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Proton Experimental fixes Street Fighter 6 and disables NVAPI for Rachet & Clank

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A small update for Proton Experimental launched on August 10th for Steam Deck and desktop Linux to fix issues with two problematic games.

Fanatical has Play On The Go Summer Bundle for Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Fanatical is currently doing their own special Summer Sale with new bundle launches like the Play On The Go Bundle - Summer Edition, a free game and lots of discounts.

Celebrate QuakeCon and Quake II Remastered with this Steam Sale

By Smellbringer,
Earlier we reported about how id Software and Nightdive Studios had come together once more to remaster Quake II for a new generation and shadow dropped it at QuakeCon. Well, that was only one part of the festivities as id and Bethesda have put a bunch of their hit games on sale to celebrate QuakeCon.

Survival horror deck-builder Draft of Darkness launches August 23rd

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Blending together survival, horror, a deck builder and roguelike dungeon exploration - Draft of Darkness has a little bit of everything.

Overwatch 2 out on Steam - works fine on Steam Deck and desktop Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Overwatch 2 from Blizzard has now launched on Steam and thanks to that, it's super simple to get it working on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. Although Steam Deck players will want to change the Proton version.

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck

By Smellbringer,
id Software and Nightdive Studios are at it again with an enhanced version of Quake II, available now for all platforms and the best part is that, if you already own Quake II on Steam, it's a free update.

Auto-battling deck-building roguelike 'Hadean Tactics' adds gamepad support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Allowing you to kick-back and relax a bit more, Hadean Tactics the roguelike deckbuilding game fused with an autobattler now has gamepad support.

Papers, Please turns 10 and hits 5 million sales

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Papers, Please is a game about being an immigration officer in a fictional dystopian country named Arstotzka. It's quite a unique experience and clearly did well for the developer Lucas Pope.

Broforce Forever has launched with new characters, enemies and more

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Broforce Forever is now available as a big free upgrade for all owners, here's a little look over what's new for my favourite action-platformer.

VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to early internet fan communities - out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Inspired by Miiverse, MSN messenger, early internet forums and 00's technology VIDEOVERSE this visual novel adventure lets you relive the past internet with the fictional Kinmoku Shark gaming system and its online social network.

Proton Experimental improves Baldur's Gate 3 launcher, Unreal Engine 4 bugs on Intel GPUs

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A fresh Proton Experimental release is now live from August 9th, there's some nice looking fixes included so here's what to expect from it for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Resident Evil Village and plenty more available in this new bundle

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Might be finally time for me to play through Resident Evil Village thanks to the Resident Evil: Decades of Horror - Village Edition Bundle from Humble Bundle that's now live.

Downfall is a new 'severe' flaw in Intel CPUs, while AMD deal with INCEPTION

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Uh oh! Another rather serious security flaw has been found in Intel CPUs named Downfall, so here's a bit of info on it. Additionally, AMD are also dealing with INCEPTION.

Vagrus - The Riven Realms gets Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Vagrus - The Riven Realms is a narrative-heavy RPG that mixes in exploration, turn-based combat, resource management and more. As of the latest upgrade it's also now Steam Deck Verified.

OpenRA has a new playtest with another Red Alert mission

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The OpenRA developers are steadily working towards the next stable releasing to continue supporting Red Alert, Command & Conquer and Dune 2000 on modern platforms with full cross-platform play.

Valheim has a rather large bug-fix release in testing

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Ready for the next bigger patch for survival game Valheim? Developer Iron Gate has a new public test available with lots of fixes.

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. Here's a look over what's changed.

Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve

By Liam Squires-Hand,
After it was leaked a bit too early, Valve have now confirmed and put up all three Steam Deck models to buy refurbished direct from the Steam store.

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Taking a look at the most-played games on Steam by player-count, here's how many of them should be playable on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

One of my favourite roguelikes Jupiter Hell adds modding support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Oh hell! Time for another few runs then I think. Jupiter Hell, one of my favourite roguelikes with seriously slick movement design now has modding support.