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CS:Legacy announced as a full standalone remake of Counter-Strike 1.6

By Liam Dawe, 17 Mar 2025

For classic Counter-Strike fans, you may want to keep an eye out for the just announced CS:Legacy from the team behind CSPromod. This is not a mod but a full game due out sometime in Early Access in 2025.

Team Fortress 2 Classic is coming to Steam thanks to Valve adding TF2 to the Source SDK

By Liam Dawe, 25 Feb 2025

Team Fortress 2 Classic, a mod that aims to re-imagine the early post-launch era of Team Fortress 2, will be released on Steam.

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s&box the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod now has a Steam page up

By Liam Dawe, 11 Nov 2024

Making it easier to follow along and get notified when it's available, s&box the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod now has a Steam page up.

Team Fortress: Source 2 fan project gets a DMCA from Valve

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2024

The Team Fortress: Source 2 project is now officially dead in the water after getting hit with a DMCA from Valve, although the creators were already stopping development.

Valve continues tweaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2022

Valve has released a fresh update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and they continue focusing on Steam Input improvements, to make playing it with a controller and the Steam Deck a better experience.

Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop devs detail their support of Proton and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2022

Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, a community updated and expanded version of the free Alien Swarm originally by Valve continues to see lots of improvements. The developers also explained their clear support of Linux with Proton and the Steam Deck.

s&box from Facepunch 'works great' on the Steam Deck but no native Linux plans

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2021

s&box is the upcoming game from Facepunch Studios that acts as a sequel to Garry's Mod although it won't actually be Garry's Mod 2. Recently Facepunch were asked about Linux support since it uses Valve's Source 2 game engine.

Valve's Source 2 shows early teasers of Ray Tracing - weirdly in Artifact updates

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

We know that Source 2 from Valve is a pretty capable game engine, and we've seen what they've been able to do with it over the years (and Half-Life: Alyx turned it up a notch) but what's next? Ray Tracing perhaps.

Free online co-op survival horror Zombie Panic! Source 3.1 is out with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2020

After being in development for some time, Zombie Panic! Source has the huge 3.1 release pushed out which brings with it the official Linux support.

Zombie Panic! Source gets a huge overhaul with Linux support really soon

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2020

After being in Beta for quite some time now, the team behind Zombie Panic! Source are almost ready to push out the big overhaul with Linux support into the stable version for everyone.

Half-Life remake 'Black Mesa' has a post-release hotfix with a little Linux fix included

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2020

Black Mesa, the re-imaging of the original Half-Life released out of Early Access recently after a long development period and it's quite brilliant. Crowbar Collective have now release the first proper post-release hotfix.

Ambitious Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now officially available and it's a beauty

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2020

Black Mesa, the Valve approved Half-Life remake from Crowbar Collective leaves Early Access with a much more modern take on the classic first-person shooter.

Zombie Panic! Source continuing work on their big update, Linux testers requested

By Liam Dawe, 1 Jun 2019

Zombie Panic! Source, the free cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter has another beta out for the big 3.1 revamp.

Swordfighter 'Blade Symphony' has now officially gone free to play

By Liam Dawe, 8 Mar 2019

For those who wanted to try their hand at a little sword-fighting, Blade Symphony is now officially free to play on Steam.

Blade Symphony patch 7 is out with experimental asset streaming, free to play release next month

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2019

Some big news for Blade Symphony today, not only do they have another major patch release they've also announced the free to play release date.

Source Engine powered sword battler 'Blade Symphony' has another update

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2019

Another game from Puny Human was updated recently, this time it's the sword battler Blade Symphony which is powered by Valve's Source Engine.

The Beta of Zombie Panic! Source was updated recently, should work better on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jan 2019

Zombie Panic! Source is currently going through an overhaul, as part of this it's coming to Linux with a version now in beta and the latest update should make it a better experience.

Zombie Panic! Source, the free survival-horror FPS now has a Linux beta available

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2018

Zombie Panic! Source, the free survival-horror first-person-shooter has put out a Linux beta as promised as it remains a high priority.

The Linux version of Zombie Panic! Source is a 'top priority', should come on November 30th

By Liam Dawe, 23 Nov 2018

Zombie Panic! Source is about to get a pretty huge update, the previously promised Linux version is a 'top priority' and it should come (as long as there's no delay) on November 30th.