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Stellaris: Galactic Paragons released, along with free 3.8 update adding co-op modes

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

A big one for Stellaris is here with the Stellaris: Galactic Paragons expansion launched along with the 3.8 "Gemini" patch for all players.

GE-Proton 8-2 is out now fixing Shatterline, various Daedalic games and more

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2023

GE-Proton 8-2 is the latest release of the community-made version of Proton, the translation layer from Valve for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

Re:Touring is a clever, accessible and polished first-person puzzler

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2023

If you enjoy first-person puzzlers like Portal and The Talos Principle then you'll likely feel right at home with Re:Touring.

Proton Experimental improves EA app, Battle.net and nvapi enabled for many games

By Liam Dawe, 8 May 2023

A rather great sounding update to Proton Experimental landed on May 5th, so here's a run over what's new and improved.

Typing Tempo challenges you in a 41-key typing rhythm game

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2023

If you enjoy rhythm games and think you're a master typist, you may want to take a little look over at the new release of Typing Tempo.

Open source physics-based tabletop sim 'Tabletop Club' gets an official release

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2023

After a bunch of early testing builds, the developer of the free and open source tabletop sim Tabletop Club has announced the first stable release.

Soul Survivors is a refreshing skill-based time-survival Vampire Survivor-like

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2023

Continuing my quest to have no free time ever, I have been checking out Soul Survivors that's now available in Early Access. It may be yet another Vampire Survivor-like but that's not a bad thing at all.

Spooky creature photography game Penko Park gets Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2023

A bit like a slightly creepier Pokemon Snap, the indie hit Penko Park from developer Ghostbutter has just released Native Linux support.

Look after your pixel people in life sim Tiny Life

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

A pixel-art version of The Sims? Sign me up. Tiny Life from Ellpeck Games and Top Hat Studios is now available in Early Access.

OBS Studio 29.1 is out now with AV1 / HEVC for YouTube

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

One for content creators here, as the excellent OBS Studio just released version 29.1.0. This brings initial support for AV1 / HEVC on YouTube.

OpenRazer v3.6 brings support for 11 more Razer devices

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2023

Another fantastic update to OpenRazer with version 3.6.0 bringing support for more Razer devices on Linux along with various improvements.

Proton 8.0-2 out for Linux / Steam Deck fixing the EA app (yes, again)

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2023

Valve has upgraded the newer Proton 8 that only launched for Linux and Steam Deck recently, with a bunch of bug fixes.

Combat Master is a cheesy indie free to play Call of Duty

By Liam Dawe, 2 May 2023

Heard of Combat Master? It's a free to play first-person shooter released on Steam in late April and now it has Linux and Steam Deck support.

Compatibility layer Wine release v8.7 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2023

Wine, the compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux has a fresh development release up with version 8.7.

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor had a very rough launch

By Liam Dawe, 28 Apr 2023

Here we go again! Just like The Last of Us Part I (and so many other games recently), another major game released too early. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor is a hot mess.

Charming monster collector Cassette Beasts is out now

By Liam Dawe, 27 Apr 2023

Cassette Beasts is the second full release from Bytten Studio following Lenna's Inception. It's a rather sweet evolution on the Pokémon-like monster catching games.

KDE apps like Kdenlive get big upgrades for KDE Gear 23.04

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2023

KDE Gear is the name of the big bundle of software the KDE team create, and with the KDE Gear 23.04 release there's new apps and plenty of improvements to making the desktop experience better.