Whew, this one took a while. Around three years of development went into OpenMW 0.49.0 which is now available to play Morrowind with lots of enhancements.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/openmw-0-49-arrives-to-enhanced-morrowind-and-theyre-looking-to-support-later-bethesda-games/
#OpenSource #RPG #Retro #OpenWorld #NewRelease #Reimplementation #NativeLinux
Another fresh release of the Heroes of Might and Magic II open source game engine fheroes2.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-open-source-game-engine-fheroes2-version-1-1-9-released/
I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion
#HackerNews #StableDiffusion #PyTorch #AI #Reimplementation #MachineLearning #GitHub
OpenTESArena is an in-development open source game engine remake of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, with a big new release out now as the developer continues working towards making it actually playable.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/the-elder-scrolls-arena-remake-gets-jolt-physics-and-big-new-features/
Currently in the Release Candidate stage, Morrowind open source game engine OpenMW is getting ready for a huge new release.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/morrowind-game-engine-openmw-gearing-up-for-a-huge-new-0-49-release/
TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/tomb-raider-ii-open-source-re-implementation-adds-linux-support/
#OpenSource #Adventure #Action #NewRelease #Reimplementation
GemRB is a game engine remake of Infinity Engine used in games like Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn and Icewind Dale 2.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/icewind-dale-2-completable-in-infinity-engine-remake-gemrb-plus-baldurs-gate-ii-enhanced-edition-now-playable/
Dear supporters of the fheroes2 project and fans of Heroes of Might and Magic II! We are excited to announce the release of the latest version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.1.5!
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-open-source-game-engine-fheroes2-v1-1-5-released/
#OpenSource #Strategy #Turnbasedstrategy #Fanatical #Reimplementation
I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/medal-of-honor-allied-assault-open-source-remake-new-beta-gets-lots-of-fixes/
The day has arrived! Medal of Honor: Allied Assault including the Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions can be played easily on modern systems, with various enhancements thanks to the OpenMoHAA project.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/medal-of-honor-allied-assault-open-source-remake-gets-a-first-beta-release/
Seems like this project is coming along nicely, and I do very much love seeing classics get revived with open source game engine re-implementations. OpenTESArena for The Elder Scrolls: Arena has a new release out.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-elder-scrolls-arena-re-implementation-opentesarena-gets-a-graphics-code-overhaul/
#OpenSource #RPG #Retro #NewRelease #Reimplementation
The team is excited to present the new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.1.1 for Heroes of Might and Magic II after more than a month of hard work.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-game-engine-fheroes2-v111-released/
#OpenSource #Strategy #Turnbasedstrategy #Reimplementation #NativeLinux
The team is pleased to present the new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.0.11 after a month of hard work. As in any other release, we made many changes and are happy to share the news with you.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-game-engine-fheroes2-v1011-released/
#Reimplementation
A fresh 1.0.8 version of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine has been released recently and here're some tips about what's new in the fheroes2 project.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii-game-engine-fheroes2-v108-out-now/
#OpenSource #Strategy #Retro #Reimplementation #NativeLinux
The team and community behind OpenRCT2, the open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 have a brand new update out which includes some fun changes like a whole new title theme.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/rollercoaster-tycoon-2-reimplementation-openrct2-gets-a-new-title-theme/
#OpenSource #BuildingSim #Reimplementation #NativeLinux
Here's another fun open source reimplementation for you: VCMI is for running Heroes of Might and Magic III on modern systems with plenty of enhancements and a new release just went out.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/heroes-of-might-and-magic-iii-game-engine-vcmi-13-out-now/
#OpenSource #Strategy #NewRelease #Reimplementation #NativeLinux
From 03 Nov: Diablo and Hellfire source-port DevilutionX gets a big upgrade - DevilutionX is a source available game engine source-port of the classic Diablo and Hellfire, updat... https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/11/diablo-and-hellfire-source-port-devilutionx-gets-a-big-upgrade #reimplementation #retro #rpg #source-available
