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Valve has launched Steam Next Fest, another good opportunity for you to jump in and test some upcoming games that runs through until March 3rd.

At least on AMD systems like Steam Deck and my Desktop Linux install, it seems like the demo of RoadCraft from Saber Interactive / Focus Entertainment is quite broken.

Valve just released a tiny SteamOS 3.6.22 "Volcanic Activity" Beta for Steam Deck, which includes a fix for a rather annoying issue.

Here we go again. One game I was excited about was the upcoming Mecha BREAK, which currently has a playtest demo on Steam but they've added in anti-cheat.

The open source and cross-platform evolution sim Thrive has added in some even more advanced gameplay elements, making it a whole lot more interesting to attempt survival.

AI this, AI that - you can't go anywhere without something trying to force AI on you. Usually a company trying to get you to buy into what they've wasted billions on. So indie devs have begun fighting back with their No Gen AI Seal.

Due Process from developer Giant Enemy Crab uses Easy Anti-Cheat that previously blocked Linux (and so Steam Deck too), but they've now enabled Linux players to jump in.

Do you love deck-builders? Hungry Horrors is quite an inventive take on the genre where instead of fighting them, you cook for them!

One to keep an eye on if you liked the classic Dungeon Keeper or the modern Dungeons series from Kalypso Media is the freshly announced Cthulhu Keeper.

Currently in the Release Candidate stage, Morrowind open source game engine OpenMW is getting ready for a huge new release.

The popular game manager / launcher Lutris has a new release out, which brings with it various improvements to how it handles launching games with Proton.

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition from Beamdog just got a brand new sequel story DLC, and it also seems we're getting Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition from Aspyr Media.

Wine 10.2 is the latest development released with new features now available for the Windows compatibility layer, plus they also recently put up vkd3d 1.15. This is a huge part of what makes Proton able to run Windows games on Steam Deck and other Linux platforms.

Valve have released a fresh update to the special Proton Hotfix version. This fixes up issues on Steam Deck / Linux across Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

While it's not compatible with the original 2D game, the announcement of Among Us 3D is quite exciting bridging the worlds of traditional 3D and VR together for the popular social deduction game.

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for February 21st, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

For people who enjoy seeing improvements for emulation on Linux, and for Wayland support - the Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 has now enabled support for it by default.

Playtron, the company attempting to build a Linux gaming distribution to take on Valve, Microsoft and others have released GameOS Alpha 3 with a bunch of new features. This includes a new fancy open source tool named GameLAB.

The update simply called "Content" brings a whole lot of extras to Lucky Tower Ultimate, my current favourite dungeon crawler that keeps on making me laugh.

The community made and supported OpenRazer driver has a new v3.10 release available now, further expanding Razer hardware capabilities on Linux.