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God-sim city-builder The Universim releases 1.0 on January 22, 2024

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After a good few years in Early Access, The Universim from Crytivo is finally set to hit the big 1.0 with some fun new features.

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

ScummVM expands support for Macromedia Director

By Liam Squires-Hand,
ScummVM is an awesome project bringing new life to absolutely loads of classic games through the power of open source, and now they're expanding support for Macromedia Director games too.

Check out the demo for Hive Jump Survivors a new action roguelite

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another survivors-styled game? Yes! You wanted more right? And this one will also have full Linux support too. Check out the demo for Hive Jump Survivors.

Valve hands out lumps of coal to naughty Dota 2 players

By Liam Squires-Hand,
In possibly one of the funniest moves I've seen from Valve recently, they're handing out lumps of coal when banning Dota 2 players.

Wine 9.0 Release Candidate 2 now available, plus VKD3D-Proton 2.11.1 out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
We're reaching the end-game now Wine fans, the time for Wine 9.0 to release is quickly approaching with a second Release Candidate now available. Plus VKD3D-Proton also had a small update recently too!

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) is now open source

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As promised, AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 is now open source under the MIT license and available for all developers to look into and add into their games.

Times of Progress is an upcoming city-builder set during the Industrial Revolution

By Liam Squires-Hand,
City-builder fans may want to keep an eye on this one. Pressing Thumbs Games just revealed Times of Progress, a classic city-builder set during the Industrial Revolution.

Death Stranding from Kojima is getting the live-action movie treatment

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Death Stranding from Kojima Productions is being turned into a movie, with A24 (Everything Everywhere All at Once) taking on the job.

Mixing ideas from Chess and base-building strategy games, protect your King in Emplacement

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Emplacement is a King versus King turn-based strategy game, all about placing down tiles in a way that's a bit like Chess mixed with ideas from other more traditional turn-based strategy games.

FOSS strategy-shooter Unvanquished update brings better bots, improved server browser

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Unvanquished, the free and open source strategy-shooter mix, has released version 0.54.1 bringing with it some much needed improvements to continue building on.

Necesse a Terraria-Rimworld blend gets big update, graphics overhaul coming

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Blending together elements of the likes of Terraria and Rimworld, the open world survival craft and colony sim game Necesse has a big update out now. And there's some more exciting stuff to come still.

Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER gets a new extended trailer

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Long-awaited sequel to 2064: Read Only Memories to launch in first half of 2024, and now you can get a better look at Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER in the new extended trailer.

Escape Simulator gets a free Among Us DLC out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Pine Studio are doing some great stuff with Escape Simulator. Not only did it get a Portal themed DLC earlier this year, it just got a free Among Us DLC out now.

Tetris Effect: Connected adds HDR for Steam Deck OLED plus optimizations

By Liam Squires-Hand,
More HDR goodies for you to test with your shiny new Steam Deck OLED, as Tetris Effect: Connected should now work great with it.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.11 Preview 'Until Morale Improves' now available

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve sure like their code-names recently for Steam Deck SteamOS updates, and now SteamOS 3.5.11 Preview 'Until Morale Improves' is now available.

GOG Winter Sale live - grab a free copy of Legend of Keepers

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOG have launched their Winter Sale with tons of games discounted, and once again they will be giving away free games with the first being Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager.

Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users'

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Hoping at some point to play Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck without the use of Cloud Gaming services? Well, it's probably quite some time away, if ever.

Some fresh Steam Deck Verified games to jump into for December 13th

By Liam Squires-Hand,
As time ticks on, more and more games go through Steam Deck Verified to check compatibility. Here's a fresh list of games to check out to stock up for the Winter.

Valve upgrades the Steam Workshop, plus various Steam Deck improvements in new Beta

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Steam Desktop and Steam Deck have a fresh Beta release out that overhauls some parts of the Steam Workshop. Plus there's some fixes for Linux and Steam Deck too.