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Steam gets personal with a recommendations calendar to help you find games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have remembered that Steam Labs exists and have a new experiment for us all to try: a personal recommendations calendar for recent and upcoming games.

THRASHER the mind-melting follow-up to Thumper releases November and Steam Deck optimised

By Liam Dawe,
Previously only available in VR, THRASHER is the mind-melting follow-up to Thumper and it's confirmed to arrive on Steam on November 7th.
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The Outlast Trials new PvP invasion mode is out now with Easy Anti-Cheat added

By Liam Dawe,
The Outlast Trials from Red Barrels has a huge new update out now that brings in a PvP invasion mode, and there's also now anti-cheat added into the game.

The incredible UTOPIA MUST FALL has a big performance upgrade and now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
UTOPIA MUST FALL is absolutely one of the best arcade-styled base defense games made in modern times, and now it's massively better with a new update.

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.

Fight the nazis to rescue your dog in the new free shooter Darkenstein 3D out now

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by some of the classics like Return to Castle Wolfenstein and DOOM, the free shooter Darkenstein 3D has released and it's a rip-roaring good time.

Want to avoid AI gen on Steam? This browser userscript might save your day

By Liam Dawe,
With more and more game developers creating AI slop, or just using AI generation for stupid things in their games, we need more ways to avoid them.

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out now with a number of highly-requested features

By Liam Dawe,
The next big KDE Plasma release is here with Plasma 6.5 delivering a number of major new features, as the KDE team begin to show a lot more confidence.

Open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.5 out now, development moving onto SuperTuxKart Evolution

By Liam Dawe,
SuperTuxKart is like a free and open source alternative to Mario Kart, with a brand new release out now!

Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware

By Liam Dawe,
Ouch, the Xubuntu website was recently hijacked and ended up serving Windows malware, and this isn't the first time the Xubuntu site was hit.

Gaijin Entertainment announced EdenSpark, an open source "AI-assisted" platform for making games

By Liam Dawe,
EdenSpark seemed like a pretty exciting announcement for game developers and the open source community, until you read about the AI generation involved.

Coal LLC has annoyingly absorbed my entire attention

By Liam Dawe,
It doesn't look like much with some of the simplest pixel art around but Coal LLC is a like a black hole that freezes your life when you hit play.

Made in the spirit of Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max, adventure game Splittown released recently

By Liam Dawe,
One missed here on GamingOnLinux from earlier in the month, the classic comedy point and click adventure game Splittown had a full complete release.

Get some lovely chilled games in the Momcore: Games For a Busy Life Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
I'll admit that this is the first time I've heard of Momcore but the Momcore: Games For a Busy Life Humble Bundle does have some sweet games in it.

Making retro DOS gaming simple - the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed is out now

By Liam Dawe,
DOSBox Pure Unleashed is a standalone fork of the classic DOSBox to run DOS games on modern systems, based on the libretro core.

GE-Proton 10-21 brings fixes for Blue Protocol, Black Desert, Battle.net, Ubisoft Connect

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like we'll be able to play Blue Protocol: Star Resonance again, with the release of GE-Proton 10-21 out now with some essential fixes.

Nexus Mods app adds new context menus, Stardew Valley FOMOD support, and work towards Bethesda games

By Liam Dawe,
I'm getting more excited about the open source cross-platform Nexus Mods app, especially as we're getting closer to Bethesda games support.

Wine 10.17 brings a Mono upgrade, better ANSI ODBC driver support, OpenGL changes and more

By Liam Dawe,
Another development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine is out, with Wine 10.17 bringing lots of changes.

Atelier Ryza, Atelier Ryza 2 and Atelier Ryza 3 DX release November 13 and all Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
From KOEI TECMO, the newer Atelier Ryza DX series is coming to Steam on November 13th and as of today all three of them have been rated Steam Deck Verified.

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.