Spotted at Amiga's Pepcom booth, the GP2X handheld, from Korea's Gamepark holdings, made for a whiplash double-take: the best computer of the 1980s emulated on a portable? Alas, no, but it was nice to see this thing in the flesh, after it being out for ages but all-too-rare on these shores.

GamePark Holdings (GPH) is readying a new version of its GP2X handheld game console running open source Linux games.

Martin Kool, a developer from Web applications specialist Q42, has released his open source multi-player game engine. Sarien.net is a "portal for reliving the classic Sierra On-Line adventure games" and is completely browser based. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome are all supported.

Pandora, the Linux-based handheld game console that is aimed to take advantage of free and open source software is finally shipping.

Sauce The Game is a new free online video show dedicated to showcasing Open Source Video Games. The episodes are nice and short, running for about 2 mins and each one focuses on an individual Open Source game.

Given the sheer volume of hype that was floating around as 2008 drew to a close you would have been forgiven for thinking that '09 was set to be the year of the open source handheld. The Pandora - produced by a dedicated group of enthusiasts - was expected at the break of the year, as was Gamepark Holdings's Wiz, the successor to the popular GP2X.

Secret Maryo Chronicles is an open source PC game designed around the original Super Mario World side scroller that takes what was great about that old console game and brings it to the PC, dusts it off and tries to improve on it. While still not completely polished or fully matured, it does offer you a lot of gaming fun. So let's look at a little that it does offer you.

My recent post about Linux and video games has gotten quite a few hits, so while I was on a three hour flight today I thought it would useful to later put together a list of free and open source game engines that you and others could use to build said games.

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you grew up with classic video game consoles like the NES and Sega Genesis. For years Windows users have been enjoying high quality game emulation software, but many of the Linux options have been buggy or incomplete. It’s time to take a look at where things stand when it comes to playing console games in Linux.