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Dwarf Fortress gets a Linux Beta on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to dig deep? Dwarf Fortress now has a Linux Beta available on Steam, so you can get testing and see what all the fuss is about with this new version.

Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new

By Liam Dawe,
The open source compatibility layer Wine has a brand new development release available. Here's what's new and changed in Wine 8.14.

Steam Deck recently had two Beta releases, here's what's changed

By Smellbringer,
Valve has rolled out two updates for the Beta Branch of the Steam Deck within two days, August 17th and August 19th. Here's what's changed.

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON rated Steam Deck Playable ahead of release

By Liam Dawe,
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON is a seriously exciting upcoming release from the ELDEN RING developer FromSoftware. Seems it will run well enough on Steam Deck at release!

Linux players getting banned on Apex Legends again

By Liam Dawe,
As a little PSA word of warning, it seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave or they've tweaked something in their anti-cheat that Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in for Apex Legends.

Proton Experimental updated for August 18 fixing up more regressions

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue cleaning up regressions with a new Proton Experimental release put up on August 18th, so here's what's been sorted this time.

Get a bunch of building and management sims in this fresh Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another interesting looking set of games is live with the If You Build It - Cities & More Bundle. So here's your usual run over compatibility on desktop Linux and Steam Deck.

No Man’s Sky has a teaser for the 'Echoes' update to celebrate 7 years

By Liam Dawe,
Coming soon they say, a fresh big update to No Man's Sky is on the way and they're celebrating 7 years since the release with a new video.

No sound in War Thunder on Linux? Here's a potential solution

By Liam Dawe,
War Thunder is a game I enjoy playing with friends quite a lot, and after recently Linux distro hopping from Fedora to openSUSE and then back to the safety of Kubuntu - my sound in War Thunder wouldn't work. But I have a potential solution for you that worked for me.

SteamVR Beta gets some improvements for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has pushed out a fresh SteamVR Beta, and it seems they've begun cleaning up the Linux side of it that's had some issues plaguing it recently.

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition gets a GOG release and 75% off

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for fans of DRM free gaming and GOG store users, as Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition is now available although it doesn't support Creation Club.

OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 released supporting Intel QSV on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio is readying up another release, with OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 now available for testing.

Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet

By Liam Dawe,
In the market for a new laptop or perhaps a Microsoft Surface-like tablet style system? Well, Star Labs have turned their StarLite laptop into a tablet.

Recent NVIDIA drivers are causing issues for Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Have you been seeing some problems with the NVIDIA 535 driver series when trying to run Steam games on Linux with Proton? Well, you're not alone but investigations are under way. Here's what's happening.

Vampire Survivors co-op and new game engine upgrade is live

By Liam Dawe,
The game that started off a sudden craze and lots of clones, Vampire Survivors 1.6 is out now adding in local co-op along with moving over to the Unity game engine.

Modern text adventure 'I doesn't exist' releasing September 12th

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the likes of The Beginner's Guide, Stories Untold, Buddy Simulator, and Zork — [I] doesn't exist is a love letter to the origins of narrative-focused gaming and levels up the text adventure genre through the use of conversational text recognition, beautiful, surreal pixel art, and unconventional, intrapersonal themes.

Paradox Interactive acquires Across the Obelisk, plus new expansion released

By Liam Dawe,
After initially being under the Paradox Arc publishing arm, it seems Across the Obelisk has done well enough for Paradox Interactive directly to want it - so they acquired it.

CrossOver 23 released for Windows apps and games on Linux, ChromeOS and macOS

By Liam Dawe,
CodeWeavers, the company that works in partnership with Valve on Proton, has released CrossOver 23 - the latest version of their app to help run Windows apps and games on other platforms like Linux, ChromeOS and macOS.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets lots of optimizations, fixes for Pikmin 4

By Liam Dawe,
The team working on the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have another progress report up, and as usual it's looking mighty fine so here's a little run over what they've done recently.

Check out the first gameplay for sci-fi strategy game Silence of the Siren

By Liam Dawe,
Silence of the Siren is an exciting looking game you need to follow if you're a fan of strategy games, in development by Oxymoron Games who created Project Hospital.