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Megaquarium: Architect's Collection is out now with 15 new animals

By Liam Dawe,
Megaquarium: Architect's Collection is a new and exciting sounds expansion pack for the impressive aquarium building game that's now available.

Forza Horizon 5 on Linux? Yeah okay fine, Proton Experimental was updated

By Liam Dawe,
So it wasn't enough that Age of Empires 4 from Xbox Game Studios was now playable on Linux, Proton Experimental has once again been upgraded to get Forza Horizon 5 off the starting line.

Barotrauma gets its biggest discount yet and a Steam Free Weekend

By Liam Dawe,
2D co-op submarine death simulator Barotrauma will be having a big sale and a Steam Free Weekend starting later today. Your chance to buddy up with some friends and watch the chaos unfold.

Baba Is You gets a level editor in a free update this month

By Liam Dawe,
Baba Is You, one of my most favourite puzzle games ever, is set to finally see the big level editor update on November 17 as a free upgrade for all owners.

Valve's Steam Deck developer event is open to all to watch today at 6PM UTC

By Liam Dawe,
Today (November 12) at 10am PST / 6PM UTC, Valve are hosting the Steamworks Virtual Conference: Steam Deck and you will actually be able to watch.

Valve adds documentation for Steam Deck development, suggests Manjaro Linux for now

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Deck delayed until February 2022, Valve has produced new developer documentation giving a helping hand to devs interested in testing ready for it using Linux.

OPGames donates $300k to open source including Godot Engine and Blender

By Liam Dawe,
OPGames, a company that (as they describe) helps "turn games into investable assets through NFTs" has donated a bunch of monies to a few great open source projects.

Total War: WARHAMMER III gets more new footage

By Liam Dawe,
Now that we know when Total War: WARHAMMER III will release, Creative Assembly has been putting out some more info about it and there's some fresh gameplay videos too.

The Khronos Group officially announces the Dynamic Rendering extension for Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
Recently with the Vulkan 1.2.197 specification update, a new extension popped up that has plenty of developers happy with Dynamic Rendering and now The Khronos Group has formally announced it with a more detailed explanation.

Escape Simulator sees over 600 rooms made by players

By Liam Dawe,
Pine Studio has seen quite a success with player interaction with their new game Escape Simulator, with 500 player created rooms in just over two weeks after release and right now it has well over 600.

Europa Universalis IV: Origins is out along with a big free update

By Liam Dawe,
Europa Universalis IV: Origins is a new "Immersion Pack" available now as a paid DLC for Paradox's popular historical strategy game and the 1.32 Songhai free update is also live.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice releases in December

By Liam Dawe,
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice from Mimimi Games is going to be releasing in December and they have a new trailer ready.

Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has announced today that their hotly anticipated handheld, the Steam Deck, has been delayed until 2022.

Axis & Allies 1942 Online from Beamdog is out now with full cross-play

By Liam Dawe,
Beamdog, known for their RPG revamps like Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition have finally pushed Axis & Allies 1942 Online out of Early Access as a finished game with full cross-play.

RetroArch brings more emulator cores to Steam including PPSSPP

By Liam Dawe,
RetroArch, the free and open source application designed to help you manage emulators, media playback and more has a few additional emulator cores available now on Steam.

Relaxing tropical adventure Fishing Paradiso announced for 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Fishing Paradiso is the next title from Japanese developer Odencat, who also created Bear's Restaurant, with a release planned to arrive with Linux support in early 2022.

Silly platformer metroidvania Clunky Hero is now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Chaosmonger Studio, developer of Encodya, has released their latest with the comedic platformer metroidvania Clunky Hero with it beginning life in Early Access.

You can grab a free to keep copy of Beholder on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Beholder, a very well-reviewed game about being a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country is currently available free for keeps on Steam.

Proton Experimental gets Age of Empires 4 working out of the box on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Want to play Age of Empires 4 on Linux? Now you can. Another update for Proton Experimental has gone live.

System76 patches APT for Pop!_OS to prevent users breaking their systems

By Liam Dawe,
There's been a huge amount of talk recently about switching to Linux for gaming, thanks to the challenge from Linus Tech Tips where two of their people tried the full-switch but it didn't go so well for Linus and Pop!_OS. Now, System76 are trying to improve.