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Bioflux - Horde is a survival game where the infected numbers look insane

By Liam Dawe,
Coming across it by pure chance recently, Bioflux - Horde is an upcoming survival game with enemy numbers that actually look like true hordes of infected.

Surviving each day is a fierce battle in the upcoming Primal Survival

By Liam Dawe,
Primal Survival is an upcoming prehistoric game about surviving as Homo habilis or Homo erectus, and it really sounds interesting with the dangerous world.
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Hytale has been saved as Hypixel acquired it from Riot Games

By Liam Dawe,
For anyone interested in the ongoing saga of Hytale, the good news is that the game has been saved, with Hytale Studios acquiring it from Riot Games.

The big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Where Winds Meet is a new free to play game on Steam that's doing some big numbers right now, and thankfully it seems to work great on Linux with Proton.

You can grab a free copy of Immortals Fenyx Rising from Ubisoft

By Liam Dawe,
Need a free game ready for the weekend? How about Immortals Fenyx Rising from Ubisoft? Well you can claim it free to keeps right now.

OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind is out with more enhancements and better gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.

Mass Effect's SSV Normandy SR1 Returns to No Man's Sky with a re-run of previous expeditions

By Liam Dawe,
Hello Games are giving us all another chance to grab some cool stuff in No Man's Sky, like Mass Effect's SSV Normandy SR1 with various expeditions.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) joins up with Open Collective Europe for funding

By Liam Dawe,
Hopefully making this excellent open source voxel game engine project more manageable, Luanti (formerly Minetest) has joined up with Open Collective Europe.

ARK: Survival Ascended gets bumped up to Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
ARK: Survival Ascended entered Early Access in 2023, and while it worked well enough on Linux / Steam Deck - Valve noted it was Unsupported until now.

Minecraft Java modding is about to get a lot easier and more interesting

By Liam Dawe,
Mojang announced a big change is coming to Minecraft: Java Edition, one that could make it a whole lot easier to make mods and perhaps make them more exciting.

The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything

By Liam Dawe,
Just released into Early Access with Native Linux support, VEIN could be the next big survival game with a whole lot of features that just look and sound great.

Open world exploration game Outbound looks super cosy and hit over 1 million Steam wishlists

By Liam Dawe,
Outbound looks like a game I need right now, a chilled cosy open-world exploration game about living off-grid and building up your dream minivan.

More major updates coming to Minecraft - some highlights from Minecraft Live (September 2025)

By Liam Dawe,
Minecraft Live has again come and gone (twice a year now), so here's just some of what's coming to the popular open-world game with major updates planned.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl finally gets night vision and more upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Going back to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is probably going to feel like quite a different game, and that actually excites me again.

Dying Light: The Beast rated Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

By Liam Dawe,
A few hours before Dying Light: The Beast releases today, Valve put up a green tick for it to be Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible.

Palworld 1.0 arrives next year with a huge update and plans to fix all the jank

By Liam Dawe,
Pocketpair have revealed that Palworld 1.0 will arrive next year, with updates being quieter for the rest of the year while they fix all the quirks and jank.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy gets a big upgrade and Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
GSC Game World continue improving the recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy release, with version 1.3 out for all three titles.

Airborne Empire an open-world city-building RPG gets a Linux / Steam Deck freezing fix

By Liam Dawe,
Airborne Empire is an interesting hybrid that mixes city-building, with open-world exploration and the latest update should fix it up on Linux / Steam Deck.

The big Call to Arms update for Valheim is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Valheim has been upgraded with the Call to Arms update bringing in new content along with entirely new gameplay mechanics, while we all wait for a new biome.

Dune: Awakening gets a free weekend for September 11, a first ever discount and early DLC release

By Liam Dawe,
Dune: Awakening from Funcom is getting a free weekend soon and it's getting a first ever discount, so a good time to see what all the fuss is about.
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