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Beamdog need your help to test Enhanced Editions of Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

Getting real close to release now is the huge 2.6 upgrade for the Beamdog classic RPGs now including Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

Axiom Verge gets a first ever free update six years later with the Randomizer Mode

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

While work continues on the sequel, Axiom Verge has a first ever free content update following the release back in 2015 with a new Randomizer Mode.

Stockholm to host the 2021 CS:GO Major, with the biggest ever prize pool

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

Valve along with PGL have announced the return of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's next Major Championship that will take place this year in Sweden.

Proton 5.13-5 is now up bringing in some of the experimental changes

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2021

The Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Steam for Linux has levelled up some more with the latest Proton 5.13-5 now available to everyone.

Get a free copy of Bomber Crew during the Humble Winter Sale

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

How about a free game for the coming weekend? Humble Store has Bomber Crew going free during their new Winter Sale so you can pick up some other cheap games too.

Prison Architect: Going Green announced for release on January 28

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

Paradox Interactive and Double Eleven have announced the next expansion and free update for Prison Architect with the Prison Architect: Going Green DLC launching on January 28.

Wine compatibility layer version 6.0 released

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

Wine, the compatibility layer designed to run Windows games and applications on other systems has a big 6.0 release now officially available with thousands of improvements.

Love turn-based strategies? Check out the Turn-Based Tactical Bundle on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

It appears that more developers are teaming up to create game bundles on Steam, where you get a couple games from different teams plus a discount to get them all together.

What Never Was: Chapter II gets a teaser trailer and a Steam page

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

What Never Was is a free short, story-driven first-person puzzle-solving adventure that released back in 2019. It was so popular that the developer is bringing out What Never Was: Chapter II.

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls releases January 26 and gets a new trailer

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

Ready for more Dead Cells? I know I am! Motion Twin and Evil Empire have announced the Dead Cells: Fatal Falls expansion will release on January 26.

Mali Midgard and Bifrost GPUs to get OpenGL 3.1 with Mesa 21.0 - first RC up

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2021

With the first Mesa release of 2021 for open source Linux GPU drivers upcoming with Mesa 21.0 hitting the Release Candidate stage, Collabora have been busy bringing up OpenGL on ARM Mali GPUs.

Valve's review of 2020 shows off pretty big numbers - 120 million monthly active users

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2021

With 2020 done and out the way, Valve have put up a 'Year in Review' post highlighting a bunch of facts about what people were doing on Steam and some of the numbers are pretty surprising. Valve also tease more coming for Linux gaming and their continued support.