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Steam Replay

Steam Replay gives you an overview of your 2022 gaming habits

By Liam Dawe,
34
Steam Replay is Valve's new highlight page going over a bunch of fun stats about your gaming year, something made popular by the likes of Spotify Wrapped and similar events from numerous other places.
Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas from GamingOnLinux

Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
45
Some of you might have noticed over December our little friendly Penguin logo gained a fancy hat to keep warm, it's that time of the year again.
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Intel working on new Xe graphics driver for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
4
A nice little bonus before the holidays, Intel have made public work on their brand new Xe driver for the future of Intel graphics on Linux.
Steam Winter Sale 2022

Steam Winter Sale 2022 is live now, plus vote for the Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe,
15
Valve has put up their huge Winter Sale 2022 with tens of thousands of games that are discounted, plus you can now vote for the winners of the Steam Awards.
Sail Forth

Big open ocean adventure Sail Forth is out now

By Liam Dawe,
3
Sail Forth looks like a wonderful ocean adventure on the more chilled side of things (in a way), and if it's anything like the earlier versions I tried a while back, it would be an easy recommendation.
Steam Deck - JSAUX backplate transparent

JSAUX now selling a transparent Steam Deck backplate

By Liam Dawe,
4
Chinese accessory brand JSAUX have officially put up their transparent backplate for the Steam Deck.
Proton 7.0-6

Proton 7.0-6 now in testing for Steam Deck & Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe,
3
Here's one missed from a week ago, Valve are testing another update to the stable version of Proton with Proton 7.0-6 needing some more eyes on it for testing.
New Super Lucky's Tale

Gorgeous 3D adventure platformer New Super Lucky's Tale is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
2
New Super Lucky's Tale appears to be one that somewhat flew under the radar. Originally released in 2020, it looks quite wonderful and after an update it became Steam Deck Verified.
X-Plane 12

X-Plane 12 flight sim is officially out now

By Liam Dawe,
5
X-Plane 12 from Laminar Research is a realistic and powerful flight simulator with real-world physics, accurate aircraft systems / behaviour and an immersive simulation of the world.
SteamOS 3.4 - Steam Deck

SteamOS 3.4 is out now for Steam Deck (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
20
Pulling in tons of improvements for desktop mode, along with a healthy dose of bug fixes elsewhere, the SteamOS 3.4 update for Steam Deck has been released.
Proton Experimental

Proton Experimental fixes The Witcher 3 — plus better steering wheel support

By Liam Dawe,
6
Valve has updated Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Linux desktop with a few quick fixes so here's the usual run over what's new.
Heroes of Might and Magic II - fheroes2

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine remake fheroes2 hits 1.0

By Liam Dawe,
0
fheroes2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, and after many development releases they've finally hit the big 1.0.
Linux Mint 21.1

Linux Mint 21.1 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
8
Smelling fresh and ready to invite you in, Linux Mint 21.1 is officially out now so here's what's new and improved.
Whisker Squadron: Survivor

Whisker Squadron: Survivor blends Vampire Survivors with a Star Fox-like shooter

By Liam Dawe,
4
A new on-rails survival rogue-lite shooter? Sign me up. Whisker Squadron: Survivor is from the same team as Race the Sun, and the first in the Whisker Squadron series. There's also a demo right now.
GameMaker

GameMaker makes a few more open source moves with extensions

By Liam Dawe,
1
Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.
itch.io logo

The itch.io winter sale is live for you to stock up on indies

By Liam Dawe,
2
Game store itch.io has their own big Winter Sale now on, where you can save big and support one of the smaller stores along with plenty of indie games.
Steam Deck Asia

Steam Deck shipping update for Asia notes a few issues but plenty get it this year

By Liam Dawe,
4
Valve and Komodo have given an update on the shipping of the Steam Deck through Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Selaco

Retro fuelled FPS 'Selaco' has easily one of the best demos I've ever played

By Liam Dawe,
5
Selaco, an upcoming GZDoom-based shooter from Altered Orbit Studios has been featured before and I'm bringing it back again here because of the huge upgrade to the demo. It's simply fantastic.
Steam Deck

My game of the year 2022 is the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
21
You think I'm joking? I'm not. Okay, okay. It's not a game but I'll get to that in a moment. The Steam Deck has transformed everything about gaming for me.
GOG Winter Sale

GOG giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut during their Winter Sale 2022

By Liam Dawe,
1
Another chance for you to get a free game, and perhaps take a look at some tasty discounts too with the GOG Winter Sale 2022 now giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut.
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