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Among Us 3D announced supporting cross-play with Among Us VR

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

While it's not compatible with the original 2D game, the announcement of Among Us 3D is quite exciting bridging the worlds of traditional 3D and VR together for the popular social deduction game.

What to claim from Prime Gaming, February 21st edition - plenty for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for February 21st, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 enables Wayland by default

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

For people who enjoy seeing improvements for emulation on Linux, and for Wayland support - the Playstation 2 Emulator PCSX2 has now enabled support for it by default.

Playtron GameOS Alpha 3 brings the 'GameLAB' tool for game configuration and remote management

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

Playtron, the company attempting to build a Linux gaming distribution to take on Valve, Microsoft and others have released GameOS Alpha 3 with a bunch of new features. This includes a new fancy open source tool named GameLAB.

My favourite comedy dungeon crawler Lucky Tower Ultimate just got a big content update

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

The update simply called "Content" brings a whole lot of extras to Lucky Tower Ultimate, my current favourite dungeon crawler that keeps on making me laugh.

OpenRazer v3.10 brings support for Razer Basilisk V3 35K and more on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

The community made and supported OpenRazer driver has a new v3.10 release available now, further expanding Razer hardware capabilities on Linux.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets DLSS 4 and FSR 3.1 but breaks on Steam Deck / Linux with Mesa

By Liam Dawe, 21 Feb 2025

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle just got a major update with some fancy new features, but it seems like it's now broken on Linux with AMD GPUs using Mesa like Steam Deck.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Surprisingly, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been given the Steam Deck Verified checkmark by Valve, after the latest patch was released with more updates planned.

A year later, Palworld hits 32m players while continuing to fight off Nintendo

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

It's been a little bit over a year now since Palworld arrived in Early Access, with developer Pocketpair announcing how well it's done along with another patch out now.

House Flipper and Friends Humble Bundle has some fun looking sims

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

One for the creative types and people who love doing chores. The House Flipper and Friends Humble Bundle has an assortment of simulator treats available.

Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks generative AI will help game preservation

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Microsoft recently announced Muse, "a generative AI model of a video game that can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both". And somehow, Phil Spencer of Microsoft Gaming thinks it will help game preservation.

The OBS Studio versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Recently I highlighted a fight that had broken out between the OBS Studio team and the Fedora Linux developers. The issue was centred around the Fedora Flatpak of OBS Studio but it seems to have calmed down now.

Take a trip through an indie dev brain in Terry's Other Games from Terry Cavanagh

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

A name you might know from the likes of Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. This is not a single game but a collection of various experiments done by Terry Cavanagh over many years.

Monster Train 2 announced with a demo live

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

The huge hit deck-builder Monster Train is getting a sequel, with Monster Train 2 getting an announcement and demo in the same day so you can try it early.

There's been a flood in the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

While Valve continue building up their next MOBA with Deadlock, their current Dota 2 is still as popular as ever and the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 sounds pretty awesome.

Airport X-Ray Simulator gets a gamepad and Steam Deck Beta

By Liam Dawe, 20 Feb 2025

Airport X-Ray Simulator from developer Rainbow Lab has a fresh Beta available on Steam, which includes some overhauled controls for gamepads and Steam Deck.

Mesa 25.0 open source graphics drivers released with Vulkan 1.4 and initial AMD RDNA4 support

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.0, bringing lots of open source graphics driver updates and expanded hardware support.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, The Finals and more

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck.

Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.

Even with the incredible launch Marvel Rivals developer NetEase sends US staff packing

By Liam Dawe, 19 Feb 2025

Game didn't sell enough? Staff cuts. Game did incredible! Staff cuts. It seems there's just no winning for some people as Marvel Rivals developer NetEase sends US staff packing.