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God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount

By Liam Dawe,
You can't keep Kratos shackled, as the excellent God of War is now available DRM-free on GOG and there's a nice discount to go with it too.

Steam Deck had a strong end to 2023 and a great start for 2024

By Liam Dawe,
While the Steam Deck is now two years old, and has since had the Steam Deck OLED refresh for a few months now, it seems there's just no stopping it.

Vertical-building colony sim Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder hits Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
What seems like a rather interesting and unique take on the colony building sim is Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder, which gets you to build vertically and it seems pretty fun.

Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory looks like one for Zachtronics fans

By Liam Dawe,
Captain Contraption's Chocolate Factory releasing in July is an open ended puzzle game, where you design and build machines to combine ingredients to make chocolates.

Wizard colony-sim tower defense game Artificer's Tower readies Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
I love indie developers because they keep making some of the most weird and wonderful combinations, and a recent discovery is Artificer's Tower. The devs say it's a "cozy colony sim resource management game that features base-building, tower defense systems, and powerful enemies to defeat".

Latest Steam Client Beta fixes Linux and Steam Deck issues, tweaks screenshots

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released a fresh Steam Client Beta for both Desktop PCs and Steam Deck, and with it there's some useful bug fixes and an interesting new screenshot adjustment for Steam Deck.

Fantastic roguelike Jupiter Hell gets a new scary boss, new locations

By Liam Dawe,
Jupiter Hell is without a doubt one of my absolute most favourite roguelikes ever made, not only because it looks good and it's intense but it also doesn't exactly feel like it's even turn-based because it's so damn slick.

Upcoming space RTS 'Falling Frontier' looks epic

By Liam Dawe,
I'm a real sucker for anything involving spaceships and Falling Frontier from Stutter Fox Studios and Hooded Horse releasing in 2025 looks like it could be epic.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 40: The Cyborg Project

By Hamish,
An action platformer first released in 1999, you play as Urban Gutter, a man taken by an evil scientist to a secret military base and changed into a cyborg against his will. The acronym in the title then is a bit odd, but your one goal is to escape and enact as bloody a revenge on the world as possible. Any hope for true catharsis here often gets lost in frustration however.

Backpack Battles is another clear indie Steam hit

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoyed the idea in Backpack Hero with inventory management, you may want to also take a look at the new Backpack Battles which has a similar basic theme but puts you in PvP battles against other players and it's proven to be quite a hit.

Duelists of Eden is a multiplayer spin-off of One Step From Eden

By Liam Dawe,
With Mega Man Battle Network styled combat, One Step From Eden was a fun chaotic gem from 2020 and now there's a multiplayer spin-off with Duelists of Eden out now.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets gamepad support for the main UI

By Liam Dawe,
Working with RPCS3 for PlayStation 3 emulation should now be a whole lot easier on the likes of the Steam Deck, other handhelds and for just gamepad users with the latest update.

Of Life and Land settlement-builder releases April 2

By Liam Dawe,
Need a new city / villager builder and love everything simulated to be a bit more alive? Keep an eye on Of Life and Land that hits Early Access on April 2nd.

EmuDeck 2.2.12 released to fix a bunch of issues

By Liam Dawe,
EmuDeck is one of the go-to solutions for emulation on Steam Deck and other systems, and the big 2.2 update recently had some issues so another update is out now with 2.2.12 to clean things up a bit.

Steam broke another record with over 35 million people online

By Liam Dawe,
It was only last week I was writing about Steam's growth hitting 34 million players online, and here they are breaking another record to hit well over 35 million.

Linux kernel 6.8 is out now with lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
Linux kernel 6.8 has been released now by Linus Torvalds and as usual, there's absolutely tons of changes and new features.

GE-Proton 9-1 brings a whole lot of fixes for Linux / Steam Deck gaming

By Liam Dawe,
The first release of GE-Proton based on Wine 9.0 / Proton 9.0 is here with GE-Proton 9-1 bringing in a lot of fixes for various games and new games added to ULWGL (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher).

Proton Experimental fixes up Apex Legends, Epic Games Store, Warlords Battlecry III

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released an update to Proton Experimental to further improve the Windows game compatibility on Steam Deck and Linux PCs. Here's all that's changed for the March 8th update.

Wine 9.4 brings updated vkd3d, initial OpenGL support in the Wayland driver

By Liam Dawe,
Another biweekly release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine is here, with Wine 9.4 bringing some new features and a few nice sounding bug fixes.

Check out the Humble Heroines Bundle with A Plague Tale: Innocence, Chorus and more

By Liam Dawe,
Another game bundle is here! This time it's celebrating Women's History Month with the Humble Heroines: Action, Adventure & Intrigue bundle.