Ubuntu Vibes

Torque 3D Game Engine to be Open Sourced

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 | No comments |

Cross platform Torque 3D game engine will be open sourced soon under MIT license. In a blog post, GarageGames announced that complete Torque 3D 1.2 source code, along with the four starting templates, will be made available in a GitHub repository.

Game Engines, Games, Open Source, Open Source Game Engines, Torque 3D Engine

More Unity Engine Games are Coming to Linux

Saturday, September 08, 2012 | No comments |

With Unity Technologies finally adding Linux publishing support in Unity 4.0 beta, game developers can now compile and run their games on Linux.

3D Games, Blackreef Pirates, Folk Tale, Forced, FPS, Kinetic Void, Receiver, RPG, Unity3D Engine, Unity3D Games

0 A.D. Alpha 11 'Kronos' Released

Saturday, September 08, 2012 | No comments |

Popular free and open source real time strategy game 0 A.D. has received yet another Alpha release. Codenamed 'Kronos', this release brings many new features.

0 A.D., 3D Games, Games, Open Source Games, Real Time Strategy, RTS

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 Released, Overview and Screenshots

Friday, September 07, 2012 | No comments |

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 has been released with new features. One of the major changes is complete removal of Unity2D. Unity3D is now capable of of running on old systems that do not support hardware acceleration.

12.10, Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu

Steam Linux Beta is Just Few Days Away

Thursday, September 06, 2012 | No comments |

Steam for Linux Beta is just few days away. Well a leak seems to imply so.

Games, Steam, Valve

Script to Download Latest Chromium Build in Ubuntu

Thursday, September 06, 2012 | No comments |

Rui Oliveira has written a handy bash script that downloads latest Chromium dev build on your system.

Applications, Chromium, Scripts, Web Browsers

Battlestar Galactica Game 'Diaspora: Shattered Armistice' Finally Released

Wednesday, September 05, 2012 | No comments |

Much awaited Battlestar Galactica game Diaspora: Shattered Armistice has been finally launched after being in development for 4 years. The game is free and open source and it is based on the FreeSpace 2 Open engine.

3D Games, Battlestart Galactica, Diaspora: Shattered Armistice, Games, Space Combat, Space Exploration, Space Simulation

New Fix Improves Gaming Performance in Ubuntu 12.04

Tuesday, September 04, 2012 | No comments |

Unity3D in Ubuntu 12.04 has a regression that leads to slower frame rates in many 3D Linux games. This happens under Unity3D only and other sessions like Unity2D and Classic Gnome are unaffected.