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Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Rain Games developer of Teslagrad has just released Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne, an action adventure game based on the graphic novel series, Girl Genius, by authors Phil & Kaja Foglio.

Steam will soon show better controller support details like for PlayStation controllers

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has announced to developers that they're going to be rolling out better ways to show off controller support for games on Steam.

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor more playable on Steam Deck with Patch 7

By Liam Dawe,
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor just had Patch 7 released, and Respawn noted it includes some performance improvements. So what does this mean for the Steam Deck? Here's what.

Humble Choice has Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, Patch Quest, Deceive Inc + more

By Liam Dawe,
Another pretty great sounding bundle of games, with the monthly Humble Choice live for September. Here's a run over the compatibility for Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars getting remastered, plus a whole new adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Revolution Software recently announced two huge bits of news for adventure game fans! Not only will there be a whole new game with Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone but Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged is coming too.

Linux updates tease Valve 'Galileo' and 'Sephiroth' - Steam Deck refresh? Or new VR?

By Liam Dawe,
Here's something that could be exciting but also could be a whole lot of nothing. So keep expectations firmly in check, but work submitted for Linux kernel 6.6 show something interesting from Valve. Potentially a Steam Deck refresh or their new VR headset perhaps?

Half-Life Alyx NoVR mod to get a huge upgrade in October

By Liam Dawe,
The work going into the Half-Life Alyx NoVR mod is quite amazing, and while it was already very playable the next major update coming in October is going to really expand it.

Zoom Platform adds Syberia and Syberia II powered by ScummVM

By Liam Dawe,
It's now easier than ever to play the classic adventures Syberia and Syberia II from Microids, as the Zoom Platform has added them with cross-platform support.

Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers

By Liam Dawe,
Ethan Lee, otherwise known as flibitijibibo (really rolls off the tongue huh), who created FNA and has ported a ton of games to Linux, macOS and more has announced a new game maintenance service for developers.

Get a bunch of live-action FMV games from Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Love live-action FMV games? Wales Interactive teamed up with Humble Bundle to give you a bunch of them so here's the compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

Valve goes for the smurfs banning 90,000 people in Dota 2

By Liam Dawe,
After the rather exciting launch of the Summer Update bringing with it new matchmaking and tools to get rid of bad experiences, Valve goes for the smurfs next.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 32: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

By Hamish,
Over the past few months I have been making a number of upgrades and changes to Dianoga, and the time has come to lay them all out. The first upgrade I purchased at the start of the year was a simple one, but I now had more than doubled the amount of hard drive space Linux had available, and could enjoy more games with my CRT monitor.

Here's the most popular Steam Deck games for August 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh month and Valve has revealed what were the most played games on Steam Deck. Plenty of them are of course quite obvious based on what released recently.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 535.43.09 and stable 535.104.05 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA recently released two fresh driver upgrades for Linux, although one of them we have no idea what they actually changed. Here's what's up.

Here's how Starfield runs on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Want to know how Starfield runs on Steam Deck? Or desktop Linux? Well, I've given it a run to see what I think of it and here's some early info for you.

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey

By Liam Dawe,
After the rather exciting development in the last Steam Hardware & Software Survey where Linux users overtook macOS for the first time, the latest survey shows Linux continues to be above macOS but with the numbers dipping down.

Wine 8.15 is out now, plus more Wine Wayland work submitted

By Liam Dawe,
Two bits of Wine news for this weekend with the development release Wine 8.15 now available, and more work for Wine Wayland is incoming too.

GE-Proton 8-14 released, deprecated workarounds removed

By Smellbringer,
The latest release for GE-Proton, the community version of Proton, has dropped. Version 8-14 brings with it several fixes and workaround removals that had deprecated.

The state of optimus-manager explained by its developer

By nwildner,
This Linux program provides a solution for GPU switching on Optimus laptops (i.e laptops with a dual Nvidia/Intel or Nvidia/AMD configuration).

Creature-collecting life-sim Moonstone Island launches September 20th

By Liam Dawe,
Studio Supersoft and publisher Raw Fury have announced the cute creature-collecting life-sim Moonstone Island launches September 20th.