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Games like Guitar Hero were once massively popular but developers seem to have moved on, thankfully there's Clone Hero which is a free game based on the idea.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla has launched on Steam and that means getting it on Steam Deck and Linux desktop is much easier, since Valve have Proton. The experience on Steam Deck is surprisingly good too.

A fresh month and a new Humble Choice Bundle for subscribers to grab some more games, here's a run over what's included and the compatibility for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Valve has finished the current Proton Next testing, with Proton 7.0-5 now available as an update in your Steam Library replacing the previous Proton 7 version. Here's a run over what's new.

Dwarf Fortress has now finally arrived on Steam, with all the shiny new bits including the new graphical tiles and audio included in Early Access. The good news is that even though it doesn't have Native Linux support yet, it does work on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton.

The Heroic Games Launcher to help manage games on Steam Deck and Linux with GOG, Epic Games and other apps you can sideload has a new release out to clean up after the recent big update.

Having recently finished Mass Effect Legendary Edition, I was in the mood for something different so I picked Death Stranding Director's Cut but it seems there's a rather annoying issue that can reboot your Steam Deck.

After a pretty short testing period, the Valheim: Mistlands update is out now for everyone expanding the great survival game quite a lot.

The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory is the 12-month long expansion pass for The Long Dark and it's out now, along with the game now split into different parts.

MineClone2 is pretty much as close as you can get to Minecraft without playing Minecraft. It's free, open source and runs on the Minetest voxel game engine. A new release is now available with version 0.81.0.

Staying in and staying warm? I am. So might as well make the most of it with a whole load of new games to fill up your Steam Library with. Fanatical are running a little festival of bundles, including one full of Steam Deck Verified games.

Vulkan version 1.3.233 was released back in November, and with it came two new extensions from NVIDIA designed to help speed up gaming on Linux and Windows. Their tech is even used in DirectStorage from Microsoft.

All owners of Saints Row IV are getting bumped up to the Saints Row IV: Re-Elected edition, plus cross-play across different stores.

Dwerve is an action-adventure with tower defense that released back in May, and they have a major update out now adding in a whole new mode more like classic tower defense games.

Recently Sid Meier's Civilization VI from Firaxis Games had a major update and DLC release that broke it on macOS and reverted to a really old version for Linux but porter Aspyr Media has partially fixed it for Linux now.

OpenRA is one of my absolute favourite open source projects allowing you to play the Westwood classics like Command & Conquer, Dune 2000 and Red Alert has a new Playtest up over a year after the last release.

While we already have ProtonUp-Qt which works just fine, it seems another thought they could do it better and differently with Proton version manager ProtonPlus.

Lutris, the all-in-one game manager for Linux and Steam Deck, has an important bug-fix release out now you'll want to upgrade for the best experience.

Frictional Games have another Amnesia game coming next year with Amnesia: The Bunker that puts a gun in your hand, and it also features a semi-open world.

It's hard to imagine for a lot of people, buying games directly on Steam Deck has been broken this long but Valve are finally looking to fix it.