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Godot Linux & Open-Source News

Godot 4.4 Dev 1 Brings Renderer Improvements, Betsy Texture Compression   Linux Gaming   2024-08-26
Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support   Linux Gaming   2024-05-31
Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times   Linux Gaming   2024-04-19
Proposed "LibGodot" Lets You Embed Godot Game Engine Into Other Apps   Linux Gaming   2024-04-14
A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine   Linux Gaming   2024-03-20
2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted   Vulkan   2024-02-09
Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support   Wayland   2024-01-31
Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12   Linux Gaming   2023-12-21
W4 Games Raises $15M To Help Push Open-Source Video Game Development With Godot   Linux Gaming   2023-12-09
Godot 4.2 Released With More Stability Improvements, Improved Rendering & AMD FSR 2.2   Linux Gaming   2023-11-30
KDE Gear 23.08 Released With Kalendar Becoming Merkuro, Many App Improvements   KDE   2023-08-24
Godot 4.1 Released With More Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2023-07-06
Godot 4.1 Beta 1 Released With Multi-Threading Improvements   Linux Gaming   2023-06-08
KDE Plasma Wayland Session Sees More Fixes Ahead Of Plasma 6.0   KDE   2023-05-12
X.Org Foundation To Become Part Of The SFC   X.Org   2023-05-04
Godot 4.1 Planning For More Renderer Improvements, AMD FSR 2.2   Linux Gaming   2023-04-19
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
Godot 4.0 Stable Released As Major Step Forward For Open-Source Game Engines   Linux Gaming   2023-03-01
Godot 4.0 RC3 Released With Godot 4.0 Game Engine Release Imminent   Linux Gaming   2023-02-21
Godot 4.0 RC1 Released   Linux Gaming   2023-02-08
Godot 4.0 Aims To Ship In The First Months Of 2023   Linux Gaming   2022-12-31
Godot 4.0 Beta 8 Gets WebXR Fully Working, X11 Support Now Loaded Dynamically   Linux Gaming   2022-12-10
AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November   Phoronix   2022-12-01
Godot 4.0 Moves Closer To Release, Early Plans For Post-4.0   Linux Gaming   2022-11-29
Godot 4.0 Beta 5 Brings Renderer Improvements, OpenGL To OpenXR   Linux Gaming   2022-11-16
Godot 4.0 Engine Adds Movie Maker Mode   Linux Gaming   2022-11-14
The Godot Game Engine Now Has Its Own Foundation   Linux Gaming   2022-11-01
Godot 4.0 Beta 1 Released With Shiny Vulkan Renderer, Tons Of Other Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-09-15
Godot 4.0 Alpha 17 Released, New Company Raises $8M+ To Advance This Open-Source Engine   Linux Gaming   2022-09-13
Godot 4.0 Alpha 16 Released With More Vulkan Renderer Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-09-07
Godot 4.0 Adds Variable Rate Shading, Shader Preprocessor Support   Linux Gaming   2022-07-29
Godot 4.0 Preparing For Beta, Feature Freeze Next Week   Linux Gaming   2022-07-28
openSUSE Announces "First Class" Support For The Nim Programming Language   SUSE   2022-07-15
Godot 4.0 Alpha 10 Brings Temporal AA   Linux Gaming   2022-06-15
Open 3D Engine 22.05 Released With New Features   Linux Gaming   2022-05-12
Godot 4.0 Alpha 8 Game Engine Released With Some Nice Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-05-12
Microsoft Joins The Open 3D Foundation For Advancing Open-Source 3D Development   Microsoft   2022-05-02
Godot 4.0 Alpha 4 Released With OpenXR Support In Core, Other Improvements   Linux Gaming   2022-03-08
Open 3D Game Engine 2111.2 Released   Linux Gaming   2022-01-27
Godot 4.0 Alpha 1 Released With Vulkan Renderer & Other Shiny Features   Linux Gaming   2022-01-24
Godot 3.5 Beta 1 Brings Async Shader Compilation & Caching   Linux Gaming   2022-01-13
WXRD Is A New Wayland Compositor Focused On XR/VR Use-Cases   Wayland   2021-12-20
Godot 4.0 Alpha Is Near, Another Pre-Alpha Build Available   Linux Gaming   2021-12-11
Godot 4.0 Progressing On Its Multiplayer Capabilities   Linux Gaming   2021-11-28
Godot 3.4 Released With Many New Features For This Open-Source Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2021-11-06
Ogre 13 Open-Source Game Engine Released   Linux Gaming   2021-08-14
RadeonSI Lands Regression Fix For ~10x Higher CPU Usage For Some Games   Radeon   2021-08-09
Godot 4 Is Focusing On Vulkan + OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL Likely For Godot 4.1   Linux Gaming   2021-07-18
Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects   Google   2021-05-17
Godot 3.3 Arrives With Renderer Improvements, WebXR Support For VR Games   Linux Gaming   2021-04-21
Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2021-03-28
200+ Open-Source Projects Involved In GSoC 2021   Google   2021-03-10
Godot 4.0 Game Engine Seeing Many Exciting CPU / GPU Optimizations   Linux Gaming   2021-02-03
Many Exciting New & Updated Benchmarks For January 2021   Phoronix Test Suite   2021-02-02
