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Steam surprise launches Lunar New Year Sale 2024 - after previously stopping it

By Liam Dawe,
Well, that was a bit of a surprise. Valve has once again put up a Lunar New Year Sale, even though they previously announced they wouldn't be doing one.

Half-Life remake Black Mesa hits over 100,000 Steam reviews to Overwhelmingly Positive

By Liam Dawe,
Quite an impressive milestone for an incredible game overall! The Half-Life remake Black Mesa has managed to cross over 100,000 user reviews on Steam.

Humble Choice for February has Scorn, Life is Strange: True Colors, Destroy All Humans 2

By Liam Dawe,
A rather nice assortment of games this month for Humble Choice, so here's your usual run over what's new for subscribers of Humble's special monthly bundle.

Open source simulation game OpenTTD has a big new v14 update coming

By Liam Dawe,
OpenTTD, an open source simulation games based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe is getting close to a big new release, with version 14 bringing many new features and improvements.

Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2024 has some real treats inside

By Liam Dawe,
With all the proceeds going to charity, the Safe In Our World Charity Bundle 2024 on Fanatical overall looks like a pretty darn sweet deal with some really fun games included.

From Glory To Goo is a new base-building RTS where you defend against gooey aliens

By Liam Dawe,
From Glory To Goo is a new upcoming real-time strategy game from Stratagem Blue that has me a little excited, and so far the demo seems to work quite well on Linux.

World War Z disables Vulkan on Steam Deck (but you can get it back)

By Liam Dawe,
Saber Interactive have updated the co-op zombie shooter World War Z, and now they've disabled being able to pick the Vulkan API on Steam Deck.

Apple's 2014 Game of the Year puzzler Threes! now on Steam with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Another great game to add to your collection is here with Threes!, originally a mobile game now upgraded an enhanced for the PC and it's available now on Steam.

Proton Hotfix gets Persona 3 Reload performance improvements for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
If you find the performance of Persona 3 Reload to be a little lacking, perhaps try out the latest Proton Hotfix update that Valve just released.

Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams

By Liam Dawe,
Time load up that Steam downloads list because Steam Next Fest is here once again, and there's a whole lot of demos for you to try out.

Life by You the Sims-like from Paradox delayed until June

By Liam Dawe,
Life by You from Paradox Tectonic / Paradox Interactive has suffered a fresh delay and will now not hit Early Access until June.

The new Skate from EA will be coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
The next-generation Skate is now confirmed to getting a PC release on Steam, so thankfully you won't have to deal with the EA App directly.

NonSteamLaunchers for Steam Deck expands automatic game shortcuts for more stores

By Liam Dawe,
NonSteamLaunchers is a project to help you easily install various external launchers / game stores on Steam Deck like EA App, Battle.net, Amazon, GOG Galaxy, Ubisoft and more. Recent releases have much improved automatic shortcut creation in your Steam Library.

Super Pocket Taito Edition Review - Licensed Linux Retro-gaming on a Budget

By Pengling,
Blaze Entertainment's latest Evercade-compatible device makes for an excellent entry to licensed emulation on Linux.

Steam Deck open source Playstation Remote Play app 'chiaki4deck' gets smoother

By Liam Dawe,
A smoother stream, bug fixes and extra features are here for chiaki4deck, the open source Playstation Remote Play client for Steam Deck in the latest release.

Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld to come with Manjaro Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Shown off during the recent FOSDEM 2024 event, it seems the Manjaro Linux team have buddied up with hardware vendor Orange Pi for the Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor hits Early Access on February 14th

By Liam Dawe,
What could be my next favourite horde survival game and an off-shoot of one of the best online co-op games around, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is launching in Early Access on February 14th.

The top Steam Deck games for January 2024 have been revealed - Palworld hits 2nd place

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the latest most-played list for Steam Deck for January 2024 and as expected, Palworld has managed to jump right near the top.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.5.14 Preview - Persona 3 Reload improvements and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released SteamOS 3.5.14 Preview for Steam Deck, which comes with performance improvements for the new Persona 3 Reload amongst other things.

Get some Exceptional Indie Allies in this Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Some glorious indie games available to grab in the new Exceptional Indie Allies Humble Bundle, if you need to build up that collection.