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Valve to ship 'more than double' the number of Steam Decks each week

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As we say goodbye to Q2 and hello to Q3, Valve has confirmed that production of Steam Deck units has increased to the point where they're going to be sending out a lot more.

Kingdoms and Castles gets Steam Deck and gamepad support, VR version coming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A little castle building and AI conquering on the go? Kingdoms and Castles already worked great on Linux with the Native version and now it should be great on the Steam Deck too.

CorsixTH the modern game engine for Theme Hospital v0.66 is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
CorsixTH is the absolute best way to play the classic Theme Hospital on any modern system and version 0.66 is now out.

Pokete is a Pokemon-like game for your terminal

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Fancy catching some creatures? How about directly in your terminal window? Pokete is a free and open source Pokemon-like.

Spaceship building game Reassembly goes 64bit, gets Linux and Steam Deck upgrades

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Reassembly is a highly rated game that mixes spaceship building, exploration and intense combat. It's quite a little gem and has a big update out now.

Tactical 2D RPG 'Arcadian Atlas' has a new trailer, releasing in 2023

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If the big upcoming update to Into the Breach and Tyrant's Blessing wasn't enough tactics for you, how about a little Arcadian Atlas.

Low-poly 3D rail shooter Ex-Zodiac hits Early Access on July 21st

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A nice little early birthday present for me, Ex-Zodiac is a low-poly 3D rail shooter (think like Star Fox) that now has a release date.

Valve designer warns people not to put 2242 M.2 drives in their Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Recently, one modder decided to stick a bigger 2242 M.2 SSD into their Steam Deck and after many other bigger PC sites picked it up — a Valve designer has warned people not to do it.

Get a free copy of VirtuaVerse for the final part of the GOG Summer Sale

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another free game for you to add to your collection. GOG are now giving away the sci-fi point and click adventure VirtuaVerse as part of their Summer Sale.

Dead Cells gets a huge free accessibility upgrade

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Dead Cells is a great game. Not only does it look great but the action is awesome. However, it is rather difficult and for some nearly impossible so the developers have put out a huge free upgrade to help more people play it.

Grim Horde is chaotic and there's a good game hiding in there

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Grim Horde is a game that released into Early Access with Native Linux support and it's another fast-paced rogue-lite hell in a slightly similar way to the chaos found in Vampire Survivors only you control a horde of minions.

Into the Breach: Advanced Edition releases July 19th as a free update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Subset Games have recently announced that they're upgrading Into the Breach with a big free update in Into the Breach: Advanced Edition that releases on July 19th.

Gorgeous turn-based tactics game Tyrant's Blessing releases in August

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Following on from their successful Kickstarter campaign, Tyrant's Blessing now has a release date and a brand new trailer and it's looking rather good.

Valve continues tweaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve has released a fresh update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and they continue focusing on Steam Input improvements, to make playing it with a controller and the Steam Deck a better experience.

Steam Summer Sale 2022 is live so prepare your wallet

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another year, another big Steam Summer Sale. Time to load up your cart with all those games you will definitely get around to playing — right?

With a quick script you can run Steam Deck Desktop Mode inside Gaming Mode

By Liam Squires-Hand,
We're going into ridiculous territory of tweaking now and the possibilities are seemingly endless on what you can do with the Steam Deck. You can even run the Desktop Mode inside of Gaming Mode.

Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop devs detail their support of Proton and Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop, a community updated and expanded version of the free Alien Swarm originally by Valve continues to see lots of improvements. The developers also explained their clear support of Linux with Proton and the Steam Deck.

Proton Experimental gets Paladins working on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve released a fresh upgrade for Proton Experimental on June 22nd which brings even more game compatibility to Linux desktops and Steam Deck.

AMD publishes the source code for FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2)

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As they promised they would, AMD has now officially published the source code for FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) under an open source license.

Cyberpunk point and click adventure Born Punk is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Born Punk is a brand new cyberpunk point and click adventure from developer Insert Disk 22. It just released on Steam on June 18th and now a Native Linux version is also available.