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FOSS game engine 'GDevelop' has another release out, lots of new shader effects

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

GDevelop is a wonderful up-and-coming free and open source game engine, allowing you to create games using visual event-based programming as opposed to typing everything out line-by-line.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.1 is out with tons of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

SuperTuxKart, one of the stalwarts of the open source gaming space has a fresh new release out with version 1.1.

Slay the Spire's fourth character to be released on January 14

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Slay the Spire, a fantastic deck-builder roguelike that's one of my personal favourites released last year is finally getting the fourth character out.

Police Stories gives you more chances to practice your tactics with custom missions

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2020

Mighty Morgan keep improving their tactical top-down shooter Police Stories, with an update landing last month adding in a Custom Mission mode.

Open Fodder, the open source game engine for Cannon Fodder has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Now this is some classic gaming. Cannon Fodder is a game I remember playing on the Amiga and it's being kept alive with a cross-platform open source game engine called Open Fodder.

The remaster of turn-based RPG 'Stoneshard: Prologue' is now available on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Stoneshard: Prologue acts as the demo for the upcoming Early Access release of Stoneshard, a tough turn-based RPG inspired by Diablo and classic roguelikes.

Deep open-world survival game Vintage Story adds a big new weather system

By Liam Dawe, 30 Dec 2019

It's getting a lot more difficult to hold myself back on that buy button on Vintage Story, with so many huge updates to it lately. Another is now in testing, adding in a big new weather system.

You can now play the machine generated AI Dungeon 2 in your browser easily

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

Recently we wrote about AI Dungeon 2, a text adventure game that has endless possibilities thanks to the fancy machine learning AI brain behind it and it's now seriously easy to play.

Co-op first-person RPG 'Barony' has a big update plus Legends & Pariahs DLC release

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

Up for some co-op first-person exploration? Barony is a good choice and just recently a big update and DLC went live.

Wine 5.0 has a third Release Candidate with a bunch of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 28 Dec 2019

A third tasty Release Candidate is out as the Wine team hack their way towards a huge new stable release with Wine 5.0 due next year.

Free and open source transport sim OpenTTD has a second Beta towards a big new version

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

OpenTTD is a true classic, building upon what Transport Tycoon Deluxe started and expanding it across more platforms and keeping it alive many years later.

The Legacy Update is live for Dead Cells, allowing you to play old versions plus saves get backups

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Much like what Hinterland did with The Long Dark's Time Capsule, you can now try out older versions of Dead Cells at any time if you dislike changes made over time.

Laminar Research readying Vulkan support for an upcoming public beta with X-Plane 11.50

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Release the Vulkans! Laminar Research are pushing forwards with their plan to upgrade X-Plane 11 with Vulkan support.

If you have an old NVIDIA 8 or 9 series GPU, there's a new Linux driver update out for you

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

While naturally a lot of the focus for a GPU vendor is on their latest and greatest, NVIDIA do still support many of their older GPUs on Linux.

Xen now out of Beta in Black Mesa, time to relive Half-Life plus a roadmap is up

By Liam Dawe, 27 Dec 2019

Shortly after drastically improving the performance in the Linux version, Crowbar Collective actually released the Xen chapter of Black Mesa out to everyone.

The new Shotgun Farmers limited time Hide & Freeze game mode is hilarious

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

The incredibly unique shooter Shotgun Farmers has a really amusing limited-time event going on, with a Hide & Freeze game mode now live.

Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, the classic open source RTS has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

After being made open source back in 2009, the absolute classic Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries lives on and another release is out now.

The second Release Candidate is out for Wine 5.0

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2019

The Wine hackers have produced their second Release Candidate for the upcoming stable release of Wine 5.0.

You can now take your collected monsters online for PvP duels in Monster Sanctuary

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2019

Monster Sanctuary is rapidly improving with a big update out now. The headline feature of this update is the ability to take your collection online to battle against others.