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Soulstone Survivors hits 1.0 bringing crazy blinding action with a huge skill tree

By Liam Dawe,
Soulstone Survivors 1.0 is out now and it's one of the best survivor-like RPG action rogue-lites available.

Gears of War: Reloaded is officially Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible

By Liam Dawe,
Gears of War: Reloaded from The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios is now officially Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible ahead of release.
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Godot 4.5 beta 1 brings Wayland improvements, shader baking, rendering improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Godot 4.5 is going to be an excellent release of the free, open source and cross-platform game engine with a first Beta needing testing.

Mesa 25.1.4 brings more graphics driver fixes for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 25.1.4 is out now for open source Linux graphics drivers, bringing more bug fixes for the current stable series.

Steam Beta brings new accessibility options for Steam Big Picture Mode

By Liam Dawe,
Valve updated the main Desktop Steam Beta, to bring new accessibility options for Steam Big Picture mode and other improvements.

SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta brings a Steam Deck OLED WiFi fix, new accessibility options and more work for other handhelds

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta bringing lots of fixes for the Steam Deck, additional accessibility options and a bit of work for more handhelds.

Please don’t bug me I’m trying to Cast n Chill

By Liam Dawe,
Cast n Chill is a relaxing fishing sim with some absolutely gorgeous pixel artwork, and you're going to need to take it away from me.

Simon the Sorcerer Origins adventure game announced for release in October

By Liam Dawe,
Simon the Sorcerer Origins has been announced for release in October, a prequel to the 1993 classic and it sounds fantastic.

Comic-page roguelike shooter Fury Unleashed gets an essential Linux fix

By Liam Dawe,
Fury Unleashed is a 2020 fast-paced roguelike shooter where you run through comic pages, and now the Linux version works properly again.

ScummVM announces support for the classic adventure The Last Express

By Liam Dawe,
ScummVM only just recently announced support for Another World (Out of This World) and now they're back with the classic adventure The Last Express.

GOG Summer Sale 2025 is live now

By Liam Dawe,
Time to get some DRM-free discounts for your gaming machine with the GOG Summer Sale.

In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource

By Liam Dawe,
Sandustry seems a bit like the excellent Noita but a factory sim. Here every pixel is a simulated resource to use.

GOG Preservation Program expands with Devil May Cry HD Collection, Devil May Cry 4 and more classics

By Liam Dawe,
GOG have announced an expansion of their GOG Preservation Program again, to keep classic retro games running nicely with a bunch more games added.

Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released another Steam Client Beta update and this time, they're giving Desktop gamers a whole new Performance Monitor HUD.

Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler

By Liam Dawe,
At some point recently, Valve updated the Steam Beta Client with a change to the way Proton is enabled making Linux gaming easier.

NVIDIA drivers 575.64 and 570.169 released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have today released two new stable GPU drivers for Linux systems, here's what's changed in each version.

Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Developer Olivier Fourdan announced multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland, with new versions being released.

Run a post-apocalyptic food truck in Wasteland Bites and serve weird meals to strange creatures

By Liam Dawe,
Wasteland Bites is an upcoming questionable cooking sim set in the post-apocalypse. It looks thoroughly weird and I want it now.

KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more

By Liam Dawe,
KDE Plasma 6.4 has arrived bringing lots of modern enhancements to my favourite Linux desktop environment, and what's used on SteamOS / Steam Deck Desktop Mode.

Nautical Survival is an overlooked naval-based roguelite auto-shooter gem

By Liam Dawe,
Look away now if you value your free time, as Nautical Survival is an absolute gem that will throw your free hours overboard.