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Survival horror deck-builder Draft of Darkness launches August 23rd

By Liam Dawe,
Blending together survival, horror, a deck builder and roguelike dungeon exploration - Draft of Darkness has a little bit of everything.

Overwatch 2 out on Steam - works fine on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Overwatch 2 from Blizzard has now launched on Steam and thanks to that, it's super simple to get it working on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. Although Steam Deck players will want to change the Proton version.

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck

By Smellbringer,
id Software and Nightdive Studios are at it again with an enhanced version of Quake II, available now for all platforms and the best part is that, if you already own Quake II on Steam, it's a free update.

Auto-battling deck-building roguelike 'Hadean Tactics' adds gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Allowing you to kick-back and relax a bit more, Hadean Tactics the roguelike deckbuilding game fused with an autobattler now has gamepad support.

Papers, Please turns 10 and hits 5 million sales

By Liam Dawe,
Papers, Please is a game about being an immigration officer in a fictional dystopian country named Arstotzka. It's quite a unique experience and clearly did well for the developer Lucas Pope.

Broforce Forever has launched with new characters, enemies and more

By Liam Dawe,
Broforce Forever is now available as a big free upgrade for all owners, here's a little look over what's new for my favourite action-platformer.

VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to early internet fan communities - out now

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by Miiverse, MSN messenger, early internet forums and 00's technology VIDEOVERSE this visual novel adventure lets you relive the past internet with the fictional Kinmoku Shark gaming system and its online social network.

Proton Experimental improves Baldur's Gate 3 launcher, Unreal Engine 4 bugs on Intel GPUs

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Proton Experimental release is now live from August 9th, there's some nice looking fixes included so here's what to expect from it for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Resident Evil Village and plenty more available in this new bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Might be finally time for me to play through Resident Evil Village thanks to the Resident Evil: Decades of Horror - Village Edition Bundle from Humble Bundle that's now live.

Downfall is a new 'severe' flaw in Intel CPUs, while AMD deal with INCEPTION

By Liam Dawe,
Uh oh! Another rather serious security flaw has been found in Intel CPUs named Downfall, so here's a bit of info on it. Additionally, AMD are also dealing with INCEPTION.

Vagrus - The Riven Realms gets Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Vagrus - The Riven Realms is a narrative-heavy RPG that mixes in exploration, turn-based combat, resource management and more. As of the latest upgrade it's also now Steam Deck Verified.

OpenRA has a new playtest with another Red Alert mission

By Liam Dawe,
The OpenRA developers are steadily working towards the next stable releasing to continue supporting Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 on modern platforms with full cross-platform play.

Valheim has a rather large bug-fix release in testing

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for the next bigger patch for survival game Valheim? Developer Iron Gate has a new public test available with lots of fixes.

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. Here's a look over what's changed.

Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve

By Liam Dawe,
After it was leaked a bit too early, Valve have now confirmed and put up all three Steam Deck models to buy refurbished direct from the Steam store.

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Taking a look at the most-played games on Steam by player-count, here's how many of them should be playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

One of my favourite roguelikes Jupiter Hell adds modding support

By Liam Dawe,
Oh hell! Time for another few runs then I think. Jupiter Hell, one of my favourite roguelikes with seriously slick movement design now has modding support.

Looks like Valve will sell refurbished Steam Decks

By Liam Dawe,
Valve seemed to let slip a bit early that they plan to sell refurbished models of Steam Deck for cheaper prices but the store pages were quickly hidden.

Celebrate the end of Summer with this Capcom Steam Sale

By Smellbringer,
The summer season is coming to an end; students are heading back to school and tech deals are popping up from left to right. Capcom has seen fit to get in on the season with the Capcom End of Summer Steam Sale. Here's a bunch of games Verified for Steam Deck.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 31: The Fear of Loss

By Hamish,
I was trawling through the old web one evening, looking for additional resources on early Linux gaming, when I came across a freeware game I had never heard of before. Little did I know that this was going to be the start of a long and daunting quest; it was really starting to look like Phobia III - Edge Of Humanity had become Linux gaming lost media.