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Proton Experimental fixes up Epic Online Services for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2023

Ah yes, launchers and external online services, what a nuisance they can be for Steam Deck and Linux desktop players. Thankfully, Valve keep working away on Proton to fix up issues.

Oxygen Not Included gets a new animated short, plus fun with Meteors

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2023

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony builder and probably one of the best. Space is dangerous and of course there's going to be Meteors but now you can have a bit more fun with them.

Windows translation layer Wine 8.5 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2023

The Wine 8.5 development release is now available for this translation layer, enabling Windows games and other apps to work on Linux.

Open source RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 'OpenRCT2' v0.4.4 out now

By Liam Dawe, 3 Apr 2023

The first release this year for OpenRCT2, the open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has landed with version 0.4.4.

Humble has a bundle of Survivors-Like games, including Boneraiser Minions (a favourite)

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2023

Here's your chance to jump into the Survivors-Like games phenomenon, so I guess that's what we're calling games like Vampire Survivors now? Survivors-Like? Humble Bundle has some good picks here.

Stop an organism spreading and protect humanity in Xenospore, now with a big upgrade

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2023

The free game Xenospore sees you try to stop the spread of a strange and deadly organism and there's a big upgrade out now.

Dark sci-fi roguelike Deadnaut: Signal Lost looks great and it's out now

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2023

Deadnaut: Signal Lost from the developer of Deadnaut, Zafehouse Diaries and Fear Equation is officially out now with Native Linux support.

Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari DLC releases April 13th

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2023

As if it hasn't sucked away enough of our free time already right? Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari is arriving on April 13th.

GOG giving away Deep Sky Derelicts during the finale of their Spring Sale

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2023

The fourth and final giveaway on GOG during their Spring Sale is for Deep Sky Derelicts, a tactical roguelike RPG set in a grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the galaxy.

Vulkan gets a new extension to improve shaders with help from Nintendo

By Liam Dawe, 31 Mar 2023

Well this is a fair bit unexpected. As happens quite often there was a specification update to the Vulkan API, and with it came a brand new extension to help with shaders — which Nintendo contributed towards.

NVIDIA release details of security issues and release new drivers

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

NVIDIA issued a new Security Bulletin, to advise you to update your GPU drivers due to multiple security issues discovered.

Story-driven emotional action-adventure RPG 'Dreamed Away' gets a demo

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

Dreamed Away from Nicolas Petton and Pineapple Works is an upcoming emotional action-adventure RPG with psychological horror elements. There's now a demo available to try.

Stories from the Outbreak, a zombie roguelike RPG out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

Stories from the Outbreak from Coldwild Games, an indie game development company from Latvia, creators of "Merchant of the Skies", "Luna's Fishing Garden" and the "Lazy Galaxy" series hits Early Access.

Europa Universalis IV: Domination releasing April 18th

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

Paradox has confirmed the Europa Universalis IV: Domination expansion is now releasing on April 18th.

Retro racer Super Indie Karts got upgraded with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

While Super Indie Karts already had Native Linux support, it's nice to see another developer making improvements for Steam Deck too.

The Pale Beyond sold 10% of copies on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 30 Mar 2023

Here's an interesting data point for you, The Pale Beyond a polar exploration game set in an unforgiving frozen wasteland managed to do well on the Steam Deck.