Confused on Steam Play and Proton? Be sure to check out our guide.

The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest are getting offline modes

By Liam Dawe,
In news that might hopefully be good for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux players with Proton, both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest are getting offline modes.

Stellaris: Cosmic Storms and the free 3.13 'Vela' update out now

By Liam Dawe,
Developed in collaboration with Behaviour Interactive, the new Stellaris: Cosmic Storms expansion and free 3.13 'Vela' update are out now.

Steam Beta has a fix for exiting non-Steam games causing input issues

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh small Steam Beta was released, and for those of you on Steam Deck who play non-Steam games and emulators it's going to be a useful one.

Terrorformer TD is a seriously good tower defense game where you shape the battlefield

By Liam Dawe,
It's hard to pull me away from Bloons TD 6, but Terrorformer TD has managed to do it. A tower defense game where you constantly tweak the battlefield as time goes on.

Elsie is a love letter to action-platformers with a roguelike twist that looks fantastic

By Liam Dawe,
Developed by Knight Shift Games with publishing by Playtonic Friends, Elsie is a fresh and very colourful looking love letter to action-platformers with a roguelike and it looks truly awesome.

Spray Paint Simulator looks like it will suck me in as badly as PowerWash Simulator did

By Liam Dawe,
For fans of the more casual side of gaming: just announced today is Spray Paint Simulator, one fans of PowerWash Simulator will probably also love and spend hours in.

An interview with the developers of the Heroic Games Launcher

By Liam Dawe,
Interested in a little background on the Heroic Games Launcher, how it came to be and what challenges it comes with? Here's an interview with some of the developers responsible.

Dance of Dragons is the latest major update for War Thunder

By Liam Dawe,
A game I just love to sink hours into flying around in various planes and getting muddy in tanks, War Thunder has a new major update out now with Dance of Dragons.

Chill out with 'Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop)' when it launches on October 7

By Liam Dawe,
Popcannibal have announced their latest chilled-out experience in Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) will be launching on October 7th.

Mojang give an update on the future of Minecraft development

By Liam Dawe,
Minecraft is closing in on 15 years now, and so Mojang have given an update on where things stand and what their plans are for future development.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for APB Reloaded, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Yakuza 3 & 4

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new update to Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, that brings in a nice list of game fixes to get even more working.

The save Team Fortress 2 petition lands at Valve HQ with over 340,000 names

By Liam Dawe,
Remember somewhat recently there was a new campaign to highlight bot issues in Team Fortress 2 (TF2)? This was part of the SaveTF2 petition, which gathered over 340,000 names and now it's at Valve's HQ.

The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS

By Liam Dawe,
The Playtron team working on PlaytronOS has grown recently, with the creator of the popular app Lutris joining up.

Moon Watch is a time-stopping horde survival deck-builder from the devs of Backpack Hero

By Liam Dawe,
The team behind the popular Backpack Hero, Jaspel, have revealed their new game Moon Watch. Combining together elements of recent popular games like Vampire Survivors for the basic idea, but blending in deck-building too with the ability to stop time.

EmuDeck 2.3 Beta brings a new unified UI and multi language support

By Liam Dawe,
For fans of emulation on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, you might want to give the new EmuDeck 2.3 Beta a spin.

NonSteamLaunchers v3.9.4 gets save backups using Ludusavi

By Liam Dawe,
NonSteamLaunchers has a new release out with version 3.9.4 bringing in Ludusavi, a tool that can help you backup your game saves.

DOOM + DOOM II enhanced versions get Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Now that the upgraded enhanced releases of DOOM and DOOM II from Nightdive Studios and id Software are available, Valve have given it a fresh test to get it Steam Deck Verified.

KDE Slimbook VI announced with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

By Liam Dawe,
Slimbook have announced their latest KDE Slimbook VI, with it being shown off during the KDE Akademy 2024 event taking place in Würzburg, Germany.

Oxenfree is being completely removed from itch.io in October

By Liam Dawe,
Night School Studio sent out an email to owners of Oxenfree on itch.io, to notify that it's going to be completely removed from the store on October 1st.

Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh Steam Beta client for Desktop and Steam Deck, with one change I'm sure some will love with the new Game Recording system.