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Ready for the Steam Frame, Khronos Group announced a new OpenXR "Best Practices Validation Layer"

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group, the stewards of various open protocols like OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenXR and more just revealed a new tool for XR (VR / AR) developers.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting mid-run saves and an endless mode

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is set for some major improvements, although we don't know exactly when but it will make surviving in it a whole lot nicer.

The wonderful open-world monster battler Cassette Beasts hit over 1.1 million sold

By Liam Dawe,
Cassette Beasts has been a great hit for developer Bytten Studio, as they just revealed it's crossed over the 1.1 million mark for sales.

The excellent CloverPit has sold over 1 million and gets a Hard Mode update

By Liam Dawe,
CloverPit is a rather excellent game that's hit the jackpot for the developer, as they're cashing in on over 1 million sales and celebrating with a big update.

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.

Of course dbrand is doing a Steam Machine Companion Cube

By Liam Dawe,
You've seen the brand new Steam Machine from Valve right? But what about a Steam Machine Companion Cube? Yes that's also now going to be a thing.

Linux open source graphics drivers Mesa 25.2.7 released

By Liam Dawe,
The latest set of open source graphics drivers for Linux have released, with the bug fix Mesa 25.2.7 now available.

Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
The day has arrived, Valve have announced a major hardware expansion with multiple devices including the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine.

The wonderful roguelite farming deckbuilder Cropdeck has a proper demo out now

By Liam Dawe,
Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck, with a demo out now that you definitely need to put on your list to try.

Satisfactory gets optimizations, and improved Steam Deck support in patch 1.1.1.7

By Liam Dawe,
Coffee Stain Studios are showing how it's done, with Satisfactory getting a bunch of optimizations, and there's also improved Steam Deck support.

KOMODO's Steam Deck store is renaming to KOMODO STATION - perhaps ahead of the Steam Frame

By Liam Dawe,
Something is definitely happening in Valve land, as the KOMODO Steam Deck Store is being renamed KOMODO STATION tomorrow, November 13th.

Embark confirm "Duo prioritized matchmaking" for ARC Raiders and lowered store prices

By Liam Dawe,
Embark Studios have confirmed some recent changes to ARC Raiders, including a highly requested change for Duos to have a bit more fun with it.

Beatblock may look simple but this rhythm-action game is absolutely brilliant (and brutal)

By Liam Dawe,
Beatblock has such a simple style to it that it may fool you into thinking it's a rather basic game, but the rhythm-action is provides is properly good.

Tabulo is an upcoming Balatro-inspired chess roguelike

By Liam Dawe,
Another Balatro-inspired game and this time it's a chess roguelike, and one that actually looks like it could be pretty fun.

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage silently added Easy Anti-Cheat

By Liam Dawe,
With no official notice from the developer, Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage recently added in Easy Anti-Cheat.

ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN The Forsaken Hollows arrives December 4

By Liam Dawe,
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN, the standalone multiplayer co-op survival action game by FromSoftware, Inc. is set to expand on December 4 with The Forsaken Hollows.

SteamVR 2.13 brings a whole lot of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
While many of us are no doubt waiting on whatever the Steam Frame turns out to be, Valve have released the latest stable SteamVR release with lots of bug fixes.

Former Humble Bundle staff launch new bundle site Digiphile to "benefit users, creators, publishers, and charity"

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from veterans of Humble Bundle, a new bundle site has launched named Digiphile as the creators want to help you discover new games and support charity.

KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

By Liam Dawe,
The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops.

Pill-popping medical horror Side Effects from Free Lives arrives November 21

By Liam Dawe,
I love the idea of Buckshot Roulette meets medical horror, so I'm keen to see what all the pill-popping fuss is about with Side Effects.