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KDE Plasma continues improving to stop you breaking things

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Nate Graham has highlighted more recent work for the KDE Plasma desktop environment (the one the Steam Deck will come with) and it's all sounding great.

Get some quality games and help charity in the F*CK CANCER Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Get some top quality games, while also helping a charity doing good work in the Humble F*CK CANCER Bundle.

Stadia continues the slow downward spiral

By Liam Dawe,
A new report from Business Insider has highlighted some continuing changes for Google's cloud gaming service Stadia, and it doesn't exactly sound good - but it's also something that was mostly already announced.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human is out and works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Dying Light 2 will be easily one of the biggest releases this year and the good news is that it works on Linux without any messing around.

Free and open source space sim Pioneer gets a big UI upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Pioneer started off life as a basic spiritual successor to Frontier: Elite II and nowadays it continues being upgraded, to give fans of classic 3D space exploration something fun.

Wadjet Eye Games brings over Resonance to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
What's that? Yet another classic Wadjet Eye Games published point and click adventure is fully upgraded with a new Linux port? Yep! Say hello to Resonance from developer XII Games.

Check out the Fanatical Safe in Our World charity bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical has teamed up with Safe in Our World to offer a bundle of games for you, while also supporting important charity work to help destigmatize mental health within the games industry and for players too.

Over 120 titles are now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
We're now just three weeks away from the official release date of the Steam Deck handheld Linux gaming machine. The good news is that Verified titles have been growing nicely!

The Hand of Merlin RPG coming to Linux officially, sometime March onwards

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of The Hand of Merlin, a turn-based rogue-lite RPG in which Arthurian legend meets with sci-fi horror, have confirmed their plans for the full release.

Steam gets a few useful UI tweaks to show Cloud Sync status and Game Install Size

By Liam Dawe,
Ahead of the Steam Deck release, it seems the desktop client for Steam is getting a few handy UI changes too.

New Unity developer needed for Inscryption, work may include a Linux port

By Liam Dawe,
Do you have experience with the Unity game engine? Well, Daniel Mullins Games are hiring to continue future development of Inscryption and the job description looked pretty interesting.

Pop!_OS Linux gets better game performance and desktop responsiveness

By Liam Dawe,
System76 have done something very interesting with Pop!_OS lately, a change that should give you better performance in games and get a more responsive desktop overall on Linux.

Valheim getting Steam Deck tweaks, more new content teased

By Liam Dawe,
Valheim, absolutely one of the best games available natively for Linux is going to get some upgrades for the Steam Deck. Oh, there's also some teased new content so that's cool too.

Cyberpunk adventure Technobabylon gets a modern native Linux build

By Liam Dawe,
Wadjet Eye Games and Technocrat Games have returned with a fresh upgrade of Technobabylon, a 2015 cyberpunk adventure.

If you still don't own Stellaris it's currently free with Amazon Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Quick tip - GOG and Amazon Prime Gaming have teamed up to give subscribers an offer they can't refuse - another free game! Get a copy of Stellaris from Paradox Interactive / Paradox Development Studios.

Total War: WARHAMMER III gets a nice long official Let's Play video

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: WARHAMMER III is closing in and so Creative Assembly have given us a much longer look at the Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided.

Steam announces changes to sales for devs, next set of sale dates up

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has announced that they're doing some changes to how developers do sales, plus the next set of Steam sale dates have been announced.

CodeWeavers advertising for a Wine developer and Linux gaming tester

By Liam Dawe,
Looking for a job in the Linux space? Now is your chance! CodeWeavers, the company that sponsors development on the Wine compatibility layer and works with Valve on Steam Play Proton are hiring again.

Left 4 Dead 2 gets updated ready for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like playing Left 4 Dead 2 on the upcoming Steam Deck will be a pretty good experience, with Valve pushing out a fresh update today to be ready for it.

System76 releases the Kudu featuring AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

By Liam Dawe,
If you're in the market for a laptop that combines AMD with NVIDIA, you're in luck with the release of the Kudu from System76.