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Strategy game 'Old World' comes to Steam and GOG on May 19 with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Old World, a game that was talked up as an alternative to the Civilization series that was previously exclusive to the Epic Games Store, is heading to GOG and Steam on May 19. Although, the Linux build will only be on Steam.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection broke on Linux and Steam Deck, here's a quick fix

By Liam Dawe,
With a recent update to the Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Xbox Game Studios included the needed Easy Anti-Cheat file for Linux / Steam Deck to work online but they broke it in the process for some.

Linux distro EndeavourOS has the 'Apollo' release out now

By Liam Dawe,
EndeavourOS, an Arch Linux-based distribution has a new release out with plenty of upgrades to the install process.

Selaco is an FPS inspired by F.E.A.R and a demo is coming soon

By Liam Dawe,
To say I am hyped about trying Selaco might be a serious understatement because it looks incredible. A GZDoom powered cross-platform FPS inspired by F.E.A.R and soon a demo will be available.

Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation 'fheroes2' gets improved language support

By Liam Dawe,
fheroes2 is easily now the best way to play Heroes of Might and Magic II on any platform, an absolute classic and the project continues to evolve.

A developer made a ShadowPlay-like high-performance recording tool for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Find you get too much of a performance hit using other recording tools like OBS Studio? Maybe this new tool will help.

Might and Delight come up with a plan to save Book of Travels

By Liam Dawe,
Book of Travels is a tiny multiplayer online RPG from developer Might and Delight (known for the likes of Shelter and Meadow), which didn't do particularly well at the Early Access release but now they have a plan to save it.

OpenRazer 3.3 adds support for more hardware on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRazer version 3.3 brings with it support for even more Razer hardware on Linux, along with some other improvements.

Valheim gets a bug fix update as work on Mistlands continues

By Liam Dawe,
While most players are itching to play through the upcoming Mistlands update, Iron Gate have a small bug-fix and improvement update out for Valheim.

Steam Deck Plugin Loader gets another release, should work better now

By Liam Dawe,
The community-built Steam Deck Plugin Loader continues to mature, with version 1.1.0 out now fixing some issues.

Duck Game gets a patch for Proton, now works on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Duck Game, an action platformer from Landon Podbielski and Adult Swim Games has been updated to enable it to work properly with the current version of Proton 7 and gets it working on Steam Deck.

Wine 7.6 out now with more PE conversion work, Mono updated

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new development release is out now!

Godfall Ultimate Edition seems to run well on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Godfall Ultimate Edition released onto Steam on April 7, a former Epic Store exclusive, and now thanks to the Steam release it runs very nicely on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton.

Linux Mint working on a new upgrade tool for major releases

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint, the distribution that tries to set itself apart for beginners (but not only) along with their own Cinnamon desktop environment, have some plans to help users upgrade.

War Thunder gets officially Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Gaijin Entertainment has updated War Thunder, and as a result it went through Deck Verified once again to get a fully Verified status for the Steam Deck.

Raspberry Pi OS gets some big updates, possible to run experimental Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
Raspberry Pi OS has been through a big update recently, which fans of the little devices need to be aware of for future setups and upgrades.

Zink, the OpenGL on top of Vulkan driver gets 'Kopper' merged — huge for the future

By Liam Dawe,
Zink is an open source driver layer that gives OpenGL on top of Vulkan, it's been in progress for some time now, steadily making progress. Just recently, a big advancement was pulled in.

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed gets a fix for Linux to play on Windows Servers

By Liam Dawe,
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed recently released their Native Linux version and talked up their Steam Deck support, with a small update being rolled out to fix up online play.

Sorry Arch (EndeavourOS), it's not working out any more and hello Fedora

By Liam Dawe,
There comes a time when everyone has to sit and think about what they use on their PC, especially if you're on Linux. For me, Arch Linux (via EndeavourOS) just wasn't working out any more and so I've moved to Fedora.

Valve marks the first month of the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released a news post going over some of the changes and improvements of the Steam Deck over the first month since the initial release.