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Steam purchases now clearly state you're just getting a license not ownership

By Liam Dawe,
Doing the rounds across the net right now is a small update to the Steam checkout process when you're making a purchase, to make it clear you don't own what you buy.

NonSteamLaunchers gets booted from Steam Deck plugin store Decky Loader

By Liam Dawe,
There's a bit of unfortunate drama going on right now in Steam Deck land, with the Steam Deck plugin NonSteamLaunchers for Decky Loader getting the boot.

Comedy 2.5D puzzle-platformer Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator gets a demo and new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
A single-player comedy adventure 2.5D platformer developer by a former Disney ride designer, Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator looks and sounds great.

ZEPHON from the devs of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius releases November 8

By Liam Dawe,
Proxy Studios, developer of the popular Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, have announced their next 4x strategy game ZEPHON will release on November 8th.

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered announced by Aspyr for 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Aspyr Media seem to be on quite a roll lately, as they've today not only announced Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles for PC but also Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered as well!

Aspyr announce Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles coming to PC in 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles is another remaster coming from Aspyr Media, bringing over the originally console-exclusive game to PC.

Humble Store has a big sale on Handheld Hits - cheap games for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
If you're in need of more games, here's another big sale for you. Humble Store are running a Handheld Hits sale that's good for Steam Deck players.

Internet Archive hit with DDoS attacks and hacked with 31 million accounts hit

By Liam Dawe,
A sad day for the internet, as it has been confirmed that the Internet Archive that hosts a massive amount of historical data has been hit by DDoS attacks, and unfortunately they've had a breach.

Ubuntu 24.10, Kubuntu 24.10 and other Linux flavours now officially released

By Liam Dawe,
The day is here. Canonical have announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole), along with various flavours like Kubuntu 24.10 now being available.

Gaming on Linux with Apple Silicon now becoming a very real thing

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has given an update in a blog post and a presentation at XDC 2024 going over work to improve Linux gaming on the Apple M1/M2 with Asahi Linux.

First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility

By Liam Dawe,
In a really surprising move the developers behind Decky Loader plugin Junk Store, which provides the ability to install games from GOG and Epic Games, are bringing the plugin to Steam officially.

Steam Deck officially comes to Australia in November

By Liam Dawe,
Our friends down under will finally be able to buy an officially supported Steam Deck, as it heads to Australia officially in November.

Think you've seen it all? There's now a Steam game about squeezing eggs

By Liam Dawe,
You've cooked a lot of them in Arctic Eggs (which is really good) but have you ever just stopped for a moment to squeeze some eggs? No? Maybe you should.

Explore a top-secret uranium mine in retro-FPS Kvark

By Liam Dawe,
Kvark is a new release from developer Latest Past and publisher Perun Creative, set in a fictional version of the 80s Czech Republic where you explore a top-secret uranium mine.

Fanatical give you another chance to build up your Resident Evil collection

By Liam Dawe,
If you've missed out on previous sales and bundles of Resident Evil games, you've got another chance for some big savings in the Build your own Resident Evil Bundle: Reawakened from Fanatical.

Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) is a sweet game about writing letters to real people

By Liam Dawe,
Expanding greatly from the original, Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) from Popcannibal is out now with Linux support.

FEX-Emu version 2410 out bringing some important fixes for gaming on AArch64

By nwildner,
FEX-Emu is an emulation layer that allows you to run x86 and x86-64 binaries (like games and apps) on an AArch64 Linux host, similar to qemu-user and box86/box64. Instead of using full disk images, FEX-Emu uses rootfs overlay + forwarding GL processing to the host to achieve better performance in emulated software.

Descent 3: Piccu Engine is a new open source build focused on quality-of-life improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Thanks to Descent 3 being officially open source, developers can do almost anything with it now and this has given rise to the Descent 3: Piccu Engine.

SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview released

By Liam Dawe,
One missed in the inbox of no return from last week. The next-generation SDL 3 is closing in on a proper stable release now with the SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview now available for game developers.

Steam Beta fixes up issues with Game Recording, Remote Play and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released another smaller Beta update for Steam desktop and Steam Deck with even more bug fixes.