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The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase is coming April 10th

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2024

So we finally know what the mysterious Triple-i Initiative thing is! It's a big gaming showcase full of announcements and new footage for upcoming games centred around triple-i games and studios (big indies).

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Fanatical's Play on the Go Bundle Spring Edition plus a Humble Store Handheld sale live

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2024

Two good chances here for you to fill up on some great games for your Steam Deck this Easter Weekend, as both Fanatical and Humble Store have some good deals doing.

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2024

Gaijin Network (War Thunder) and Darkflow Software (CRSED: Cuisine Royale) have today released the online squad-based shooter Enlisted: Reinforced into Early Access on Steam.

Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2024

Embracer Group continue to sell off more with the latest being Gearbox, which has been picked up by Take-Two Interactive in a $460 million deal.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2024

After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.

PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2024

PUNKCAKE Délicieux are a game dev duo that release small fun games around once a month, and they've just now given all of their available titles the Linux (and macOS) treatment.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

By nwildner, 28 Mar 2024

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2024

Following on from adding EA anticheat into FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 we're about to see another game broken on Linux / Steam Deck with Battlefield V.

4D Golf is making my brain melt away

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2024

Released on March 22nd, 4D Golf is about exploring higher dimensions through Golf. It's absolutely wild visually and I think you need to see this.

Now you too can lose all your time in Lost For Swords with the demo

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2024

Back in July 2023 I wrote about Lost For Swords, a roguelike deck-builder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. It was properly good fun and now it has a Native Linux demo too!

No Man's Sky 4.6 'Orbital' adds starship customization and a space station overhaul

By Liam Dawe, 27 Mar 2024

God damn this sounds great. No Man's Sky just got another free huge upgrade in update 4.6 "Orbital" that comes with a bunch of big new features.

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

The team behind the post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG have launched a demo and crowdfunding campaign for Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, a fantasy cRPG inspired by Infinity Engine titles like Baldur's Gate 1, Icewind Dale and other classics.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

Free and open source action-adventure RPG 'Veloren' update 0.16 out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

It's free, it's open source and it's looking good! Veloren is a action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world and a brand new release is out with update 0.16.

Sci-fi deck-builder Hyperspace Deck Command has a demo out now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

Hyperspace Deck Command is the next game in the Hyperspace Anthology from Sleeper Games that includes their two previous games Swirl W@tch and ---Red---Tether-->.

Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced

By nwildner, 26 Mar 2024

Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.

chiaki4deck the PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck tweaks rumble

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

Continuing to push out small but useful sounding tweaks, the unnoficial PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck, chiaki4deck, has another little update out to make the experience better.

Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

After being revealed early in February, the upcoming Orange Pi Neo that will come with Manjaro Linux now has a price, and there will be multiple versions of it although we still don't exactly have a clear release date.

GOG begin funding indie devs with Loco Motive releasing this Summer

By Liam Dawe, 26 Mar 2024

GOG have announced that they're getting into game funding, with the first partnership being a boost for developers from Robust Games and publisher Chucklefish for their upcoming title Loco Motive.