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Valve talk about learning from mistakes with the upcoming Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
As we all know the Steam Machines didn't go anywhere and Valve have clearly learned a lot from it, as they spoke about in a recent video from IGN.

Lutris game manager 0.5.9-beta1 is out adding Epic Games Store support

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a while since we had a new major release of Lutris, the free and open source game manager that allows you to bundle together all of your games in a single application.

Linux has finally hit that almost mythical 1% user share on Steam again

By Liam Dawe,
The day I'm sure many have been waiting for, and just as many probably thought it wouldn't happen. Linux has finally hit 1% again on the Steam Hardware Survey.

You can get Delver, Tower of Time and more in the Humble RPG Heroes Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Humble Bundle are starting to ramp-up their game bundles again and they have another with the Humble RPG Heroes Bundle that has some great games inside.

Wine 6.14 released with Mono updates, more prep work for GDI syscall interface

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine hackers have today popped open another bottle to let it breathe for a bit, with the development build Wine 6.14 now available for testing.

Get a free copy of Wanderlust: Transsiberian on GOG with their publisher sale

By Liam Dawe,
Publisher Walkabout is having a bit of sale over on GOG.com and you can grab yourself a free copy of the travelling adventure Wanderlust: Transsiberian.

Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection coming from the team behind Half-Life 2: Update

By Liam Dawe,
With Valve's blessing, it seems the Half-Life 2 series is getting a full update from the team that made Half-Life 2: Update in the form of the Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection.

Humble has a pretty big Starfinder RPG bundle going with physical goodies

By Liam Dawe,
Yes, this isn't exactly Linux gaming (we do cover other geeky things…) but the Humble RPG Book Bundle: Starfinder is still thoroughly interesting with some physical goodies included too.

AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT announced and launching August 11

By Liam Dawe,
AMD has lifted the lid on the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT, a fresh RDNA 2 powered GPU that will be launching August 11.

Steam gets new a Downloads page, new Steam Library manager and Linux improvements

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Beta update is available for the Steam Client and this time it's a big one. Overhauling the Downloads page, and the Steam Library manager is finally more useful.

You can now support the Flatpak package format on Open Collective

By Liam Dawe,
Flatpak is the next-generation of packing applications and games for Linux and now you can directly support it.

Open 3D Engine (O3DE) gets real close to properly working Linux support, free Kythera AI

By Liam Dawe,
We mentioned recently that the newly announced Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from the Linux Foundation and Amazon AWS was closer to proper Linux support, and we have a fresh update on that.

Proton Experimental updated for Microsoft Flight Simulator, Origin fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Here we go again, ahead of the weekend a fresh version of Proton Experimental has gone live allowing you to test the latest adjustments for playing Windows games on Linux.

In Spindle you become Death and figure out why no one is dying along with your pet Pig

By Liam Dawe,
Spindle certainly has an interesting premise that's worth keeping an eye on. You take on the role of Death, as you try to find out why no one seems to able to die, with your pet Pig companion.

AMD remains on-track for Zen 4 and RDNA 3 in 2022, Ryzen 5000 G-Series soon

By Liam Dawe,
AMD recently did their Q2 2021 financial results and investor call, and they seem to be thoroughly confident on their roadmap for upcoming advances with the Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures.

Check out the Spiritfarer documentary from Thunder Lotus and The Escapist

By Liam Dawe,
Spiritfarer was an absolutely gorgeous release from Thunder Lotus in 2020 and now you can learn a little more about how it became to be and the inspiration behind it.

Godot 3.4 beta 2 is out improving web exporting, crypto, rendering improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Technically this is the first true Beta for Godot 3.4 as they mostly skipped the first when it had a major issue. Godot 3.4 is coming with some really great sounding improvements for this cross-platform free and open source game engine.

Humble's Early Access All-Stars Bundle has some fun treats, save on Humble Choice

By Liam Dawe,
Want to pick up what could turn into some truly great games? Humble has a new bundle out with the Humble's Early Access All-Stars Bundle.

Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games

By Liam Dawe,
Frozenbyte being the developer behind titles like the Trine series, Shadwen, Has-Been Heroes and the upcoming Starbase talks a little about Proton and future native Linux support.

Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 is out with better performance, playtime tracking and more

By Liam Dawe,
The Heroic Games Launcher is a fantastic community effort to bring the Epic Games Store to Linux and Heroic Games Launcher 1.9 builds upon the foundation to provide a better experience.