Latest Articles - Page: 209

Viewing all the latest articles (news, guides and more).

Celebrate Economic Strategy with the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest

By Smellbringer, 9 Jan 2024

Economy simulation and city management may not be the first thing most people think of when they think about video games. But it is one of the most longstanding genres in gaming, going all the way back to the 1980's.

NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.

AMD announces Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

Amongst a whole lot of technobabble about AI AI and more AI, AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

JSAUX revealed an upgraded transparent RGB Docking Station

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

If you've got a Steam Deck, an ROG Ally, a Lenovo Legion Go or whatever else is going from the likes of AYANEO and GPD you may want to look into the new upgraded transparent RGB Docking Station from JSAUX.

Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

Valve have finally done it, they've actually gone and made Boomer Shooter an official category on Steam. Since there's quite a lot of them now, and more releasing every day, it makes a lot of sense.

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

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

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.

GOL Penguin with Linux tux in the background

Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2024

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.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.13 Preview improves WiFi, brings LED brightness controls

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2024

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2024

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.

GOG has a Classic Winter Sale live to build up your retro library

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2024

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.

Ray-Tracing performance uplift coming to the AMD RADV Linux graphics driver

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2024

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.

Get a bunch of great digital board games in this Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.

As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.

Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM finally hits Beta

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.

Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.

The Caribbean Sail adds Steamboat Willie as a playable character

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.

Proton 8.0-5 has a Release Candidate ready for testing

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2024

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.