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Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games
A big milestone has just been hit for the Steam Deck, as there's now over 10,000 titles rated to be either Verified or Playable.
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Get a free copy of RPG card battler Ancient Enemy in the GOG Summer Sale 2023
Ready for another free game? Yes another! Ancient Enemy is the latest giveaway on GOG and it should work just fine on Linux with Wine / Proton.
Top-down paper-folding puzzle adventure Paper Trail talks up Steam Deck support
Need more games for your Steam Deck or desktop Linux with Proton? Paper Trail looks very sweet and the developers are clearly big Steam Deck fans.
The King's Campaign will be playable on Steam Deck and Linux desktop at release
The King's Campaign from Reverie World Studios and Bad Logic Studios is releasing July 13th, and they've recently detailed work to improve it on Steam Deck.
Micro-strategy and base building game Kingdom Eighties is out now
Kingdom Eighties is at least the 4th game in the series and it's a bit of a standalone spin-off, with a rather different setting compared with previous entries.
Linux kernel 6.4 is out now
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.4 and with it, lots and lots of new features and fixes.
Gears 5 gets updated to improve Steam Deck support
Gears 5 from The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios recently had an update that should make it work better on Steam Deck with Proton.
The latest Volcanoids update looks electrifying
Volcanoids is pretty great and a game I keep going back to with each major update, and it looks like they're going to sucker me right in again.
Brotato 1.0 is out now and it's a damn good time
Brotato is something just a little bit special isn't it? Blobfish have managed to craft something that really stands out in a sea of twin-stick bullet-hell vampire survivor-likes that keep flowing.
Proton Experimental fixes up EA App, Grounded, The Witcher 3
A rather nice looking Proton Experimental update went live on June 24th, so here's a run over what to expect on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
Dros offers a captivating steampunk adventure with puzzles and quirky characters
Ready to jump on into a decaying steampunk world full of puzzles, platform challenges, and quirky characters? Then Dros might be something for you.
Wine 8.11 and vkd3d 1.8 are out now
Two bits of Wine news here for you as not only has the latest Wine development release been made with Wine 8.11 but vkd3d 1.8 is out now too.
Vampire Survivors is getting a co-op mode
Thought you were over your Vampire Survivors fix? Think again, they're adding in a whole new local co-op mode for the entire game.
Classic LucasArts games emulator DREAMM adds early Linux support
Want a way to play classic LucasArts games on Linux? While some ways already exist like ScummVM, another is DREAMM and it now has early Linux support.
Fanatical has another Steam Deck game bundle plus you could win a Steam Deck
Fanatical are offering up some Summer treats. Not only do they have a bundle of games that work on Steam Deck but you can also enter to win a Steam Deck and a whole bunch more with it.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 confirmed for a Steam release
I have to admit I am a little bit excited by this. Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 is now confirmed to be coming to Steam. So we could be playing classic Metal Gear on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton very soon.
Linux Mint 21.2 gets a Beta release
Linux Mint 21.2 is getting close to release now with a Beta available for testing across their Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktop environments.
Classic open source FPS Xonotic 0.8.6 released with new game modes
Xonotic 0.8.6 is an essential upgrade for anyone playing this classic free and open source arena shooter, due to a security issue but there's also plenty of new features and additions.
SDL 2.28.0 released and goes into maintenance mode, now focusing on SDL 3
SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware used by a great many companies and SDL 2 is now pretty much finished.
Valve moving away from the Battle Pass in Dota 2
As Dota 2 comes up to the 10 year anniversary, Valve developers have put up a blog post going over some of their thoughts on the future.
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