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You can grab the Mafia: Trilogy, Far Cry Primal, Pentiment and more in this game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
The ESA All-Star Alliance Humble Bundle is live and includes a really great set of games to add to your collection including the Mafia: Trilogy.

CachyOS update brings improvements for PC gaming handhelds, the installer and more

By Liam Dawe,
CachyOS continues being one of the most popular Linux distributions, and the brand new release comes with lots of welcome improvements to setting it up.
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DG2: Defense Grid 2 - Aftermath DLC finally comes to PC

By Liam Dawe,
12 years after the original release of DG2: Defense Grid 2, a first DLC has been released for the well-received Tower Defense game.

Valve give Team Fortress 2 a big bug-fix update

By Liam Dawe,
Team Fortress 2 still lives on, somehow after 18 years and Valve just released one of the biggest bug-fix updates in some time.

PRAGMATA from Capcom has the release date moved closer in April

By Liam Dawe,
Capcom recently announced that the brand new science fiction action-adventure PRAGMATA is actually going to release earlier than expected.

The deep strategy RPG Heart of the Machine 1.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
From Hooded Horse and Arcen Games, the high-concept strategy RPG Heart of the Machine has now left Early Access for the big 1.0 release.

Valve reconfirm the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller are due in 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up their Steam Year In Review 2025 and initially, they made it seem like their hardware plans were a lot more uncertain but they've since clarified.

Wine 11.4 released with DirectSound and MSXML improvements

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 11.4 development release is now available for the Windows to Linux compatibility layer, bringing assorted new features and fixes.

Transport Fever 3 confirmed for Linux and macOS support

By Liam Dawe,
The upcoming Transport Fever 3 from Urban Games is due out later this year, and the developers just confirmed more platforms will be supported.

Weird teeth-pulling tactical roguelite Sol Cesto hits 1.0 in April

By Liam Dawe,
Sol Cesto remains as one of the weirdest games I discovered during 2025 (but also very cool), and it's about to hit the big 1.0 release.

Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever

By Liam Dawe,
Mega Crit have a massive success on their hands with the Early Access release of Slay the Spire 2, smashing records across the Steam store.

The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1

By Liam Dawe,
Gambonanza is easily one of the top games demos I played during Steam Next Fest, and now we know it's going to release on May 1st.

Cyberpunk action RPG 'RUINER 2' with co-op announced by Reikon Games

By Liam Dawe,
Reikon Games are doing a follow-up to the popular RUINER from 2017, with RUINER 2 set to return to the brutal world but this time with optional co-op.

Valve gives Steam developer and publisher pages a lot more customization options

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have announced major changes for Steam developer and publisher pages, allowing devs to customize them a lot more to their liking.

Xbox "Project Helix" confirmed to run Xbox and PC games - competition for the Steam Machine

By Liam Dawe,
The new CEO of of Microsoft Gaming, Asha Sharma, confirmed something that has been widely speculated for a while that could be bad news for the Steam Machine.

Many more US states are planning or already have operating system age verification laws

By Liam Dawe,
We've already covered how California has a new operating system age-checking law coming into force next year - but many more US states also have plans.

Slay the Spire 2 is out now in Early Access with online co-op

By Liam Dawe,
Slay the Spire 2 has officially launched into Early Access giving us a taste of the latest deck-builder that can be played solo or online with up to 4 players.

Theme park building game Parkitect gets its first ever Steam Free Weekend

By Liam Dawe,
Parkitect is an absolute gem and if you've not played this theme park builder before - well, now is your best chance because it's free for a while.

Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Here's a reminder that when you connect up various accounts - you may end up just increasing the risk of your private data going somewhere else.

NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA released Beta driver 595.45.04 for Linux and it includes support for some new Vulkan extensions that could help improve gaming performance.