The First Online Conference Is Happening Today For The Godot Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2021-01-23
Godot Game Engine Has Been Backing "Betsy" As A GPU-Based Texture Compressor   Linux Gaming   2020-11-26
Debian Has Been Hosting A MiniDebConf Devoted To Linux/Open-Source Gaming   Debian   2020-11-22
KDE Frameworks 5.74 Released With Faster KTextEditor, Many Improvements   KDE   2020-09-12
SHADERed 1.4 Brings Shader Writing/Debugging To The Browser   Programming   2020-09-02
Monado Working On Positional Tracking Support Via Libsurvive To Further Open-Source AR/VR   Standards   2020-07-17
Godot 4.0 Is Looking Even More Impressive With SDFGI   Linux Gaming   2020-06-28
Mozilla Sponsored The Godot Game Engine To Port Their Editor As An HTML5 Web App   Linux Gaming   2020-05-29
The Godot Game Engine's Vulkan Support Is Getting In Increasingly Great Shape   Linux Gaming   2020-05-02
Unigine Community Edition Offers Free Version Of Engine   Linux Gaming   2020-04-10
Updated Basis Universal Yields High Quality Compression, 3~4x Smaller Than JPEG/PNG   Standards   2020-03-21
Godot Game Engine Working Towards Native Wayland Support, EGL   Linux Gaming   2020-02-29
Google Announces The 200 Open-Source Projects For GSoC 2020   Google   2020-02-22
Godot Merges Its Vulkan Renderer Ahead Of The v4.0 Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2020-02-11
Godot 3.2 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Better Documentation, New Features   Linux Gaming   2020-01-29
Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Already Picking Up New Features In 2020   Vulkan   2020-01-28
Godot 4.0 Game Engine Aiming For Release With Vulkan In Mid-2020   Linux Gaming   2020-01-01
Godot 4.0 Vulkan Support Continues Progressing - GI System Overhauled   Linux Gaming   2019-11-03
Godot's Vulkan Renderer Is Getting Into Increasingly Good Shape   Linux Gaming   2019-10-13
Godot 3.2 Enters Alpha With Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2019-10-06
Godot Begins Working On Its Vulkan 3D Rendering Support   Vulkan   2019-09-02
Godot Making Progress On Vulkan Support, Threaded Shader Compilation   Vulkan   2019-08-03
Godot Engine 4.0 Continues Working Towards Vulkan Support   Linux Gaming   2019-07-02
nCine Is An Interesting Open-Source 2D Game Engine   Linux Gaming   2019-06-01
Endless Is Now Trying To Teach Kids To Program With Linux Games   Linux Gaming   2019-05-08
Godot 3.2 Picking Up "Pseudo 3D" Support For Its 2D Engine   Linux Gaming   2019-04-05
Godot 3.1 Open-Source Game Engine Debuts With Many Improvements   Linux Gaming   2019-03-13
Godot 3.1 Beta 2 Released With OpenGL ES Performance Fix   Linux Gaming   2019-01-19
Godot 4.0 Game Engine To Work On Vulkan Port, Big Rendering Improvements   Linux Gaming   2019-01-14
Godot 3.1 Reaches Beta As One Of The Most Promising Open-Source Game Engines   Linux Gaming   2019-01-08
Ioquake3-Derived Spearmint 1.0 Engine Coming Next Month, But Ceasing Development   Linux Gaming   2018-09-19
Godot 3.1 Is On The Way With OpenGL ES 2.0 Renderer, 3D Soft-body Physics & Much More   Linux Gaming   2018-08-31
Godot To Focus On Vulkan Over OpenGL ES 3.0 Now That There's Mac Support   Linux Gaming   2018-02-26
Godot Working On Ramping Up Their VR Support   Linux Gaming   2018-02-21
Godot 3.0 Open-Source Game Engine Released   Linux Gaming   2018-01-29
Godot 3.0 Release Candidate 1 Debuts Ahead Of This Imminent Game Engine Release   Linux Gaming   2018-01-14
Godot 3.0 Game Engine Preparing To Ship In Early 2018   Linux Gaming   2017-12-24
Godot 3.0 Game Engine Reaches Beta   Linux Gaming   2017-11-30
Godot Game Engine 3.0 Alpha 2 Released   Linux Gaming   2017-10-31
Godot Game Engine Adds Support For glTF 2.0   Linux Gaming   2017-08-04
Godot 3.0 Reaches Alpha   Linux Gaming   2017-07-26
Godot Engine Still Working On 3.0 Release, WebGL 2.0 & WebAssembly Work Too   Linux Gaming   2017-06-14
Coreboot Joins The Software Freedom Conservancy   Coreboot   2017-06-01
Godot 3.0 Alpha Coming Soon, WebAssembly + WebGL 2.0 Export Working   Linux Gaming   2017-04-10
Godot 3.0 Is Working On WebAssembly + WebGL 2.0 Exporting   Linux Gaming   2017-03-14
Godot 3.0 Game Engine Continues Marching Forward With Major Restructuring   Linux Gaming   2017-02-05
Godot Continues Major Work On Its 3D Renderer For Release In 2017   Linux Gaming   2016-12-31
Godot Engine 2.1 Released, Focuses On Usability Improvements   Linux Gaming   2016-08-09
Atomic Game Engine Open-Sourced   Linux Gaming   2016-03-17
Godot 2.0 Is Out, But Godot 3.0 Will Be Even More Exciting   Linux Gaming   2016-02-23
Godot 1.1 Engine Release Brings New 2D Engine   Linux Gaming   2015-05-22
Godot Game Engine 1.1 Up To RC State   Linux Gaming   2015-05-02
Godot 1.1 Engine Now In Beta   Linux Gaming   2015-04-04
Open-Source Godot 1.0 Engine Released & Declared Stable   Linux Gaming   2014-12-15
The Godot Engine Is Now Open-Source   Linux Gaming   2014-02-10
A New Open-Source Game Engine Being Released   Linux Gaming   2014-01-02