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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 30 days
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Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

By Liam Dawe,
It finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark.

Valve doing more of a Steam Deck push with their Steam Deck Verified game pages

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are still pushing their Steam Deck ahead with many developers now adding their own special dedicated Steam Deck Verified page.
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Proton 10.0-3 released bringing lots of improvements for gaming on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS machines like Steam Deck.

GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program

By Liam Dawe,
While it hasn't been properly publicly announced yet, GOG Patrons is a new system launched by GOG to hopefully pull in more people to donate.

Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
Kernel-level anti-cheat feels like it's everywhere now, and will remain a thorn in Valve's side for the new Steam Machine powered by SteamOS Linux.

Linux users have no reason to worry about recent AMD GPU driver changes

By Liam Dawe,
This is a little PSA to Linux users and Linux gamers, with news reports out there about AMD shifting focus away from certain GPUs.

Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
The day has arrived, Valve have announced a major hardware expansion with multiple devices including the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios titles, ARC Raiders and various other games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers.

Mesa 25.2.6 rolls out with more fixes for Intel GPUs, Zink and NVK

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 25.2.6 is the latest bug fix release available now for open source Linux graphics drivers, pulling in fresh updates for games and other assorted issues.

Minecraft Java modding is about to get a lot easier and more interesting

By Liam Dawe,
Mojang announced a big change is coming to Minecraft: Java Edition, one that could make it a whole lot easier to make mods and perhaps make them more exciting.

The extraction shooter ARC Raiders is out and appears to work on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
ARC Raiders from Embark Studios has released today and even though it has anti-cheat, it still appears to run just fine on Desktop Linux.

The classic Serious Sam 2 gets a big upgrade and now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
A blast from the past returns in style, with Serious Sam 2 from Croteam recently getting a huge 20th Annviersary Update and now it has been Steam Deck Verified.

OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind is out with more enhancements and better gamepad support

By Liam Dawe,
Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.

Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode

By Liam Dawe,
Probably the single most requested Steam Deck feature since release is now in Beta, allowing you to get your downloads going with the screen off.

Steam's wider store page refresh is live with plans to improve the home page on the way

By Liam Dawe,
For a while now Valve have been tweaking Steam store pages, including making them a fair bit wider which is now actually live everywhere for all users.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is getting delisted starting November 15

By Liam Dawe,
Slitherine / Black Lab Games have announced that the excellent strategy game Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is going to be removed from all stores.

Former Humble Bundle staff launch new bundle site Digiphile to "benefit users, creators, publishers, and charity"

By Liam Dawe,
Coming from veterans of Humble Bundle, a new bundle site has launched named Digiphile as the creators want to help you discover new games and support charity.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh batch of fixes for Proton Experimental to run Windows games on Linux / SteamOS + Steam Deck arrived October 17th so here's all that's new.

The original Pillars of Eternity is getting a turn-based mode Beta on November 5

By Liam Dawe,
A chance to experience this classic RPG in a new way, with a turn-based mode coming to the original Pillars of Eternity on November 5th in Beta.

D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK

By Liam Dawe,
We've have DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for various versions of Direct3D on Linux, but now it seems we're also getting Direct3D 7 as well.