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Valve warns about Steam Deck temperatures, plus a Deck Beta Update out

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2022

Valve put up a bit of a notice / warning recently, one for those of you experiencing a heat wave and trying to game on the Steam Deck might want to keep a note of. Plus a new Steam Deck Beta update.

Run around a cyberpunk city as a lost cat in Stray - out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

Stray, a game about a lost cat in a cyberpunk city, became something of a viral hit even before release. It's out now with a Steam Deck Verified rating from the get go.

Into the Breach: Advanced Edition update is out now

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

Making a thoroughly difficult yet great strategy game even better, Into the Breach: Advanced Edition is out now for all owners as a free upgrade.

Exanima gets vastly improved Linux and Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

Exanima is an unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Currently in Early Access, it seems the developers have been paying attention to user requests for better Linux and Steam Deck support with Proton.

Tesla to demo Steam for more in-car gaming soon using Linux & Proton

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

Tesla and Steam? It's coming and it sounds like it's progressing nicely with a demo to come soon to show it off.

Hot swapping SD Cards on Steam Deck is okay but Valve plans improvements

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

There's been a lot of talk about the Steam Deck and SD Cards lately around hot swapping and apparently bricked SD Cards but Valve say it's fine, although improvements are coming.

Relive memories of going to the arcade in Point Rescue Arcade

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

Point Rescue Arcade is a game that very much leans into the experience you might have had when going to a real Arcade, grabbing a big gun and sticking in some coins.

Dead Cells has an exciting roadmap ahead as it's far from finished

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2022

Dead Cells is the absolutely brilliant game from Motion Twin and Evil Empire. A rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer and it's not finished, far from it.

Wine 7.13 rolled out recently continuing the PE conversion

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

Fashionably late on this one. Wine 7.13 rolled out just before the weekend rolled in, so here's a quick run down of what's new in this Windows compatibility layer.

Heroic Games Launcher adds GOG Cloud Saves, Epic Overlay support, anti-cheat helpers

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

The Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games and GOG on Linux has a huge new Beta release (plus a bug fixes for the stable build) with loads of fancy new features.

Open source evolution sim Thrive gets procedural maps, better gameplay

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

Thrive is a free and open source science-based game about evolution, currently allowing you to swim around as a little cell and attempt to survive. The latest release brings in some major improvements.

iFixit have the Steam Deck Fan in stock if you're in the U.S.

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

Want to get rid of the whine that certain models of Steam Deck have with their fan? Good news, at least if you're in the USA, as iFixit have fans in stock.

Souls-like game Hellpoint: Blue Sun major expansion DLC is out now

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

The thoroughly challenging Souls-like game Hellpoint has expanded with the Hellpoint: Blue Sun major expansion DLC.

Swirl W@tch is a blindly-vibrant upcoming stealth-action rogue-lite

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

Sleeper Games have revealed their latest game with Swirl W@tch, a very colourful and bright stealth-action rogue-lite that will release later this year.

fheroes2 game engine for Heroes of Might and Magic II gets even more AI upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 18 Jul 2022

Fully playable but they're not done yet. The team behind the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine reimplementation 'fheroes2' continue to improve it even further for playing it on modern platforms.

Steam Deck hits over 4,000 titles marked either Verified or Playable

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jul 2022

As more developers work to optimize their games for the Steam Deck, a bunch of Native Linux games release and Valve continue improving Proton - the Steam Deck continues to see more games go through Deck Verified and there's now over 4,000 listed officially.