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Valve rolls out Proton 8.0 to further improve Steam Deck and Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

After a bit of a wait since the Wine 8.0 release, Valve has now released Proton 8.0, the latest version of their Windows translation layer for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

Iris and Sodium for Minecraft move to Modrinth away from CurseForge

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Do you use the popular Iris and Sodium mods for Minecraft? Well there's been a bit of an issue lately, so the developers have dropped support for CurseForge and fully moved over to Modrinth.

Publisher of King under the Mountain backs out so it's re-releasing as Mountaincore

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

King under the Mountain was a pretty nice colony-building game from Rocket Jump Technology, and it was going through a huge upgrade. Sadly, their publisher cancelled on them so they're having to re-release as Mountaincore.

Stardew Valley set for another update in v1.6

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

One of the most popular games on Steam (and one of the most played Steam Deck games too), Stardew Valley is coming back for another update in version 1.6.

MineClone2 v0.83 out now, the sandbox game for Minetest inspired by Minecraft

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Inspired might be pushing it a bit eh? MineClone2 as the name suggests really is a clone of early Minecraft, although this is free and open source powered by the Minetest game engine. A big new release is out now following the recent Minetest upgrade.

Lueur blends city-building with survival from a former Ubisoft developer

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Developer Darenn Keller previously worked on the likes of Assassin's Creed and Ghost Recon, but now they're going indie with their city-building survival game Lueur.

Darkest Dungeon got a free total conversion with Black Reliquary

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

One I missed recently that you should check out: Black Reliquary is a free total conversion mod for the original Darkest Dungeon, and it's available now with a whole lot of content to play through.

Try out a free prologue of Shogun Showdown right now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Shogun Showdown: Prologue is a demo of the upcoming turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements.

The Last of Us has more Steam Deck improvements and lots of other fixes

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

Fires continue to be put out by Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy as they fix up The Last of Us, with a new patch landing with lots of fixes.

MangoHud performance overlay version v0.6.9 is out now as a nice update

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

It's been a while since the last release but a nice update to the performance hud and benchmarking tool MangoHud is out now. This is the tool used for the performance stats on Steam Deck.

Wine 8.6 out now with bundled Musl math library

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

After another ~2 weeks, the latest development release is out for the Windows translation layer with Wine 8.6.

Ubisoft hiring Linux developer talent for XDefiant

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

XDefiant is an upcoming free-to-play, first-person arena shooter from Ubisoft and it seems they need a bit more Linux talent.

Landnama gives a non-violent exploration city-builder roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

Blending features from city builders and dungeon crawling roguelikes, Landnama sounds pretty unusual, especially with the non-violent theme too.

The latest Steam Survey had a huge surge of Simplified Chinese

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

After waiting a while to see if Valve issued any corrections, it seems that the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2023 is staying as it is, with a huge surge of Simplified Chinese.

GE-Proton 7-55 released with an essential fix for Easy Anti-Cheat issues

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

GE-Proton version 7-55 was released a few days ago, and it's an essential update for those of you preferring it to the official Valve Proton on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

LIVE A LIVE from Square Enix is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

LIVE A LIVE originally released in the 90s for the Super Famicom, and now it's being revived with the same style as OCTOPATH TRAVELER and it's already Steam Deck Verified.

Microsoft experiments with a handheld Windows 11 mode for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

This is interesting, it seems Valve have lit a small fire under Microsoft once again, as they've been experimenting with a handheld mode for Windows 11 to help devices like the Steam Deck. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Grounded from Obsidian adds Steam Deck support in v1.2.0

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

The survival game Grounded from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios is gearing up to launch version 1.2.0 that's now available to test. With it comes Steam Deck support.

Sci-fi puzzle game Photon Engineer out now, made with open source

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2023

Love puzzle games like Portal and The Talos Principle? Photon Engineer might be one for you to have a look at.

X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2023

Egosoft have just released the next major expansion for X4: Foundations named X4: Kingdom End, plus a major free upgrade is also out now that brings full Steam Deck Verified support.