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Steam broke its own record for online users once again, hitting 29 million

By Liam Dawe,
Over the weekend it seems that Steam once again managed to break some records. Where do all these new people keep coming from?

Them's Fightin' Herds developer Mane6 acquired by Maximum Games

By Liam Dawe,
The team at Mane6 will now be part of Maximum Games, as the official announcement from the Them's Fightin' Herds developer has confirmed.

Lutris game manager adds support for Origin integration

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source game manager Lutris continues expanding the stores it supports installing games from, with Origin now being added into the mix.

Valve sponsors more work to improve Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
More improvements will be coming to Linux graphics drivers, as Valve have sponsored work towards continuous integration (CI) testing.

RetroArch 1.10.0 out with Vulkan fixes, Wayland improvements, GameMode support

By Liam Dawe,
The RetroArch frontend application for emulators, game engines and media players has a new release up and there's plenty of great sounding improvements for Linux users.

The 2012 strategy game Oil Rush from Unigine is now free

By Liam Dawe,
Released all the way back in 2012, Oil Rush from Unigine is a naval strategy game and they've now decided to set it free by removing the price.

Quake II RTX 1.6.0 adds AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR)

By Liam Dawe,
Quake II RTX from Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA just recently gained another big upgrade, this time with some AMD tech thanks to community-provided code.

There's now an official Ubuntu MATE build for GPD Pocket 3

By Liam Dawe,
The GPD Pocket 3 is a fully-featured modular pocket PC and now you can happily run Linux on it with an officially released build of Ubuntu MATE.

Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has announced that developers who use Easy Anti-Cheat for their games now have a much easier setup for Proton and the upcoming Steam Deck.

Framework put up the source code for their Embedded Controller firmware

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing to put their money where their mouth is, the team at Framework are keeping things open and they've just announced the source code release for their Embedded Controller firmware.

AMD Ryzen DeskMini UM700 announced with Manjaro Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The Manjaro Linux folks have teamed up with Minisforum to bring a very small but quite mighty system with the DeskMini UM700 × Manjaro Linux.

Flathub to verify first-party apps and allow developers to collect monies

By Liam Dawe,
Flathub and Flatpak packages are the future of Linux apps, according to more people, and GNOME are continuing to invest in it. They have some big plans to improve it too.

HITMAN 3 arrives on Steam and works flawlessly on Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for the Steam Deck. IO Interactive have finally put HITMAN 3 on Steam, after the Epic exclusive period has finished and it works out of the box on Linux with Steam Play Proton.

Game devs don't seem convinced on the Steam Deck from the GDC 2022 survey

By Liam Dawe,
The annual game developer survey from GDC is out now for 2022 and it has some interesting insights as usual. That includes thoughts on the upcoming Steam Deck, with it clearly not selling everyone.

Kitsune Tails gets an all-star voice cast

By Liam Dawe,
Kitsune Tails is an upcoming LGBTQ-focused retro story platformer from Kitsune Games and MidBoss, LLC. that's due out later this year. Looks great for platformer fans and it's going to have quite the voice cast.

Steering Wheel manager Oversteer expands supported wheels in 0.7.0

By Liam Dawe,
Oversteer continues to be the best way to setup and configure Steering Wheels on Linux. Oversteer 0.7.0 is out now and expands support for more wheels.

Stellaris 3.3 Unity gets a Beta available on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive are gearing up ready for the next major update to their space strategy game Stellaris. A new opt-in Beta is available for the 3.3 Unity update.

Get a fresh up close and personal look at the Steam Deck with Hellish Quart

By Liam Dawe,
Want a really close view on the Steam Deck in action? Hellish Quart developer Kubold recently had a Steam Deck devkit delivered so they took a video.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel is out on Steam and runs well on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get into a new card game? Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel just released on Steam from Konami Digital Entertainment and the great news is that it works out of the box with Steam Play Proton Experimental on Linux.

A whole bunch of games just got Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Seems Valve has now properly started verifying games ahead of the Steam Deck launch, with a bunch of titles now verified ready to play so let's take a look.