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Get ready to beat 'em up plenty with Final Vendetta

By Liam Dawe,
In the spirit of the classics like Streets of Rage, Bitmap Bureau and Numskull Games recently announced Final Vendetta with some great pixel-art and a super soundtrack.

6 years on the Vulkan API has enabled some amazing things

By Liam Dawe,
Can you actually believe that the Vulkan API has just crossed over the 6 year mark? Sometimes it feels like it was only yesterday. It truly has helped to create some amazing stuff.

No Man's Sky Sentinel Update gets 'specially optimised' for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Seems if you want to do a little space exploration and building, No Man's Sky might be the place to be - with the Sentinel update out now. This brings with it enhancements for the Steam Deck.

XWayland 22.1 is out with DRM lease support helping VR on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
XWayland, the way to run older games and applications that don't yet have native Wayland support has a brand new release out, bringing new features.

Valheim has a Beta with Steam Deck fixes, gamepad support, Frost Caves

By Liam Dawe,
All aboard the Steam Deck hype train! You want more games being upgraded? You got it! Valheim has a public Beta now available on Steam with lots of goodies.

Wine manager Bottles brings easy app installers, tons of other improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Bottles is the very promising free and open source application to help you directly manage installing things with Wine, the compatibility layer to run Windows apps and games on Linux.

Mina the Hollower from Yacht Club Games hits the funding goal for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to pull in impressive numbers of backers, Yacht Club Games have blasted through more stretch-goals on their crowdfunding campaign for Mina the Hollower - this includes a Linux port too.

NVIDIA upgrades their open source Image Scaling SDK

By Liam Dawe,
Back in November 2021, NVIDIA released their free and open source Image Scaling SDK for game developers to add in a spatial upscaler that can run on any modern GPU - and they've continued improving it.

Rhythm-action game Thumper gets a Steam Deck patch

By Liam Dawe,
The 2016 release of Thumper from developer Drool is yet another that has been tweaking for the Steam Deck, and there's a fresh patch out now ready for it.

Hades from Supergiant Games gets improvements for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Hades from Supergiant Games is the massively popular rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre and it should be good for the Steam Deck.

Proton 7.0 out with Easy Anti-Cheat improvements, more games for Linux & Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has today released a huge upgrade to Proton, the compatibility layer for Linux that allows Windows games to run.

iFixit did a teardown of the Steam Deck, official partner for parts

By Liam Dawe,
Today, Valve has confirmed that iFixit will be their official partner for getting replacement parts for the Steam Deck. Plus, there's a teardown video.

Space station management in IXION sure looks shiny in the first gameplay trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Bulwark Studios (Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus) have just shown off the first gameplay trailer for IXION, a game set in the far future that blends together city building, survival elements and exploration with what they claim is a thrilling space opera.

Superliminal gets the multiplayer mode hooked up for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Superliminal, the brilliant puzzle game where your perspective changes the size of things you hold to progress recently gained some multiplayer modes - and now they're on Linux too.

art of rally gets shown off on Steam Deck in a new video

By Liam Dawe,
Want another close look at the Steam Deck? Here's your chance as the developer Funselektor Labs Inc. has shown off art of rally on their devkit.

ABRISS is a game of deliberate total destruction and it looks brill

By Liam Dawe,
ABRISS is an atmospheric physics-destruction building game. You build up huge structures, to then have them smash into other structures and it looks pretty fancy.

Tomb Raider's Linux port from Feral Interactive delisted on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
It seems more Linux ports from Feral Interactive are no longer advertised on Steam, with the latest being Tomb Raider (2013).

Check your Steam Library against Steam Deck compatibility easily

By Liam Dawe,
Want to know how much of your own Steam Library is currently compatible with the Steam Deck? Well, there's now a website dedicated to doing exactly that.

OBS Studio 27.2 is out bringing Flatpak support and much more

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio is the incredibly popular free and open source video capture and livestreaming software. A huge new release is now available with plenty of Linux improvements.

Seems we're getting another big Terraria update soon

By Liam Dawe,
Re-Logic clearly aren't done with Terraria, even with them previously saying they were. Liars! But we'll totally forgive them of course because we love Terraria.