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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March

By Liam Dawe,
Myrient is a popular "video game preservation service" that has over 390 terabytes of classics but it's about to go offline forever.

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.
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California law to require operating systems to check your age

By Liam Dawe,
The time of age assurance is upon us, and not just for social media - for operating systems too and that includes Linux as well of course.

Run your own band in the pixel art management game Legends of Rock

By Liam Dawe,
Legends of Rock is coming later this year from the developer of Dude, Where Is My Beer? that sees you build up and manage your own band.

The OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux is now "on ice" due to component prices

By Liam Dawe,
The latest update for the OrangePi Neo handheld with Manjaro Linux is not a positive one, with the whole thing now unfortunately "on ice".

New York sues Valve over "illegally promoting gambling" for loot boxes

By Liam Dawe,
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against Valve (Steam) for what they say is illegally promoting gambling.

Grim Dawn celebrates 10 years - set for a big free upgrade with a modern scaleable UI and an expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Grim Dawn is getting an update that will hopefully make the ARPG classic work better across different screen sizes and resolutions (like the Steam Deck).

Retro games bundle MARVEL MaXimum Collection announced

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from Limited Run Games, MARVEL MaXimum Collection will be a bundle of retro classic Marvel titles "from the golden age of gaming".

Heroic Games Launcher v2.20.1 brings more essential bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Heroic Games Launcher continues to bring improvements to run games from Epic, GOG, Amazon and more on Linux / SteamOS systems with v2.20.1 out now.

Kick fascists so hard they fly into the sun in Verminsteel

By Liam Dawe,
Verminsteel is a new announcement from Glass Bottom Games that will see you hack and slash your way through hordes of fascists and take down their leaders.

Running With Scissors announced horror first person shooter Flesh & Wire

By Liam Dawe,
Diving into the roots of the POSTAL series, Running With Scissors recently revealed the new horror first person shooter Flesh & Wire.

Longterm supported Linux kernels get a longer life

By Liam Dawe,
Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Longterm supported Linux kernels are going to be supported for longer than previously announced.

Gambonanza is the best Balatro-like version of chess yet and you have to try the demo

By Liam Dawe,
If you love strategy games and roguelikes, Gambonanza fuses together the worlds of Balatro and chess like no other and it won me over completely.

Topdeck Automat blends the worlds of roguelike deckbuilder and autobattlers

By Liam Dawe,
Topdeck Automat gives you hundreds of cards to build a deck where your printer droid spits them out at random - sounds like quite a fun mixture.

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction arrives April 28

By Liam Dawe,
Another good one for fans of retro-styled beat 'em ups, as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction is releasing April 28th.

Frostrail gets a new trailer to showcase its freezing train-survival gameplay

By Liam Dawe,
Frostrail is another exciting game to keep an eye on, an open-world survival game where you and friends travel through a frozen world on a train.

Smash everything apart together as Teardown goes multiplayer on March 12

By Liam Dawe,
The physics-based voxel destruction game Teardown is set for a huge free upgrade on March 12th, when the multiplayer update arrives.

Here's the most played Steam Deck games for February 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Another month is done and finished and what a month it was huh? February 2026 had some fun games arriving, so here's what was most popular on Steam Deck.

SteamInputDB is a new site to help you find Steam Input configurations for your gamepads

By Liam Dawe,
SteamInputDB recently launched as a new third-party community site to help you find Steam Input configurations for various gamepads with Steam games.

Here's some of the most-played demos during Steam Next Fest - February 2026 edition

By Liam Dawe,
With Steam Next Fest - February 2026 nearly over, Valve recently revealed some of the most popular choices amongst gamers.