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Steam hits new user record for 2024 and a record for games released last year

By Liam Dawe,
6
Yesterday, January 7th, Steam hit a new all-time record for concurrent users online showing that nothing can stop Valve's growth here thanks to the popularity of video games.
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Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever

By Liam Dawe,
5
Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.7 on Sunday, 7th January 2024 and as it turns out it's one of the largest releases ever.
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Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.13 Preview improves WiFi, brings LED brightness controls

By Liam Dawe,
3
One missed from yesterday Friday, January 5th is that Valve released another Preview update of SteamOS for Steam Deck with a couple more useful changes.
Portal: Revolution

The big Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution is out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
4
Portal: Revolution is a new fan-made campaign for Valve's popular puzzle game Portal 2, and it's now available free on Steam for owners of the game to install and play through.
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GOG has a Classic Winter Sale live to build up your retro library

By Liam Dawe,
4
Need some more games that won't destroy your bank balance and will work across a lot of lower-end PCs too? GOG have what you need with the Classic Winter Sale now on.
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Ray-Tracing performance uplift coming to the AMD RADV Linux graphics driver

By Liam Dawe,
9
The open source AMD RADV Vulkan driver is set to get some nice looking performance improvements for Ray-Tracing, which should release along with Mesa 24.0.
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Get a bunch of great digital board games in this Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
2
If you love board game adaptions for the digital age, you're going to want to check out the Play Pink With Twin Sails Humble Bundle for a whole lot of it.
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As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
12
Here's an up to date look at the current state of the most played games on Steam, and how many of they run on Steam Deck and Linux as a whole. 
ASYLUM

Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM finally hits Beta

By Liam Dawe,
2
You'll be forgiven for forgetting about the supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM, a game that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter way back in February of 2013 but it's really actually getting close to release now.
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Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified

By Liam Dawe,
22
Not too long after hitting 12,000 games, the Steam Deck now officially has over 13,000 games rated either Verified or Playable. There must be a little something for every type of gamer now right? My backlog is terrifying.
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The Caribbean Sail adds Steamboat Willie as a playable character

By Liam Dawe,
15
With Steamboat Willie now being in the public domain, no doubt we're about to see a lot more of it. One of the first is Victorian Clambake's game The Caribbean Sail which added Steamboat Willie as a playable character.
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Proton 8.0-5 has a Release Candidate ready for testing

By Liam Dawe,
5
Early last month Valve put up a Release Candidate for the next version of Proton, which it seems went completely under the radar. Due to this they've not had much feedback for Proton 8.0-5 so time to get testing.
Sail Forth

Ocean adventure game Sail Forth goes fully open-world, plus an expansion is coming

By Liam Dawe,
2
Ocean adventure game Sail Forth from Festive Vector and The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild released back in December 2022, and it just got a big free upgrade with more to come.
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MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
37
Begun, the handheld wars have. It seems like every company now wants a piece of the pie doesn't it? Even MSI appear to be jumping into the fold now with an announcement due at CES 2024.
Mobile Suit Baba

Mobile Suit Baba combines Baba Is You puzzling with Into the Breach strategy

By Liam Dawe,
3
Indie developer Hempuli Oy has released a follow-up to their incredible puzzle game Baba Is You, this time taking the idea of Into the Breach from Subset Games and putting a new spin on it with Baba Is You word rules.
Chasmal Fear

Bodycam horror shooter Chasmal Fear looks like a riot

By Liam Dawe,
4
MystiveDev emailed in about Chasmal Fear, an upcoming horror shooter you play as if you're viewing it from a bodycam set in an underwater facility.
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dotAGE now Steam Deck Verified and sold over 30K copies

By Liam Dawe,
1
Showing that the indie dream for some is alive and well, the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder dotAGE has managed to sell over 30,000 copies in three months. It's also now Steam Deck Verified!
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Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5

By Liam Dawe,
4
For people wanting to install Linux Mint on newer devices, the Linux Mint team have announced a plan to update their EDGE ISOs with a later Linux kernel in the latest blog post.
Jazz Jackrabbit 2

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 reimplementation gets a new release with Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe,
15
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 is a much loved classic that continues to live on thanks to the Jazz² Resurrection project, with a new release that went live recently bringing Flatpak support.
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SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and new Steam Deck Beta and Steam Desktop Beta released

By Liam Dawe,
5
Catching up from the end of the holidays, Valve recently released SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and today there's also a new Steam Deck and Desktop Beta release.
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