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GNOME 49 released with new video player, document viewer, improved app store and disabled X11 session

By Liam Dawe,
GNOME 49 "Brescia" has been officially released today with improvements big and small across this popular Linux desktop environment.

ZOE Begone! is a fab hand-drawn fusion of bullet hell with a run and gun

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by drawn-on-film animation of the 1930s, ZOE Begone! masterfully blends together a bullet hell with a run and gun shooter and you need to check it out.
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Mixing retro Resident Evil vibes with a mystery dungeon, House of Necrosis arrives in October

By Liam Dawe,
Looking like a classic Resident Evil game but switching things up to be turn-based, with dungeon exploration - House of Necrosis looks genuinely very cool.

Line up the perfect shot to bump enemies in the wonderful and clever Flick Shot Rogues

By Liam Dawe,
Flick Shot Rogues is a turn-based tactical roguelike about flicking your characters across the map, to bump into enemies. It's clever and a new favourite.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is an excellent horde survival game - 1.0 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 1.0 has now officially released, so you can deep dive into one of the best horde survival games around and dig for riches.

Soldat dev releases demo for Jackal, a brutal new top-down action game inspired by Hotline Miami

By Liam Dawe,
From Transhuman Design who made Soldat, King Arthur's Gold and Maniac is a fresh action game with Jackal and you can now try it early with the demo release.

Check out the demo for Kokoro Kitchen, a sweet farm-to-table cooking game

By Liam Dawe,
The 2.0 demo of the casual sweet farm-to-table cooking game Kokoro Kitchen is out now, and it really does look wonderful.

Steam Deck plugin adds AMD FSR4 support to improve visuals

By Liam Dawe,
You're supposed to only be able to use AMD FSR4 with the latest AMD GPUs, but thanks to a woops from AMD - even the Steam Deck can now use FSR4.

A second Hollow Knight: Silksong patch is ready for testing - here's the details

By Liam Dawe,
Team Cherry clearly aren't slowing down on making improvements to the smash-hit Hollow Knight: Silksong, with a second patch already available to test.

SteamOS support is being explored for the Lenovo Legion Go 2

By Liam Dawe,
Depending on what region you're in, the Lenovo Legion Go 2 might have already landed and it seems like SteamOS might come officially in future.

Funny dungeon crawler Lucky Tower Ultimate 1.0 arrives Q1 2026 with an extra content update coming

By Liam Dawe,
Lucky Tower Ultimate is truly a brilliantly silly dungeon crawler and one you need to play! The 1.0 has been announced for Q1 2026 and more content is coming.

Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS

By Liam Dawe,
skate. from developer Full Circle and Electronic Arts (EA) is about to enter Early Access, and due to the anti-cheat there's no support for Linux / Steam Deck.

Palworld 1.0 arrives next year with a huge update and plans to fix all the jank

By Liam Dawe,
Pocketpair have revealed that Palworld 1.0 will arrive next year, with updates being quieter for the rest of the year while they fix all the quirks and jank.

Call of the Void is an epic new Quake 2 Remastered crossover mod with Quake 1

By Liam Dawe,
Love some Quake? You're not going to want to miss this one. Call of the Void is an impressive new crossover mod release for Quake 2.

GPD WIN 5 highlights support for running Bazzite Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The upcoming pricey and strangely designed GPD WIN 5 is coming later this year, and it's now confirmed to have support for Bazzite Linux.

The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project

By Liam Dawe,
The Crew can now live on thanks to the community, after Ubisoft completely shut it down the The Crew Unlimited project has released to keep it alive.

Godot 4.5 released with lots of big new features

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine 4.5 has been officially released further enhancing this free and open source cross-platform game engine.

AMDVLK has been discontinued as AMD are throwing their "full support" behind RADV

By Liam Dawe,
AMD have announced the end of AMDVLK, their official open-source Vulkan driver and will instead now be focusing on the much more popular RADV.

The cute co-op game LEGO Voyagers has released and it's Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
LEGO Voyagers is the cutest looking co-op game and it's available today, along with it getting Steam Deck Verified for the release.

Car combat game FUMES improves support for controllers and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
FUMES really is awesome and it has an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam which it gained quickly after release, and the developer keeps improving it.