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Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on

By Liam Dawe,
Altered Orbit Studios have done well with Selaco. They just announced some stats, along with a brand new update and a sale live now.

Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated

By Liam Dawe,
What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.

Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26

By Liam Dawe,
Ah, auto battlers, at one point they seemed like they would be all the rage, but most quickly moved on. Mechabellum thankfully, feels a bit different, and quickly became a real favourite and it's set to leave Early Access on September 26.

Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's latest game Deadlock continues rising up the most-played games ranking on Steam, despite it being invite-only and the developers continue expanding it.

Valve tweak Steam pages again, giving developers some more options while dealing with the mess

By Liam Dawe,
Recently, Valve put some new rules in place for Steam pages, because they were getting a bit messy with some publishers using them like pure advertising boards for other games. Now though, Valve have announced more changes.

The Abandoned Planet is a Myst-like classic pixel-art adventure out now

By Liam Dawe,
Love your mysterious point and click adventures like the classics? Inspired by Myst and Riven, the pixel-art game The Abandoned Planet is out now.

Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite, the Fedora-based version of Linux that's designed for the "next generation of Linux gaming" has a fresh release out with some great improvements, especially for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck OLED, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally and others.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will get Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Saber Interactive have confirmed that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will get full Steam Deck support, although not soon.

KDE Plasma 6.2 adding a pop-up for donations, plus they want to make a next-generation KDE OS

By nwildner,
A recent change was proposed last month to implement an on-by-default KDED (KDE Daemon) module that will gently ask you to donate to KDE as a pop-up on your notification system inside the KDE Plasma desktop, planned for version 6.2.

The Elder Scrolls Online now Steam Deck Playable, to be fully Verified in "a future update"

By Liam Dawe,
Really great to see bigger developers actually start to properly take note of the Steam Deck since it's selling so well. Now we have The Elder Scrolls Online from ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda Softworks getting improvements.

EmuDeck team announce Linux-powered EmuDeck Machines

By Liam Dawe,
The team behind EmuDeck, a project that started off to provide easy emulation on Steam Deck / SteamOS have announced their own hardware with the Bazzite Linux powered EmuDeck Machines.

With over 900,000 players trying it during Early Access, Halls of Torment launches September 24

By Liam Dawe,
Halls of Torment is basically Vampire Survivors styled like classic Diablo, it's bloody good and now it's just about ready to release.

With Chess-inspired gameplay, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder 'Usurper' launches September 9

By Liam Dawe,
Chess as a roguelike deckbuilder? Could be a fun one! Developer Rogue Brain Studios has announced that Usurper will launch on September 9th.

Stylish tactics-RPG 'Demonschool' delayed until Q1 2025

By Liam Dawe,
Necrosoft Games and Ysbryd Games have announced their stylish tactics RPG with hints of Persona, Shin Megami Tensei, and Italian horror cinema Demonschool has been delayed.

Valve fixed resolution overrides for non-Steam games on Steam Deck plus more general Steam fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Another Beta release is out now for the Steam Client on both Desktop and Steam Deck. Here's the latest and what you need to know.

While you're waiting on Hollow Knight: Silksong check out Aestik

By Liam Dawe,
Aestik from Hooded Traveler Games looks absolutely gorgeous, with some clear Hollow Knight inspiration and may be a good one to play through while you wait for Silksong.

Check out the demo for Sternly Worded Adventures a roguelite word-puzzle RPG

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by Bookworm Adventures, developer Balthazar and publisher 2 Left Thumbs are working on the roguelite word puzzle RPG Sternly Worded Adventures and there's a demo available.

Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 open source drivers now available

By Liam Dawe,
The Mesa team just released bug fix updates to the two most recent driver series with Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 now available.

Wine's Direct3D to Vulkan translation library vkd3d 1.13 out now

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine team have just release vkd3d version 1.13, an update for their own Direct3D to Vulkan translation library.

Frontline Crisis is a tough but engaging mix of tower defense and top-down shooting with a big mech

By Liam Dawe,
Developer BCQT released Frontline Crisis earlier in August, and like a lot of smaller games it seems to have flown under the radar but if you love tower defense and top down shooting you need to play this.