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The 2D massive space epic Starsector gets a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Starsector is something quite special, originally called Starfarer it's been in development for quite a few years now and a big new release is now available.

itch.io is hosting another Türkiye & Syria Earthquake Relief Mega Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Support charity and get access a whole bunch of cool stuff in the Türkiye & Syria Earthquake Relief Mega Bundle hosted by itch.io.

Need a new controller? The 8BitDo Ultimate C 2.4G looks great

By Liam Dawe,
If you're in need of a new controller, the 8BitDo Ultimate C might just be what you need as 8BitDo revealed their slimmed-down version of their pricier Ultimate.

Swarm Grinder is a very unique horde-game now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
If you love anything remotely similar to Vampire Survivors and other horde-style auto-shooters, you might want to take a look at Swarm Grinder.

Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

By Liam Dawe,
You might have seen recently that I covered the upcoming updates for Roblox, and now it's here blocking Wine with their new anti-cheat.

Re:Touring is a clever, accessible and polished first-person puzzler

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoy first-person puzzlers like Portal and The Talos Principle then you'll likely feel right at home with Re:Touring.

Valve gave Steam store search a very useful upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Valve announced a fresh upgrade to the Steam store search, making it a lot more useful so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Get a bunch of easy-going games in this latest bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh Humble Bundle landed recently, this time focusing on games to have a bit more of a relaxed time with. Here's what's in the Easy-game Games Whitehorn Showcase bundle and what compatibility to expect on Linux and Steam Deck.

Nreal Air and Steam Deck together - quite mind-blowing

By Liam Dawe,
Recently I was sent over a package with the Nreal Air, so I've spent a fair bit of time testing out these AR glasses with the Steam Deck to see what all the fuss is about.

Arcane Wilds kicks off with some refreshing RTS ideas

By Etienne Mahler,
Have you been someone who loved playing games like Starcraft and Age of Empires primarily in multiplayer mode with your friends, or do you still play them? Then I might have something for you that could make your competitive RTS heart beat faster and bring some fresh ideas.

Steam will now scale better with KDE and GNOME

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest Beta release for Steam from May 5th, Valve finally did some more work on scaling the UI of the Steam Client.

Proton Experimental improves EA app, Battle.net and nvapi enabled for many games

By Liam Dawe,
A rather great sounding update to Proton Experimental landed on May 5th, so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Cartridges is another Linux game launcher and it's super-clean

By Liam Dawe,
If there's one thing we're not short on, it's launchers. There's some kind of launcher for everything including Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles and more. Now there's also Cartridges.

Typing Tempo challenges you in a 41-key typing rhythm game

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoy rhythm games and think you're a master typist, you may want to take a little look over at the new release of Typing Tempo.

GOG reveal some stats on how they're doing

By Liam Dawe,
Game store GOG has a new blog post up detailing how they're doing, and it seems like things are starting to go a bit better for them.

Dead by Daylight now works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Some potentially great news for Dead by Daylight fans, as it seems Behaviour Interactive have finally made the switch with their anti-cheat to allow Steam Deck and Linux desktop players in.

Discord username system changing to make it easier to find people

By Liam Dawe,
After years of technical debt, Discord has announced a big change is coming to their username system to make it easier to find the people you want to connect with.

Open source physics-based tabletop sim 'Tabletop Club' gets an official release

By Liam Dawe,
After a bunch of early testing builds, the developer of the free and open source tabletop sim Tabletop Club has announced the first stable release.

Soul Survivors is a refreshing skill-based time-survival Vampire Survivor-like

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing my quest to have no free time ever, I have been checking out Soul Survivors that's now available in Early Access. It may be yet another Vampire Survivor-like but that's not a bad thing at all.

Framework gives more detail on their AMD Ryzen laptop

By Liam Dawe,
Recently Framework excited everyone over their big DIY laptop upgrades, and now they're giving more detail on the Framework 13 Laptop with AMD Ryzen.