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CodeWeavers still looking to hire more Graphics Developers

Do you have strong C language skills and good experience with OpenGL, DirectX and Vulkan? CodeWeavers are still looking to hire Graphics Developers.

If you long for the days of Caesar III you can rejoice with the FOSS game engine Julius

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 11, 2020 12:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Caesar III is an absolute classic and you can play it on modern systems, like Linux, with the free and open source game engine Julius which recently had a big new release.

Open-ended tower-defense mining game Mindustry is just awesome and open source

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 10, 2020 5:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Games
When you get hooked on a game like Mindustry, it's hard to put it down and play anything else. It's also open source and it's awesome.

Pixelorama, the free and open source sprite editor has a sweet new release up

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 8, 2020 1:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Godot Engine isn't just good for making games, you can also build applications with it. That's exactly what Orama Interactive are doing with their pixel art sprite editor, Pixelorama.

Steam for Linux was started by ex-Microsoft developers

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 6, 2020 5:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Games
How about we start Monday off with an interesting little titbit? According to a former Valve staffer, Steam for Linux was started up by ex-Microsoft employees.

Some of our most anticipated games for Linux in 2020

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 5, 2020 11:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
A new year has arrived, so let's have a quick look over some of the most promising titles to be coming to Linux across 2020. There's plenty to be excited about.

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

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 5, 2020 12:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
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.

Exhumed/PowerSlave can now be played easily with a cross-platform game engine

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 4, 2020 9:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Exhumed, also known as PowerSlave, a retro shooter from the 90s has been revived with the power of open source.

devilutionX, an open source game engine for the original Diablo sees a big release

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 3, 2020 8:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
devilutionX, based upon the reverse engineered code from Devilution, has a big 1.0 release for playing the original Diablo on modern systems.

FOSS game engine Godot Engine aiming for Vulkan support by 'mid 2020'

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Jan 3, 2020 4:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Juan Linietsky, lead developer of the FOSS game engine Godot Engine has written a retrospective article while also going over future plans for Godot Engine.

The latest Black Mesa update makes it much smoother on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 24, 2019 4:54 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
With Crowbar Collective enabling a Beta containing the full Black Mesa experience recently, it came with a major performance problem on Linux which now seems to be solved!

Logitech Steering Wheel manager pyLinuxWheel has a big new release out

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 23, 2019 12:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Another sweet new release of pyLinuxWheel is up, giving you even more options for managing your Logitech Steering Wheel on Linux thanks to new features.

Free and open source racer 'SuperTuxKart' has a new test release out, online play improvements

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 22, 2019 10:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
SuperTuxKart continues getting even better. The 1.0 release back in April was huge, with SuperTuxKart 1.1 getting a first Release Candidate now to improve on the previous new features like online play.

Free and open source arena FPS 'Red Eclipse 2' is now out on Steam

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 22, 2019 4:25 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The fast-paced arena styled first-person shooter Red Eclipse 2 has now officially released on Steam so anyone can jump in, as it's free and open source.

Faerie Solitaire Remastered arrives on Linux, free on itch.io

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 20, 2019 3:54 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Developer Subsoap just recently updated their 2017 title Faerie Solitaire Remastered and they've now given it a Linux version.

SteamVR 1.9 is out, Linux VR users may want to opt into a Beta

Valve just recently put out the latest big new build of their SteamVR platform, with something to be aware of if you're on Linux.

The complete season of Life is Strange 2 is now available on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 20, 2019 6:15 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Hella yeah! Originally developed by DONTNOD Entertainment and published by Square Enix on Windows and console, Feral Interactive have now officially released Life is Strange 2 for Linux.

Krita, the FOSS painting program gets an Epic MegaGrant

Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too.

Open Joystick Display, a FOSS tool to show off gamepad input in videos

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 18, 2019 11:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Do you create gaming videos or livestream? Open Joystick Display seems like an incredibly useful free, open source and cross-platform tool to display your inputs on-screen.

D9VK is no more as it merges with DXVK, making DXVK a D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan layer

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 18, 2019 10:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
It's happened, the D9VK and DXVK projects have officially merged. This means DXVK is now the all-encompassing project to translate D3D 9/10/11 to Vulkan for Wine.

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