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Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)

By Liam Dawe,
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.

Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the annual Best of lists, and so we can see what the most played games are across the whole of 2023 for the Steam Deck so here's what's up.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine fheroes2 v1.0.11 released

By fheroes2,
The team is pleased to present the new version of the fheroes2 engine - 1.0.11 after a month of hard work. As in any other release, we made many changes and are happy to share the news with you.

Festive Co-Op Games

By scaine,
Hopefully, like me, you’ll have booked a bit of time off around the festive period. And coincidentally, Valve’s Winter Steam Sale kicked off just a couple of days before Christmas. Since so many of us and our friends are off, this marks the perfect time of year to dip your toe into the wonderful world of co-operative games.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
It's coming up on Christmas now, and so GamingOnLinux will be going into it's usual mostly hibernating state to take a little break to recharge.

Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season

By Liam Dawe,
Need some fresh games for the holiday season? Got you covered here with some more games that have recently become fully Steam Deck Verified so you can click play and enjoy.

Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support

By Liam Dawe,
The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.

Steam Winter Sale 2023 is live, along with The Steam Awards voting

By Liam Dawe,
It is that time again! Valve launched the Steam Winter Sale 2023 and The Steam Awards are also open for voting for your favourite titles now too.

The Talos Principle 2 gets Steam Deck Verified, plus a big Beta update is out

By Liam Dawe,
Need a new puzzle game to add to your collection? Good news for you, as The Talos Principle 2 has now been bumped up to Steam Deck Verified status after testing from Valve.

Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Liam Dawe,
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs

By Liam Dawe,
Have one of those fancy Apple Silicon Macs? Want to pop Linux on it? Check out Fedora Asahi Remix 39, the newly released Asahi Linux flagship distribution.

Proton Experimental brings more HDR + Steam Overlay hack for Easy Anti-Cheat from EOS

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put up a new release of Proton Experimental today and it has some interesting changes, so here's all the latest on what's new for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming.

You can finally hide your naughty games on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a Steam Beta update to bring in some tweaks to the shopping cart, and finally allowing you to properly set certain games as private so no one can snoop on your gaming habits.

MineClone2 'The Fire and Stone release' is out now

By Liam Dawe,
MineClone2 is a free and open source survival sandbox game built to resemble Minecraft on the Minetest game engine, and their latest release Fire and Stone is out now.

Streets of Rogue 2 might be my most anticipated title for 2024

By Liam Dawe,
I spent a ridiculous amount of time running around the small levels in Streets of Rogue, it was absolutely brilliant chaos and Streets of Rogue 2 going open-world is looking mighty fine in this first developer video.

Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.

Enter the mind of a game dev on the brink in The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest

By Liam Dawe,
Elden Pixels who previously made Alwa's Awakening and Alwa's Legacy, and who are also working on A Void Hope also just announced The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest.

4x space strategy game New Stars hits Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Are you a fan of titles like Stellaris and other space strategy games? You may want to take a look at New Stars, which just entered Early Access with Linux support.

Dark fantasy city-builder Against the Storm 1.0 out and now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Against the Storm is a city-builder with a sprinkle of rogue-lite, in a dark fantasy setting and now only has it recently left Early Access to hit 1.0 but it's also now Steam Deck Verified!