Confused on Steam Play and Proton? Be sure to check out our guide.

WebScreen is a customizable open source mini-screen that sits on your monitor to show notifications and more

By Liam Dawe,
WebScreen is an upcoming mini-screen that can sit on top of your monitor like a webcam, allowing you to customize it to get notifications and all sorts so you don't miss anything while you're busy (like playing video games).

A fresh Steam Deck Verified games round-up for January 2025

By Liam Dawe,
If you're in the mood for something new to play on Steam Deck, I've gone through what's been recently Steam Deck Verified by Valve and picked out some good stuff for you.
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Impressive colony building sim Songs of Syx is getting ready to leave Early Access with a big new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Songs of Syx is a deep and engrossing colony-building sim from Gamatron AB that has steadily improved with new updates since the 2020 release into Early Access but the 1.0 release is finally approaching.

Discord screen-sharing with audio on Linux Wayland is officially here

By Liam Dawe,
Finally, Discord stable has a new release available, and it officially brings full screen-sharing with audio on Linux with Wayland.

Positively rated immersive-sim FPS Fortune's Run is on hold as the developer is going to prison

By Liam Dawe,
Announced originally during the Realms Deep event in 2021, and later released into Early Access on Steam in 2023, Fortune's Run is a highly rated immersive-sim FPS but now its future is uncertain.

There goes the weekend - rogue-lite action-RPG Heroes of Hammerwatch II is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Crackshell have released Heroes of Hammerwatch II, a rogue-lite action-rpg that offers extensive persistent progression.

Forest Reigns is a post-apocalyptic FPS set in Paris from former Stalker devs

By Liam Dawe,
Forest Reigns looks like a beautiful blend of gameplay with elements of Stalker, Crysis and Fallout wrapped up in a neat package.

Jan 14th Steam Beta fixes Linux issues, a Steam Deck WiFi crash, View In Library added to Downloads page

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a nice fresh Steam Beta (January 14th) for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs squashing some bugs and adding in some new options.

Scribbly comic-book styled Heroes of the Seven Islands is a party-based RPG inspired by 90s games

By Liam Dawe,
With a demo now available, if you love turn-based dungeon crawling RPGs like something out of the 90s, be sure to go and check out Heroes of the Seven Islands.

The Stop Killing Games petition is back in the UK to sign

By Liam Dawe,
Announced back in early 2024, the Stop Killing Games campaign was launched to try and persuade governments across the world to change the law on games being shut down and taken away from you.

Vulkan Quake port vkQuake 1.32 adds external WAD, WAD3, and Half-life format support

By Liam Dawe,
vkQuake is an advanced port of id Software's Quake using Vulkan instead of OpenGL for rendering. It's impressive, one of the best ways to play, and the recent update sounds pretty delightful.

Mighty Marbles is a sweet physics-based toy playground out now

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one missed from the Christmas break. Mighty Marbles from developer James Oliver has released with Native Linux support.

GOG joins the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects

By Liam Dawe,
GOG made a press announcement today to note they've joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP).

Co-op horror game KLETKA managed over 100K sales in a month

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of KLETKA, a strange co-op horror game about travelling in a hungry living elevator, have announced some stats and it seems they've done well.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer

By Hamish,
For a time the term "multimedia" was one of the hottest buzzwords in the computer software industry. A number of individuals and firms staked both their futures and careers on the creation of bespoke interactive experiences, often in the service of marketing more established businesses and brands. Enter Lost Boys, an outfit based in the Netherlands intent on doing exactly that.

DXVK v2.5.3 released with more improvements for Windows games on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Philip Rebohle has released DXVK version 2.5.3 bringing more improvements for this tool that translates Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan.

Minecraft gets new pigs, wildflowers and ambient features in the latest Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Mojang have released the first Snapshot (a Beta) of the next Minecraft update, and with it there's a bunch of new features included for explorers.

DEFICIT is an exciting looking new FPS with chaotic close-quarters combat

By Liam Dawe,
Developer ITEM42 recently announced DEFICIT and it's not often I feel I really need a game after seeing a trailer but DEFICIT looks juicy.

Fanatical's Diamond Collection for January 2025 offers up 16 games with good Linux / Steam Deck compatibility

By Liam Dawe,
Build up your game collection with a fresh Fanatical Diamond Collection Bundle, giving you a build your own deal to save monies.

NTSYNC driver for improving Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton should finally land in Linux kernel 6.14

By Liam Dawe,
After waiting quite a while on it and some rewrites, it looks like the NTSYNC driver code to help Windows games running on Linux will be pulled in and enabled in the Linux kernel.