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The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Bethesda Softworks today officially revealed and launched The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, after days of leaks. And from what they've revealed, I'm very excited to give it a go. It's even Steam Deck Verified right from the get-go.

Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company

By Liam Dawe,
As Discord forces in more adverts and paid customization towards becoming a public company the CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Citron, has announced they're stepping down as CEO.
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Dwarf Fortress hit a huge new milestone on Steam, Noclip documentary now completed

By Liam Dawe,
Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games recently revealed that the game has managed to hit a huge milestone on Steam, plus the final episode of the Noclip documentary is out now.

NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA sent out a security bulletin today to reveal a fresh security flaw found in their Linux GPU drivers. So it’s time to get updating again to be safe.

Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The Half-Life remake Black Mesa from Crowbar Collective has a fresh Beta update available for testing, which includes numerous enhancements to their Linux support along with a bunch of other stability improvements.

Wine 10.6 released with improvements to Bcrypt, Command Processor and WindowsCodecs

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 10.6 development release is now available with the usual assortment of new features and bug fixes, to get more games and applications developed for Windows to work on Linux.

STAR WARS Zero Company is a Clone Wars XCOM and I want it now

By Liam Dawe,
As a huge fan of XCOM including the classics and modern versions, and a big Star Wars fan, the recent STAR WARS Zero Company announcement has me terribly excited.

Co-op dungeon crawler Never Split the Party gets a big surprise update celebrating a million downloads

By Liam Dawe,
The free to play online co-op dungeon crawler Never Split the Party from Legend Studio just had a massive update to celebrate one million downloads. Quite a surprise, since the last update to the game was back in 2022.

You can get DOOM, DOOM Eternal, more DOOM and multiple Wolfenstein games in this latest Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
If you're needing to build up your shooter collection, the new id & Friends Humble Bundle might perhaps be exactly what you want with plenty of DOOM.

Steam will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages

By Liam Dawe,
Finally. Something many have been asking for Valve to do for a long time now, and something I've pointed out multiple times across various articles - Steam pages will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages.

Colony building sim Mountaincore is now free to play and open source

By Liam Dawe,
A complicated history for this one, with the developer Rocket Jump Technology no longer existing as a business. The previous iteration of the game named King under the Mountain went open source back in January 2024, and now what was to be the big revamp is also open source.

Underwater PvP shooter Tidal Shock 1.0 out now with Linux / Steam Deck support - it's also now free to play

By Liam Dawe,
Moonray Studios have put out the 1.0 release of Tidal Shock: Off The Hook, a free to play underwater shooter and the update brings full Native Linux and Steam Deck support.

Build to survive in the first-person horror Confronted - latest update makes it Steam Deck playable

By Liam Dawe,
Grumpy Rock Studios recently updated Confronted, an interesting sounding survival-horror game where you have to build up little safe rooms. It's in Early Access with the latest update making it playable on Steam Deck.

Snailshock is Pool but with Snails, with Dice for extra moves and Cards to mess with them

By Liam Dawe,
Love your weird and quirky indie games? You'll want to check out Snailshock Grand Supreme Tournament, which answers a question no one asked - what if Pool but Snails?

Supernatural school-life tactics RPG Demonschool set to release in Q3 2025

By Liam Dawe,
We're finally getting close to Demonschool actually releasing, with it now having a Q3 2025 release window so it will be here before the end of September.

Valve continues preparing the Steam Deck OS to release for more devices with SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview

By Liam Dawe,
SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview is out now and it contains only a few bug fixes, but one sounds pretty darn important to give non-Steam Deck users a good experience.

Mesa NVK (NVIDIA Vulkan driver) now Vulkan 1.4 conformant on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand has announced a nice big milestone for the open source Mesa driver NVK, the NVIDIA Vulkan driver, as it has expanded Vulkan 1.4 conformance to now include Maxwell+ (Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs).

A retro goodie rebuilt from 1994, Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition recently added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Ironseed from 1994 is not one I'm familiar with, I only know if I had seen it when I was small I probably would have played it for hours. Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition is a modern 2020 remake and now it has a Native Linux version.

Monument Valley 1 and 2 get full controller support which should get them Steam Deck Verified soon

By Liam Dawe,
Developer ustwo games just upgraded both Monument Valley: Panoramic Edition and Monument Valley 2: Panoramic Edition with full controller support which should get them bumped up to Steam Deck Verified status.

ROCKFISH reducing EVERSPACE 2 DLC pricing as everything is getting more expensive

By Liam Dawe,
Well, this is nice. With the price of so many things going up everywhere thanks to tariffs, inflation and everything else - ROCKFISH Games have reduced the pricing of the upcoming big EVERSPACE 2 Wrath of the Ancients DLC.