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Mechabellum is an auto-battling Supreme Commander - I'm completely hooked

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2023

Mechabellum is a new Early Access release from Game River and Paradox Arc (the publishing arm of Paradox Interactive). It's an auto-battler like say Dota Underlords and Auto Chess, but with big mech units with battles like Supreme Commander.

DXVK 2.2 released supporting D3D11On12, plus improvements for game launchers

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2023

DXVK translates Direct3D 9 / 10 and 11 into Vulkan for Proton and Wine, used on Linux desktop and Steam Deck for gaming.

World Turtles is a city-builder on the back of a space turtle out now

By Liam Dawe, 12 May 2023

City-builders come in all shapes and sizes and now you can build on the back of a massive turtle flying through space in World Turtles.

Mesa graphics drivers 23.1.0 out now with RADV GPL enabled

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

Another fresh release of Mesa is now available, the set of open source graphics drivers for Linux and Steam Deck with v23.1.0 out now.

ASUS ROG Ally releases in June priced competitively to the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

ASUS has today formally revealed all about their handheld gaming PC, the ROG Ally and it's releasing in June with a pretty competitive price.

Explosive exploration-mining game BLASTRONAUT gets a watery upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

BLASTRONAUT is a bit of an indie gem, a mining exploration game about blowing up the world beneath you to collect resources. The latest update is a bit wet.

Get a free copy of Hotshot Racing during the Fanatical May Madness Sale

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

Game store Fanatical are offering up a free copy of Hotshot Racing if you join their newsletter, during their big May Madness Sale.

We have to wait a bit longer for Hollow Knight: Silksong

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

Hollow Knight is probably one of the most popular 2D metroidvania action-adventures available on PC and the follow-up, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is looking like it's going to take a while longer to release.

Get MONSTER HUNTER RISE and Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen in this game bundle

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

Need even more games? You can't possibly, you already have hundreds (thousands?) but a few more can't hurt right? A fresh Humble Bundle is up to help you save some monies.

Dead by Daylight gets Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

Well, I've been waiting to see what the public official word would be on Dead by Daylight and now it's official. Dead by Daylight is now Steam Deck Verified.

The Last of Us closer to playable on Steam Deck, but the Deck still has RAM problems

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

The Last of Us Part I from Naughty Dog has another big performance patch out, and the result on Steam Deck is quite surprising. But the Steam Deck still suffers from a major problem.

Direct3D 8 to Vulkan translator D8VK 'production-ready' 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

D8VK translates Direct3D 8 to Vulkan, just like DXVK for Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 used with Wine and Proton on Linux and Steam Deck. Fantastic to see the progress on this.

Humble Store's Spring Sale 2023 has tons of great deals

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

Here's your next chance to pick up some absolute bargains, as Humble Store are running their Spring Sale for 2023 which is live until May 23rd.

Stellaris: Galactic Paragons released, along with free 3.8 update adding co-op modes

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

A big one for Stellaris is here with the Stellaris: Galactic Paragons expansion launched along with the 3.8 "Gemini" patch for all players.

Open source evolution sim Thrive adds prototypes for going on land

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

Thrive is a free and open source in-development evolution sim, a bit like a more scientific version of EA's Spore and Thrive 0.6.2 expands the gameplay even more with some new prototypes.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 re-implementation OpenRCT2 now lets trains go backwards

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2023

Another wonderful update to OpenRCT2 is live, the re-implementation of the classic RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 bringing some new features and plenty of fixes.

Steam Deck news round-up for early May 2023

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2023

Since there's so much happening and it can be hard to keep track, here's a little round-up of some happenings with the Steam Deck (and Steam as a whole) plus a little gaming news.

GE-Proton 8-2 is out now fixing Shatterline, various Daedalic games and more

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2023

GE-Proton 8-2 is the latest release of the community-made version of Proton, the translation layer from Valve for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

The 2D massive space epic Starsector gets a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2023

Starsector is something quite special, originally called Starfarer it's been in development for quite a few years now and a big new release is now available.