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SteamOS 3.4 is out now for Steam Deck (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Pulling in tons of improvements for desktop mode, along with a healthy dose of bug fixes elsewhere, the SteamOS 3.4 update for Steam Deck has been released.

Proton Experimental fixes The Witcher 3 — plus better steering wheel support

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has updated Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Linux desktop with a few quick fixes so here's the usual run over what's new.

Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine remake fheroes2 hits 1.0

By Liam Dawe,
fheroes2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, and after many development releases they've finally hit the big 1.0.

Linux Mint 21.1 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Smelling fresh and ready to invite you in, Linux Mint 21.1 is officially out now so here's what's new and improved.

Whisker Squadron: Survivor blends Vampire Survivors with a Star Fox-like shooter

By Liam Dawe,
A new on-rails survival rogue-lite shooter? Sign me up. Whisker Squadron: Survivor is from the same team as Race the Sun, and the first in the Whisker Squadron series. There's also a demo right now.

GameMaker makes a few more open source moves with extensions

By Liam Dawe,
Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.

The itch.io winter sale is live for you to stock up on indies

By Liam Dawe,
Game store itch.io has their own big Winter Sale now on, where you can save big and support one of the smaller stores along with plenty of indie games.

Steam Deck shipping update for Asia notes a few issues but plenty get it this year

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and Komodo have given an update on the shipping of the Steam Deck through Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Retro fuelled FPS 'Selaco' has easily one of the best demos I've ever played

By Liam Dawe,
Selaco, an upcoming GZDoom-based shooter from Altered Orbit Studios has been featured before and I'm bringing it back again here because of the huge upgrade to the demo. It's simply fantastic.

My game of the year 2022 is the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
You think I'm joking? I'm not. Okay, okay. It's not a game but I'll get to that in a moment. The Steam Deck has transformed everything about gaming for me.

GOG giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut during their Winter Sale 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Another chance for you to get a free game, and perhaps take a look at some tasty discounts too with the GOG Winter Sale 2022 now giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut.

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine

By Liam Dawe,
A dedicated Star Wars fan and code hacker has created something awesome: The Force Engine. A brand new free and open source modern game engine for Star Wars Dark Forces.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver adds RTX 4000 support, Vulkan Video and more

By Liam Dawe,
For those of you who use the special NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Drivers, version 525.47.04 was recently recently to go along with the release of Vulkan Video and hook up their latest GPUs.

Vulkan Video 1.0 released with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update

By Liam Dawe,
The Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan Video is done and ready, the 1.0 release is out with the Vulkan 1.3.238 spec update and no longer considered provisional.

Fall in love with your little family in Tiny Life, a pixel-art The Sims

By Liam Dawe,
Tiny Life is The Sims without EA and done in pixel art. There's a fresh free Beta out, the final one before Steam Early Access in 2023.

Duke Nukem Forever Restoration Project gets a trailer

By Liam Dawe,
I'm all outta gum. The Duke Nukem Forever Restoration Project is coming along nicely and a fresh trailer is out to show it off.

Epic Games to pay $520 million for privacy violations and unwanted charges

By Liam Dawe,
The FTC announced that Epic Games has agreed to pay $520 million, due to "violating children's privacy laws" and "tricking users into making unwanted charges".

Neon Prime from Valve is reportedly a third-person shooter close to release

By Liam Dawe,
Neon Prime isn't here yet, and there's nothing actually confirmed about it, but data miner and leaker Tyler McVicker gave a fresh overview on what to expect.

Paradox Interactive will be increasing game prices across a bunch of currencies

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive have announced that they're going to be increasing their prices. Some countries will get a huge bump and others only a little bit but some will actually be decreased.

KDE Plasma gets Wayland Fractional Scaling, Fixing Multi-Screen and a Steam Deck updater

By Liam Dawe,
I continue to be truly amazed by all the work going into KDE Plasma. Not only is it my desktop environment of choice on Linux, it's Valve's too as it powered the desktop mode on Steam Deck. It's about to get some juicy upgrades too.