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Steam Deck hits 15,000 games rated Playable and Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's popular Linux-powered gaming handheld the Steam Deck has hit a new milestone, with 15,000 games now rated either Playable or Verified. And it continues to sell well.

Latest stable Steam Deck update fixes a boot game mode issue

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a small stable update for the Steam Deck, while work continues on SteamOS 3.6 that's currently in Preview.

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

By Liam Dawe,
Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features.

Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers puts a new spin on Blackjack for deck-builder fans

By Liam Dawe,
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is a different kind of deck-builder and given the popularity of Balatro, this could be another fun one to try. Set in a tavern packed with the rough and ready, where everyone plays a very different version of traditional Blackjack.

Insane FPS 'MULLET MADJACK' gets updated for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Quite a popular recent Steam release is MULLET MADJACK, a very vibrant single-player FPS set inside a retro Anime. It looks absolutely wild and the developer has made improvements to it on Steam Deck.

Ruins To Fortress is a PvP and PvE side-scrolling post-apocalyptic survival game

By Liam Dawe,
Ruins To Fortress is a side-scrolling multiplayer PvP and PvE survival indie game set on an atmospheric dystopian island. A bit like a side-scrolling Rust.

Try the demo for Dreaming Isles, a farming life sim and a high-seas adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Love Stardew Valley and want something different? Dreaming Isles seems like a truly wonderful idea blending the farming life sim with a high seas adventure.

Mind-melting portal-platformer Ingression out with Linux / Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Ingression is a an unforgiving & mind-bending precision platformer where you'll think and platform with seamless portal travel that will make your head spin.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory announced, a new choice-driven RPG thriller visual novel

By Liam Dawe,
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory was revealed recently by Different Tales, who also made the rather great Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest.

Action-adventure game 'Inside The Crystal Mountain' looks wild and has been overlooked

By Liam Dawe,
Inside The Crystal Mountain from Intrugli Games released back in March, and it seems nearly everyone missed it and it looks pretty crazy.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius free to keep, plus new announcements from Skulls Showcase

By Liam Dawe,
The Warhammer Skulls Showcase has come along again, and we've got multiple new announcements plus you can grab a free game!

Atari acquires Intellivision brand and over 200 games

By Liam Dawe,
Since you all love reading about games industry consolidation, here's more for you! Atari have acquired a whole lot from Intellivision.

Proton Experimental adds D3D12 support in OpenXR, Fixes for Foundry and Ubisoft Launcher

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Deck and desktop Linux fans have more testing to do, with Valve releasing a new Proton Experimental update today fixing games, launchers and more.

Mighty Marbles is an upcoming physics game that looks like a fusion of kids toys

By Liam Dawe,
I remember playing with various crazy Marbles games when younger, and again with my own small person and now one developer is making a whole game about messing with them in Mighty Marbles.

Check out the demo for Oblin Party, a wacky physics-based couch/online party brawler

By Liam Dawe,
If you love a good bit of total chaos then check out Oblin Party, an upcoming wacky physics-based, couch/online party brawler where the hands do the talking.

DAVE THE DIVER gets a free to keep (but time-limited) Godzilla DLC

By Liam Dawe,
This is a bit unusual. DAVE THE DIVER from developer MINTROCKET has a new Godzilla DLC out now, which is entirely free to claim but it's not sticking around forever.

Wraithbinder is a new metroidvania-inspired action RPG from the dev of Songbringer

By Liam Dawe,
Wraithbinder is an action roguelike RPG with metroidvania-inspired ability progression. It's just about to enter Early Access with Native Linux support from Wizard Fu (Songbringer) and Double Eleven.

Crownfall Act II and Update 7.36 are a big change for Dota 2

By Liam Dawe,
The way you play Dota 2 is about to change in multiple ways, with Crownfall Act II and Update 7.36 out now and it sounds pretty exciting actually.

Microsoft's new Recall AI will take screenshots of everything you do - freaky

By Liam Dawe,
This will be preaching to the choir for some readers, as you didn't exactly need another reason not to use Windows right? Microsoft's new Recall AI will take screenshots of everything you do and that sounds truly terrible.

Mesa 24.1.0 released with big improvements for NVK, Zink, Explicit Sync

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for the next upgrade to open source graphics drivers? Mesa 24.1.0 has now released bringing some big enhancements to many different drivers across AMD, NVIDIA, Intel and others.