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Takara Cards is a unique space sci-fi deckbuilding tactical strategy game

By Liam Dawe,
Fusing together the best elements of deckbuilders and tactical turn-based battles, Takara Cards is a little unusual to get into but full of charm to keep you wanting more.

Godot Engine 4.1 to get FSR 2.2, better 3D support for OpenGL, shader improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like the next update for Godot Engine is going to be a nice one for game developers, with multiple graphics enhancements on the way.

HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed added a slick story campaign

By Liam Dawe,
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is a shooter all about toys, a bit like the classic movie Small Soldiers and back in late March, it had a huge free upgrade.

Europa Universalis IV: Domination and free update out now

By Liam Dawe,
Europa Universalis IV: Domination is the latest expansion for the popular strategy game from Paradox Interactive and there's also a free update for all players.

Fedora 38 is out now with GNOME 44, official Budgie desktop spin and more

By Liam Dawe,
Fedora has a big new release available in version 38 which came a bit early. As usual lots of new features and fixes, plus a fancy new Budgie desktop spin.

Survival game Vintage Story set for a huge update with a big story event

By Liam Dawe,
Vintage Story is a survival game that I simply love to watch and casually dive into now and then, and it's probably one of the most impressive indie open-world survival games around, if you like things hardcore.

Zoria: Age of Shattering now skipping Early Access to release in September

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of the upcoming squad-based tactical RPG Zoria: Age of Shattering have changed their release plans, and they're now going to skip Early Access entirely with a small release day.

Valheim is getting extensive difficulty options including a creative mode

By Liam Dawe,
Valheim continues to be one of the most popular survival games on Steam, and it seems in an upcoming update there's going to be much more extensive customization of the difficulty.

Picma - Picture Enigmas gets a free Steam release, lots of Picross styled puzzles

By Liam Dawe,
Love your Picross? Check out Picma - Picture Enigmas, a new Steam release with Native Linux support and it has a lot of content. It's also free to play, to a point.

MangoHud performance overlay gets a few needed fixes in v0.6.9-1

By Liam Dawe,
After the previous release of v0.6.9, MangoHud has another nice update out that fixes up a few lingering problems for the Linux performance hud that's also used on Steam Deck for the built-in performance info.

Valve rolls out Proton 8.0 to further improve Steam Deck and Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
After a bit of a wait since the Wine 8.0 release, Valve has now released Proton 8.0, the latest version of their Windows translation layer for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

Iris and Sodium for Minecraft move to Modrinth away from CurseForge

By Liam Dawe,
Do you use the popular Iris and Sodium mods for Minecraft? Well there's been a bit of an issue lately, so the developers have dropped support for CurseForge and fully moved over to Modrinth.

Publisher of King under the Mountain backs out so it's re-releasing as Mountaincore

By Liam Dawe,
King under the Mountain was a pretty nice colony-building game from Rocket Jump Technology, and it was going through a huge upgrade. Sadly, their publisher cancelled on them so they're having to re-release as Mountaincore.

Stardew Valley set for another update in v1.6

By Liam Dawe,
One of the most popular games on Steam (and one of the most played Steam Deck games too), Stardew Valley is coming back for another update in version 1.6.

MineClone2 v0.83 out now, the sandbox game for Minetest inspired by Minecraft

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired might be pushing it a bit eh? MineClone2 as the name suggests really is a clone of early Minecraft, although this is free and open source powered by the Minetest game engine. A big new release is out now following the recent Minetest upgrade.

Lueur blends city-building with survival from a former Ubisoft developer

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Darenn Keller previously worked on the likes of Assassin's Creed and Ghost Recon, but now they're going indie with their city-building survival game Lueur.

Darkest Dungeon got a free total conversion with Black Reliquary

By Liam Dawe,
One I missed recently that you should check out: Black Reliquary is a free total conversion mod for the original Darkest Dungeon, and it's available now with a whole lot of content to play through.

Try out a free prologue of Shogun Showdown right now

By Liam Dawe,
Shogun Showdown: Prologue is a demo of the upcoming turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements.

The Last of Us has more Steam Deck improvements and lots of other fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Fires continue to be put out by Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy as they fix up The Last of Us, with a new patch landing with lots of fixes.

MangoHud performance overlay version v0.6.9 is out now as a nice update

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a while since the last release but a nice update to the performance hud and benchmarking tool MangoHud is out now. This is the tool used for the performance stats on Steam Deck.