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The popular board game Frosthaven is getting adapted into a video game, with Snapshot Games at the helm led by CEO Julian Gollop, known for designing X-COM.
The Dark Mod is a seriously impressive project giving us a completely free and open source standalone Thief-like stealth game, and The Dark Mod 2.13 release is another great one.
Minecraft Live has been and gone again and this time there was some pretty big news. Vibrant Visuals was announced as a future major upgrade, which will bring some fancier looking graphics to Minecraft.
With filming that's been going on and off for three years, Noclip are doing a 4-part documentary series on Dwarf Fortress. The first episode is now live.
Another chance to pick up some quality games! The Humble Heroines Bundle returns with a different set of great games for Women's History Month supporting Girls Who Code and Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund.
Sony have revealed the system requirements and more info for the PC release of The Last of Us Part II Remastered, which is due to arrive on April 3rd. Looks like it might be good news for Steam Deck owners too.
From Ogre Pixel who made Lonesome Village and A Tiny Sticker Tale, their next game is an action roguelike where you're defending a walking castle. Castlebound seems like it could be a lot of fun.
The Accessible Games Initiative from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has been launched, with an aim to improve how developers and stores list clear information about the accessibility features available in video games.
GOG have just announced another expansion of the the GOG Preservation Program. This is their promise to keep classics updated and working on modern systems.
Valve released another smaller update for Proton Experimental, the constantly changing compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux platforms like the Steam Deck with SteamOS.
Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 21st, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection with these games coming as part of your Amazon Prime subscription.
While Valve continue working towards the public SteamOS 3 release for more devices, and we've seen them note work towards that in the initial SteamOS 3.7 Preview, they continue rolling out more bug fixes for the Steam Deck.
The sun is shining here (a rare event) which is terrible, and of course that means staying inside playing video games right? If you're in the same situation perhaps the new Steam Deck Build Your Own Play on the Go bundle from Fanatical will help.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified, so I took a look to see if it deserves the rating. The good news is that it will also work on normal Desktop Linux with AMD GPUs but NVIDIA GPUs have problems.
Great news for game developers and everyone involved in the industry that isn't at the top of the chain, as the Communications Workers of America (CWA) in partnership with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) have announced an industry-wide video game union.