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Steam Winter Sale 2022 is live now, plus vote for the Steam Awards

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve has put up their huge Winter Sale 2022 with tens of thousands of games that are discounted, plus you can now vote for the winners of the Steam Awards.

Big open ocean adventure Sail Forth is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sail Forth looks like a wonderful ocean adventure on the more chilled side of things (in a way), and if it's anything like the earlier versions I tried a while back, it would be an easy recommendation.

JSAUX now selling a transparent Steam Deck backplate

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Chinese accessory brand JSAUX have officially put up their transparent backplate for the Steam Deck.

Proton 7.0-6 now in testing for Steam Deck & Linux desktop

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Here's one missed from a week ago, Valve are testing another update to the stable version of Proton with Proton 7.0-6 needing some more eyes on it for testing.

Gorgeous 3D adventure platformer New Super Lucky's Tale is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Squires-Hand,
New Super Lucky's Tale appears to be one that somewhat flew under the radar. Originally released in 2020, it looks quite wonderful and after an update it became Steam Deck Verified.

X-Plane 12 flight sim is officially out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
X-Plane 12 from Laminar Research is a realistic and powerful flight simulator with real-world physics, accurate aircraft systems / behaviour and an immersive simulation of the world.

SteamOS 3.4 is out now for Steam Deck (updated)

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Pulling in tons of improvements for desktop mode, along with a healthy dose of bug fixes elsewhere, the SteamOS 3.4 update for Steam Deck has been released.

Proton Experimental fixes The Witcher 3 — plus better steering wheel support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve has updated Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Linux desktop with a few quick fixes so here's the usual run over what's new.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine remake fheroes2 hits 1.0

By Liam Squires-Hand,
fheroes2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, and after many development releases they've finally hit the big 1.0.

Linux Mint 21.1 is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Smelling fresh and ready to invite you in, Linux Mint 21.1 is officially out now so here's what's new and improved.

Whisker Squadron: Survivor blends Vampire Survivors with a Star Fox-like shooter

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A new on-rails survival rogue-lite shooter? Sign me up. Whisker Squadron: Survivor is from the same team as Race the Sun, and the first in the Whisker Squadron series. There's also a demo right now.

GameMaker makes a few more open source moves with extensions

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.

The itch.io winter sale is live for you to stock up on indies

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Game store itch.io has their own big Winter Sale now on, where you can save big and support one of the smaller stores along with plenty of indie games.

Steam Deck shipping update for Asia notes a few issues but plenty get it this year

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve and Komodo have given an update on the shipping of the Steam Deck through Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Retro fuelled FPS 'Selaco' has easily one of the best demos I've ever played

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Selaco, an upcoming GZDoom-based shooter from Altered Orbit Studios has been featured before and I'm bringing it back again here because of the huge upgrade to the demo. It's simply fantastic.

My game of the year 2022 is the Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
You think I'm joking? I'm not. Okay, okay. It's not a game but I'll get to that in a moment. The Steam Deck has transformed everything about gaming for me.

GOG giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut during their Winter Sale 2022

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another chance for you to get a free game, and perhaps take a look at some tasty discounts too with the GOG Winter Sale 2022 now giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut.

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A dedicated Star Wars fan and code hacker has created something awesome: The Force Engine. A brand new free and open source modern game engine for Star Wars Dark Forces.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver adds RTX 4000 support, Vulkan Video and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
For those of you who use the special NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Drivers, version 525.47.04 was recently recently to go along with the release of Vulkan Video and hook up their latest GPUs.

Vulkan Video 1.0 released with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan Video is done and ready, the 1.0 release is out with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update and no longer considered provisional.