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SteamWorld Build arrives December 1st with full Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2023

SteamWorld Build is the latest in the SteamWorld series from Thunderful Development / Thunderful Publishing and they're once again entirely changing the genre for the series and turning it into a city-builder.

Slime Rancher is being turned into a movie

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2023

Well this could be a whole lot of fun! Slime Rancher, the series of games about a lone rancher sucking up slimes in a vacuum gun is getting a movie adaptation.

Check out the demo for Crop Rotation, a farming-themed card drafting game

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2023

A farming-themed card drafting game? Well that's a new one. Crop Rotation is releasing on September 15th and there's a demo available on Steam now too.

Budgie 10.8 desktop released with plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2023

Budgie 10.8 was released recently, bringing plenty of enhancements to this interesting desktop environment so here's a little run over what's new.

Get some great strategy games in the Steam Strategy Fest

By Smellbringer, 30 Aug 2023

I'll be the first to admit that we're a bit late on this news as the sale started Monday, but the Steam Strategy Fest is up and has some awesome deals on strategy game classics.

Patch 2 for Baldur's Gate 3 coming with 'major performance improvements'

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Larian only just released a MASSIVE patch for Baldur's Gate 3, and another is being planned out to come with some "major performance improvements" which sounds exciting - especially for Steam Deck players.

Schizollama from Chaosmonger Studio is a blazing-fast run and gun game

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Chaosmonger Studio sure are busy. After releasing ENCODYA and Clunky Hero, then announcing Soul Tolerance and Three Minutes To Eight they've now announced a fifth game. It's called Schizollama and it looks ridiculous.

Check out the demo for upcoming action RPG Drova - Forsaken Kin

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Drova - Forsaken Kin is an upcoming action RPG from Just2D and Deck13, inspired by the allure of Celtic mythology. There's also a fresh demo out to try.

Dev of Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew shutting down

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Well this is certainly unexpected. Mimimi Games developer of games including Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Desperados III and the recently launched Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew will be closing up.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 Beta gets a GPU fix for an upcoming game

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Here's something interesting for you. Valve released a fresh upgrade for the Steam Deck OS now in Beta, including a fix for an upcoming game.

Daggerfall Unity adds exclusive in-game books by the original lead designer

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall continues living on with Daggerfall Unity, an open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine and a new release just rolled out with Daggerfall Unity 0.15.4 Beta.

KDE Plasma 6 gets double-click to open by default and other improvements

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Something that has proven to be quite divisive in the Linux community for KDE Plasma users is single or double-click to open something, as Plasma 6 will default to double-click.

Linux kernel 6.5 released

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Here it is, on August 27th the latest work by a great many developers was released with Linus Torvalds announcing the Linux kernel 6.5.

GuliKit reveal SNES styled dock for Steam Deck and other handhelds

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

Still in the market for a dock for your Steam Deck or whatever other handheld you have? At Gamescom, GuliKit revealed a pretty slick looking SNES styled retro dock for you.

GOG Autumn Sale now live, lots of deals and free games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

GOG is back with their Autumn Sale, so here's your chance to get a whole bunch of DRM-free games on the cheap and also free games. So let's take a look.

Respawn begin unbanning various Apex Legends Linux and Steam Deck players

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

It's been a bit of a saga for Apex Legends players using the Proton compatibility tool to play it on Steam Deck and Linux desktop but it seems Respawn continue their ban investigation.

Darwinia from Introversion Software gets a big compatibility upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

Darwinia, a classic from Introversion Software (original devs of Prison Architect) released originally in 2005 just got upgraded to keep it running nice on modern platforms.

Deimos Games shutting, making Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright free to play

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

Deimos Games announced they're shutting down but their games code is already open source, and now both Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright will be going free to play.

Roblox support returns to Linux with Wine

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

After the recent news that Roblox was playable in Wine again with their special Beta channels, it seems they've now enabled Roblox to run in Wine on the stable version making it really easy to get Roblox on Linux.

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2023

AMD just announced the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT Graphics Cards, and they're giving out more details on FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3).