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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency now has a Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
Kitten Space Agency is a promising upcoming space simulation game that's pretty much a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program and now for Linux too.

NVIDIA hiring Linux driver engineers to help with Vulkan, Proton and more

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have multiple job listings available for Linux developers - this could be your chance to improve Linux gaming if you have the skills.
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Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld

By Liam Dawe,
Four years ago today, the original Steam Deck LCD released, with it going on to change how everyone sees handheld gaming PCs and Linux for gaming.

Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options

By Liam Dawe,
In the ongoing crazy saga of the internet getting gated behind new age verification laws, Discord are putting on the brakes temporarily.

Steam Next Fest - February 2026 is live with tons of demos

By Liam Dawe,
Here we go again, a mad dash to play as many demos as possible with the Steam Next Fest - February 2026 event now live.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.20.0 brings numerous important bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Heroic Games Launcher is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games Store, GOG and more on Linux / SteamOS - with a new v2.20.0 bug-fix release out now.

Intel hiring GPU driver engineers for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
It's not just NVIDIA hiring to improve their Linux graphics drivers, as Intel are also looking for multiple new driver engineers.

Firefox 148.0 arrives with AI controls

By Liam Dawe,
As Mozilla promised they would, Firefox version 148.0 has been released and with it you now get to control what generative AI features are enabled or disabled.

FINAL FANTASY VII arrives on GOG with a new edition live on Steam too

By Liam Dawe,
Square Enix today released their slightly upgraded version of FINAL FANTASY VII, along with making it available on GOG too.

Get A Plague Tale: Innocence & Requiem, Evil West and more in the Focus Entertainment Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Get some quality games from Focus Entertainment in the new Humble Bundle, all of them should work well on Linux / SteamOS too thanks to Proton.

Wine 11.3 released with vkd3d and Mono upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 11.3 is here bringing more compatibility fixes for running Windows apps and games on Linux systems.

Mesa 25.3.6 released as the last bug fix for this driver series

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 25.3.6 has released and is the last planned bug fix for this driver series, with the developers now moving on to focus on Mesa 26 and beyond.

Death Stranding 2 PC specs have been revealed, along with a "Portable" preset for handhelds

By Liam Dawe,
We now have the official PC specifications released for Death Stranding 2 and they actually seem pretty reasonable, so plenty of people should be fine.

Fanatical's Play on the Go Elite Collection Bundle for Feb 2026 has some gems in it

By Liam Dawe,
Want some more games to fill up your handheld with like the Steam Deck or Legion Go? Check out the new Fanatical Play on the Go Elite Collection.

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team have released the latest release for the Plasma desktop, with version 6.6.1 bringing quite a lot of bug fixing.

Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivor dev is promising but not quite there yet

By Liam Dawe,
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors has a demo out now for Steam Next Fest, and I've given it a run through to see the chaos.

Battling castles on wheels? Wanderburg might be my new favourite thing

By Liam Dawe,
Wanderburg is nuts. A roguelike where you build up a castle on wheels (or legs) and battle through various locations and it instantly hooked me.

Inspired by the classic DOOM RPG, the Dungeons of DUSK demo is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Taking the retro FPS Dusk and turning it into a retro dungeon crawler with a big sprawling skill tree - Dungeons of DUSK has a demo out now.

Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners

By Liam Dawe,
Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux and emulators too - with multiple new versions released.

SpaghettiKart the Mario Kart 64 fan-made PC port gets a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
The Harbour Masters team recently released a big upgrade for SpaghettiKart, their Mario Kart 64 fan-made PC port with a bunch of new features.