EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a frontend for browsing and launching games from your multi-platform game collection, it's pretty great and the latest version 2.2 is out now with loads of improvements and new system additions.
Path of Titans is steadily building up to be a really good-looking dinosaur survival MMO, and with the Pounce Update the combat should be a lot more exciting now too.
Heroic Games Launcher has a big UI upgrade coming in the 3.0 update which isn't quite ready yet, but they have just released Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 which has some essential fixes for this popular multi-platform game manager.
Inspired by classic isometric RPGs, Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness released back in 2022 and the developers are coming back for a DLC expansion and a free update.
Not satisfied enough by creating the chilled beekeeping sim APICO, and their plans for frog-breeding in Mudborne, TNgineers recently announced Snacktorio, a factory-cooking simulator where you must satisfy the appetites of unspeakable horrors.
If you're a programmer looking for your next challenge - how about this! CodeWeavers are hiring a full-time position for a developer to work on Wine, Proton and their own CrossOver product.
Well this sounds rather exciting and different. Vampire Survivors is going to launch the Adventures Update in a few weeks and it will bring some new ways to play with mini story modes.
Another month is over and Valve has revealed what you've all been playing on Steam Deck for October 2023, so here's the most popular games.
Valve continue expanding Counter-Strike 2 now its released, and the latest update overhauls the community map system along with enabling it again in the Steam Workshop. We've also seen quite a big drop in players overall.
Another colossal update for Baldur's Gate 3 has landed with Patch 4 and the changelog, as expected, is utterly ridiculous. Seriously, what the heck. Oh, it's also enhanced with AMD FSR 2.2! So this should make it look better on Steam Deck.
Turbo Overkill is easily one of the best shooters I've played in a long time, and this latest update has made it even better - especially for users of controllers and players on Steam Deck.
Devolver Digital has now acquired System Era Softworks, who made the popular space exploration and industry game ASTRONEER.
OpenRazer 3.7.0 is out now bringing with it plenty of code clean-up and lots of new device support to Linux for Razer hardware fans this is an essential.
Need some critically highly-rated games? Humble Bundle put up a rather fantastic selection of games that IGN gave either a 9 or 10 score to and it really is a good bundle.
We have another fresh Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2023 and the results show that Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam has another sharp jump resulting in some odd results.
Valve has rolled out a fresh Steam Client Beta for desktop which includes some really good sounding improvements for controller support, so here's what's new.
This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.
Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.
Finally. All the pieces are coming together for Wayland to truly be the actual future for Linux, even Linux Mint are now moving forward with it in their Cinnamon desktop.
Vintage Story is a challenging open-world survival game inspired by eldritch horror themes, certainly quite different to a lot of survival games out there with some really impressive depth to the mechanics and it's about to get much more impressive.
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