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X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Egosoft have just released the next major expansion for X4: Foundations named X4: Kingdom End, plus a major free upgrade is also out now that brings full Steam Deck Verified support.

Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The upcoming Mesa driver 23.1 release is sounding like it's going to be pretty great, with the Graphics Pipeline Library ("GPL") being enabled by default, plus we're looking at smaller shader cache sizes too.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 announced, plus RTX Remix released

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have revealed the GeForce RTX 4070 as the latest in their Ada Lovelace architecture lineup. Plus, there's an initial release of RTX Remix.

KDE Connect is getting some upgrades for easy file-transfers

By Liam Dawe,
KDE Connect is up high on my list of my favourite open source apps, because it makes transferring files between devices (PC / Steam Deck / Mobile) and more real easy.

Half-Life: Alyx fully playable without VR even on Steam Deck thanks to a mod

By Liam Dawe,
There's been a few efforts to get Half-Life: Alyx playable without VR and the latest is HLA-NoVR, out now and it's now possible to play it through, even on Steam Deck too.

Humble Store has a sale on Steam Deck Verified and Playable games

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one for Steam Deck fans, and everyone else also looking for some good deals, as Humble Store just recently put up a Games on the Go Sale.

Popular survival roguelike Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead gets a Steam release

By Liam Dawe,
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a rather popular roguelike, quite possibly one of the best, and now it's available on Steam.

Linux and Steam Deck compatibility tool helper ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.0 out now

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonUp-Qt gives you a hassle-free way to install various compatibility tools like GE-Proton, Wine-GE, Luxtorpeda and others for Steam, Lutris and the Heroic Games Launcher.

Open Hexagon gets new content plus Linux and Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Open Hexagon is very much Super Hexagon hyped up to max, open source and just absolutely nuts to play. A fresh upgrade is out now and it sounds great, especially for Linux desktop and Steam Deck players.

Minetest 5.7.0 out now with graphics improvements, performance upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Free and open source voxel sandbox game engine Minetest, largely known for comparisons to Minecraft, has a big update out in version 5.7.0.

The Last of Us Part I got a juicy patch with Steam Deck improvements

By Liam Dawe,
It's certainly no secret that The Last of Us Part I had a really bad launch overall and the developer is now trying to improve things.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free to keep this weekend

By Liam Dawe,
If you enjoy strategy games, you don't want to miss the free giveaway of Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.

EVERSPACE 2 out now, devs focus on Proton for Linux - Steam Deck optimizations planned

By Liam Dawe,
ROCKFISH Games have now launched EVERSPACE 2 and it looks awesome! One of their original Kickstarter promises did not make it though, with Native Linux support being cancelled as they will support it with Proton instead.

Report: Steam Deck to pass 3 million sales during 2023

By Liam Dawe,
A new report from Omdia currently doing the rounds is that the Steam Deck from Valve is set to hit 3 million sales during 2023.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
It took quite a while for the issues to be figured out but Halo: The Master Chief Collection (MCC) now has improved Steam Deck support.

No Man's Sky gets another huge update with Interceptor

By Liam Dawe,
No Man's Sky works great on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton and now I need to jump back in because the Interceptor update sounds great.

TUXEDO reveal the Stellaris 16 (Gen5) for people with money to burn

By Liam Dawe,
Have some spare cash and in the market for a pricey and powerful Linux laptop? TUXEDO would like a word with you for their Stellaris 16 (Gen5).

Fanatical and JSAUX team up for Steam Deck game and dock discounts

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical and JSAUX have done a little teaming up between a Steam Deck bundle of games and and some Docking Stations.

Here's the top Steam Deck games for March 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now revealed their latest list of the most popular games on Steam Deck through March 2023.

System76 CEO teases in-house Linux laptop code-named 'Virgo'

By Liam Dawe,
Linux hardware vendor and creator of the Pop!_OS distribution, System76, have made their own desktop for a while now but they're moving onto a custom laptop next.
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