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Steam SHMUP Fest is live now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Ready for the pew pew pew? Steam is hosting their very own SHMUP Fest, so keep an eye out for stray bullets heading towards your wallet.

Mesa 23.2 aims for release this week, with a point release next week

By Liam Squires-Hand,
It's been quite a while overdue but Mesa 23.2 is getting set to finally released, with a fourth Release Candidate now available for testing.

Here's how Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 runs on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 landed recently, and now I've had time to play with it here's a look at how it runs on Steam Deck and desktop Linux after the update.

Even the Ocean from Analgesic Productions has a source code release

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Even the Ocean from Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka and Analgesic Productions recently had the source code released.

GE-Proton 8-16 released with tweaks for Genshin Impact, Resident Evil and Wine upgrades

By Liam Squires-Hand,
While Valve continues working towards Proton 8.0-4 that has a Release Candidate available, a small but useful update to the community-maintained GE-Proton has been released. GE-Proton 8-16 is on the smaller side but contains some of the usual upgrades to various components.

Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.

Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

By Liam Squires-Hand,
One of the big winners of the Unity debacle is the free and open source Godot Engine, which has seen its funding soar to a much more impressive level as Unity basically gave them free advertising.

Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The current saga of Unity is not quite over yet, as they're still trying to clean up developer concerns after the botched announcement of the Runtime Fee. One bit currently in the spotlight is their Terms of Service and how they previously pulled the rug from developers.

Before Your Eyes, Beyond: Two Souls, Imposter Factory and more in this bundle

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Need some more narrative adventures? Humble put up the Control the Narrative Bundle. So here's your usual run over what compatibility you can expect on Steam Deck and normal desktop Linux.

Unity announced big changes following the hated Runtime Fee

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After the absolute disaster that was their original Runtime Fee announcement, Unity have now put up another apology and announced what the new plan is going forward.

Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Well, that's certainly an article title isn't it. But I mean it. Microsoft, don't you dare touch Valve. You're fat enough already and too big as it is.

Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' Beta now available

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Here's your chance to test and get in early on the next Ubuntu release with Ubuntu 23.10 'Mantic Minotaur' Beta now available across standard Ubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavours.

Lies of P is running great on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
In the mood for a fresh soulslike? Lies of P released recently from NEOWIZ, and thankfully it really does run nicely overall on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

GOG celebrate 15 years with a sale and giveaway

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOG, originally Good Old Games, has now been running for 15 years! They're celebrating with a big sale, new releases and a giveaway so here's all the details.

Microsoft's buyout of Activision gets closer with the UK CMA consulting further

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The long saga of Microsoft buying up Activision Blizzard took another step forward, with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) now consulting on remedies Microsoft put forward to address the CMA's concerns.

Steam Deck and SteamOS are great for Linux as a whole - Open Source Summit Europe 2023

By Liam Squires-Hand,
At the recent Open Source Summit Europe 2023, Alberto Garcia a software engineer at Igalia did a talk covering Valve, Steam Deck, SteamOS and how it all helps Linux as a whole.

Valve overhauled Steam Deck 'As Mouse' Gyro option in new Beta

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Even though Valve only just recently put SteamOS 3.5 into preview for Steam Deck, they're not done with improvements elsewhere with a new Beta Client release doing a bit of a Gyro overhaul to the Mouse mode.

Steam Deck a 'stable target for a couple years' so no Steam Deck 2 for a while

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Recently at the Tokyo Game Show Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais spoke to CNBC about PC gaming and Steam Deck, here's what was said during the interview.

Paradox and C Prompt team up for Millennia and it looks very Civilization

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Civilization is that you? No wait it's Millennia, a new 4x strategy game announced today by Paradox Interactive who have teamed up with C Prompt Games and it does look quite interesting but it's going to get heavy Civ comparisons.

Core Keeper gets a mod SDK and mod.io support + Shimmering Frontier update due October 4th

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The wonderful mining, exploration and crafting game Core Keeper just got a big upgrade adding in modding support via mod.io, there's a new modding SDK and next month a new free expansion launches.