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Dev of Shadow Tactics, Desperados III, Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew shutting down

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Well this is certainly unexpected. Mimimi Games developer of games including Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Desperados III and the recently launched Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew will be closing up.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 Beta gets a GPU fix for an upcoming game

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Here's something interesting for you. Valve released a fresh upgrade for the Steam Deck OS now in Beta, including a fix for an upcoming game.

Daggerfall Unity adds exclusive in-game books by the original lead designer

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall continues living on with Daggerfall Unity, an open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine and a new release just rolled out with Daggerfall Unity 0.15.4 Beta.

KDE Plasma 6 gets double-click to open by default and other improvements

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Something that has proven to be quite divisive in the Linux community for KDE Plasma users is single or double-click to open something, as Plasma 6 will default to double-click.

Linux kernel 6.5 released

By Liam Dawe, 29 Aug 2023

Here it is, on August 27th the latest work by a great many developers was released with Linus Torvalds announcing the Linux kernel 6.5.

GuliKit reveal SNES styled dock for Steam Deck and other handhelds

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

Still in the market for a dock for your Steam Deck or whatever other handheld you have? At Gamescom, GuliKit revealed a pretty slick looking SNES styled retro dock for you.

GOG Autumn Sale now live, lots of deals and free games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

GOG is back with their Autumn Sale, so here's your chance to get a whole bunch of DRM-free games on the cheap and also free games. So let's take a look.

Respawn begin unbanning various Apex Legends Linux and Steam Deck players

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

It's been a bit of a saga for Apex Legends players using the Proton compatibility tool to play it on Steam Deck and Linux desktop but it seems Respawn continue their ban investigation.

Darwinia from Introversion Software gets a big compatibility upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

Darwinia, a classic from Introversion Software (original devs of Prison Architect) released originally in 2005 just got upgraded to keep it running nice on modern platforms.

Deimos Games shutting, making Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright free to play

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

Deimos Games announced they're shutting down but their games code is already open source, and now both Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright will be going free to play.

Roblox support returns to Linux with Wine

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2023

After the recent news that Roblox was playable in Wine again with their special Beta channels, it seems they've now enabled Roblox to run in Wine on the stable version making it really easy to get Roblox on Linux.

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2023

AMD just announced the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT Graphics Cards, and they're giving out more details on FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3).

Factorio: Space Age revealed giving you a fleet and multiple planets

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2023

We knew an expansion was coming as it was confirmed some time ago, but now Wube Software have revealed much more about what's now called Factorio: Space Age.

Canonical give some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2023

Ubuntu is one of the top most used Linux distributions on the desktop and Canonical, the company behind it, has a new blog post up giving some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop.

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON runs well on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2023

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON is the big new release developed by FromSoftware Inc, the same team from ELDEN RING and it does seem to run quite well on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

NVIDIA posts NVAPI core software development kit on GitHub

By nwildner, 25 Aug 2023

NVAPI is NVIDIA's core software development kit that allows direct access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers on supported platforms, and it's now been put up on GitHub.

Over 11,000 games now rated Steam Deck Playable

By Liam Dawe, 25 Aug 2023

There's currently somewhere around 92,000 games on Steam and so it's going to take a long time for Valve to check them all on Steam Deck but here's some recent picks.

Kentucky Route Zero has a big upgrade improving it on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2023

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition has seen it's first major update since the release of Act V in 2020, and now it should be a better experience on the Steam Deck.

Whisker Squadron: Survivor takes Star Fox and adds a lil Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2023

Taking the rail shooter goodness inspired by Star Fox, making it a bit more rogue-lite and blending in the Vampire Survivors styled gems to pick up and choose a random power-up, Whisker Squadron: Survivor is ace.

No Man's Sky - Echoes Update is out adding a secret society of robotic aliens

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2023

Well this is quite an expected update, No Man's Sky - Echoes is live as another free upgrade for players and it's a pretty big update for the game full of new content.