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Top 20 hottest articles over the last 7 days

Igalia detail their open source work for Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
One of the great things about Valve's hardware is that it's not locked down, and they put a lot of money into open source for SteamOS (Linux).

WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more

By Liam Dawe,
WinBoat is a popular way to run Windows apps on Linux in a containerized environment that sorts all the configuration for you and a new update sounds great.
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Get a nice discount on the Steam Deck LCD during Valve's Black Friday sale

By Liam Dawe,
It's Black Friday Monday, because nowadays it's a whole week thing and thanks to Valve you can grab a great deal on the Steam Deck too!

s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source

By Liam Dawe,
s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is a modern game engine built on Valve's Source 2 and the latest .NET, and now it is open source!

SteamVR 2.14 brings fixes for a Linux memory leak, a Steam Link freeze for AMD GPUs and more

By Liam Dawe,
The latest stable release of SteamVR is out now! SteamVR 2.14 is a maintenance release focused on fixing up bugs and nuisance issues.

KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely

By Liam Dawe,
It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is an adorable looking puzzle game

By Liam Dawe,
Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a puzzle game with a cat that can be in two places at once, and that will no doubt confuse my brain.

The huge fan-made TimeSplitters Rewind is out now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
It's splitting time? TimeSplitters Rewind has released for free and it should work just fine on Linux / SteamOS thanks to Proton.

TRX an open-source reimplementation of Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2 version 1.0 released

By Liam Dawe,
With lots of enhancements for the classics Tomb Raider 1 and Tomb Raider 2, the TRX project version 1.0 is out now with an LUA scripting engine for modders.

Try the demo for Kinsfolk, a casual emotional adventure about fatherhood

By Liam Dawe,
Made in the spirit of the likes of Journey, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch - Kinsfolk is a casual adventure about fatherhood.

Blending classic survival games with automation - ORMOD: Directive sounds interesting

By Liam Dawe,
ORMOD: Directive is a very interesting recent announcement that blends classic action survival gameplay mechanics with automation.

Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior shows off a new prototype trailer of the heavy metal platformer

By Liam Dawe,
Chaosmonger Studio continue working on Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior a retro-styled heavy metal platformer in partnership with the band Voivod.

Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault enters Early Access and work is ongoing to improve it on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
While it's not quite Verified for Steam Deck just yet, Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault should be a reasonably good experience.

xorg-server 21.1.21 freshly released to fix some annoying regressions

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you still rocking xorg rather than Wayland, there's a new release out that should hopefully fix up some issues you may have been seeing.

Palworld update 'Home Sweet Home' arrives December 17 with an ULTRAKILL collab

By Liam Dawe,
Home Sweet Home huh? The name of the next Palworld update that's been confirmed to arrive on December 17th.

Palworld publisher picks up Vision Quench, a co-op dark fantasy looter shooter set in a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon

By Liam Dawe,
Set in the underbelly of a consumer goods conglomerate mega dungeon, Vision Quench is now being published by Palword's Pocketpair Publishing.

Nominations begin for the 2025 Steam Awards

By Liam Dawe,
One of the biggest events of the year for game developers is here, with the nominations now open for the 2025 Steam Awards.

Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"

By Liam Dawe,
After a string of annoying incidents after updates causing stability problems on Fedora, there's a new proposal put forward to help improve things.

Classic racers FlatOut and FlatOut 2 get Steam Achievements, bug fixes and more improvements

By Liam Dawe,
ZOOM Platform Media just gave the classic racers FlatOut and FlatOut 2 some more free upgrades, nice to see them continued to be supported.

Cold Fear, I Am Alive and more arrive in the GOG Preservation Program along with a Black Friday sale

By Liam Dawe,
For those that prefer the DRM-free store GOG, they've expanded again with new enhanced releases of Cold Fear and I Am Alive along with a Black Friday sale.