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Steam Deck Beta adds way to view components, Valve confirms fan changes

By Liam Dawe, 21 Oct 2022

Valve has released another Steam Deck Beta and it's a rather interesting one, with a few nice new features along with the ability to see what components your Steam Deck shipped with. You can also now skip the intro video.

Vampire Survivors started a craze and the 1.0 release is out now

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

Vampire Survivors is a time-survival horde game that started something of a craze, with many games copying their blueprint and now Vampire Survivors 1.0 is out.

An interview with the creator of Deckmate, the Steam Deck attachment system

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

Have you seen the Deckmate yet? I'm a big fan and use it quite often. A thoroughly useful attachment system for the Steam Deck and I had the chance to speak to the creator about it.

Someone released the FOSS RTS 0 A.D. on Steam without speaking to the developers

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

Here's a "fun" one for you. The developers behind the free and open source RTS named 0 A.D. (pronounced “zero-ey-dee”) have announced that someone (they don't know who) has put it up on Steam.

Fab looking western adventure Rosewater gets a big demo update with voice actors

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

The point and click adventure genre is not only alive and well, it's positively thriving. Rosewater is another one that looks fantastic and the demo got a big refresh.

AMD to fully reveal next-gen AMD Radeon RDNA 3 in November

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

A short but sweet announcement was sent out by AMD today, as they've now set a date for when they will fully reveal AMD Radeon RDNA 3, their next-gen GPU architecture.

Silent Hill 2 remake announced and coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

A much loved action-horror classic Silent Hill 2 is getting a modern remake and the good news is that it's coming to Steam. So it will most likely run in some form on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

UNCHARTED is great on Steam Deck! Here's how to fix it on Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe, 20 Oct 2022

With UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection out now and Steam Deck Verified, I've been able to see that it does work great! However, it requires some very small tweaks to get it working on a normal Linux desktop.

Get PAYDAY 2 and a ton of DLC in the latest Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2022

In the mood to play a co-op shooter? Humble Bundle has a huge PAYDAY 2: The Ultimate Score bundle ready for you.

A new Beta of game manager Lutris fixes up Origin, Epic Games and Ubisoft Connect

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2022

Lutris, the open source game manager that can help you keep together all your games from various services on Linux and Steam Deck has a new Beta release fixing some big issues.

Lucy Dreaming is a quality point and click adventure with great British humour

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2022

You know a game is going to be good, when you're already chuckling away in the first few minutes. Point and click adventure Lucy Dreaming is out now.

FIFA? Nah, give me more of Pixel Cup Soccer

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2022

Need more Football in your life? Yes, I said Football, get over it. Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition is officially out now along with Native Linux support.

GB Operator is a fun gadget for Game Boy fans tested on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2022

Recently I mentioned GB Operator a little USB gadget that reads cartridges of the Game Boy, Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Advance. After giving it a go myself, I'm impressed and a little in love.

Steam Deck adds External Display Safe Mode setting, 30 second boot videos

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2022

Now the official Steam Deck Docking Station is out, a lot more people are testing the Steam Deck on external displays showing up numerous issues so Valve has added a little something to help.

Windows compatibility layer Wine version 7.19 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2022

Just before the weekend hit, a new development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine went up with version 7.19.

Sweet point and click dino adventure Zid Journey is up on Kickstarter with demo

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2022

Love your point and click adventures and want to see more? Zid Journey is a new one from the team behind Zniw Adventure.

EmuDeck 2.0 makes emulation on Steam Deck easier than ever

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2022

The Steam Deck is a fantastic system for indies, AA, AAA and everything in between but it's also great for emulation too. EmuDeck is software that can help automate the entire process of setting emulators up, and a huge new release is out now.

Theme park building sim Indoorlands is officially out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2022

Indoorlands, a somewhat unique theme park building sim has left Early Access as a finished game ready for you to get clicking around.

LOST EMBER should run nicer on Steam Deck / Linux, as dev fixes video issues

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2022

LOST EMBER is an adventure game all about the power of nature. Released back in 2019, it seems recently that went back to it to ensure it works nicely on Steam Deck (and so Linux too).