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Dice A Million channels Balatro vibes into game-breaking dice rolling

By Liam Dawe,
With a fresh demo released, Dice A Million looks like it will grab a lot of my time in future.

Gyro through a collection of handcrafted mazes in the Steam Deck exclusive Game With Balls

By Liam Dawe,
The second game from Geert Verhoeff that's only meant to be played on a Steam Deck is Game With Balls, a collection of handcrafted mazes to gyro through.

Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live on itch.io

By Liam Dawe,
At a time where supporting creators of anything that might be deemed adult content or NSFW is more important than ever, the Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live.

ZOOM Platform also had payment processor issues, say they "have no plans to remove any titles"

By Liam Dawe,
ZOOM Platform that sell a lot of retro games, as well as publish upgrades for games, announced they've also been a target of payment processors for adult games.

Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.10 has been released

By fheroes2,
A fresh upgrade to the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game engine fheroes2.

Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2025, showing the Linux user share making gains towards hitting 3%.

Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
Mastercard have today released a short statement to clarify their position on adult content across game stores.

itch.io to reindex free adult content as they search for new payment processors

By Liam Dawe,
The ongoing saga of payment processors pushing game stores continues, with itch.io now reindexing free adult content but some issues remain.

Valve finally upgraded the Steam trailer video player, re-encoding around 400,000 videos

By Liam Dawe,
The Steam trailer video player was old and not especially great, but now perhaps it might actually work a lot better with a big upgrade.

Tycoon strategy game Car Park Capital gets a new trailer and publisher announcement

By Liam Dawe,
Car Park Capital is an absolutely genius idea for a tycoon building sim, getting you to build up the greatest car parks ever.

The new Nexus Mods app adds collections creation, library searching and more improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Work continues to expand the cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app, which will eventually replace Vortex with v0.14.3 out now with new features.

Free and open source 2D graphics editor PixiEditor 2.0 out now with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
PixiEditor is a free and open source fully-featured 2D graphics editor, now better than ever with the 2.0 release out that brings Linux support.

Lossless Scaling Frame Generation for Linux hits 1.0 with a new UI making it easier than ever

By Liam Dawe,
The developer of the unofficial Lossless Scaling Frame Generation for Linux project announced the first official release, which comes with a new UI.

Valve reveal the Steam sales and events for the first half of 2026

By Liam Dawe,
While we're nowhere near done with 2025 yet, Valve have revealed the first lot of sales event for 2026 so here's what you need to know.

Valve makes Steam Library customisation a little easier in the latest Steam Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a new Steam Beta Client update for Desktop and SteamOS / Steam Deck, making customising your Steam games a bit easier.

Here's the most played games on Steam Deck for July 2025

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh month is here so time to take a look at what has been popular over the last month on Steam Deck, and time for you to tell us what you've been playing.

Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet

By Liam Dawe,
Seems the main developer of the PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation is not happy with Linux packaging, threatening to remove Linux support.

Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat

By Liam Dawe,
Just in case you were curious - no you will not be able to play Battlefield 6 on any Linux powered system including SteamOS.

Proton 10.0-2 (beta) brings even more gaming improvements to Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve have released the second major Beta for Proton 10, as we get closer to the stable release for gaming on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

Atari set to acquire 82% of Thunderful Group AB, as Thunderful announce they're "restructuring"

By Liam Dawe,
Even more game industry consolidation going on. Atari has entered into an agreement with Thunderful Group AB to acquire most of it.