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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex

By Liam Dawe,
One of the new Nexus Mods owners posted an announcement noting that they're moving back to Vortex, ceasing development on their newer cross-platform app.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux, a major part of Valve's Proton and now Wine 11 is finally here.
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GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026

By Liam Dawe,
With Linux gaming clearly showing it's becoming more popular, and with GOG under new ownership, there's hope yet that GOG will improve their Linux support.

Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
It has been a long road for Hytale but the sandbox exploration RPG is now officially out in Early Access, with Native Linux support.

Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026

By Liam Dawe,
We already had a list of the first lot of Steam events for the year but now we know everything that's coming, as Valve put up the second half.

Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame

By Liam Dawe,
With the upcoming new Steam Frame hardware from Valve, they want to get as many games as possible running - and there's multiple ways for developers to do it.

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date

By Liam Dawe,
Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is getting ready for warp speed with a new combat deep dive trailer, and they've announce a release for February 18th.

Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Natalie Vock working for Valve has sent in even more impressive performance improvements for AMD GPUs on Linux with Mesa.

Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realise AI is bad

By Liam Dawe,
Hardest is getting removed from Steam by the developer at the end of the month, as they say "AI is bad" and "AI is evil" - oh my.

Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me

By Liam Dawe,
It seems it will be easier to be Steam Machine Verified when compared with Steam Deck Verified, according to a Valve designer speaking with Game Developer.

Cygames announced an AI studio, and then put up an apology over it

By Liam Dawe,
The expansion of generative AI continues with Cygames recently announcing the formation of an AI studio. Fans weren't happy, and now Cygames have apologised.

Valve tweak Steam Community Awards to deal with point farming and "attention-grabbing content"

By Liam Dawe,
Along with an entirely new set of awards you can give out across Steam the changes should stop all the clown farming on reviews, guides, forum posts and more.

Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is out now and supported until 2029

By Liam Dawe,
The popular Linux Mint has a big new stable version available with Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" supported up until 2029 as it's a long-term support release.

NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.09 release for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA today released their latest recommended driver version 580.126.09 for Linux but it's quite light on actual changes and improvements.

Check out the great enhancement patch for the original Splinter Cell

By Liam Dawe,
Where bigger developers like Ubisoft don't fix up their old games - the community provides, check out EnhancedSC for the original Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.

Budgie 10.10 finally makes the Wayland jump as development moves to Budgie 11

By Liam Dawe,
Budgie may not be one of the most popular desktop environments on Linux but it is an interesting one, and with Budgie 10.10 it finally migrated to Wayland.

Check out the full first video episode for Games For Everyone

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we mentioned a new podcast series hosted by Jason at Linux For Everyone called Games For Everyone. Now you can catch the first full video episode.

Medieval kingdom builder Earth of Oryn finally arrives in Early Access on January 19

By Liam Dawe,
After a Kickstarter success back in 2022, the medieval kingdom builder Earth of Oryn is set to enter Early Access on January 19th.

ARC Raiders hits over 12.4M sales - new patch out with weapon nerfs, a free gift and a darker Stella Montis

By Liam Dawe,
ARC Raiders has been a huge success for Nexon / Embark Studios with 12.4 million sales, and it seems sales are actually speeding up. Oh, and a new patch is out.

Multiple years later Terraria 1.4.5 has a release date for January 27th

By Liam Dawe,
Wow, they've been cooking for a while on this one huh? Terraria 1.4.5 will officially arrive January 27th and it's going to be massive.