Category: Beta

Songs of Syx is a deep and engrossing colony-building sim from Gamatron AB that has steadily improved with new updates since the 2020 release into Early Access but the 1.0 release is finally approaching.

Valve released a nice fresh Steam Beta (January 14th) for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs squashing some bugs and adding in some new options.

If you're wanting something similar to SteamOS right now that has much wider hardware support for your gaming handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally, GPD, Ayaneo or even your laptop / desktop then Bazzite is likely one of the best choices.

Giving you a chance to see how well Monster Hunter Wilds will run on your Steam Deck or Desktop Linux system, there's going to be two more open Beta tests during February.

With the announcement of the Lenovo Legion Go S as the first third-party SteamOS device, Valve have now officially announced that SteamOS Linux is expanding beyond the Steam Deck.

Valve updated the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a new Beta release, so here's what you need to know.

One missed from last month is the massive update to survival game Project Zomboid is now available as an Unstable Beta for testing.

I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release.

Highly rated by players, Tactical Breach Wizards from Suspicious Developments is about to get even better for Gamepad and Steam Deck players with a Beta available for testing.

This is a big one! The new and still in development cross-platform Nexus Mods app that has Linux support just released version 0.7.1 and you no longer have to remove everything to update.

Linux Mint 22.1 is coming soon with a Beta release now available for testing, which includes the brand new Cinnamon 6.4 desktop release.

Valve released Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.21 Beta "Update of the Year" to fix up various problems, and then re-released it shortly after to fix up more issues. Here's what you need to know.

The latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck has been released, and Valve have given us new options for managing game updates and there's a new downloader style.

The next major version bump is coming for the Windows compatibility layer Wine, which forms a big part of Valve's Proton, with Wine 10.0 having a first Release Candidate.

Recently I covered the huge Proton 9.0-4 update for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux hitting the Release Candidate stage and there's been a couple of changes.

Nexus Mods keep expanding their very promising cross-platform open source app for modding, that will eventually replace their older apps and the new 0.7.0 release just went out.

Ready to bring improved compatibility with Windows games to Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, Valve has a Proton 9.0-4 Release Candidate in need of testing.

Good news for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, as the latest Steam Client Beta has a couple of nice sounding improvements for you.

The ScummVM project is readying up another release, with the developers issuing a call for testing on ScummVM 2.9.0.

The day has arrived! Medal of Honor: Allied Assault including the Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions can be played easily on modern systems, with various enhancements thanks to the OpenMoHAA project.