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Steam Winter Sale 2023 is live, along with The Steam Awards voting


By Liam Squires-Hand
It is that time again! Valve launched the Steam Winter Sale 2023 and The Steam Awards are also open for voting for your favourite titles now too.

The Talos Principle 2 gets Steam Deck Verified, plus a big Beta update is out


By Liam Squires-Hand
Need a new puzzle game to add to your collection? Good news for you, as The Talos Principle 2 has now been bumped up to Steam Deck Verified status after testing from Valve.

Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver


By Liam Squires-Hand
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing


By Liam Squires-Hand
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs


By Liam Squires-Hand
Have one of those fancy Apple Silicon Macs? Want to pop Linux on it? Check out Fedora Asahi Remix 39, the newly released Asahi Linux flagship distribution.

Proton Experimental brings more HDR + Steam Overlay hack for Easy Anti-Cheat from EOS


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve put up a new release of Proton Experimental today and it has some interesting changes, so here's all the latest on what's new for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming.

You can finally hide your naughty games on Steam


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve released a Steam Beta update to bring in some tweaks to the shopping cart, and finally allowing you to properly set certain games as private so no one can snoop on your gaming habits.

MineClone2 'The Fire and Stone release' is out now


By Liam Squires-Hand
MineClone2 is a free and open source survival sandbox game built to resemble Minecraft on the Minetest game engine, and their latest release Fire and Stone is out now.

Streets of Rogue 2 might be my most anticipated title for 2024


By Liam Squires-Hand
I spent a ridiculous amount of time running around the small levels in Streets of Rogue, it was absolutely brilliant chaos and Streets of Rogue 2 going open-world is looking mighty fine in this first developer video.

Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode


By Liam Squires-Hand
The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.

Enter the mind of a game dev on the brink in The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest


By Liam Squires-Hand
Elden Pixels who previously made Alwa's Awakening and Alwa's Legacy, and who are also working on A Void Hope also just announced The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest.

4x space strategy game New Stars hits Early Access


By Liam Squires-Hand
Are you a fan of titles like Stellaris and other space strategy games? You may want to take a look at New Stars, which just entered Early Access with Linux support.

Dark fantasy city-builder Against the Storm 1.0 out and now Steam Deck Verified


By Liam Squires-Hand
Against the Storm is a city-builder with a sprinkle of rogue-lite, in a dark fantasy setting and now only has it recently left Early Access to hit 1.0 but it's also now Steam Deck Verified!

Vibrant fantasy retro magical FPS 'Wizordum' is a joy to blast through


By Liam Squires-Hand
Wizordum is a new retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. If you adored early first-person shooters, you're going to really enjoy this one.

The gorgeous Tails of Iron just got a free expansion


By Liam Squires-Hand
Tails of Iron is an epic RPG adventure with punishingly brutal combat and a very bold style, and the developers just surprise-dropped a whole new free expansion to the end-game.

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is out now


By Liam Squires-Hand
Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is the latest DLC available for the popular bullet-heaven horde survival game thingy from poncle and it's a lot of fun.

Songs of Conquest now Steam Deck Verified with full gamepad support


By Liam Squires-Hand
Need a new turn-based strategy game with an infusion of RPG mechanics that looks beautiful? Play on Steam Deck or with a gamepad mostly? Check out the latest update to Songs of Conquest!

War Thunder has another major update with 'Air Superiority'


By Liam Squires-Hand
War Thunder, one of my most played games from 2023, had another major free update released with the War Thunder update out now bringing various new top-tier jets into the game.

Check out your 2023 Year In Review on Steam


By Liam Squires-Hand
With 2023 coming to a close Valve have refreshed their Steam Year In Review page, so you can dive in and see everything you did and how it stacks up against others.

Steam Workshop gets even better with shareable Workshop Collections


By Liam Squires-Hand
Valve are really doing some good stuff with the updates to the Steam Workshop. On top of the new features added recently, they've also now put in Workshop Collections you can switch between and share around.