Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck gaming

Stone Story continues being the absolute coolest ASCII-art adventure with the Quest Update

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Sep 2021

Stone Story RPG is an absolutely brilliant auto-RPG adventure game that has animated ASCII artwork and a big update just dropped to expand the experience. It continues to be my favourite ASCII styled game.

Urtuk: The Desolation gets a big free content boost

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Sep 2021

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Urtuk: The Desolation is a low-fantasy, open world, tactical turn-based RPG that released back in February and it's back with a big free upgrade for all players.

Futex2 Linux Kernel patches get another go after feedback to help Linux gaming

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Sep 2021

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Another day, another try and getting the long-awaited futex2 patches into the Linux Kernel with another version submitted.

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Help make the next Ubuntu version awesome with the final Ubuntu 21.10 Beta released

By Liam Squires-Hand, 24 Sep 2021

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Ubuntu 21.10 Beta is one of the final steps before the next release of this very popular Linux distribution. It's time to get testing and reporting issues to ensure it's a good one.

Epic Games announce full Easy Anti-Cheat support for Linux including Wine & Proton

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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Today, Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Games / Epic Online Services has officially announced a full expansion for Linux including native builds and Wine + Proton. This is big for Linux Gaming and the Steam Deck.

Steam Client Beta updated with PipeWire desktop capture for Remote Play

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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Valve continue upgrading and tweaking the Steam client with a fresh Beta version being released today with a couple of tweaks that are interesting for Linux users.

Chilly survival game The Long Dark gets Episode 4 in October

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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After the third episode of The Long Dark releasing back in October 2019, Hinterland Studio has confirmed Episode 4 will appear on October 6.

Creative farming and village life game Staxel is now available for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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Staxel, created by developer Plukit (the founder is a former Starbound developer) and publisher Humble Games is a popular and highly rated creative farming and village life game.

Q1K3 is a homage to Quake made with 13 kb of JavaScript

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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Games seem to be getting bigger all the time taking up vast amounts of drive space but what can be done with very little resources? Quite a lot actually as the Quake homage Q1K3 has shown.

Minecraft Dungeons arrives on Steam and works well on Linux with Proton GE

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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Minecraft Dungeons, the co-op dungeon crawler spin-off of the classic Minecraft has today officially released on Steam and thanks to that it's easy to get it working on Linux with Steam Play Proton - although you need the community built Proton GE.

Valve answer questions about the Steam Deck in a new FAQ, anti-cheat for all Linux systems

By Liam Squires-Hand, 23 Sep 2021

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After gathering questions from pretty much everyone, Valve has put up a new official FAQ page for the Steam Deck that answers some pretty important questions and it's good news.