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Historic multiplayer shooter Holdfast: Nations At War gets Steam Deck Verified after updates

By Liam Dawe, Sep 5

Set during the Napoleonic Era and WW1, Holdfast: Nations At War blends together both a third and first-person shooter. And, after a bunch of upgrades, it's now Steam Deck Verified too.

Popular ARPG 'Last Epoch' to get Steam Deck Verified with a big update on September 19

By Liam Dawe, Sep 5

Last Epoch from Eleventh Hour Games is set for a big v1.1 update with The Imperial Uprising event arriving on September 19th. This will also bump it up to Steam Deck Verified.

No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more

By Liam Dawe, Sep 4

Can someone tell Hello Games it's all good now, everyone is over the poor launch? Actually don't, I want to see just how far they will keep pushing No Man's Sky. The latest update is a goodie too.

Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping

By Liam Dawe, Aug 30

Valve's latest game Deadlock continues rising up the most-played games ranking on Steam, despite it being invite-only and the developers continue expanding it.

Deadlock from Valve has very quickly risen up the most played list on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Aug 26

Despite still being invite-only and only having the softest of announcements possible, Deadlock from Valve has seen its player count rise sharply.

Deadlock from Valve no longer a secret - store page is up and we can finally talk about it

By Liam Dawe, Aug 24

Deadlock, perhaps the worst kept secret from Valve, has now been softly revealed as the latest game from the maker of Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal and Team Fortress 2.

I'm quite excited for the Starship Troopers: Extermination single-player

By Liam Dawe, Aug 22

Starship Troopers: Extermination is already a fun game, but the initial Early Access release was short-lived due to a lack of content. Over time, Offworld have really built it up and the new upcoming single-player mode has me really excited.

Valve bans keyboard automation in Counter-Strike 2 update

By Liam Dawe, Aug 21

Some keyboards have special features like Razer's Snap Tap and Wooting's SOCD, that can give an unfair advantage in online games, and so Valve have put their foot down and entirely banned such tricks in Counter-Strike 2.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 broke on Linux / Steam Deck, here's the quick fix for now

By Liam Dawe, Aug 16

Hunt: Showdown had a huge update and rebranded to Hunt: Showdown 1896, but the update came with breakage on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

1047 Games announced Splitgate 2 for release in 2025

By Liam Dawe, Jul 19

1047 Games have now revealed Splitgate 2, an upcoming free to play shooter building on the basics of the original.

Enlisted from Gaijin and Darkflow returns to Steam and now free to play

By Liam Dawe, Jul 17

After initially releasing on Steam as Enlisted: Reinforced back in March, it was quickly taken down but now it's back on Steam just as Enlisted.

Chaotic multiplayer physics-brawler Bare Butt Boxing releases in August

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8

After being in Early Access since May last year, Tuatara Games are readying up their chaotic brawler Bare Butt Boxing for release on August 1.

The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source

By Liam Dawe, Jul 4

Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

Valve adds the first community maps into Counter-Strike 2

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26

While Valve didn't really do anything to mark the 25th anniversary of Counter-Strike 2, they have at least put out another small update that brings in the first community maps for CS2.

7 Days to Die gets an experimental Beta for the 1.0 release

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25

If you're looking forward to 7 Days to Die finally hitting the big 1.0 release, now you can try it a little early with an experimental Beta release.

War Thunder brings another major update with Seek & Destroy

By Liam Dawe, Jun 19

Gaijin Entertainment have released the Seek & Destroy update for War Thunder which as usual sprinkles in a bunch of new content, along with some general tweaks across the board.

Squad, Offworld's tactical FPS should now run better on Linux with EAC issues fixed

By Liam Dawe, Jun 18

Squad from Offworld is a tactical first-person shooter that has run on Linux for a while now with Proton, but some Linux distributions had issues with Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC).

Hypersomnia is a free and open source top-down competitive 2D shooter

By Liam Dawe, Jun 13

Feeling competitive? Hypersomnia from Patryk Czachurski is a top-down 2D competitive online shooter. It's free, open source and you can play it via Steam or directly in your browser.