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Steam Controller more popular than Valve expected - they're working on stock issues

By Liam Dawe,
It seems the popularity of the new Steam Controller really did catch Valve off guard, with it selling out a lot faster than expected.

Conan Exiles Enhanced is out - a free upgrade for everyone with Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Funcom have given the survival game Conan Exiles a big free upgrade with Conan Exiles Enhanced officially out now and it sounds great.
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Pay off your debts to a greedy landlord in the seriously charming deckbuilder Cropdeck

By Liam Dawe,
Farming roguelike deckbuilder Cropdeck has you use cards to grow crops and collect weird-looking scarecrows that help you farm and create satisfying combos.

Discord is finally less of a nuisance to update on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Discord team just revealed another major update for the social chat platform, and Linux gets a little attention this time too.

shapez 2 is a thoroughly chilled time building up a shape-cutting factory

By Liam Dawe,
If you love the idea of building up a massive sprawling factory and taking your time doing so to chill out - shapez 2 is a safe bet.

Engineering puzzle game U.V.S. Nirmana arrives from the Zachtronics team at Coincidence

By Liam Dawe,
The Zachtronics team are back again. After releasing Kaizen: A Factory Story they have returned for another engineering puzzle game with U.V.S. Nirmana.

Unique deck-builder Moonsigil Atlas arrives May 28 - No energy, no mana, just space

By Liam Dawe,
With a demo that absolutely captured me, deck-builder Moonsigil Atlas arrives May 28th and this is one you're not going to want to miss.

Unity AI out in Open Beta to give developers the fabled "make game" button

By Liam Dawe,
AI, AI, AI - now in your game engine too! Unity has rolled out Unity AI in Open Beta that will apparently help games be created faster.

Steam Controller goes out of stock as Valve get a ton of "Game Console" shipments

By Liam Dawe,
It's the morning after the Steam Controller released standalone, it's getting sold out in various regions but it may not be alone for long.

The new Steam Controller from Valve is out now - some early thoughts

By Liam Dawe,
The new Steam Controller launched today and thanks to Valve providing GamingOnLinux a review unit, I've been able to put it through some Linux testing.

Prepare to rig the market in SlotsNStocks, a deckbuilding slot machine roguelike

By Liam Dawe,
Here's another one for those of you who love watching numbers go up, while chaining together wild combinations - SlotsNStocks looks like a good time sink.

Unique module-building tower defense game Wireworks just got much bigger

By Liam Dawe,
Wireworks is tower-defense roguelike auto-battler that's incredibly unique and now it's much bigger with a huge free update released.

Dungeon Clawler 1.0 is out now - it will hook you and frustrate you just like the real thing

By Liam Dawe,
Dungeon Clawler from Stray Fawn Studio has hit 1.0 bringing the world of roguelite deckbuilders to claw machines. It's certainly an interesting combo.

Build and command a flying fortress in the playtest of Castle Away

By Liam Dawe,
Castle Away from Renegade Games is a strategy roguelite autobattler that challenges players to build, command, and explore using a customisable floating keep.

Upcoming tycoon sim Steam To Electric has gotten me real excited about trains

By Liam Dawe,
Steam To Electric is an upcoming voxel rail tycoon building sim that gives you some wild (but very real) historical train inventions.

If you value your free time don't install the Pegs X Stickers demo

By Liam Dawe,
Releasing sometime in August, Pegs X Stickers blends the worlds of pachinko and roguelites together to create an intoxicating mixture.

Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
One area that's lacking on Linux right now is support for later versions of HDMI with AMD GPUs, but it seems expanded features are coming.

Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for April 2026 now live, we've seen a decrease compared with the all-time high from last month but still a good trend.

Wine 11.8 brings updates for Mono, MSXML, VBScript and more

By Liam Dawe,
The development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine version 11.8 is out now with the usual assortment of new features and fixes.

Blender change the Anthropic AI funding deal, with discussions planned for AI Policies

By Liam Dawe,
After quite a lot of backlash following the Blender announcement that Anthropic would become a Corporate Sponsor, the Blender Foundation released a statement.