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February Humble Choice includes Fallout 76, Thronebreaker, Pathfinder

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Need some more quality games? Humble Choice for February 2023 is up with a fresh set of games and there's some good stuff included like Fallout 76.

Trackmania is looking great on Steam Deck and Linux desktop

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Trackmania has released on Steam recently and thanks to the recent Ubisoft Connect fixes from Valve in Proton 7.0-6, Trackmania works great on Steam Deck.

Customizable platform fighter Fraymakers is out in Early Access

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With some really slick animations, the customizable platform fighter Fraymakers has launched in Early Access on Steam with Linux support.

Colony builder Maia gets big optimizations, along with controller and Steam Deck support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
A name I've not heard for a while that I seemed to miss some emails on recently. Colony building sim Maia, from developer Simon Roth, had a rather big upgrade.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine adds Linux support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Force Engine is a free and open source game engine reimplementation for Star Wars Dark Forces, with upcoming support of Outlaws. The latest release version 1.08 adds Linux support!

Space looter-shooter EVERSPACE 2 set to launch on April 6

By Liam Squires-Hand,
EVERSPACE 2 from ROCKFISH Games is ready to properly blast off on April 6th and it's looking mighty fine.

Steam Next Fest - February 2023 edition brings lots of demos

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Running until February 13th, you've again got a while to cram in trying out as many demos as possible in Steam Next Fest - February 2023 edition.

Steam and Steam Deck Beta fixes pages not rendering, plus GE-Proton 7-49 out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Valve put out another small Beta update for Steam Desktop and Steam Deck that fixes some more annoying bugs.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 24: Mother Knows Best

By Hamish,
My mother's favourite game on Linux is without a doubt Frozen Bubble. It is a casual game in all of the best ways; one you can dive into and learn at your own pace thanks to its simple but repeatable formula. Consider this to be a snapshot in time back to 2002, from right before the game was to take the world by storm.

Get some laid-back life sims and builders in this latest game bundle

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The Sim-ple Life Bundle from Humble Bundle is another that has a few good looking indie gems you might want to relax with.

Superhero strategy game Capes now being published by Daedalic Entertainment

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Daedalic Entertainment have now teamed up with Spitfire Interactive to help their work on the superhero strategy game Capes.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 supports extension to help VKD3D-Proton DXR

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Seems like a future update of VKD3D-Proton that translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for Proton, for Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck, will make use of a newer extension available in the new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 release.

Gorgeous puzzler Bonfire Peaks getting a 3-part DLC starting March 2nd

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Easily one of the best puzzle games to release back in 2021 and frankly it's criminally overlooked, is set to get a whole lot bigger with the Lost Memories 3-part DLC.

Zero Wing, Twin Cobra and other Toaplan classics get upgraded for PC

By Liam Squires-Hand,
All your base are belong to us. Toaplan are having some absolute classics revived including Zero Wing, Out Zone, Twin Cobra and Truxton with a PC release and enhancements. Oh, and Native Linux support to ensure they're great on Steam Deck too.

Superfluous Returnz is an unnecessary video game of a useless superhero

By Liam Squires-Hand,
French comedy point and click adventure Superfluous Returnz is all about a useless superhero and it's releasing on May 15th.

touchHLE is a new emulator for iPhone OS apps

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want a way to emulate old Apple iOS apps and games? Well, touchHLE just had its first release to prevent some more things being lost to time.

Open source Transport Tycoon Deluxe remake OpenTTD v13.0 is out now

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another classic free and open source game continues getting better, with the Transport Tycoon Deluxe remake OpenTTD version 13.0 out now.

Proton 7.0-6 out now fixing EA App, Ubisoft Connect and games on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
More weekend goodies from Valve have arrived! Proton 7.0-6 is officially out now, fixing up many bugs like with the EA App and Ubisoft Connect.

Handshakes is a free sokoban puzzler about two hands meeting

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Sometimes a good firm handshake is what's needed and someone decided to turn that idea into a free puzzle game with Handshakes.

Prison Architect: Jungle Pack releases soon with another free update

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Paradox continue the DLC train here with Prison Architect: Jungle Pack announced for release on February 7th along with a free update for all players.