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Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

By Liam Dawe,
You might have seen recently that I covered the upcoming updates for Roblox, and now it's here blocking Wine with their new anti-cheat.

Re:Touring is a clever, accessible and polished first-person puzzler

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoy first-person puzzlers like Portal and The Talos Principle then you'll likely feel right at home with Re:Touring.

Valve gave Steam store search a very useful upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Valve announced a fresh upgrade to the Steam store search, making it a lot more useful so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Get a bunch of easy-going games in this latest bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh Humble Bundle landed recently, this time focusing on games to have a bit more of a relaxed time with. Here's what's in the Easy-game Games Whitehorn Showcase bundle and what compatibility to expect on Linux and Steam Deck.

Nreal Air and Steam Deck together - quite mind-blowing

By Liam Dawe,
Recently I was sent over a package with the Nreal Air, so I've spent a fair bit of time testing out these AR glasses with the Steam Deck to see what all the fuss is about.

Arcane Wilds kicks off with some refreshing RTS ideas

By Etienne,
Have you been someone who loved playing games like Starcraft and Age of Empires primarily in multiplayer mode with your friends, or do you still play them? Then I might have something for you that could make your competitive RTS heart beat faster and bring some fresh ideas.

Steam will now scale better with KDE and GNOME

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest Beta release for Steam from May 5th, Valve finally did some more work on scaling the UI of the Steam Client.

Proton Experimental improves EA app, Battle.net and nvapi enabled for many games

By Liam Dawe,
A rather great sounding update to Proton Experimental landed on May 5th, so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Cartridges is another Linux game launcher and it's super-clean

By Liam Dawe,
If there's one thing we're not short on, it's launchers. There's some kind of launcher for everything including Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Bottles and more. Now there's also Cartridges.

Typing Tempo challenges you in a 41-key typing rhythm game

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoy rhythm games and think you're a master typist, you may want to take a little look over at the new release of Typing Tempo.

GOG reveal some stats on how they're doing

By Liam Dawe,
Game store GOG has a new blog post up detailing how they're doing, and it seems like things are starting to go a bit better for them.

Dead by Daylight now works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Some potentially great news for Dead by Daylight fans, as it seems Behaviour Interactive have finally made the switch with their anti-cheat to allow Steam Deck and Linux desktop players in.

Discord username system changing to make it easier to find people

By Liam Dawe,
After years of technical debt, Discord has announced a big change is coming to their username system to make it easier to find the people you want to connect with.

Open source physics-based tabletop sim 'Tabletop Club' gets an official release

By Liam Dawe,
After a bunch of early testing builds, the developer of the free and open source tabletop sim Tabletop Club has announced the first stable release.

Soul Survivors is a refreshing skill-based time-survival Vampire Survivor-like

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing my quest to have no free time ever, I have been checking out Soul Survivors that's now available in Early Access. It may be yet another Vampire Survivor-like but that's not a bad thing at all.

Framework gives more detail on their AMD Ryzen laptop

By Liam Dawe,
Recently Framework excited everyone over their big DIY laptop upgrades, and now they're giving more detail on the Framework 13 Laptop with AMD Ryzen.

AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
One for game developers here and anyone tinkering around with graphics APIs, as AMD has announced the next upgrade to their Render Pipeline Shaders SDK and now it has Linux support.

Steam Deck hits over 9,000 games rated Verified and Playable

By Liam Dawe,
Another juicy milestone for Valve with the Steam Deck, as it now has over 9,000 games rated as either Verified or Playable.

Spooky creature photography game Penko Park gets Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
A bit like a slightly creepier Pokemon Snap, the indie hit Penko Park from developer Ghostbutter has just released Native Linux support.

Get a bunch of Rhythm games in this game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Do you have the moves? Are you quick on the finger? Check out the Feel the Rhythm bundle over on Humble Bundle. Here's what compatibility to expect on desktop Linux and Steam Deck.
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