Category: Misc

The Linux user share on Steam has been slowly but steadily trending upwards, with May 2025 showing the highest point in years.

Humble have launched the Power Up Pride Bundle with another nice selection of games to celebrate Pride Month which runs until the end of June.

We've had some more big releases recently, so here's your up to date look at what games have been the most popular on Steam Deck for May 2025.

ACTION GAME MAKER, the upcoming game making toolkit from Gotcha Gotcha Games (RPG Maker series) are exploring Linux support now.

Here's an up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for May 30th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

OBS Studio 31.1.0 Beta 1 has been released for testing, bringing new features to the popular open source video recording and livestreaming app.

Canonical recently announced Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has been upgraded to improve support for modern Intel GPUs.

NVIDIA have released the new stable driver 575.57.08, as part of their New Feature Branch for Linux systems.

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 25.0.7 release, finishing off the 25.0 series of open source Linux graphics drivers.

Valve have done a couple of small but useful tweaks to developer and publisher homepages, resulting in hopefully a little more visibility.

To aid testing and ensure future Ubuntu (and Kubuntu etc) releases are in good shape, Canonical have announced monthly snapshots.

NVIDIA have today officially released their GeForce NOW native app for the Steam Deck, to give a better experience than using a browser with more features.

The rough time for the gaming industry continues, with a report that EA have cancelled the Black Panther game along with closing Cliffhanger Games.

According to YouTuber Dave2D who managed to get their hands on the Lenovo Legion Go S, the SteamOS version destroys Windows in performance and battery life.

Valve continue hammering away at the code for SteamOS to get it working nicely on more devices and hardware, with SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta bringing more fixes.

After the news recently that EA Codemasters were pausing development plans on future rally titles, we now know who will continue the series with it being back with NACON.

On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices.

Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions. This release has been years in the making for the switch to modern SDL2, away from the very outdated Irrlicht.

CoreCtrl is a popular Linux app designed to let you get more control over your GPU and CPU. Sadly, the creator has put it into maintenance mode with no new features coming.

Valve released a brand new and exciting update to Proton Experimental for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck gamers. This brings some new fixes, as well as an interesting change for their Xalia integration.