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Get lots of great games across multiple recent Humble Bundles

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Need new games for the weekend or the coming summer to stay out of the burning sun? There's quite a few new Humble Bundles that launched recently.

The owners of Fandom and Gamespot want to acquire Balatro publisher Playstack

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Playstack who published the likes of Balatro, Abiotic Factor and VOID/BREAKER are about to be sold off to the Integrated Media Company group.
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Dusklight the reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess gets a major update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Dusklight (originally called Dusk) is an open source reimplementation of the classic Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Pilot a customizable hovercraft in SCAD, a post‑apocalyptic roguelite bullet heaven

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Mow down hordes of zombies in a customizable hovercraft in SCAD, a fresh Early Access post‑apocalyptic roguelite bullet heaven.

Planet Zoo 2 announced to release in October with a deeper conservation focus

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Planet Zoo 2 has now been officially revealed by Frontier Developments with pre-orders live for release on October 13th.

Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Flathub, one of the most popular ways to grab applications on Linux, has a newly updated generative AI policy - where it's pretty much all banned.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Outspoken Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has recently taken to social media to throw shade at Valve / Gabe Newell over the new Steam Deck pricing.

You can now dim the Steam Controller LED plus other Steam changes in a fresh Beta

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve continue their rapid iteration on improvements and fixes to Steam and the Steam Controller, with a fresh Beta update out.

Despite the significant price increase, the Steam Deck is already sold out in certain regions

By Liam Squires-Hand,
You've no doubt by now seen the rather surprising increase in the price of the Steam Deck OLED, but that doesn't seem to have stopped people buying them all up.

Intel Arc G-Series processors announced for next-gen handheld gaming PCs

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Intel are throwing their hat formally into the handheld gaming PC arena, with the official reveal of their new Intel Arc G-Series processors.

Stylish 2.5D action brawler Skroyder Rumble brings a weird Brazilian-inspired cartoon world

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Skroyder Rumble is one I think you definitely need to keep an eye on if you like action brawlers, as the style and combat look great in it.

It's a little too easy to get obsessed with the auto-battler Oaken Tower

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Oaken Tower has you build up a tower of items to create powerful synergies, to fight against other players in asynchronous PvP battles.

Rain Games (Teslagrad) put up a demo for Knuckle Jet, an off-the-wall jetpunk ricochet action platformer

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Fans of crazy action might want to have a look at what Teslagrad developer Rain Games have coming next, with a demo of Knuckle Jet out now.

Fruit Ninja designer reveals Normal Golf Game with a demo - there's nothing normal about it

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Waking up on a golf course, you're trapped and the menace game designer Luke Muscat has taken $100K from you - so time to play a totally normal game of golf.

MangoHud v0.8.4 released - should fix the Steam Overlay not working

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The excellent performance monitoring tool MangoHud v0.8.4 is out now, and it contains an important bug-fix with the Steam Overlay.

Big Steam update is out now, plus the Steam Workshop upgrade rolls out for everyone

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve have rolled up all the recent Beta updates into a fresh stable update for all Steam gamers with lots of tweaks and the new Workshop update too.

Steam Deck stock returns but there's a big price increase

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve announced today that the Steam Deck is finally properly back in stock, but they now come with a much higher price tag.

Hytale Update 5 brings controller support, new scripting tool for modders, social features

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Making Hytale easier to play with a gamepad and handhelds like the Steam Deck - Update 5 is out with some major new features for everyone.

Fight off deadly swarms and a big space hive in the latest No Man's Sky update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Blimey, Hello Games sure are building up No Man's Sky into a game that just has a bit of everything aren't they? The Swarm Update has warped in.

Classic strategy games Empire Earth 1, 2 & 3 arrive on Steam

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While they were already on GOG, the Empire Earth games have now arrived fully on Steam so you can jump into this classic RTS series.