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Fanatical's new Capcom Bundle has some great games to pick

By Liam Dawe,
For fans of Capcom games, there's another bundle giving you a chance to build up your collection. Fanatical's Build your own Capcom Bundle (BundleFest 2025) is live now.

Humble's Better With a Friend bundle has some quality co-op games

By Liam Dawe,
Need some more games to play with your friends? Check out the Better With a Friend Humble Bundle that has 6 quality games included.

Steam Deck Verified highlights for February 2025 - come find your next game

By Liam Dawe,
It's time to highlight some games you might have missed! Here's a run over what's been through Valve's Steam Deck Verified with some of my personal picks here for February.

Popular game launcher Playnite will get Linux support but it's still a while away

By Liam Dawe,
Playnite is a very popular free and open source video game library manager, one used a lot on Windows and a developer has confirmed they will be working on Linux support.

Blender Studio announced Project DogWalk, a "Micro-Game" made with Godot

By Liam Dawe,
Blender Studio, the creative unit of the free open source Blender project, recently announced work has begun on their second video game with Project DogWalk.

Decky Loader for Steam Deck gets a store upgrade to show currently installed plugins clearly

By Liam Dawe,
Decky Loader, the popular plugin system for Steam Deck / SteamOS, has a fresh release out making the plugin store a bit more useful.

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.

GE-Proton 9-24 released with a new save game detection feature (and now GE-Proton 9-25 too)

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
GE-Proton 9-24 is out now bringing with it the usual assortment of fixes, plus as interesting change that will help games detect saves from other games. Update: GE-Proton 9-25 hotfix is also out now.

Wine 10.1 out now with fixes for Battle.net and more Bluetooth driver work

By Liam Dawe,
With the huge Wine 10 release out, the Wine team have moved back to their regular biweekly development feature releases with Wine 10.1 out now.

Safe In Our World team up with Fanatical for a big charity game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Mental health charity Safe In Our World and Fanatical have announced a big charity bundle giving you 27 games for a single purchase.

Take-Two CEO believes AI will actually increase employment and productivity

By Liam Dawe,
You have to hand it to the people in suits at the top, they all sure do love AI, and the latest to be bullish about it is Take-Two's CEO Strauss Zelnick.

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, February 7 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for February 7th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Paradox Interactive acquires Haemimont Games

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive announced, along with their latest earning reports, that they've entered into an agreement to acquire Haemimont Games.

New Steam Beta stops forcing HDR on external display for Steam Deck OLED plus Steam Input fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released an updated Steam Beta for Steam Deck and Desktop. Here's all the changes you need to know.

Blocking Linux / Steam Deck in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters

By Liam Dawe,
Back in October 2024, Respawn announced they were blocking Apex Legends on Linux platforms (including Steam Deck). Apparently this has worked quite well for them.

What Valve would need to do to make a Steam Console a success

By Liam Dawe,
While the most recent rumour of a Steam Console was complete junk, it did get me thinking on what Valve would need to do to make a Steam Console / Steam Machine actually successful.

Valve now warns on Steam pages if an Early Access game hasn't been updated in a long time

By Liam Dawe,
Even though Early Access can be an incredible thing to allow developers to build up their game with the community, and pull in some early funds, it can also go very wrong. And now Valve are making it a bit clearer for you if a game hasn't been updated.

You can now GoPro with your Steam Deck and mount it to your belly - or wherever you want

By Liam Dawe,
Mechanism, who made the excellent Deckmate and Gaming Pillow, said about their latest accessory kit the GoPro Mount that "No one asked for this…" but they did it anyway, because why not it actually sounds pretty useful.

Fanatical's Pedal to the Metal Bundle has some gems for racing fans

By Liam Dawe,
Got the need for some speed? Fanatical's Pedal to the Metal Bundle has a bunch of good looking games to add to your collection.

Flathub adds We Love Games and On the go sections plus details on what's next for their infrastructure

By Liam Dawe,
Flathub is carefully tweaking and expanding their Linux software store, with two newer flashy sections included on it. Plus, some details behind the scenes on what they're working on.
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