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Auto-battler dungeon crawler Skull Horde announced by dev of BORE BLASTERS

By Liam Dawe,
BORE BLASTERS developer 8BitSkull have announced their next game, Skull Horde, which will be released in 2025 with Linux and Steam Deck support.

AutoForge is Terraria mixed with Factorio, devs plan Steam Deck and controller support soon

By Liam Dawe,
Blending the mining and side-scrolling from Terraria, with the building and automation from Factorio — AutoForge looks interesting. Maybe this will scratch an itch you didn't know you had.

Steam Deck Verified round-up, your late October 2024 highlights

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your next run over some recent Steam Deck Verified games, those that should just be click and play on both Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Get over 60 games free with Prime Gaming right now - many work on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another round up of some free games you can get to play on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to Prime Gaming.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.19 Beta released

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released another SteamOS Beta for Steam Deck with a couple of fixes, as they continue working towards a stable release of SteamOS 3.6.

FMV Adventures Bundle on Fanatical has some great stuff for cheaps

By Liam Dawe,
Remember when FMV games were a big thing? Fanatical do with the FMV Adventures Bundle filled full of some fun times.

Portal 2 project lead wants Valve to return to single-player games

By Liam Dawe,
During PAX Aus 2024 not only did we get the Steam Deck for Australia announcement, but the project leader on Valve's own Portal 2 did an interview with KIWI TALKZ.

SILENT HILL 2 gets a big update with Steam Deck performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
SILENT HILL 2 from Bloober Team SA and KONAMI just got a fresh update today, pulling in lots of fixes and some technical improvements.

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania DLC arrives for Halloween

By Liam Dawe,
Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania is the latest expansion to the smash hit survivor game that started it all, and it's coming on Halloween.

Get the Atari 50 collection plus various classic Recharged games in this Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Atari Recharged Retro Revival Humble Bundle is live and it includes the nice big Atari 50 Anniversary Collection, along with a bunch of their modernized Recharged series games.

Factorio 2.0 and Factorio: Space Age DLC are out now

By Liam Dawe,
After you've spent hours and weeks building up to go blast a rocket off into space, Factorio: Space Age will have you continue across multiple new worlds in this DLC for the massively popular building and automation sim.

Control spin-off FBC: Firebreak from Remedy aims for Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is excellent news. I'm a big fan of Control and the world of Remedy Entertainment games and their new multiplayer spin-off FBC: Firebreak should get Steam Deck support.

Cleared Hot looks like the nostalgic helicopter shooter I need

By Liam Dawe,
With fond memories of playing the likes of Desert Strike for endless hours, Cleared Hot looks exactly what I've been wanting in a modern take on it.

In snake-like PAKO Caravan you build up a huge conga line of trailers with a wobbly car

By Liam Dawe,
This is quite a funny one. Taking the basic idea of snake where you're constantly growing, but you control a wobbly car that can jump.

Duake puts the Doomguy in Quake

By Liam Dawe,
Mashing two of the greats together, Duake brings the Doomguy along with their full arsenal into the classic Quake.

Free and open source strategy-shooter Unvanquished 0.55 brings big enhancements

By Liam Dawe,
Unvanquished is having a bit of a big moment, with some fresh coders doing some great work on this strategy-shooter that's similar in basic idea to Natural Selection.

Proton Experimental improves Red Dead Redemption 2, EA Desktop App and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve updated Proton Experimental again for running Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck. Here's what's changed for the October 18th update.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 comes to Steam in January 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Excellent news. PlayStation Publishing, Insomniac Games and Nixxes Software are bringing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 over to Steam on January 30, 2025.

Wine 9.20 expands DirectPlay and more formats supported in D3DX9

By Liam Dawe,
Another biweekly release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine is out now! Wine 9.20 brings the usual assortment of new features and bug fixes.

SteamOS alternative Bazzite adds support for OneXPlayer plus improvements for ROG Ally

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite is a SteamOS alternative that just keeps getting better. So while Valve have yet to release the Steam Deck version of SteamOS for others, Bazzite could be one of your best choices for Linux on handhelds.