puzzle-roguelike has a big update

By Liam Dawe, Mar 10, 2020

HyperRogue might just melt your mind if you try to understand it, and it remains as one of the most unique puzzle-roguelike games around due to the non-Euclidean features.

GOverlay - a new open source Linux app for managing overlays like MangoHud

By Liam Dawe, Mar 10, 2020

With the Vulkan API making the creation of Linux gaming overlays like MangoHud easier, having a way to manage them without editing a configuration file would be sweet - enter GOverlay.

Diablo on Linux levels up again with a new devilutionX release

By Liam Dawe, Mar 9, 2020

Diablo on Linux. Sound familiar? Well, we only just recently talked about Freeablo and now devilutionX has a brand new release made available for this classic.

Freeablo, a modern cross-platform open source game engine for the original Diablo

By Liam Dawe, Mar 7, 2020

Diablo is a classic and it can live on forever thanks to open source. Freeablo is a cross-platform free and open source game engine and it just had a massive update.

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