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Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2025

Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026.

Horror incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a new demo and release date

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2025

The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.

Evolution sim Thrive hits the 1.0 release completing the microbe stage

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2025

Thrive is an open source evolution sim that plans to add many different stages of life with the microbe stage now considered actually ready.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check set for release on January 12 2026

By Liam Dawe, 22 Dec 2025

Devolver Digital announced that Quarantine Zone: The Last Check from Brigada Games is now set for release on January 12, 2026.

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2025

Valve released the latest stable update for Steam across Desktop, Steam Deck / SteamOS and we have all the changes here for you to see.

Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model

By Liam Dawe, 20 Dec 2025

Valve have done this pretty quietly, but they're discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model now with just the Steam Deck OLED remaining.

Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2025

Valve put up a Release Candidate for testing Proton 10.0-4, what will become the main version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux / SteamOS.

Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

This is the sale event you've been waiting on isn't it? The Steam Winter Sale 2025 has arrived with a great many thousands of games discounted.

Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025 [updated]

The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.

NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

As part of the New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver version 590.48.01 released today for Linux with a few more fixes.

Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

The Mesa team have released Mesa 25.3.2 as the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable branch of open source Linux graphics drivers.

Continuing to make things weird Two Point Museum and Revenge of the Savage Planet do crossovers

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

They did a Vampire Survivors update, so sure why not Revenge of the Savage Planet too? Two Point Museum has expanded again in a free update.

Arriving early next year, Dune: Awakening - Chapter 3 is sounding great

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

Dune: Awakening from Funcom is getting a big free Chapter 3 update early next year, with the details of it now being revealed along with a paid DLC.

Total War: THREE KINGDOMS gets a GOG release along with various DLC

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

Just like they promised after adding some classic Total War games to GOG, another has arrived with Total War: THREE KINGDOMS now on the DRM-free store.

The excellent BALL x PIT is getting three major updates in 2026

By Liam Dawe, 18 Dec 2025

One of my favourite games released in 2025, BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun and Friends / Devolver Digital has sold well enough that it's getting free upgrades.