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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Initially Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux.

The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Here is your up to date list of what distro you should be picking if you want to start gaming on Linux in 2026. The latest edition of you telling me I'm wrong.

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The 2026 Carnage Collection from Humble Bundle brings some fun games to begin the year

By Liam Dawe, 7 days ago

A fresh new Humble Bundle to begin 2026 with some quality games and they're highly rated too, and they should all work on Linux / SteamOS.

2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed

By Liam Dawe, 5 days ago

The time is here - you helped to pick the nominations and then you voted for your favourites. The 2025 Steam Awards winners have now been revealed.

NVIDIA announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

NVIDIA already added Steam Deck support for GeForce NOW and they're now expanding it with a dedicated Native Linux app for desktops.

KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it.

NVIDIA announce DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, plus DLSS Updater gets Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 3 days ago

Along with announcing a Native Linux app for GeForce NOW, NVIDIA also revealed the new DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation.

Some releases to look forward to in 2026

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

It's a new year, so here's some games that should release on PC during 2026 that I'm excited for.

The excellent free Command & Conquer - Combined Arms gets more missions and co-op

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms is an excellent free and standalone classic RTS game, with release 1.08 out now adding plenty new.

Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Generative AI is everywhere, and now it may be in your browser plugins too. The popular Augmented Steam recently had some backlash due to VaporLens integration.

The Legion Go with Bazzite is an excellent machine for gaming

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

I finally acquired an original Lenovo Legion Go and of course I had to put Linux on it and get rid of Windows, so I finally got to see the fuss over Bazzite.

007 First Light gets PC specifications released and that's a lot of RAM needed

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

We are truly entering a time in gaming where it feels like optimizations are a thing of the past, and the specifications needed to run 007 First Light are nuts.

Mesa RADV driver on Linux looks set for a big ray tracing performance boost

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

One thing currently a bit lacking on Linux is the performance of ray tracing with the open source Mesa RADV driver, but a big improvement is coming.

Based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, OpenTTD gets some big new features in v15

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

Keeping classic video game ideas alive, OpenTTD is based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It's free, open source and now better than ever with v15 out now.