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Valve adds official Steam Deck compatibility checker, 762 games Playable or Verified

By Liam Dawe,
While there's been a few unofficial ways to check your own Steam Library for the Steam Deck, Valve has now put up the official way. Plus, we're getting closer to a thousand Playable titles now.

Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit gets a new story trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit is an upcoming colourful adventure headed up by the art director from Broken Sword 2.5. It's due for release sometime in Q2 and there's a fresh look at it.

City-builder Nebuchadnezzar adds Gods, Festivals and more

By Liam Dawe,
Nepos Games continue to expand their Pharaoh-like city-builder Nebuchadnezzar, with another big free update out.

Klei fixes up Don't Starve Together for Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Klei Entertainment are another developer working to ensure their games work well on the Steam Deck, with an update now available for Don't Starve Together.

Valve gives SteamVR and Linux a little love in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
While I absolutely love playing with my Valve Index, it has felt like for a while that Valve left things a bit too rough but a new SteamVR update is out now.

Left 4 Dead 2 gets Steam Deck Verified, Team Fortress 2 only Playable

By Liam Dawe,
What's that? More Valve games will be able to run on the Steam Deck? You got that right. Both Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2 popped up recently.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 13: Looks Almost Unreal

By Hamish,
It is rare for Linux to see support from both sides of an industry battle, but that is exactly where we were with the release of Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament. With both games aiming to package the full breadth of the online multiplayer shooter experience into a standalone title, the competition between the two was fierce.

Steam Next Fest is live once again with plenty of indie demos

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to have a busy week? Steam Next Fest: February 2022 Edition is officially live and there's plenty of indie developers showing off their latest.

Classic base-building RTS TFC: The Fertile Crescent hits Steam on March 29

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a new strategy game I'm excited to play! TFC: The Fertile Crescent is a pixel-art take on the classic base-building RTS genre and it's entering Early Access on March 29.

Feral Interactive have no plans to update their Linux ports for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Since we were asked a lot about this, we reached out to porting studio Feral Interactive to see if they had any plans to update their Linux ports for the Steam Deck.

Co-op survival horror Pacify gets Steam Deck upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
One we missed from earlier this month, Pacify is a very popular survival horror and the developer has been making improvements ready for the Steam Deck.

X4: Tides of Avarice and the 5.00 update land March 14

By Liam Dawe,
The next big free upgrade to X4: Foundations along with the X4: Tides of Avarice expansion are releasing March 14.

Don't expect GOG to support the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Deck only a few days away from release, it seems people are wondering the support status of other stores. Seems GOG won't be supporting it, which isn't surprising.

Half-Life 2 and the episodes get updated and HL2 now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Not only are Valve continuing to go over third-party games, they also continue upgrading their own with a fresh update out for Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two.

Inspired by Cube World, the free Veloren 0.12 release is out

By Liam Dawe,
Fully free and open source, Veloren continues to expand their inspiration from Cube World and Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with version 0.12 out now.

Caves of Qud gets a big content upgrade, improved gamepad and Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a game that will be thoroughly interesting to see on a Steam Deck. Caves of Qud is a fantastic science fantasy roguelike epic and the developers have been busy.

Proton Experimental heats up with fixes coming, plus a disk space saving measure

By Liam Dawe,
Now that the huge release of Steam Play Proton 7.0-1 is out, work begins again on Proton Experimental as it pulls in all the latest changes for you to play with.

Escape Simulator gets Linux fixes, networking improvements - ready for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
A big update arrived for Escape Simulator, the online co-op puzzle game that managed to sell a lot of copies and so it should be ready for the Steam Deck.

Minecraft gets a Deep Dark biome and Warden mob in new 1.19 Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
A very scary Minecraft 1.19 snapshot, Mojang say, with the introduction of a new biome along with a new mob - and you can test it all out right now.

An interview with James Spanos of Wormwood Studios

By Liam Dawe,
You asked: we delivered. Here's a chat with game developer extraordinaire James Spanos, who works with Wormwood Studios and publisher Wadjet Eye Games.