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Starship Troopers: Terran Command on Steam Deck and Linux — a quick guide

By Liam Dawe,
Starship Troopers: Terran Command just released from The Artistocrats and Slitherine Ltd. but getting it on running on Linux desktop or Steam Deck requires a few steps.

Dudes! Beat 'em up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to get punched with nostalgia and eat some pizza? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is officially out now along with Native Linux support and it's looking good on desktop and a Steam Deck too.

MATCHO is a unique first-person shooter with match-3 mechanics

By Liam Dawe,
First-person shooting and match-3 together? MATCHO sure does sound strange but it also looks like it could be tons of fun and it's coming to Linux.

The Frogs will take you through a humorous renaissance artwork adventure

By Liam Dawe,
Making use of public domain renaissance artwork, The Frogs is an upcoming comedy point and click adventure. A demo is available and now they're on Kickstarter.

Total War: WARHAMMER III released for Linux with a port from Feral

By Liam Dawe,
Total War: WARHAMMER III is the latest Native Linux game to officially land, with Feral Interactive once again delivering.

The last ever game from Zachtronics releases July 5th

By Liam Dawe,
No doubt plenty of puzzle fans will be sad, as Zachtronics will be hanging up their development hat and moving on after the release of Last Call BBS.

LightSpeed Studios (Tencent) joins the Open 3D Foundation

By Liam Dawe,
LightSpeed Studios, owned by Tencent, has joined up with the Open 3D Foundation who oversee the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).

Heroic Games Launcher has a bug fix release AND a huge new overhaul Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Two goodies for fans of the open source Heroic Games Launcher today. Those sticking with the stable release get some fixes, and those who want some fun can try out a huge new Beta.

Build cities on the back of a giant animal in The Wandering Village — coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Wandering Village, a city-builder set on the back of a giant animal is now confirmed to be having Native Linux support at the Early Access release.

Wilderness survival sandbox Vintage Story has a massive upgrade out now

By Liam Dawe,
A game I really haven't spent enough time with because it's great, Vintage Story is a blocky survival game that's thoroughly challenging and a huge upgrade is out now.

Mixing action-adventure and tower defense, Dwerve is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Dwerve is a bit of an odd one, blending together elements of a dungeon-crawling action adventure with tower defense and it's out now.

BeamNG.drive gets experimental Native Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
With the new 0.25 release of BeamNG.drive, the developers have now put up an experimental Native Linux version for you to try and give feedback.

Check out Striving for Light if you love endless character-building skill trees

By Liam Dawe,
Striving for Light is a new Native Linux release from Igniting Spark Games, one to check out for ARPG fans who love building up crazy characters.

Wine manager Bottles gets a bit of a makeover

By Liam Dawe,
Bottles, the fantastic and fast-moving free and open source application for managing the Wine compatibility layer has a new release out with a new code-name and a refreshed look.

Proton 7.0-3 is out further improving compatibility on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Proton 7.0-3 is the latest stable version of the compatibility layer, that allows you to run Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux and it's out now. Here's what's new.

Proton Experimental updated for June 14th, more video playback and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Another smaller update is now available for Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton that has all the latest fixes first for you to try.

KDE Plasma 5.25 is out now, here's some of what's new

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to get the latest and greatest from the KDE team? The awesome Plasma 5.25 release is officially out now.

Turbo Golf Racing could be the next multiplayer hit

By Liam Dawe,
With a demo currently available in Steam Next Fest, the racer game Turbo Golf Racing is one to watch.

Monster collecting game Cassette Beasts shows off the powerful fusion system

By Liam Dawe,
Cassette Beasts is an incredibly exciting looking upcoming monster collecting game, one that will offer a rather unique take on the genre and a new trailer is up showcasing the fusion system.

20 Minutes Till Dawn is like Vampire Survivors with guns — goodbye free time

By Liam Dawe,
20 Minutes Till Dawn is what you get when you take the basic action-survival idea that Vampire Survivors made popular again, makes it really dark and puts a gun in your hand.