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I'm terrible at Poker but a deck-building poker roguelike? Balatro has me hooked

By Liam Dawe,
Balatro is releasing on February 20th and if you love card games and deck-builders, you're probably going to need to check this one out. It also has a demo available for Steam Next Fest 2024.

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy is a party-based RPG from the ATOM RPG team

By Liam Dawe,
AtomTeam are moving on from their Fallout and Wasteland inspired titles ATOM RPG and ATOM RPG Trudograd, onto their next game they just announced with Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy.

Humble Bundle raised $14 million for charity in 2023 - over $250 million overall

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Bundle announced some new numbers recently, and it's quite impressive to see how much they're actually doing for various charities thanks to all their bundles.

You're going to need to take mining-shooter BORE BLASTERS away from me

By Liam Dawe,
BORE BLASTERS is a mining-shooter from Scottish studio 8BitSkull, the same developer that also made Void Scrappers and Fates of Ort, two other games I also quite liked. It seems they're onto something again here!

Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
MangoHud is the fantastic tool you can use to display various amounts of performance information while gaming on Linux, it's also what the Steam Deck uses for the HUD too. A new version 0.7.1 is out now!

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.12 released

By fheroes2,
Dear fans of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and fheroes2 project supporters! The team is excited to announce a new version of the fheroes2 project - 1.0.12 as the first update of this year!

Driving survival game Pacific Drive is very cool - here's the fix for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Pacific Drive is a first-person driving-survival game with a demo now available, it's really interesting and nice to see something different but for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux it needs a fix to get working.

HELLDIVERS 2 is out - here's how to run it on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
HELLDIVERS 2 from Arrowhead Game Studios and PlayStation PC has arrived, and it's causing issues for players on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. Here's some ways you may be able to get it to work.

Proton Experimental gets improvements for The Finals, TEKKEN 8, Black Desert Online

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new update to Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, bringing in some fixes for various games. Here's what you need to know.

Get lots of Mega Man games in this Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
There's a new big Mega Man Humble Bundle live and plenty of them work just fine across Linux Desktop and Steam Deck, so here's all the info you need.

Steam Beta now lets you actually close controller info panels with controllers

By Liam Dawe,
A bit of an oversight in the Steam Client is that their newer Controller info panels that appear before a game launches couldn't be dismissed with a controller - but now they can.

Crusader Kings III is about to get a lot of extra exciting content

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive have announced Chapter III of Crusader Kings III, a set of expansions that will bring in some rather exciting sounding additions to the popular grand strategy game.

Diablo game engine devilutionX fixes up multiplayer in v1.5.2

By Liam Dawe,
The modern cross-platform Diablo game engine devilutionX has a new release available, and although small it does have some important fixes.

Arms Race returns to Counter-Strike 2, custom sticker placement, Zeus skin and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve finally put out a big update to Counter-Strike 2, bringing with it a much needed boost with a new game mode, new types of skins and more.

Steam surprise launches Lunar New Year Sale 2024 - after previously stopping it

By Liam Dawe,
Well, that was a bit of a surprise. Valve has once again put up a Lunar New Year Sale, even though they previously announced they wouldn't be doing one.

Half-Life remake Black Mesa hits over 100,000 Steam reviews to Overwhelmingly Positive

By Liam Dawe,
Quite an impressive milestone for an incredible game overall! The Half-Life remake Black Mesa has managed to cross over 100,000 user reviews on Steam.

Humble Choice for February has Scorn, Life is Strange: True Colors, Destroy All Humans 2

By Liam Dawe,
A rather nice assortment of games this month for Humble Choice, so here's your usual run over what's new for subscribers of Humble's special monthly bundle.

Open source simulation game OpenTTD has a big new v14 update coming

By Liam Dawe,
OpenTTD, an open source simulation games based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe is getting close to a big new release, with version 14 bringing many new features and improvements.

Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2024 has some real treats inside

By Liam Dawe,
With all the proceeds going to charity, the Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2024 on Fanatical overall looks like a pretty darn sweet deal with some really fun games included.

From Glory To Goo is a new base-building RTS where you defend against gooey aliens

By Liam Dawe,
From Glory To Goo is a new upcoming real-time strategy game from Stratagem Blue that has me a little excited, and so far the demo seems to work quite well on Linux.
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