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Steam will now show you who is playing on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve will actually show you who is gaming on a Steam Deck.

Athena Crisis now Steam Deck Verified, full release with single-player campaign in September

By Liam Dawe,
Athena Crisis is a modern retro turn-based strategy game inspired by Advance Wars, and not only is now Steam Deck Verified but they've announced the full release is coming soon.

Enshrouded gets AMD FSR 3 and Steam Deck stability and performance upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Might be time to jump back into Enshrouded, as it should run better than ever no matter what system you're on, but especially Steam Deck players.

Grab some cheap Resident Evil games from this Fanatical Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Who needs to wait for spooky season? Scare yourself silly right now with the Build your own Resident Evil Bundle from Fanatical.

Grab a free copy of Drawful 2 now that The Jackbox Megapicker is out

By Liam Dawe,
The Jackbox Megapicker is a launcher to bring together the many party games that Jackbox Games, Inc. have created to help get your party started. It's out now, and Drawful 2 is free until August 28th.

Pixelorama, a powerful and accessible open-source pixel art tool v1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
I love good pixel art, and so it's nice to see more tools becoming available for game developers, especially when they're open source too. Pixelorama version 1.0 is out now after 5 years in development.

PlayStation Remote Play app gets renamed to chiaki-ng (chiaki-next-generation)

By Liam Dawe,
What was originally called chiaki4deck, a lot of people thought it was primarily aimed at PlayStation Remote Play for Steam Deck but they've now rebranded to chiaki-ng (chiaki-next-generation).

MangoHud helper app GOverlay v1.2 out now with quick layout presets

By Liam Dawe,
GOverlay can be useful for helping to configure MangoHud, the Linux gaming performance overlay, especially if you prefer a UI to editing text files and version 1.2 is out now adding quick layout presets support.

Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 has begun

By Liam Dawe,
While I still grumble that Defense is the accepted spelling as a brit I want to always type Defence but anyway the Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 is now live.

Please, Touch The Artwork 2 adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
While it was already playable with Proton, the developer of Please, Touch The Artwork 2 has added a Native Linux version.

Alien: Rogue Incursion (VR) looks like it will turn me into a nervous wreck

By Liam Dawe,
I'm looking forward to playing through another proper single-player VR game, and it looks like Alien: Rogue Incursion may be my next big one.

Control your cooling on Linux with CoolerControl - v1.4 brings AMD GPU RDNA 3 fan support

By Liam Dawe,
A really feature-rich application here for those of you who wants a bit more control of your cooling on Linux. CoolerControl v1.4 just released bringing more hardware support, and various improvements.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.10.2 adds support for the WineZGUI launcher and old compatibility tools

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonUp-Qt is such a useful tool for Linux desktop and Steam Deck gaming, giving you an easy all-in-one way to add different versions of GE-Proton and other tools to different launchers and a new version is out now with v2.10.2.

GE-Proton 9-11 released with fixes for Dragon Age: Inquisition, WRC 4

By Liam Dawe,
Another release of GE-Proton / Proton-GE with version 9-11 updating various stuff behind the scenes, along with some more game-specific fixes for Linux desktop and Steam Deck gaming.

Wine 9.14 released with more ODBC Windows drivers support

By Liam Dawe,
Just before the weekend was over, another development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine 9.14 was released.

Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Available now with Native Linux support and full Steam Deck support with the 1.0 release, Scorchlands has left Early Access.

Old School Rally now Steam Deck Verified with an impressive roadmap ahead

By Liam Dawe,
Old School Rally released recently and it not only looks fantastic for retro rally fans, it's also now Steam Deck Verified.

Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of Puzzledorf emailed in about their rather vibrant Sokoban-style game that recently added Native Linux support.

No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update

By Liam Dawe,
No Rest for the Wicked from Moon Studios GmbH and Private Division has been through another major upgrade, and thanks to it the game is now Steam Deck Verified.

Linux Mint 22 is officially out now supported until 2029

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" is officially out now, as their next long-term supported release with updates until 2029 based on Ubuntu 24.04.