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Check out the XDC 2023 talks on HDR + Color Management for Steam Deck / Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe, 19 Oct 2023

The X.Org Developer's Conference - XDC 2023 has been going on for the last few days, and there's some good talks happening including a nice overview across two talks going over the state of HDR and Color Management.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 adds offline support for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

Activision have released an update for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on Steam. Patch 1.1 is for Steam Deck players so here's what's changed.

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint from Trese Brothers is now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

After pushing out some great games like Star Traders: Frontiers and Templar Battleforce, Trese Brothers have really turned up the production values for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint that could end up being the next big turn-based tactics game.

Moonlight and Sunshine game and desktop streaming updates out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

Moonlight and Sunshine are projects that allow you to stream your entire PC over your network, useful if Steam Remote Play doesn't work well and as an alternative to NVIDIA GameStream. Both projects recently had major upgrades.

Logitech Driving Force G29 Steering Wheel

Steering wheel manager Oversteer v0.8.0 adds new hardware support

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

Got a steering wheel and want to manage it on Linux for all your racing and trucking games? Oversteer is what you need and a new release went out recently.

Mudborne is an upcoming laid-back nature sim about breeding & collecting Frogs

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

You've seen APICO where you collect and breed Bees but what about Frogs? Well that's exactly what Mudborne from the same developer will have.

Run and gun action game Schizollama now up on Kickstarter with a demo

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

Schizollama is the next game coming from Nicola Piovesan / Chaosmonger Studio after ENCODYA, Clunky Hero, Three Minutes To Eight, and Soul Tolerance. It's a crazy run and gun action game inspired by games like Broforce and Metal Slug.

Check out the free sci-fi adventure Shrouded Space

By Liam Dawe, 18 Oct 2023

Shrouded Space was developed for a Game Jam and it's really impressive, and the developer just released an update to it that also includes a Native Linux version.

Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive to split

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Harebrained Schemes were acquired by Paradox Interactive back in 2018 and now they're set to part ways, after the disappointing launch of The Lamplighters League.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

After being a little quiet for a while, NVIDIA released Beta driver 545.23.06 which includes a bunch of new features and a few bug fixes too.

Slay the Spire devs release Dancing Duelists after abandoning Unity for Godot

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Mega Crit, developers of the successful Slay the Spire have released a free new game called Dancing Duelists, after publicly calling out Unity recently and moving over to Godot Engine.

Get some scary stuff in the Fanatical Frightmare Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Fanatical has a fresh build your own bundle full of some spooky and scary stuff, quite a few good picks in it too. Here's a run over what to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

Spaceship colony building sim Stardeus has a major upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Stardeus from Kodo Linija and Paradox Arc is a colony building sim set aboard a broken spaceship you need to rebuild, and a fresh major upgrade and overhaul has been released.

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 now available again after the recent hostile translation

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Good news for those looking to download Ubuntu Desktop 23.10, as the recent issue involving a hostile translation has been solved and so the downloads are up again.

OpenRA for classic RTS gaming version 20231010 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Turns out my RSS reader broke and so I missed a bunch of great stuff recently, like a brand new stable public release of the excellent OpenRA game engine for classic RTS games like Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.

Steam Desktop and Steam Deck Beta add new Gyro Mode and fixes in-game purchases

By Liam Dawe, 17 Oct 2023

Valve released a fresh update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, which fixes a couple of bugs while also providing another new experimental Gyro Mode.

Love classic RTS games? Check out D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2023

D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict is an upcoming RTS based on the OpenRA game engine, and it looks really promising so it's going to be one to keep an eye on.

Epic Games launch 'First Run' and 'Now On Epic' with 100% revenue for devs

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2023

Epic Games are trying to pull over more developer to the Epic Games Store, with the launch of two new incentives with the previously announced First Run and the newly announced Now On Epic deals for developers.

Minecraft hits 300 million sales, update 1.21 announced with trial chambers

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2023

Mojang has announced that Minecraft has now crossed over 300 million sales, and the Minecraft 1.21 update has been announced that will have some pretty fun additions. Here's a short round-up from 2023's Minecraft Live.

NVIDIA looking to hook up Reflex support in Proton

By Liam Dawe, 16 Oct 2023

An NVIDIA engineer has sent in pull requests to DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and DXVK-NVAPI to enable support for Reflex / NV low latency to get it hooked up in Proton.