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Voxatron Becomes A Fantasy Console & A Game

By Liam Dawe, Mar 29, 2014

Do you remember Voxatron? You don't? Well Voxatron is currently in alpha and it was part of a Humble Bundle named "The Humble Voxatron Debut!". Much has changed since then.

Valve Publishes Their SteamOS Mesa Patched Branch On Github

By Liam Dawe, Mar 29, 2014

Valve have now put up their patched branch of Mesa that they use for SteamOS on github for all to see.

Leadwerks Game Creation Toolkit Arrives On Linux This Monday!

By Liam Dawe, Mar 29, 2014

Leadwerks the fantastic looking game creation toolkit is due to arrive on Linux on Monday. Josh Klint announced on kickstarter last night.

V-Play Game Engine Supports Linux, Uses Qt Creator IDE

By Liam Dawe, Mar 28, 2014

Another game engine highlight for you today, this time it is V-Play a 2D game engine that enables you to code once for many platforms.

Natural Selection 2's Direct3D HLSL to OpenGL GLSL Parser Open Sourced

By Liam Dawe, Mar 28, 2014

In another win for open-source the developers behind Natural Selection 2 have opened up the code they use to parse HLSL calls into OpenGL's GLSL.

Support 'Game Develop' To Make Ubuntu A First Class Citizen For Its Game Toolkit

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23, 2014

Game Develop is an interesting bit of kit, as it's like GameMaker, Clickteam's Fusion and Scirra's Construct 2 in the way of letting you create games without programming. They need funding to make their Ubuntu support better.

Maratis Another Open-Source Game Engine

By Liam Dawe, Mar 23, 2014

Move over Godot, you aren't the only open-source game engine in town. Maratis is also free and open source!

Esenthel Next-Gen Game Engine, Supports Linux

By Liam Dawe, Mar 22, 2014

With all the talk of game engines giving Linux support recently, here is another. Esenthel game engine classes itself as a "Next-Gen" game engine with advanced features.

NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains, With Slides

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21, 2014

Well this is mighty fine, seems the big guns have teamed up on this one to talk about performance gains in OpenGL.

Valve's Vogl OpenGL Debugger Now Supports Steam's Big Picture Mode

By Liam Dawe, Mar 20, 2014

A chance for Valve to really improve their own software, as their Vogl OpenGL debugger now supports debugging their Big Picture mode.

Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Development Kit 2 Announced

By Liam Dawe, Mar 20, 2014

Oculus has announced their second generation VR development kit with many improvements, it's closer to what the retail release will be.

Crytek Aren't Taking Any Prisoners, Announcing CRYENGINE As A Service

By Liam Dawe, Mar 19, 2014

So, with Unity upgrades costing a small fortune and Epic Games releasing Unreal Engine 4 for a monthly fee, Crytek has one-upped them both by "doing an Epic" and announced CRYENGINE for $9.90/9.90EUR a month under-cutting Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine 4 Announced With Linux Support Including The Editor, Source Code Access & More!

By Liam Dawe, Mar 19, 2014

So, this is massive news and yet another reason why games not having a Linux version should become a thing of the past. Epic Games has announced Unreal Engine 4 with Linux support and not just in exporting, the toolkit will be native too.

Epic Games & Mozilla Give Sneak Peak At Unreal Engine 4 In The Browser

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2014

Mozilla have been busy haven't they, they are now working with Unity3D on an WebGL exporter while they have also been working with Epic Games to port Unreal Engine 4 to the web!

Flash Is Dying, Long Live OpenFL

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2014

Lars Doucet, the developer of Defenders Quest has written an interesting blog post about Flash and his thoughts on Flash dying.

Unity 5 Announced With WebGL Exporting, Will They Fix Linux Mouse Woes?

By Liam Dawe, Mar 18, 2014

So, Unity 5 is now a thing, I hear the sound of many developers who recently purchased version 4 crying out in horror at having to pay to upgrade so soon. Looks like a lot of new goodies for developers!

Valve's Vogl OpenGL Debugger Now Works On AMD's Drivers

By Liam Dawe, Mar 15, 2014

Valve's Rich Geldreich has been busy, he has now fixed a number of issues that where driver specific to AMD, allowing the debugger to work for AMD now too.