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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time

By Liam Dawe,
After rubbing away the sleep from my eyes in disbelief, Valve have updated the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2026 showing explosive Linux growth.

Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler

By Liam Dawe,
Wine, part of what makes Proton run so many Windows games on Linux, just had a very interesting release that will help game modding.
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French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown

By Liam Dawe,
Video game preservation is important, and now the French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir are getting into a fight with Ubisoft over The Crew.

Lakehopper looks like a wonderful casual seaplane flight simulator

By Liam Dawe,
Fancy a new type of simulator? How about flying your own seaplane? Lakehopper has launched into Early Access on Steam with Linux support.

NVIDIA announce a preview of "DRM Per-Plane Color Pipeline API" support on Linux (good for HDR)

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA just announced something quite interesting, in the form of an upcoming update for their GPU drivers for Linux.

OptiScaler tool gets a huge new release with more upscaling and frame generation goodies

By Liam Dawe,
OptiScaler is probably one of the most interesting open source tools around, allowing you to upgrade and mix various tech together in lots of games.

As expected - Slay the Spire 2 leads the way for the most played Steam Deck games for March 2026

By Liam Dawe,
April 1st is here, you fools! No messing around here though - it's time to look over what was most popular on Steam Deck during March 2026.

Chiaki-ng the open-source PlayStation Remote Play app gets better streaming quality and stability

By Liam Dawe,
The open-source community made PlayStation Remote Play app Chiaki-ng v1.10.0 has rolled out, making it even better to stream games to other systems.

Grab some great strategy games in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another nice set of games available here in the Strategy Minds Collection Humble Bundle, giving you multiple games together for cheaps.

Steam store home page gets a refresh in Beta, plus another Linux SteamRT3 Beta fix

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have pushed out an overhauled Steam store home page in the latest Steam Client Beta, along with another needed fix for the Linux SteamRT3 Beta.

Breath of Fire IV plus classic Resident Evil 1-3 from GOG arrive on Steam - but with DRM

By Liam Dawe,
With a little help from GOG, some more classic games have arrived on Steam for those of you who want more retro gaming goodies.

DOOM Eternal is now available on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
Time to rip and tear again, as DOOM Eternal has arrived on the DRM-free store GOG from id Software / Bethesda Softworks LLC.

Valve recently confirmed Steam game pricing updates across different regions

By Liam Dawe,
At the end of March, Valve issued an announcement to game developers on Steam about changes to how games get priced across different regions.

A future Wine release could use Zink to run OpenGL via Vulkan

By Liam Dawe,
A new Wine merge request has been opened that is very interesting, as it could change the way Wine work with OpenGL to make it use Vulkan.

BOXROOM is a clever casual room builder to give your Steam games a shelf

By Liam Dawe,
I definitely miss collecting boxes for all my games, it's a real missed feeling in the digital age and BOXROOM leans into that letting you build a game room.

Steam Beta adds Remote Downloads Management

By Liam Dawe,
Making it easier to manage downloads and updates across systems from desktops to Steam Decks and other handhelds, Steam adds Remote Downloads Management.

Money is life and everything in SUPER DEBT, an unrelenting horror themed bullet-hell roguelike

By Liam Dawe,
An unrelenting horror themed bullet-hell roguelike, where money is life? Sounds interesting! SUPER DEBT is one to ensure is on your radar.

Death Stranding 2 gets a performance patch, including improvements for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Death Stranding 2 from Kojima Productions and PlayStation Publishing has a big new patch out for the PC release with various performance upgrades.

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 26.0.4 is out now as the latest bug-fix release for the open source graphics drivers, as work continues on Mesa 26.1.

Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced

By Liam Dawe,
Raspberry Pi have revealed even more price rises for their hardware, as the AI surge continues and it may be a tough pill to swallow.