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STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection announced with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Aspyr Media are busy! Not long after launching Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, they've now announced the STAR WARS: Battlefront Classic Collection and it's coming with Steam Deck support.

Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters (open source Star Control 2) now available on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, which is an open source version of the classic Star Control 2, has managed to get a Steam release from Pistol Shrimp Games.

Check out ChipWits, an upcoming remake of one of the first programming puzzle games

By Liam Dawe,
Originally released back in 1984, ChipWits is a programming puzzle game and it's getting a modern remake in Unity that will be released on Steam.

Which Way Up: Space Olympics is anti-gravity party game chaos

By Liam Dawe,
Turtle Flip Studio plan to launch their physics-based anti-gravity party game Which Way Up: Space Olympics sometime in Q1 2025 but there's a demo up on Steam you can try with Linux support.

Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.3 is example of how to do retro right

By Liam Dawe,
Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.3 from Bitwave Games / Toaplan is another 4-pack of classic games, and a nice clear example of how to bring retro games the right way to modern platforms.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition (ES-DE) gets new default look and different font sizes

By Liam Dawe,
EmulationStation Desktop Edition 3.0 is out now and it's gone through a rebrand to simply ES-DE, plus a whole bunch of improvements come with this release.

Check out the demo for Silence of the Siren a rich sci-fi strategy game

By Liam Dawe,
From the same team that created Project Hospital, the next game from Oxymoron Games is a sci-fi strategy game called Silence of the Siren and there's now a public demo you can try.

Steam Next Fest 2024 was the biggest for Valve and game devs yet

By Liam Dawe,
Valve announced the top 50 most played game demos from Steam Next Fest 2024, and as it turns out this was the biggest Steam Next Fest event Valve has run so far.

Proton Experimental gets improvements for The Finals, TEKKEN 8, Black Desert Online

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new update to Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, bringing in some fixes for various games. Here's what you need to know.

From Glory To Goo is a new base-building RTS where you defend against gooey aliens

By Liam Dawe,
From Glory To Goo is a new upcoming real-time strategy game from Stratagem Blue that has me a little excited, and so far the demo seems to work quite well on Linux.

Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams

By Liam Dawe,
Time load up that Steam downloads list because Steam Next Fest is here once again, and there's a whole lot of demos for you to try out.

Super Pocket Taito Edition Review - Licensed Linux Retro-gaming on a Budget

By Pengling,
Blaze Entertainment's latest Evercade-compatible device makes for an excellent entry to licensed emulation on Linux.

Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld to come with Manjaro Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Shown off during the recent FOSDEM 2024 event, it seems the Manjaro Linux team have buddied up with hardware vendor Orange Pi for the Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld.

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 adds Video Capture Device (PipeWire) source, plus more AV1 support

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Beta is available for the video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio, with OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 bringing various new features and fixes.

What to Expect From Wine on Wayland in 2024

By pleasereadthemanual,
Collabora, the company responsible for developing Wine's Wayland driver and getting it into Wine proper, has just published Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead).

Beginner-friendly factory sim shapez 2 now has a demo

By Liam Dawe,
shapez 2 is a huge expansion over the original 2D shape-cutting factory sim, now in full 3D with a lot more features and there's now a demo available to try it out.

Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Zeb Figura of CodeWeavers has proposed a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver to help performance of running games and applications designed for Windows on Linux with Wine / Proton.

The Universim god-game city-builder 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The Universim from Crytivo has finally released, what they call a "new breed of God Game" where you guide a civilisation from nothing up to the stars.

Multiple shoot 'em ups from Taito like G-Darius HD got fixed up for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Taito and M2 have been bringing some updated shoot 'em up classics to Steam with lots of enhancements, and players seem to love them. Now titles like G-Darius HD should work great on the Steam Deck.

Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol. 3 announced

By Liam Dawe,
Even more classics are getting a new life on PC with the Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol. 3 announced for release on February 1st along with Linux and Steam Deck support just like the previous collections.
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