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DEATHLOOP and Monster Train are in the new Humble Choice Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh month and a new set of games in Humble Choice, the monthly subscription from Humble Bundle so let's go over what's in it and the compatibility.

Streets of Rogue 2 gets a Steam page with some early screenshots

By Liam Dawe,
Excuse me for being overly hyped about this one but HECK YES! Streets of Rogue 2 is coming along in development, with a Steam page up now.

NVK is a new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
Jason Ekstrand of Collabora just announced NVK, a brand new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs.

Dome Keeper is a nice twist on base / tower defense

By Liam Dawe,
Blending together elements of survival, mining, exploration and tower defense — Dome Keeper is worth your attention.

Wine manager app Bottles gets some drag and drop fun

By Liam Dawe,
Bottles is the awesome free and open source app to help you manage the Windows compatibility layer Wine. A fresh release is out now with version 2022.9.28.

Gamepad driver and app 'SC Controller' gets Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
SC Controller, what originally started as an application to control the Steam Controller outside of Steam and expanded to cover more gamepads now has a pre-release up with Steam Deck support.

Fanatical have another great bundle of Steam Deck Verified games

By Liam Dawe,
Want to pick up some more great games for Steam Deck (or your Linux desktop!)? Fanatical have put up another bundle with all games that are Steam Deck Verified.

Valve makes Steam Deck custom boot screens easier (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just released a fresh Beta update for the Steam Deck, as they loved seeing all the custom boot screens so much they've now made it officially supported. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Steam Next Fest - October 2022 Edition is live now

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to try more game demos? Now is your chance once again as Steam Next Fest - October 2022 Edition is live.

KDE devs talk Steam Deck and their work for it at Akademy 2022, over a million shipped

By Liam Dawe,
Recently at the Akademy 2022 conference, KDE's David Edmundson gave a talk on the Steam Deck and the ongoing work in KDE to improve things. We also get a note that Valve has shipped over a million Steam Deck units.

AMD driver update gets Red Dead Redemption 2 working better on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Are you having issues with Red Dead Redemption 2 on either the Steam Deck or a Linux desktop with an AMD GPU? Well, upcoming driver updates should improve it.

SteamOS and Steam Deck on top for Linux in the Steam Hardware Survey

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for September 2022, with it showing that clearly the Steam Deck with SteamOS is the most popular way now to game on Linux.

Proton Experimental updates fix up Indiana Jones, Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake)

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has recently put up a fresh update for Proton Experimental, bringing more game compatibility and some fixes.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 515.49.19 is out now, driver 515.76 causing problems

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have done another new release to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta driver with 515.49.19 out now.

Linux kernel 6.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and great version of the Linux kernel has been released with Linux 6.0 out now. Linus Torvalds was also given an award from Intel recently.

Here's the Top 10 Most Played games on Steam Deck for September 2022

By Liam Dawe,
As another month comes to a close, Valve has revealed what is currently popular on the Steam Deck based on the most hours played.

The 'Heavy Machinery' update for survival game Volcanoids looks awesome

By Liam Dawe,
Oh wow, I really need to check out Volcanoids again. The survival game that has you build and upgrade a big moving drill now has a lot more in it with some other big machinery.

Brotato is going to be my next horde-survival arena-shooter obsession

By Liam Dawe,
If you don't hear from me much over the next week it's because I've discovered Brotato. Another in the list of wave-based horde survival games and it's honestly great.

Vampire Survivors 1.0 coming October 20th, seems a Linux port is still planned

By Liam Dawe,
Developer poncle has now confirmed that Vampire Survivors will hit the 1.0 on October 20th. The sad news is their big game engine upgrade is not landing yet.

Another small Steam Deck Beta update gets some fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve snuck out another Steam Deck Beta Client update, this time with just a few more quick fixes to it.