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Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season
Need some fresh games for the holiday season? Got you covered here with some more games that have recently become fully Steam Deck Verified so you can click play and enjoy.
Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support
The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.
Steam Winter Sale 2023 is live, along with The Steam Awards voting
It is that time again! Valve launched the Steam Winter Sale 2023 and The Steam Awards are also open for voting for your favourite titles now too.
The Talos Principle 2 gets Steam Deck Verified, plus a big Beta update is out
Need a new puzzle game to add to your collection? Good news for you, as The Talos Principle 2 has now been bumped up to Steam Deck Verified status after testing from Valve.
Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.
Fedora Asahi Remix 39 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs
Have one of those fancy Apple Silicon Macs? Want to pop Linux on it? Check out Fedora Asahi Remix 39, the newly released Asahi Linux flagship distribution.
Proton Experimental brings more HDR + Steam Overlay hack for Easy Anti-Cheat from EOS
Valve put up a new release of Proton Experimental today and it has some interesting changes, so here's all the latest on what's new for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux gaming.
You can finally hide your naughty games on Steam
Valve released a Steam Beta update to bring in some tweaks to the shopping cart, and finally allowing you to properly set certain games as private so no one can snoop on your gaming habits.
MineClone2 'The Fire and Stone release' is out now
MineClone2 is a free and open source survival sandbox game built to resemble Minecraft on the Minetest game engine, and their latest release Fire and Stone is out now.
Streets of Rogue 2 might be my most anticipated title for 2024
I spent a ridiculous amount of time running around the small levels in Streets of Rogue, it was absolutely brilliant chaos and Streets of Rogue 2 going open-world is looking mighty fine in this first developer video.
Vulkan API update brings Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode
The Khronos Group have announced the release of the Vulkan 1.3.274 API, which brings with it the finalized extensions for encoding and decoding of video streams using a variety of video coding standards.
Enter the mind of a game dev on the brink in The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest
Elden Pixels who previously made Alwa's Awakening and Alwa's Legacy, and who are also working on A Void Hope also just announced The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest.
4x space strategy game New Stars hits Early Access
Are you a fan of titles like Stellaris and other space strategy games? You may want to take a look at New Stars, which just entered Early Access with Linux support.
Dark fantasy city-builder Against the Storm 1.0 out and now Steam Deck Verified
Against the Storm is a city-builder with a sprinkle of rogue-lite, in a dark fantasy setting and now only has it recently left Early Access to hit 1.0 but it's also now Steam Deck Verified!
Vibrant fantasy retro magical FPS 'Wizordum' is a joy to blast through
Wizordum is a new retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. If you adored early first-person shooters, you're going to really enjoy this one.
The gorgeous Tails of Iron just got a free expansion
Tails of Iron is an epic RPG adventure with punishingly brutal combat and a very bold style, and the developers just surprise-dropped a whole new free expansion to the end-game.
Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is out now
Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is the latest DLC available for the popular bullet-heaven horde survival game thingy from poncle and it's a lot of fun.
Songs of Conquest now Steam Deck Verified with full gamepad support
Need a new turn-based strategy game with an infusion of RPG mechanics that looks beautiful? Play on Steam Deck or with a gamepad mostly? Check out the latest update to Songs of Conquest!
- Linux users have no reason to worry about recent AMD GPU driver changes
- Mesa 25.2.6 rolls out with more fixes for Intel GPUs, Zink and NVK
- As Amazon cut thousands of jobs, New World: Aeternum will see no more updates
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is now on GOG
- Valve fix some games on Linux / Steam Deck having incorrect Steam Play settings and added a chat warning
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