Some good industry news for you today. Moon Studios who made Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and their current Early Access game No Rest for the Wicked have gone "fully independent".
A game that continues to review well by players, with it hitting a good sales milestone not long after launch, The Spell Brigade from Bolt Blaster Games has a big update out now with a brand new character.
Inspired by games like XCOM 2, Shadowrun and Invisible Inc the latest from Trese Brothers with Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is set to leave Early Access on May 15th with a new update out now.
With Microsoft pushing to improve Windows on handhelds, and reportedly working with a specific partner on an Xbox-branded gaming handheld, Valve should be watching closely with their Linux plans for Steam Deck and SteamOS.
You can grab yourself a nice Gaming Pillow, various versions of the Deckmate attachment system and more with discounts.
Valve released a new stable update for the Steam Client across Desktop and Steam Deck. There's a couple of new features, along with a lot of bug fixes.
A nice surprise! Control Ultimate Edition is set for a big update today to bring in a bunch of extra graphics features and tweaks along with some bug fixes.
Due Process the tactical FPS from Giant Enemy Crab is seeing a small resurgence thanks to the recent big discount and renewed development, and so their team have given it a permanent price drop now.
After a while in Early Access, Whisker Squadron: Survivor has launched that attempts to blend together the on-rails shooting from Star Fox with a few elements of the bullet heaven survivor-likes popularised by Vampire Survivors.
From John, Evan and David Szymanski - names you might know from the likes of DUSK, My Friendly Neighborhood, Kyle is Famous, Butcher's Creek, Squirrel Stapler and more is a thoroughly chaotic and ridiculous game about toppling an evil crime syndicate hidden beneath a prestigious wizarding school.
The new kid on the block here is FragPunk, an online competitive FPS that feels like a noisy flashy version of Counter-Strike blended with Valorant and the good news is the anti-cheat is enabled for Linux / Steam Deck.
FromLefcourt have announced Gunlocked 2, a bullet heaven survivor-like shoot 'em up that takes all the goodies from the first game and greatly expands on it.
On top of releasing a fresh update to Proton Hotfix, there's also a new Proton Experimental update for Linux / Steam Deck available now.
Valve have released a new Proton Hotfix update which solves issues with both The Finals and Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced (offline play) on Linux / Steam Deck.
Core Keeper from developer Pugstorm has a fresh major content upgrade coming, the first post-release update and it's going to release really soon on March 10.
Trailmakers has managed to pull in a lot of happy players since the original 2019 full release, and the developers at Flashbulb have been busy building up the massive free update with Trailmakers 2.0: Pioneers that's out now.
Square Enix have updated FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH and they've managed to cut down the download size for the Steam Deck and by quite a bit too.
A reoccurring theme here with THE FINALS from Embark Studios is that it appears to break on Linux / Steam Deck each major upgrade, and it has happened again with the launch of Update 5.12.0.
Grinding Gear Games are showing clear support for Linux / Steam Deck with Path of Exile 2, ensuring it continues working properly.
11 bit studios latest game Frostpunk 2 was recently rated Steam Deck Playable by Valve, with the developer noting they are working towards getting it bumped up to Verified.
