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NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security flaws for May 2026

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Do you have an NVIDIA GPU? You should probably ensure you're on updated drivers, as we have another wave of security issues that have been revealed today.

Pool game roguelike STICKER/BALL is total unfiltered score-chasing chaos

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Love a bit of chaos and watching numbers go up? STICKER/BALL is probably one of the nuttiest combo-chasing games I've played for a while.
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Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets Steam P2P multiplayer and more content to come

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The developers reviving Planetary Annihilation: TITANS have announced another update in their work to improve this grand-scale multi-planet RTS.

ARC Raiders gets Denuvo Anti-Cheat, a new trader, a new weapon and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ARC Raiders developers Embark Studios have given the game a fresh content drop, along with news about anti-cheat changes coming to the game.

Forza Horizon 6 is out, Valve update Proton Hotfix for Linux - initial thoughts

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Forza Horizon 6 has officially launched from Playground Games and Xbox Game Studios, with Valve getting Proton updated ready for it on Linux / SteamOS.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.16 is out now

By fheroes2,
After a month of development, we are happy to release a new version of the fheroes2 engine for Heroes of Might and Magic II.

Steam Beta brings even more Steam Controller tweaks and a firmware fix for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve released the latest Steam Beta, and if you have the new Steam Controller you may want to ensure you've opted into it.

Valve make adjustments to Steam tags, and they settled the Vampire Survivor-like argument with Bullet Heaven

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve announced a whole bunch of changes to Steam tags with plenty removed and added, along with settling the score on what to call Vampire Survivor-likes.

Sony to no longer bring PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It is now reportedly confirmed that Sony will no longer bring their PlayStation narrative single-player games to PC. Return of the console wars?

Re-Logic celebrate 15 years of Terraria - 70 million sales, cross-play soon and more updates to come

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Developers Re-Logic are celebrating a huge 15 years of the side-scrolling survival crafting adventure game Terraria with it still going strong.

The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Installing Linux on a PlayStation 5 gets even easier now, with recent updates expanding the firmware versions that are supported.

You think you've seen it all and then there's a Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
I'm not sure why you would want to do this, but you can run a Linux Wayland Compositor inside Minecraft to get various external windows inside the game.

Sunshine game streaming tool adds Vulkan encoding plus XDG, Pipewire, and KWin direct screencast capture

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sunshine, the game streaming tool you use with Moonlight, has a major upgrade now available with some big new features and a security fix too.

Linux head says "AI tools are great" but they're making the security list "almost entirely unmanageable"

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While announcing the fourth release candidate for Linux kernel 7.1, Linux head Linus Torvalds had some interesting words to say about AI.

Proton is getting some "horrible" workarounds for Forza Horizon 6 on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
According to the developer of VKD3D-Proton, Forza Horizon 6 is "extremely broken" and needs some "horrible" workarounds to run properly on Linux.

New "low_latency_layer" brings Reflex and Anti-Lag 2 to AMD and Intel GPUs on Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Linux gets expanded support for Reflex and Anti-Lag tech thanks to a new open source Vulkan layer called "low_latency_layer".

Proton-CachyOS 11 adds initial OptiScaler integration and lots of other fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The very popular Linux distribution CachyOS roll their own advanced build of Proton, and with the latest Proton-CachyOS 11 update they added OptiScaler.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.22 brings library editing, big screen console mode improvements

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The excellent Heroic Games Launcher for running games from GOG, Epic Games and more on Linux released version 2.22 with some big new features.

Wine 11.9 released with ARM64 improvements, initial support for system threads

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine 11.9 has arrived with new features and bug fixes.

LEGO 2K Drive is getting delisted soon and servers will shut down

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Who cares about preserving the works of all the people that work on video games right? LEGO 2K Drive is another that's about to vanish forever.