Infinity Engine replacement GemRB 0.9.2 improves Planescape: Torment support

GemRB is a free and open source game engine reimplementation for Infinity Engine games including Baldur’s Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale 1 and more.

The Khronos Group seeking paid devs to work on OpenXR runtime Monado

The Khronos Group who oversee various standards like OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenXR announced recently they've put up a "Request for Proposals" to fund work on Monado.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine gets upgraded

Another fresh release went out recently for The Force Engine, a rebuilt game engine to play STAR WARS - Dark Forces and eventually Outlaws nicely on modern systems.

Amazon Games support is coming soon to Heroic Games Launcher

The Heroic Games Launcher currently supports GOG, Epic Games and manual side-loading but Amazon Games support is also being worked on.

Free sandbox game inspired by Minecraft 'MineClone2' v0.84 is out now

MineClone2 continues getting better and better as a free and open source replacement of Minecraft, with version 0.84 out now. Here's a run over what's new and improved.

Fedora considering adding in 'privacy-preserving' telemetry

Quite a controversial topic currently floating around is that a change proposal has been made for Fedora Workstation 40 to have some "privacy-preserving" telemetry to "enable limited data collection of anonymous Fedora Workstation usage metrics".

Meta announced 'IGL', a high-performance cross-platform graphics library

Available under the MIT license, Meta (as in Facebook) have released IGL (Intermediate Graphics Library) for developers.

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink

Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Godot Engine 4.1 brings a detachable script editor, Vulkan pipeline cache

Godot 4.1 has been released today for game developers who want a cross-platform free and open source game engine. Bringing with it plenty of new features.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.1 improves Heroic Games Launcher support

ProtonUp-Qt is the app that allows you to install the likes of GE-Proton, Wine-GE, Luxtorpeda and more for Steam, Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher and Boxtron.

Morrowind modern game engine OpenMW 0.48 is readying to release

A first round of Release Candidates are finally here for the Morrowind game engine OpenMW v0.48, a free and open source reimplementation that aims to make Morrowind feel a lot better on modern platforms.

Evolution sim Thrive v0.6.3 gives a glimpse of the future

Free, open source and scientific! Thrive is an in-development evolution sim, with a new release out now adding in some more big prototypes for later-life stages.

Multiplayer voxel RPG 'Veloren' v0.15 is out adding the first world boss

Free, open source and continuing to expand! Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Version 0.15 is out now and sounds fun.

Part 4 of the Wine work for Wayland is now merged

The fourth part of an ongoing series of submission to Wine to get full Wayland support has been merged in.

AMD RADV gets feature to help emulation and translation layers

Some fun news for AMD GPU owners with the open source RADV (Vulkan) Mesa driver, as it recently gained support for fragment shader interlock. This will be useful for emulation and translation layers.

Blender v3.6 is out now as a new long-term support release

Showing many companies how open source can be seriously successful, Blender version 3.6 is out now and it's a long-term support release so it would be good to upgrade and stick with it for a while.

Open source Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH v0.67 gets a first Beta

Oh goodie, goodbye again free time. Remember the classic Theme Hospital? CorsixTH is a free, open source and cross-platform game engine to keep it looking good on modern systems and a new release is getting close.

Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming

Valve clearly still have plenty of big ambitions for Linux gaming and Steam Deck, and as it turns out recently they pulled in yet another developer to work on open source graphics drivers.

The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well

A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.

Linux kernel 6.4 is out now

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.4 and with it, lots and lots of new features and fixes.

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Linux Mint 21.2 gets a Beta release

Linux Mint 21.2 is getting close to release now with a Beta available for testing across their Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktop environments.

Classic open source FPS Xonotic 0.8.6 released with new game modes

Xonotic 0.8.6 is an essential upgrade for anyone playing this classic free and open source arena shooter, due to a security issue but there's also plenty of new features and additions.

SDL 2.28.0 released and goes into maintenance mode, now focusing on SDL 3

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a ross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware used by a great many companies and SDL 2 is now pretty much finished.

AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware

AMD is moving even further into open source, with their plans to have openSIL replace AGESA for their processors and they've now put up the initial open source code on GitHub.

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Wine 8.9 released with more PE work, Mono 8.0 and more Wayland updates

The latest biweekly development release for the Windows translation tool Wine is out, Wine 8.9 as usual brings new features and fixes that will eventually make their way into Steam Play Proton.

Modrinth make their own launcher for Minecraft modders

Modrinth, the open source modding platform that's gaining popularity, has now announced the first Alpha build of their own launcher to make modding easier for Minecraft fans.

Wine and Wayland take another step closer with more code merged

The ongoing work bit by bit to get Wine and Wayland to fully work together on Linux has taken another step, with a third big merge request accepted.

Fedora Onyx voted in as a new official Fedora Linux immutable variant

Much like Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite, and Fedora Sericea there's going to be a new immutable version of Fedora coming called Fedora Onyx.

Help fund Fish Folk, an ever-growing bundle of open source multiplayer games

Fish Folk is an in-development and constantly growing bundle of multiplayer games. All open source and they want your help to grow bigger and better.

This Unity to Godot importer has me a little excited

There's a lot to be interested and excited about when it comes to Godot Engine, the free and open source game engine and now Unity game devs may want to keep watch.

Comet is an open source implementation of GOG Galaxy SDK that needs testing

One sticking issue with GOG currently is GOG Galaxy, and how it has no support for Linux. Now the Comet project aims to bridge the gap.

Wir stellen vor: Nextcloud Office, die Kraft für Ihre Zusammenarbeit - Nextcloud

Dieses Webinar unserer Migrationsserie richtet sich an Unternehmen, die auf Nextcloud Hub umsteigen möchten. Es ist wichtig zu verstehen, dass die Migration von SharePoint zu Nextcloud mehr ist als nur das Kopieren von Daten.

Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 adds widescreen support

Want to play the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II on modern platforms, with plenty of enhancements? Well the fheroes2 just keeps getting better - now with widescreen support.

Wine 8.8 is out now with more PE work, initial support for ARM64EC modules

Time for a bit of weekend Wine? The translation layer for running Windows games and apps on Linux and other platforms development release v8.8 is out now.