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MineClone2 v0.83 out now, the sandbox game for Minetest inspired by Minecraft

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Inspired might be pushing it a bit eh? MineClone2 as the name suggests really is a clone of early Minecraft, although this is free and open source powered by the Minetest game engine. A big new release is out now following the recent Minetest upgrade.

Lueur blends city-building with survival from a former Ubisoft developer

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Developer Darenn Keller previously worked on the likes of Assassin's Creed and Ghost Recon, but now they're going indie with their city-building survival game Lueur.

Darkest Dungeon got a free total conversion with Black Reliquary

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

One I missed recently that you should check out: Black Reliquary is a free total conversion mod for the original Darkest Dungeon, and it's available now with a whole lot of content to play through.

Try out a free prologue of Shogun Showdown right now

By Liam Dawe, 17 Apr 2023

Shogun Showdown: Prologue is a demo of the upcoming turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements.

The Last of Us has more Steam Deck improvements and lots of other fixes

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

Fires continue to be put out by Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy as they fix up The Last of Us, with a new patch landing with lots of fixes.

MangoHud performance overlay version v0.6.9 is out now as a nice update

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

It's been a while since the last release but a nice update to the performance hud and benchmarking tool MangoHud is out now. This is the tool used for the performance stats on Steam Deck.

Wine 8.6 out now with bundled Musl math library

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

After another ~2 weeks, the latest development release is out for the Windows translation layer with Wine 8.6.

Ubisoft hiring Linux developer talent for XDefiant

By Liam Dawe, 15 Apr 2023

XDefiant is an upcoming free-to-play, first-person arena shooter from Ubisoft and it seems they need a bit more Linux talent.

Landnama gives a non-violent exploration city-builder roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

Blending features from city builders and dungeon crawling roguelikes, Landnama sounds pretty unusual, especially with the non-violent theme too.

The latest Steam Survey had a huge surge of Simplified Chinese

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

After waiting a while to see if Valve issued any corrections, it seems that the latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2023 is staying as it is, with a huge surge of Simplified Chinese.

GE-Proton 7-55 released with an essential fix for Easy Anti-Cheat issues

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

GE-Proton version 7-55 was released a few days ago, and it's an essential update for those of you preferring it to the official Valve Proton on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

LIVE A LIVE from Square Enix is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

LIVE A LIVE originally released in the 90s for the Super Famicom, and now it's being revived with the same style as OCTOPATH TRAVELER and it's already Steam Deck Verified.

Microsoft experiments with a handheld Windows 11 mode for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

This is interesting, it seems Valve have lit a small fire under Microsoft once again, as they've been experimenting with a handheld mode for Windows 11 to help devices like the Steam Deck. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Grounded from Obsidian adds Steam Deck support in v1.2.0

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2023

The survival game Grounded from Obsidian Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios is gearing up to launch version 1.2.0 that's now available to test. With it comes Steam Deck support.

Sci-fi puzzle game Photon Engineer out now, made with open source

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2023

Love puzzle games like Portal and The Talos Principle? Photon Engineer might be one for you to have a look at.

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

By Liam Dawe, 12 Apr 2023

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, 12 Apr 2023

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, 12 Apr 2023

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, 12 Apr 2023

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, 11 Apr 2023

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.