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Valve continues battling with the Team Fortress 2 bots

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2020

After recently dealing with an influx of game-ruining racists bots in Team Fortress 2, the battle continues.

Cyberspace FPS 'Black Ice' has a huge update with first story act complete

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26, 2020

Run, shoot and loot in cyberspace - that's what Black Ice is all about, with masses of different weapons and abilities and it just had a huge upgrade.

With EA back on Steam, you can play Titanfall 2 on Linux with Steam Play

By Liam Dawe, Jun 20, 2020

Now that EA have decided to cosy up with Valve once again, their games have been pouring onto Steam and that means certain games like Titanfall 2 are easy to get going on Linux.

Valve update Team Fortress 2 to deal with bots and chat abuse

By Liam Dawe, Jun 17, 2020

Like Valve did recently with CS:GO and Dota 2, they've introduced new options in Team Fortress 2 to help deal with community issues and bots.

Mixing old with new Prodeus is an intense FPS arriving this 'Fall'

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13, 2020

Bounding Box Software and Humble Games have shown off brand new footage of the upcoming FPS Prodeus, which mixes retro and modern styles together.

System Shock reboot gets a weirdly chill new trailer

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13, 2020

System Shock, a true classic that's currently going through a reboot from Nightdive Studios has released a new preview trailer and it's weirdly chilled.

Valve boost player contrast in CS:GO and add Text Filtering

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13, 2020

While it seems Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now over the sudden massive popularity boost it saw in the last few months, that hasn't stopped Valve continuing to improve it.

GZDoom 4.4.0 is out and the last to have 32bit builds

By Liam Dawe, Jun 10, 2020

GZDoom, the extremely versatile and very popular open source enhanced Doom game engine has a big new release out and they're going to drop 32bit support.

Hectic single-player FPS Ravenfield expands modding with scripting and mutators

By Liam Dawe, Jun 8, 2020

Ravenfield might be one of the most popular indie single-player first-person shooters on Steam and now it's probably going to get even more popular with a huge update out.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin to officially launch in February 2021

By Liam Dawe, Jun 4, 2020

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, another popular retro-FPS throwback from KillPixel and 3D Realms now finally has a release date of February 25, 2021.

Half-Life was going to get a Ravenholm spin-off

By Liam Dawe, May 27, 2020

It's emerged that the Half-Life series was going to go into other directions, with a Ravenholm spin-off that was planned and you can see some footage.

Treasure Tech is a seriously fun new classic DOOM conversion

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2020

Treasure Tech is another fantastic DOOM conversion mod inspired by the Wario Land franchise and it's out now.

Free and open source FPS 'Tomatenquark' releases on Steam

By Liam Dawe, May 25, 2020

Derived from the classic Cube 2: Sauerbraten game, Tomatenquark aims to reinvigorate it and bring it to a new audience with it now live on Steam.

Denuvo Anti-Cheat to support Steam Play Proton, being removed from DOOM Eternal

By Liam Dawe, May 21, 2020

Some really good news for PC gamers everywhere, as it seems one small battle against invasive anti-cheat has been won.

Serious Sam 4 announced for August, confirmed for Stadia (updated)

By Liam Dawe, May 20, 2020

Serious Sam 4 from Croteam and Devolver Digital finally has a release window with it announced for August. Note: updates at the bottom.

Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, May 15, 2020

Just like Valve said to us they would do so, Half-Life: Alyx is now available on Linux using the Vulkan graphics API.

Deformed Doom lets you warp and distort classic Doom maps

By Liam Dawe, May 15, 2020

Ever wanted to play through any of the classic Doom games in something like GZDoom but have everything slightly different? Deformed Doom will let you warp levels in interesting ways.

Deep Rock Galactic leaves Early Access, works well with Steam Play on Linux

By Liam Dawe, May 14, 2020

Deep Rock Galactic from Ghost Ship Games has now left Early Access and thankfully it continues working very well on Linux when played with the Proton compatibility layer for Steam Play.

Halo 2: Anniversary on Linux with Steam Play Proton, single-player works well

By Liam Dawe, May 13, 2020

Halo 2 is out on Steam now and much like Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo: Reach, the single-player works nicely on Linux thanks to the Proton compatibility layer for Steam Play.