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Wine 9.10 brings updated vkd3d, more ARM improvements

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 9.10 development release is out now for the Windows compatibility layer, part of the secret juice of Steam Play Proton.

Selaco is now in Early Access - one of the best shooters I've played in forever

By Liam Dawe,
The day is finally here, Selaco from Altered Orbit Studios has now entered Early Access so you can see what absolute insanity they've been able to do with the GZDoom code.

HoMM-like sci-fi strategy game Silence of the Siren has a new demo and release date

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by classics like Heroes of Might and Magic, developers Oxymoron Games (Project Hospital) have revealed their sci-fi strategy game Silence of the Siren has a fresh upgraded demo and release date.

Gourdlets is a chilled sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks

By Liam Dawe,
With a demo available now and a release window revealed for sometime this Summer, Gourdlets looks like a really sweet and chilled game to try out with Linux support.

Cozy gardening slice-of-life sim The Garden Path arrives July 30

By Liam Dawe,
Oh wow, a birthday present just for me huh? The Garden Path from carrotcake and Mooncat Games is now going to release on July 30th.

Path of Exile 2 will have couch co-op, cross-play and cross-progression

By Liam Dawe,
I know there's quite a lot of Path of Exile fans here, especially as it works so well with Proton on Linux PCs and Steam Deck. Sounds like Path of Exile 2 is going to be a whole lot better too.

Proton 9.0-2 has a Release Candidate ready for testing on Linux PC and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve stealthily put out a Release Candidate for testing the next stable update to Proton for Linux PCs and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-2.

God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn coming to Steam, requires PlayStation Network Account

By Liam Dawe,
Both God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn are coming to Steam finally, but they will annoyingly require a PlayStation Network Account despite being single-player games.

Rack and Slay answers the question of "what if a dungeon crawler was like billiards"

By Liam Dawe,
Answering the question you didn't think to ask, Rack and Slay has shown up to show you what happens when you combine a dungeon crawler with something resembling billiards and pool. It's as odd as it sounds but it works.

Dev of crowdfunded WW1 survival-horror game CONSCRIPT cancels Linux and macOS versions

By Liam Dawe,
CONSCRIPT from Jordan Mochi/ Catchweight Studio and publisher Team17 is a promising looking first world war survival-horror that was crowdfunded back in 2020. Now the developer has cancelled the planned Linux and macOS versions.

Framework Laptop 13 gets Intel Core Ultra with a 120 Hz display, and cheaper AMD models

By Liam Dawe,
Framework, the popular maker of customizable, modular and upgradable laptops has announced a big upgrade for the Framework Laptop 13 across both Intel and AMD models.

Super-chilled management game Minami Lane adds full controller support

By Liam Dawe,
Minami Lane from Doot / Blibloop released with Native Linux support back in February, and the developer just released a major update adding in controller support.

Athena Crisis looks a lot like Advance Wars and now its code is open source

By Liam Dawe,
Entering Early Access on Steam back in March, Athena Crisis clearly takes inspiration from the classic Advance Wars and now the code has been made open source.

Over 30,000 people are clicking a picture of a Banana on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Never a dull day on Steam, with there now being a game where all you do is just click a picture of a Banana. Yes, that's it and over 30,000 people are playing it right now.

Team Fortress 2 fans have launched a new campaign to get Valve to save it

By Liam Dawe,
Valve fans sure are passionate and they're once again trying to get Valve's attention to sort out various problems in Team Fortress 2.

Garry Newman of Facepunch comments on the Nintendo takedown of Garry's Mod content

By Liam Dawe,
Recently it was pretty big news that Nintendo issued takedowns to Facepunch for Garry's Mod content, and now Garry Newman of Facepunch (developer of Garry's Mod and Rust) has written up a blog post with some comments on it.

SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"

By Liam Dawe,
Exciting, even more improvements to SteamVR support are coming with the latest Beta release fixing up more issues.

The supervillains won, so fight back in superhero strategy game Capes - out now

By Liam Dawe,
From Spitfire Interactive, former members of Defiant Development who made Hand of Fate, comes the superhero strategy game Capes. It's out now with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified.

It Takes Two now Steam Deck Verified, EA App launcher no longer required

By Liam Dawe,
Finally some good news from an Electronic Arts published title, as developer Hazelight just upgraded It Takes Two to get it Steam Deck Verified.

We're giving away three copies of the open-world RPG roguelike The Doors of Trithius

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of The Doors of Trithius got in touch to provide some Steam keys to give away for their Early Access expansive open-world RPG roguelike.