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Go capture and breed some Frogs in the Mudborne demo, from the devs of beekeeping sim APICO

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2024

Developer ellraiser of TNgineers is back again with another wonderful casual exploration, discovery and breeding sim. While APICO had you do beekeeping, Mudborne has you breed all sorts of Frogs.

Valve upgrades Steam Families and Game Recording in the latest Steam Beta

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2024

A fresh Steam Beta Client has been released for Desktop and Steam Deck, with a few fixes and upgrades and the change for Steam Families is especially nice.

Valve confirm plan to get Steam Deck's SteamOS on the ROG Ally and more handhelds

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2024

We've known for a long time that Valve planned to get the newer SteamOS that's on the Steam Deck out for more systems, but they've been a bit quiet on it. Now, they've confirmed it's still the plan for the likes of the ROG Ally and other systems.

Steam store pages are about to get a lot cleaner, Valve puts an end to game advert spam

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2024

This is a bit of a win for consumers I think, as some developers were making a right mess of their Steam store pages as Valve have now announced some big changes.

Ex-Blizzard devs new RTS 'Stormgate' out in Early Access, works on Linux but may need a small fix

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

Stormgate is a fresh RTS game set in an all-new science fantasy universe, it's hit Early Access today free to play but you may need a little tweak on Linux to run it.

Minishoot' Adventures developers rebuilt their UI to get it Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

Well, SoulGame Studio certainly have my attention for their effort on getting Minishoot' Adventures up to Steam Deck Verified. Plus, the game looks really entertaining.

Battle Train could end up being my next favourite deck-builder

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

There's just something satisfying about laying down tracks, and then slamming a train into your enemy. Battle Train is an interesting spin on deck-builders and there's a demo out now.

Avoid a giant creepy boat stalking you in your kayak in this retro-horror game

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

For those readers who love the recent wave of retro-horror, Delta Kayak could be another good one to check out with a demo now live. Certainly wins points for some originality and total weirdness here.

Get a better look at S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl in the Developer Deep Dive

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

A proper Developer Deep Dive is now available for the delayed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl and it's looking and sounding really promising.

The NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx has a big Summer 2024 update out now

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

With the rumours swirling around a new Half-Life game coming, this is an excellent time to play the updated NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx if you don't own a VR kit. And there's a big Summer 2024 update out now.

The huge graphics overhaul for settlement survival sim Necesse is out now

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

Mixing together elements of RimWorld and Terraria, the open world survival crafting game Necesse has a huge graphics overhaul update out now.

Sand in a Box is a fresh modern 'falling sand' playground out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 13 Aug 2024

Developer Patryk Zieliński of Tiliasoft just released Sand in a Box in Early Access on Steam, a fresh and new falling sand game with a lot of toys to play with.

I tried the demo of Super reaKtor and it really fried my brain

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2024

Super reaKtor is a unique bullet hell where you absorb various orbs using your laser beam, and while the idea is great it really did annihilate my brain.

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust from Analgesic Productions source code opened up

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2024

Analgesic Productions have opened up the full source code for their 2D-3D action-adventure game Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.

Minetest 5.9.0 brings performance improvements, a godrays shader and work towards SDL2

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2024

The latest release of Minetest with version 5.9.0 is out now, bringing new features and work towards using SDL2 for this free and open source voxel game engine.

Wine 9.15 brings more ODBC Windows drivers work and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2024

The Wine 9.15 development release is now available as there's continued work on ODBC Windows drivers and the usual assorted bug fixes.

Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi RUSH) lives again with KRAFTON

By Liam Dawe, 12 Aug 2024

At last, the good kind of industry news, and something worth celebrating. KRAFTON, the publisher of games like PUBG has acquired Tango Gameworks along with the Hi-Fi RUSH IP.