Category: Misc

Looks like Humble Choice for May 2025 is actually pretty good, stacked with some great looking titles. Here's your usual monthly overview of what's in it and how they might run on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.

Reading the press release sounded like a late April Fools joke, but I think we all saw where Playtron were heading. After originally announcing PlaytronOS (now GameOS), their Linux-powered gaming system, they're now directly moving into crypto.

Zelda 64: Recompiled is a project to play The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on modern platforms with many new features, enhancements and now modding support too.

Steam has a seriously good bundle of story-rich games available for a limited time as part of the LudoNarraCon festival. You'll need to be quick on this one to save a whole lot of money and get some fab games.

The Wine 10.7 development release is out now, and in the highlights they noted an interesting sounding performance improvement for select games.

After recently having the chance to review the rather large UPERFECT UMax 24, the team at UPERFECT sent over the much more portable 16 inch UColor O2 for me to take a look over.

KDE developer Nate Graham has written up a blog post detailing some planned changes coming to the KDE Plasma desktop, including doing away with the LTS (Long-Term Support) releases and instead extend the supported time for each release.

Here's the fresh and up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for May 2nd, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection with these games coming as part of your Amazon Prime subscription.

Valve continue rolling out changes to SteamOS Preview readying it for the eventual public SteamOS 3 for more handheld devices beyond the Steam Deck, with SteamOS 3.7.5 Preview now available.

Some interesting industry news for you here. Epic Games have announced a change to the revenue model of the Epic Games Store, as they try to pull in more developers and more gamers to actually purchase things.

Valve released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey results for April 2025, so here's your usual round-up of where things stand right now.

Now that Proton 10 had a Beta release to bring improved game compatibility to Linux Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve have also updated their testing ground with Proton Experimental seeing an update to be based on Proton 10 plus extra fixes.

A new month is here, and something I haven't done recently is a look over what's been the most popular on Steam Deck. So here's what you've all been playing the most over the last month.

I wouldn't call Frostpunk a tycoon game but I'm not going to turn my nose up at a good deal. The Tycoon Titans Humble Bundle has some fun hits in it to grab.

RISC-V fans will be interested in this one. felix86 has been announced as a new project with a first release available that enables you to run x86-64 Linux programs on RISC-V processors on Linux.

EA and Codemasters announced today that they're putting the WRC (World Rally Championship) series on hold, and will no longer be making any games in the series.

From Fallout to Dishonored, there's some good stuff included in the latest Fanatical Build your own Bethesda Bundle.

Great day for modders. The newer in-development open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app has promoted Cyberpunk 2077 to supported status, making it easier to get modding across Linux (and Steam Deck).

The itch.io store is hosting another big charity bundle full of video games, TTRPGs, zines, books, soundtracks, and asset packs in support of eSims and Crips for eSims for Gaza.

EA (Electronic Arts) have announced that EA anticheat is going through a rebrand and refresh, and will now be called EA Javelin Anticheat.