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Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter

By Liam Dawe, 8 hours ago

Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta Client update for February 14th, showing the love to battery life with a little extra juice.

Deckbuilder fans should check out this new Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

If you love deckbuilders you may want to take a look at the just launched Deckbuilder Bonanza Humble Bundle as there's a few treats inside.

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Get over 30 games including Hardspace: Shipbreaker right now via Prime Gaming

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for February 14th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux has some nice growth thanks to great handheld PC support

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

There's no need to wait on Valve releasing SteamOS 3 for everyone thanks to Bazzite. Some really impressive work continues to go into it, and it appears they're enjoying some nice overall growth.

Get Tomb Raider I-III Remastered and STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter cheap in Fanatical's Prestige Collection

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Another great deal you can grab here with Fanatical's Prestige Collection - Build your own Bundle (BundleFest 2025), with a whole bunch of quality games in it.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater releases in August

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

KONAMI announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is going to be launching on August 28th, with pre-orders now live. Another that was announced during the PlayStation State of Play recently and the mini-game from the original is returning too.

Open source non-profit platform Codeberg "suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces"

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Codeberg are a "non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects" and they've recently had a major problem from what they say are far-right forces engaging in a hate campaign.

Tomb Raider II open source re-implementation adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

Here's all the Steam Sales and Fests for 2025

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Valve have now revealed the full list of Steam Sales and Festivals that will be happening throughout 2025. So time to fill up that wishlist, mark your calendar and prepare your wallet.

Days Gone Remastered announced coming to PC as a $10 DLC in April

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Catching up from a few other interesting bits announced during the PlayStation State of Play February 2025 is Days Gone Remastered. For players on PC, it will just be a DLC.

A workaround for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs has been found

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

If there's one thing you can always count on in the Linux world it's that packaging can be a nightmare. The OBS Studio team are not happy with the Fedora folks due to Flatpak problems and threatened legal action.

The Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle has lots of goodies again

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

Humble are rehashing a previous bundle here that was first released around this time last year, with the launch of the Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle. Good chance to grab a whole lot if you missed it before.

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN launches in May - will have Kernel Level Anti-Cheat

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is now set for launch on May 30th, and it does look great, but the anti-cheat could be a problem for Steam Deck / Linux players.

Fanatical have a great Special Editions Bundle and a Simulator Collection Bundle worth a look

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

Two more bundles of games here to build up your collection ready for the weekend! Fanatical have launched the Build your own Special Editions Bundle (BundleFest 2025) and Build your own Simulator Collection bundles.

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!

Dwarf Fortress has some exciting plans for the future

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

With Adventure Mode out now, the Dwarf Fortress team are looking ahead and it's sounding quite exciting with some big features coming to the game.

Stellar Blade confirmed for a PC release in June - Steam page now live

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

Hot on the heels of the recent news that Shift Up mentioned Stellar Blade would be optimized for Steam Deck and other smaller devices, we have a Steam page and release month.

The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 2 days ago

It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).