Voxel Doom II releasing August 1st

Ready for more retro action? Voxel Doom II with GZDoom is releasing August 1st, giving you fully 3D voxel-based models for a second helping of Doom.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.6 out now

fheroes2 continues to improve the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, with a new release available now with plenty of tweaks and improvements.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 30: Imperial Purple

War! Age of Imperialism was in the first instance a board game, designed by Glenn Drover of Eagle Games. Players assume the role of a colonial empire intent on subjugating the rest of the world.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 29: The Odyssey

It was one of my regular readers, Grzegorz Budny, that let me know about the driving simulation Odyssey by Car first released by the German independent developer Oliver Hamann back in 2001.

Classic LucasArts games emulator DREAMM adds early Linux support

Want a way to play classic LucasArts games on Linux? While some ways already exist like ScummVM, another is DREAMM and it now has early Linux support.

Save your owner as a space-pup in shoot 'em up ProtoCorgi

ProtoCorgi is a shoot 'em up with a difference. You're not a spaceship, you're not even a person, you're a dog on a quest to save their owner.

Enclosure 3-D by mausimus

Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.

Retro racer Super Indie Karts got upgraded with Steam Deck support

While Super Indie Karts already had Native Linux support, it's nice to see another developer making improvements for Steam Deck too.

Atari's 1981 classic revamp Caverns of Mars: Recharged is out now

Atari teamed up with SneakyBox to revamp another classic, with Caverns of Mars: Recharged officially out now with Native Linux support.

Ship of Harkinian, a PC port of Ocarina of Time has a feature-filled upgrade

Do you love the classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? Clearly a lot of people do, and the PC port Ship of Harkinian just recently had a great sounding upgrade.

Vangers the open source classic from 1998 continues to be upgraded

Vangers is a thoroughly weird racing role-playing adventure originally released in 1998, and it's still being upgraded.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 28: Losing My Marbles

Marble Blast was first released in 2002, before being updated to Marble Blast Gold in 2003. The demo can be obnoxious, with it showing a begging screen imploring you to buy the full game after completing each and every level.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 27: Lost Souls

I have mentioned before how I was unable to get Dave Taylor's original port of Doom to work as it was built as an outdated a.out binary rather than ELF.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 26: Coming to You Live

It turns out it was Knoppix 3.4 released in May 2004 that obsessed me as a child, providing me with some of my earliest steps into a larger world. Not only that, but the CD-R disc it was burned on still reads even after all of these years.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us — Zero Wing (and other classics) hit Steam

Zero Wing along with other shoot 'em up classics Out Zone, Twin Cobra and Truxton from Toaplan and Bitwave Games have their brand new PC releases out.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 25: Quantum Axcess

Back when I first played through Quake: The Offering I found that I enjoyed the two mission packs even more than I did the original Quake campaign, and while these were the only official addons sold for Quake, several third party expansions and total…

ScummVM 2.7.0 is ready for testing more retro games

ScummVM, the all-in-one solution for many different retro games and upgraded game engines for classics has a new version 2.7.0 ready for testing.

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms adds the start of a campaign mode

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms is a free and open source game pack made with the OpenRA game engine, the bundles together forces from various classic Westwood RTS games including Allies, Soviets, Nod, GDI and the Scrin.

Zelda-lite classic Anodyne gets a much upgraded fan remake

Anodyne from Analgesic Productions recently celebrated a 10th anniversary, and the community delivered in style with a full fan remake for modern platforms thanks to the previous source code release.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past gets a reverse-engineered clone

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the 1991 classic from Nintendo has been reverse-engineered to bring it natively to more platforms.

Inspired by Boulder Dash and Supaplex, Gem Worlds is out now

Oh the nostalgia is heavy with this one! Gem Worlds is inspired directly by the likes of Boulder Dash and Supaplex.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 23: Ready, Set, Go!

If you look at the commercial Linux gaming catalogue at the turn of the millennium, in amongst all of the 3D shooters and strategic simulations being released, one glaring omission seems to have been the lack of any racing games.

Developer of point and click adventure Splittown looking at Linux support

Love your adventure games? Here's one to keep an eye on. The developer of Splittown has mentioned they're looking into Native Linux support.

Atari announce another 80s classic revival with Caverns of Mars: Recharged

Another revamp of a classic is on the way with Atari once again teaming up with SneakyBox, as the 1981 title Caverns of Mars is releasing as Caverns of Mars: Recharged.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 22: Happy Hacking

Some of my first real experiences of using Linux as a child came through the use of Knoppix, one of the first distributions to popularize the use of Live CDs. This allowed me to explore a wide swath of Linux applications.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 21: Fluffy Bunnies

While their foray into interactive storybooks did fail to impress, it did help remind me of BlackHoleSun Software, one of the earliest Indie developers to create games with Linux in mind.

Raspberry Pi revives a Smith Corona word processor - Raspberry Pi

Maker /Maz_Baz found an old Smith Corona word processor and revived it to functional glory with Raspberry Pi.

DOSBox Staging adds dual-mouse gaming and ReelMagic support

DOSBox Staging is a favourite of mine to follow that expands on the original DOSBox but with a focus on implementing new features and fixes. A new major update went out in December 2022 with some big additions.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 20: The Antediluvian World

Sold as interactive storybooks, these took the form of narrated picture books which went over the story from the film while allowing for a certain degree of user agency, typically by allowing a selection of quirky animations to play by clicking aroun…

Batman Rogue City is a fun looking GZDoom fan game

Here's a fun retro fan game for you! Batman Rogue City released in December for GZDoom and looks like a criminal-kicking good time.

Classic 1990s series Catacomb lives on with the CatacombGL source port

CatacombGL is an open source project to run Catacomb 3D (1991), The Catacomb Abyss (1992), The Catacomb Armageddon (1992) and The Catacomb Apocalypse (1993).

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine remake fheroes2 hits 1.0

fheroes2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, and after many development releases they've finally hit the big 1.0.

GOG giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut during their Winter Sale 2022

Another chance for you to get a free game, and perhaps take a look at some tasty discounts too with the GOG Winter Sale 2022 now giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut.

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CRT TV + VCR Trinitron Retro Media Player | The MagPi #124 - Raspberry Pi

When Mairon Wolniewicz watches movies or plays games from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, he ensures he gets the full retro experience.

Inspired by F.E.A.R., the retro FPS 'Selaco' is getting a big demo upgrade

Possibly one of the most promising retro-styled FPS games coming to Linux, Selaco is getting a huge demo upgrade next month.

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Recreating the Domesday Experience