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Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting

By Liam Dawe,
This is the sale event you've been waiting on isn't it? The Steam Winter Sale 2025 has arrived with a great many thousands of games discounted.

Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'

By Liam Dawe,
The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.
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NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01

By Liam Dawe,
As part of the New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver version 590.48.01 released today for Linux with a few more fixes.

Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
The Mesa team have released Mesa 25.3.2 as the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable branch of open source Linux graphics drivers.

Continuing to make things weird Two Point Museum and Revenge of the Savage Planet do crossovers

By Liam Dawe,
They did a Vampire Survivors update, so sure why not Revenge of the Savage Planet too? Two Point Museum has expanded again in a free update.

Arriving early next year, Dune: Awakening - Chapter 3 is sounding great

By Liam Dawe,
Dune: Awakening from Funcom is getting a big free Chapter 3 update early next year, with the details of it now being revealed along with a paid DLC.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS gets a GOG release along with various DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Just like they promised after adding some classic Total War games to GOG, another has arrived with Total War: THREE KINGDOMS now on the DRM-free store.

The excellent BALL x PIT is getting three major updates in 2026

By Liam Dawe,
One of my favourite games released in 2025, BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun and Friends / Devolver Digital has sold well enough that it's getting free upgrades.

Rogue Legacy developer's next game is Neath, an eldritch roguelike tactical RPG

By Liam Dawe,
One missed from earlier this month is Neath, a roguelike tactical RPG set in a decaying world shadowed by an irradiated, inverted tower.

Zombie horde shooter World War Z is getting a big The Walking Dead DLC

By Liam Dawe,
The highly rated co-op zombie horde shooter World War Z is set for a big addition with a DLC featuring the The Walking Dead.

Monster-catching RPG 'EvoCreo' arrives on PC on January 7, 2026

By Liam Dawe,
After amassing around 2.5 million downloads on mobile, the first EvoCreo is arriving on Steam with Linux support on January 7th, 2026.

The Home Sweet Home update for Palworld with the ULTRAKILL crossover is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Palworld just levelled up with a big new free Home Sweet Home update as Pocketpair work towards finishing up the game for a full release next year.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl just got a huge free Stories Untold upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Stories Untold brings a whole lot new to the world of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl with hours of new content for you to play through.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II to release in Spring 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games has a release window now set for sometime in Spring 2026.

Open Fodder, an open source port of the classic Cannon Fodder v2.0 released

By Liam Dawe,
Cannon Fodder is a retro action-strategy gem from 1993 that was originally released on my old love the Amiga, and the modern open source port just got upgraded.

MicroProse announce a revival of the retro Geoff Crammond Racing series

By Liam Dawe,
First released in the '90s, the retro racing series designed by Geoff Crammond is making a return under new names with publisher MicroProse.

Latest Steam Deck update will warn you if an Xbox controller needs upgrading

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta update that includes a useful tweak to its Xbox controller detection.

Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam.

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

By Liam Dawe,
Just like Google plan with Chrome, Mozilla aren't sitting still on expanding Firefox into something resembling a web browser but with more AI.

Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivors dev gets a fun new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
I am seriously stoked by Vampire Crawlers that adds to the world of Vampire Survivors with a fast-paced deck-builder from developer poncle.