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Oops - someone nearly caused a fire with the Steam Controller Puck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As a bit of a PSA - you might want to ensure you're rather careful with Valve's new Steam Controller charging Puck. Keep anything conductive away from it.

Drill, craft, and blast your way through the demo of Veridian Expanse

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Bringing together the worlds of twin-stick arcade shooters with crafting and exploration, Veridian Expanse is another indie game with a demo worth a go.
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SN Operator from Epilogue brings SNES carts to modern PCs and its now up for order

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Epilogue just announced the SN Operator for running actual SNES cartridges on modern PCs is now up for order, and it has Linux support.

Valve attempt to get the New York lootbox lawsuit dismissed as "People enjoy surprises"

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve are (obviously) trying to get the New York lootbox lawsuit dismissed, with some interesting arguments to defend lootboxes in games like Counter-Strike 2.

Anticheat check - which competitive games actually work on Linux?

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to switch from Windows to Linux / SteamOS but concerned about games with anti-cheat on Linux? Here's all you need to know on what you can play.

Casualties: Unknown demo showcases its intense exploration and injury system

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A demo that's definitely worth a go - the unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator Casualties: Unknown has a really interesting idea.

Here's what was revealed during The Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2026

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2026 has been and gone and with it plenty of announcements, updates, demos and more so read on for the details.

Square Enix rolling out Steam Cloud support to various classics

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Square Enix are going back over some of their older titles to see what small improvements they can make - like hooking up Steam Cloud support.

Valve officially confirm a new version of 'Steam Play' which includes a modified version of Wine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As we speculated previously, Valve have now officially announced their new version of 'Steam Play' for Linux gaming using a modified distribution of Wine, called Proton.

Sunshine game streaming tool adds Vulkan encoding plus XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sunshine, the game streaming tool you use with Moonlight, has a major upgrade now available with some big new features and a security fix too.

Darksiders Warmastered Edition gets Vulkan rendering, improved Steam Input support and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Darksiders Warmastered Edition got released for consoles, and so the Steam version has been given some love with fresh upgrades too.

Forza Horizon 6 is out, Valve update Proton Hotfix for Linux - initial thoughts

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Forza Horizon 6 has officially launched from Playground Games and Xbox Game Studios, with Valve getting Proton updated ready for it on Linux / SteamOS.

HELLDIVERS 2 is getting multiple upscaling modes, VRR, VRS and other tech improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Arrowhead Game Studios are finally going to give players a performance boost, in the form of some upscaling and other tech improvements on May 27th.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Forza Horizon 4, 5 and 6 plus other games

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve released the latest update to Proton Experimental to bring more fixes for running Windows games on Linux / SteamOS systems.

Glory On Pluto is a chaotic roguelite where you build the most ridiculous rocket engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Glory On Pluto is the least realistic engine simulator you’ll ever play according to the developer, and it's weirdly engrossing to power up your ship.

Proton is getting some "horrible" workarounds for Forza Horizon 6 on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
According to the developer of VKD3D-Proton, Forza Horizon 6 is "extremely broken" and needs some "horrible" workarounds to run properly on Linux.

NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security flaws for May 2026

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you have an NVIDIA GPU? You should probably ensure you're on updated drivers, as we have another wave of security issues that have been revealed today.

SteamOS 3.7.25 and 3.8.5 Beta released - bug fixes and better dGPU video memory management

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve released the latest small stable update to their Linux distro with SteamOS 3.7.25, along with SteamOS 3.8.5 Beta bringing extra fixes and enhancements.

Embracer Group split again spinning off their biggest IP, along with plans for IP partnerships

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Embracer Group are still going through some massive changes, after all their previous troubles and selling off multiple companies they're now splitting again.

The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Installing Linux on a PlayStation 5 gets even easier now, with recent updates expanding the firmware versions that are supported.