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First world war turn-based strategy RPG 'All Quiet in the Trenches' hits Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2024

Here's something a little different for you: All Quiet in the Trenches recently hit Early Access on Steam, blending together a narrative turn-based strategy RPG with a first world war setting.

Never Grave from the Palworld developer looks a lot like Hollow Knight

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2024

Pocketpair formed another studio called Frontside 180 that are working on Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, which looks a whole lot like Hollow Knight.

KONAMI update the METAL GEAR SOLID Steam collection with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2024

As KONAMI continue to improve the recent releases of METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version, METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version and METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version they've now added Steam Deck support.

GE-Proton 8-28 released with ULWGL support for non-steam games

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2024

We recently had the announcement of the new Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (ULWGL) project, and now GE-Proton has been upgraded to make use of it with GE-Proton 8-28 out now.

The original SteamOS-like Linux distro HoloISO now dead, replaced with immutable version

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2024

After a while of no updates to the actual ISO download of HoloISO, the creator of this SteamOS-like Linux distribution has announced the original is now dead. As it's being replaced by the newer immutable HoloISO.

SteamOS-like ChimeraOS 45 released with HDR & controller support for many more handhelds

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jan 2024

ChimeraOS is a top choice for people who want a SteamOS-like Linux distribution to run on gaming handhelds, or a couch gaming PC. The latest release is out now with ChimeraOS 45 bringing big changes.

Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development

By Liam Dawe, 27 Jan 2024

Following the stable Wine 9.0 release recently, we've just now had the Wine 9.1 development release kicking off another year and starting the road to Wine 10.0 since they do one stable Wine release each year.

Relaxing settlement builder with simulated citizens Folklands now has a demo

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2024

Love your city / village building sims? You should take a little look at Folklands, a relaxing settlement builder with simulated citizens that you need to take care of.

Former dev on Stardew Valley reveals their life-sim Sunkissed City

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2024

From developer Mr. Podunkian, who previously worked on Stardew Valley, a new life-sim is coming named Sunkissed City and it looks rather colourful and inviting.

Flathub now has over one million active users

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2024

Ah, Linux, you gotta love it right? There's numerous different ways to do the same thing. One of those that people like to argue about is packaging and how to install things on Linux. Flathub with Flatpaks at least seem to be popular and it keeps growing.

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THE FINALS freezing on Linux? Here's ways you can fix it

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2024

THE FINALS has been working on Linux and Steam Deck for a couple of weeks now, and personally I've been having a fantastic time with it. It can crash a fair bit though but luckily here's some possible solutions I've tested working.

Grab Mordheim: City of the Damned free during the GOG New Year Sale 2024

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jan 2024

Here's another chance to grab a free game and lots of discounts as GOG have launched the New Year Sale 2024.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition launches on PC on March 21st

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

We finally have a confirmed date for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition which will release on March 21st for PC gamers. Thankfully it includes plenty of graphics options to tweak it to your liking, that might also help Steam Deck performance.

Beginner-friendly factory sim shapez 2 now has a demo

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

shapez 2 is a huge expansion over the original 2D shape-cutting factory sim, now in full 3D with a lot more features and there's now a demo available to try it out.

Enshrouded is the latest open-world hit on Steam - how it runs on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

Enshrouded is another big Early Access open-world game to arrive on Steam, and it's already doing some big numbers. So how does it run on Steam Deck / Linux? Here's an initial starting report for you.

Roblox now helping fund Blender development

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

Blender continues to be a true massive success story for open source, pulling in funding from all sorts of big names and now even Roblox is helping to fund it.

Earl vs. the Mutants is basically Vampire Survivors with vehicles and it's hilarious

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

If you love quick-fire action and the randomised upgrade mechanics made popular by Vampire Survivors, you might want to try out the demo for Earl vs. the Mutants.

AdventureQuest 8-Bit: Dungeons & DoomKnights an actual NES game now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

AdventureQuest 8-Bit: Dungeons & DoomKnights is a really properly retro adventure, funded on Kickstarter for the NES back in 2019 it now has a fancy PC release too.

Steam Remote Play gets VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

Valve released another Steam Beta for both the Steam Deck and for Desktop Steam, containing various fixes and a nice improvement for Linux Remote Play users.

AYANEO NEXT LITE no longer ships with SteamOS-like HoloISO Linux - Windows 11 instead

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jan 2024

We were so close to seeing another gaming handheld ship with Linux out of the box that isn't the Steam Deck, but it seems AYANEO with the AYANEO NEXT LITE weren't convinced enough and so they've changed their minds.