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Snacktorio: a factory-cooking simulator for feeding unspeakable horrors

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2023

Not satisfied enough by creating the chilled beekeeping sim APICO, and their plans for frog-breeding in Mudborne, TNgineers recently announced Snacktorio, a factory-cooking simulator where you must satisfy the appetites of unspeakable horrors.

CodeWeavers are hiring for a Wine / Proton developer

By Liam Dawe, 6 Nov 2023

If you're a programmer looking for your next challenge - how about this! CodeWeavers are hiring a full-time position for a developer to work on Wine, Proton and their own CrossOver product.

Mini story modes coming to Vampire Survivors in the Adventures Update

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2023

Well this sounds rather exciting and different. Vampire Survivors is going to launch the Adventures Update in a few weeks and it will bring some new ways to play with mini story modes.

Here's the Steam Deck most played for October 2023

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2023

Another month is over and Valve has revealed what you've all been playing on Steam Deck for October 2023, so here's the most popular games.

Counter-Strike 2 sees the return of community maps

By Liam Dawe, 3 Nov 2023

Valve continue expanding Counter-Strike 2 now its released, and the latest update overhauls the community map system along with enabling it again in the Steam Workshop. We've also seen quite a big drop in players overall.

Baldur's Gate 3 patch 4 brings AMD FSR 2.2, looking better on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

Another colossal update for Baldur's Gate 3 has landed with Patch 4 and the changelog, as expected, is utterly ridiculous. Seriously, what the heck. Oh, it's also enhanced with AMD FSR 2.2! So this should make it look better on Steam Deck.

Turbo Overkill boosts controller support & gets a Steam Deck graphics preset

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

Turbo Overkill is easily one of the best shooters I've played in a long time, and this latest update has made it even better - especially for users of controllers and players on Steam Deck.

Devolver Digital acquires ASTRONEER developer System Era Softworks

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

Devolver Digital has now acquired System Era Softworks, who made the popular space exploration and industry game ASTRONEER.

OpenRazer 3.7 brings even more Razer device support to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

OpenRazer 3.7.0 is out now bringing with it plenty of code clean-up and lots of new device support to Linux for Razer hardware fans this is an essential.

Humble has a bundle full of awesome games IGN gave 9s and 10s

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

Need some critically highly-rated games? Humble Bundle put up a rather fantastic selection of games that IGN gave either a 9 or 10 score to and it really is a good bundle.

October 23 Steam Survey: Simplified Chinese rises, Linux and macOS decline

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

We have another fresh Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2023 and the results show that Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam has another sharp jump resulting in some odd results.

Latest Steam Client Beta has some useful controller support upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 2 Nov 2023

Valve has rolled out a fresh Steam Client Beta for desktop which includes some really good sounding improvements for controller support, so here's what's new.

War Thunder game engine Dagor Engine from Gaijin now open source

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.

SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.

Cinnamon 6.0 for Linux Mint 21.3 to have 'experimental' Wayland support

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

Finally. All the pieces are coming together for Wayland to truly be the actual future for Linux, even Linux Mint are now moving forward with it in their Cinnamon desktop.

Survival game Vintage Story has another big tech upgrade coming

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

Vintage Story is a challenging open-world survival game inspired by eldritch horror themes, certainly quite different to a lot of survival games out there with some really impressive depth to the mechanics and it's about to get much more impressive.

KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there's a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.

Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!

Canonical detail a whole lot of Steam Snap improvements

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

While most people will be using a normal package for Steam on Linux or the Flatpak, Canonical continue pushing their own Snap packages and one that's needed a lot of work is Steam.

The Outlast Trials gets fixed on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 1 Nov 2023

The Outlast Trials from Red Barrels recently had a big upgrade with some big new content additions, but it broke the game on Steam Deck. Thankfully the developers have solved the issue so it keeps its Steam Deck Verified status.