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Albion Online getting gamepad support for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2022

Running some errands and doing some guild battles in Albion Online on the go, or in bed? Why not. Albion Online is getting gamepad support real soon.

Aperture Desk Job from Valve coming March 1 and it's free

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2022

Along with the release of the Steam Deck, Valve also announce a new upcoming game in the Portal universe named Aperture Desk Job that will release March 1.

Dota 2 gets another new hero with Primal Beast, Techies reworked

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2022

Dota 2 just got a pretty huge update that not only brings in a fierce new hero with Primal Beast, but finally reworks Techies in the gameplay patch too.

The next release of free RTS 0 A.D. will have some new graphics options

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2022

0 A.D. is a free and open source historical RTS that's been in development for a long time. Each release is impressive and it sounds like the next release is going to look pretty shiny.

Inspired by Cube World, the free Veloren 0.12 release is out

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2022

Fully free and open source, Veloren continues to expand their inspiration from Cube World and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with version 0.12 out now.

Send help as I have discovered Super Auto Pets

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2022

Sent in by a reader a while ago and one I've been meaning to try out properly, Super Auto Pets is a free to play auto-battler from Team Wood Games that's delightfully good.

With You looks like a sweet co-op experience and it's free

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2022

Need a new casual co-op game to play with a partner? With You recently released on Steam and itch.io and it looks adorable.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds a new cell to grow with

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Currently in Early Access, Thrive is an impressive scientific evolution sim developed in Godot Engine that continues to mature with a new version up.

RPG game engine Flare gets improved gamepad support, fonts and more in v1.13

By Liam Dawe, 7 Feb 2022

Flare is a free and open source game engine for creating RPGs, plus it also has its own Empyrean Campaign to play through and it continued to get enhanced to be a bit more modern.

Free and open source space sim Pioneer gets a big UI upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2022

Pioneer started off life as a basic spiritual successor to Frontier: Elite II and nowadays it continues being upgraded, to give fans of classic 3D space exploration something fun.

If you still don't own Stellaris it's currently free with Amazon Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 2 Feb 2022

Quick tip - GOG and Amazon Prime Gaming have teamed up to give subscribers an offer they can't refuse - another free game! Get a copy of Stellaris from Paradox Interactive / Paradox Development Studios.

Dota 2 on Linux gets upgraded to use the newer Steam runtime container

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2022

Hopefully an update that will allow Dota 2 to continue working on Linux and the Steam Deck long into the future.

Minetest 5.5.0 is out, forked their own rendering engine with IrrlichtMT

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2022

Minetest 5.5.0 has rolled out, with a switch over from Irrlicht to their own fork of the rendering engine IrrlichtMt designed to have special enhancements just for Minetest.

Splitgate - Beta Season 1 is out now with a Map Creator

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2022

Splitgate, the free to play first-person shooter with portals has a big upgrade out now with the start of the first official Beta Season.

The 2012 strategy game Oil Rush from Unigine is now free

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jan 2022

Released all the way back in 2012, Oil Rush from Unigine is a naval strategy game and they've now decided to set it free by removing the price.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is out on Steam and runs well on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2022

Want to get into a new card game? Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel just released on Steam from Konami Digital Entertainment and the great news is that it works out of the box with Steam Play Proton Experimental on Linux.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated, more tweaking for Steam Deck + Vulkan

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2022

Valve continues to tweak more of their games ahead of the Steam Deck release in February and their focus now appears to be on CS:GO with a fresh update out.