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The Caribbean Sail

The Caribbean Sail adds Steamboat Willie as a playable character

By Liam Dawe,
15
With Steamboat Willie now being in the public domain, no doubt we're about to see a lot more of it. One of the first is Victorian Clambake's game The Caribbean Sail which added Steamboat Willie as a playable character.
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Proton 8.0-5 has a Release Candidate ready for testing

By Liam Dawe,
5
Early last month Valve put up a Release Candidate for the next version of Proton, which it seems went completely under the radar. Due to this they've not had much feedback for Proton 8.0-5 so time to get testing.
Sail Forth

Ocean adventure game Sail Forth goes fully open-world, plus an expansion is coming

By Liam Dawe,
2
Ocean adventure game Sail Forth from Festive Vector and The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild released back in December 2022, and it just got a big free upgrade with more to come.
MSI handheld

MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
37
Begun, the handheld wars have. It seems like every company now wants a piece of the pie doesn't it? Even MSI appear to be jumping into the fold now with an announcement due at CES 2024.
Mobile Suit Baba

Mobile Suit Baba combines Baba Is You puzzling with Into the Breach strategy

By Liam Dawe,
3
Indie developer Hempuli Oy has released a follow-up to their incredible puzzle game Baba Is You, this time taking the idea of Into the Breach from Subset Games and putting a new spin on it with Baba Is You word rules.
Chasmal Fear

Bodycam horror shooter Chasmal Fear looks like a riot

By Liam Dawe,
4
MystiveDev emailed in about Chasmal Fear, an upcoming horror shooter you play as if you're viewing it from a bodycam set in an underwater facility.
dotAGE screenshot

dotAGE now Steam Deck Verified and sold over 30K copies

By Liam Dawe,
1
Showing that the indie dream for some is alive and well, the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder dotAGE has managed to sell over 30,000 copies in three months. It's also now Steam Deck Verified!
Linux Mint logo

Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5

By Liam Dawe,
4
For people wanting to install Linux Mint on newer devices, the Linux Mint team have announced a plan to update their EDGE ISOs with a later Linux kernel in the latest blog post.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe,
15
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a much loved classic that continues to live on thanks to the Jazz² Resurrection project, with a new release that went live recently bringing Flatpak support.
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SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and new Steam Deck Beta and Steam Desktop Beta released

By Liam Dawe,
5
Catching up from the end of the holidays, Valve recently released SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and today there's also a new Steam Deck and Desktop Beta release.
Marvel's Midnight Suns

Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024

By Liam Dawe,
11
Humble Choice for January 2024 is a pretty damn good selection of games, so here's a run over what's included and the compatibility for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
Baldur's Gate 3

Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023

By Liam Dawe,
14
Recently Valve revealed the top Steam Deck games overall for 2023, but they only just posted up what the most-played were just for December 2023 which we have now.
KDE Plasma 6

KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal

By Liam Dawe,
7
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.
Penguin

Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter

By Liam Dawe,
65
According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in Decemeber 2023.
Daggerfall Unity 1.0 with DREAM

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now

By Liam Dawe,
5
Another really impressive project that just got a big final release is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine remake Daggerfall Unity which has hit the 1.0 meaning it's now complete!
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ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
8
Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.
Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe,
28
Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.
Steam Deck OLED with Linux Tux holding a heart inside

Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)

By Liam Dawe,
31
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.
Steam Deck OLED

Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023

By Liam Dawe,
20
Valve has released the annual Best of lists, and so we can see what the most played games are across the whole of 2023 for the Steam Deck so here's what's up.
Announcement of new release of fheroes2 game engine

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.11 released

By fheroes2,
2
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.
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