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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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Heretic II has a new reverse-engineered source port

By Liam Dawe,
A lot of classic games have received source ports over the years, and now it's time for Heretic II with Heretic2R bringing some enhancements.

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.

Virtual hangout game Rec Room is shutting down in June

By Liam Dawe,
Rec Room is a free to play social hangout space available for both VR and standard gaming, and unfortunately it's going to be shutting down.

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.

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.

Diablo 2-inspired auto-battle dungeon crawler Skull Horde launches April 10

By Liam Dawe,
We have a release date along with a new trailer for Skull Horde, a Diablo 2-inspired auto-battle dungeon crawler.

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.

Fans of Portal and first-person puzzlers will definitely want to check out He Who Watches

By Liam Dawe,
He Who Watches is an innovative new puzzle game that Draknek and Friends just revealed they're publishing, and it looks like it will melt my brain.

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.

The Flashpoint update for ARC Raiders has lots of the good stuff

By Liam Dawe,
ARC Raiders just launched the major Flashpoint update and it includes a whole bunch of new content, along with long-requested additions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.