Here's all the Steam Sales and Fests for 2025
Valve have now revealed the full list of Steam Sales and Festivals that will be happening throughout 2025. So time to fill up that wishlist, mark your calendar and prepare your wallet.
Category: Misc
A workaround for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs has been found
While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.
Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging
If there's one thing you can always count on in the Linux world it's that packaging can be a nightmare. The OBS Studio team are not happy with the Fedora folks due to Flatpak problems and threatened legal action.
The Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle has lots of goodies again
Humble are rehashing a previous bundle here that was first released around this time last year, with the launch of the Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle. Good chance to grab a whole lot if you missed it before.
Fanatical have a great Special Editions Bundle and a Simulator Collection Bundle worth a look
Two more bundles of games here to build up your collection ready for the weekend! Fanatical have launched the Build your own Special Editions Bundle (BundleFest 2025) and Build your own Simulator Collection bundles.
Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged
After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!
The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming
It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).
Crytek lay off 15% of staff with Crysis 4 on hold
More news on some job losses today following the Unity game engine layoffs, we have Crytek also shedding staff and shelving Crysis 4.
Unity continues laying off staff as troubles continue
After all the mess that was the Unity fees situation, the troubles continue, with another round of layoffs at the game engine developer.
Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.21 released fixing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle eyes and security bugs
After being in Beta since December 2024, Valve have now released SteamOS 3.6.21 as stable for Steam Deck bringing in some bug and security fixes.
Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.8 is out now with Intel GPU support, improved Wayland keybinds
After a short testing period, the Linux performance overlay MangoHud had version 0.8.0 released today to bring new features and fixes to one of my favourite open source projects. This also powers the built-in overlay on the Steam Deck.
KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more
KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release! Filled with new features and fixes for my favourite Linux desktop environment. Plasma is also used on the Steam Deck for the Desktop Mode.
Fanatical's new Capcom Bundle has some great games to pick
For fans of Capcom games, there's another bundle giving you a chance to build up your collection. Fanatical's Build your own Capcom Bundle (BundleFest 2025) is live now.
Humble's Better With a Friend bundle has some quality co-op games
Need some more games to play with your friends? Check out the Better With a Friend Humble Bundle that has 6 quality games included.
Steam Deck Verified highlights for February 2025 - come find your next game
It's time to highlight some games you might have missed! Here's a run over what's been through Valve's Steam Deck Verified with some of my personal picks here for February.
Popular game launcher Playnite will get Linux support but it's still a while away
Playnite is a very popular free and open source video game library manager, one used a lot on Windows and a developer has confirmed they will be working on Linux support.
Blender Studio announced Project DogWalk, a "Micro-Game" made with Godot
Blender Studio, the creative unit of the free open source Blender project, recently announced work has begun on their second video game with Project DogWalk.
Decky Loader for Steam Deck gets a store upgrade to show currently installed plugins clearly
Decky Loader, the popular plugin system for Steam Deck / SteamOS, has a fresh release out making the plugin store a bit more useful.
Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games
Valve have updated the developer guidelines for releasing a game on Steam, making it clear that the scourge of mobile gaming advertising-based business models are not going to work on Steam.
GE-Proton 9-24 released with a new save game detection feature (and now GE-Proton 9-25 too)
GE-Proton 9-24 is out now bringing with it the usual assortment of fixes, plus as interesting change that will help games detect saves from other games. Update: GE-Proton 9-25 hotfix is also out now.
- Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet
- Lossless Scaling Frame Generation for Linux hits 1.0 with a new UI making it easier than ever
- Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
- Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat
- Valve finally upgraded the Steam trailer video player, re-encoding around 400,000 videos
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