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Feartress is a new incremental city-building RPG in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Feartress is a bit of a quirky one. Blending together elements of an idle RPG with some small city-building that sees you go through different dimensions.

Worthy of Better, Stronger Together for Reproductive Rights bundle live on itch.io

By Liam Dawe,
A second bundle (yes there's two) supporting people in the USA following the overturning of Roe v. Wade is live on itch.io with the Worthy of Better, Stronger Together for Reproductive Rights bundle.

Desktopia is a city-builder that runs along the bottom of your desktop

By Liam Dawe,
Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator seems like quite a unique idea for a city-builder, also a fun distraction to have open on your desktop.

Denuvo announced Denuvo SecureDLC to protect DLC

By Liam Dawe,
Denuvo is not exactly something any gamer I've ever seen be happy about and now it's growing and will likely appear in more games, with the announcement of Denuvo SecureDLC.

Play as a sarcastic cow in the comedy adventure A Trail of Ooze

By Liam Dawe,
A Trail of Ooze is an upcoming comedy adventure where you take on the role of a sarcastic cow who attempts to find their missing human farmer.

itch.io are hosting a big Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds

By Liam Dawe,
With the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the USA that threatens to remove access to abortions a bunch of indie developers have pulled together to make an Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds on itch.io.

NVIDIA driver 515.57 and Vulkan Beta 515.49.06 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Multiple driver updates have been released by NVIDIA for Linux recently so here's a look at what's new in each.

Wine 7.12 is out now for improving Windows compatibility on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another two weeks have gone by so the Wine hackers have put out their latest development work with Wine 7.12 now available.

Linux share on Steam hits highest peak in years thanks to Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for June 2022, putting the Linux user share at one of its highest ever points and likely thanks to the rise of the Steam Deck and SteamOS.

Crypt of the NecroDancer gets a BIG surprise update with more to come

By Liam Dawe,
Crypt of the NecroDancer from Brace Yourself Games is a truly wonderful mix of dungeon crawling and a rhythm game that released back in 2015. It just got a huge surprise update and more is on the way.

GOG finally remove the false "in progress" note about GOG Galaxy for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
It seems at some point over the last month or two, GOG finally removed the "in progress" notice for GOG Galaxy coming to Linux.

AK-xolotl mixes the incredibly cute with the deadly in this rogue-lite shooter

By Liam Dawe,
AK-xolotl is an upcoming rogue-lite that answers the question of: what happens if you gave an axolotl an AK? Someone must have asked that somewhere.

Core Keeper hits 1 million sales in only a few months

By Liam Dawe,
Pugstorm and Fireshine Games have announced that their game Core Keeper has managed to hit 1 million sales only a few months after entering Early Access.

Free and open source arena shooter Xonotic 0.8.5 now available

By Liam Dawe,
Love some fast-paced first-person shooting action? Xonotic (a fork of the original Nexuiz) has a brand new release available with tons of improvements.

SteamOS 3.3 Beta out, plus a Steam Deck Client update

By Liam Dawe,
Two big updates have rolled out for the Steam Deck which includes an opt-in Beta SteamOS 3.3 upgrade, plus there's also a Steam Deck Beta Client update.

Proton Experimental sees fixes for Persona 4 Golden, Final Fantasy XIV, Black Ops II

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put out a new upgrade for Proton Experimental on June 30th which brings some nice looking fixes to Linux desktops and Steam Deck.

Anti-cheat work on Warhammer: Vermintide 2 for Steam Deck & Linux 'on hold'

By Liam Dawe,
While it's supposed to be relatively easy for games with anti-cheat like BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat to get working on Linux and Steam Deck, some developers are having issues like Fatshark with Warhammer: Vermintide 2.

Strategy-survival game Dice Tribes: Ambitions gets a Native Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
Dice Tribes: Ambitions is a pretty interesting looking strategy survival game mix, where you move dice around to keep your tribe and village going.

73 of the top 100 most popular Steam games are playable on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a little while since checking how well the top 100 most played games on Steam work on Linux and the Steam Deck, so here's a fresh run over the list for you.

AOKZOE are the latest to attempt a Steam Deck rival with the AOKZOE A1

By Liam Dawe,
AOKZOE will be jumping in the handheld ring with their upcoming AOKZOE A1 AMD Ryzen 7 6800U portable that will offer either Windows 11 or SteamOS to perhaps rival the Steam Deck.