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Humble brings back popular bundles for a limited time like Must-Play Metroidvanias

By Liam Dawe,
For a very limited time on each, Humble Bundle are bringing back various popular bundles over the festive period starting with the Must-Play Metroidvanias Bundle.

Wine 9.0 has a first Release Candidate released

By Liam Dawe,
The time is approaching for the next major version bump to the Windows compatibility layer Wine, with Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 1 now available.

World of Goo 2 announced for release in 2024

By Liam Dawe,
2D Boy and Tomorrow Corporation are coming back for one more run, with World of Goo 2 being announced and it looks glorious. They also note it's the "biggest game we've ever made".

Traffic optimisation puzzle-sim GRIDROAD hits Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Love a challenge and don't get your brain in a twist easily? GRIDROAD is a fun idea putting you in charge of building roads and optimizing traffic.

Cautiously hyped for Light No Fire from the No Man's Sky team at Hello Games

By Liam Dawe,
Light No Fire is another interesting game announcement coming from The Game Awards 2023, coming from Hello Games, the crew that created No Man's Sky.

SEGA tease new Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Crazy Taxi

By Liam Dawe,
The Game Awards 2023 are over and I'm going over some of the interesting bits that were announced, like SEGA deciding to just go nuts.

DOS_deck brings DOS games to your browser with a Steam Deck interface

By Liam Dawe,
This is a fun idea for classic games. DOS_deck is a website where you can go and play some classic DOS games right in the browser with an interface much like the Steam Deck / Steam Big Picture Mode.

Steam Deck Beta and SteamOS Preview fix up some annoying issues

By Liam Dawe,
Valve recently put up a fresh Steam Deck Client Beta, along with a new SteamOS Preview release and together they fix some important issues that appeared.

W4 Games raises $15M to help push Godot Engine

By Liam Dawe,
W4 Games, the company set up by Godot Engine veterans Juan Linietsky, Rémi Verschelde and Fabio Alessandrelli, along with veteran entrepreneur Nicola Farronato just received a rather large sum of funding.

Steam Deck OLED hits retail stores on December 12th in Asia

By Liam Dawe,
KOMODO has announced their retail expansion with the Steam Deck OLED planned to be in stores across Asia starting December 12th.

Dig Dig Boom is a charming looking turn-based puzzle mining roguelike

By Liam Dawe,
Turn-based puzzle mining in a highly dynamic destructible world, Dig Dig Boom looks like a charming game you should stick on your wishlist.

Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop) announced - a game about being kind to real people

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the game Kind Words? A tiny little thing that came out in 2019 that let you send letters to real people, along with listening to some chill beats. Well, it's getting an expanded sequel with Kind Words 2 (lofi city pop).

Beat 'N' Path has you combine creativity and logic to make musical machines

By Liam Dawe,
Beat 'N' Path sounds like a fun game for the creative mind, that has you design and build various machines to produce music across a career mode and a sandbox to create whatever you want.

You absolutely need to try Mechabellum during the Steam Free Weekend

By Liam Dawe,
Mechabellum has sucked away more of my time than I would care to admit right now, and you too can see what all the fuss is about during the Steam Free Weekend.

Powers in the Basement is a free, short comedy point and click adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Free game Thursday? Check out Powers in the Basement, a point and click adventure that won't take you forever to get through, with plenty of comedy inspired by the 80s / 90s with a specific sweet spot for LucasArts classics.

Vampire Survivors - Adventures Update out now, plus Among Us collab DLC coming

By Liam Dawe,
Well this is quite unexpected. Vampire Survivors is getting a new DLC later this month with an Among Us cross-over. Plus, a big update is also out now.

Feral GameMode v1.8 out now with CPU core pinning and parking

By Liam Dawe,
GameMode, the tool for Linux originally from Feral Interactive, has version 1.8 released with some new features to tweak your system performance for gaming.

100 Steam Deck OLEDs will be given away during The Game Awards 2023

By Liam Dawe,
The Game Awards 2023 is approaching and just like last year, they will be hosting a giveaway so you can win! This time it's the Steam Deck OLED for 100 people!

dotAGE adds controller support - working towards Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
dotAGE is a challenging turn-based village builder, one that will suck away a lot of your time. It's a genuinely great game and it only keeps getting better! Now it has controller support, as the dev works towards being Steam Deck Verified.

Check out the demo for Planetiles, a chilled city-builder like Dorfromantik

By Liam Dawe,
Enjoy games like Dorfromantik that have you build tiles and expand while mostly just chilling? Then you're going to want to look at Planetiles.