RetroArch brings more emulator cores to Steam including PPSSPP
RetroArch, the free and open source application designed to help you manage emulators, media playback and more has a few additional emulator cores available now on Steam.
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Relaxing tropical adventure Fishing Paradiso announced for 2022
Fishing Paradiso is the next title from Japanese developer Odencat, who also created Bear's Restaurant, with a release planned to arrive with Linux support in early 2022.
Silly platformer metroidvania Clunky Hero is now in Early Access
Chaosmonger Studio, developer of Encodya, has released their latest with the comedic platformer metroidvania Clunky Hero with it beginning life in Early Access.
You can grab a free to keep copy of Beholder on Steam
Beholder, a very well-reviewed game about being a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country is currently available free for keeps on Steam.
Proton Experimental gets Age of Empires 4 working out of the box on Linux
Want to play Age of Empires 4 on Linux? Now you can. Another update for Proton Experimental has gone live.
System76 patches APT for Pop!_OS to prevent users breaking their systems
There's been a huge amount of talk recently about switching to Linux for gaming, thanks to the challenge from Linus Tech Tips where two of their people tried the full-switch but it didn't go so well for Linus and Pop!_OS. Now, System76 are trying to improve.
Early Access arrives soon for the fantasy competitive card battler Dragon Evo
After having a few early releases available on the web and itch.io, Dragon Evo is entering the next stage of its life as a free to play competitive card battler on Steam and itch.io in Early Access.
ChimeraOS 27 is out with touch-screen improvements for the AYA NEO
ChimeraOS (previously called GamerOS) is a Linux distribution aimed at full-screen devices and console styled couch-gaming, much in the same way that SteamOS is.
GOG's Made in Poland sale has lots of goodies going cheap again
Celebrating Polish creativity in gaming, GOG's Made in Poland sale is live and it's yet another chance to save lots of pennies on some great games.
XWayland 21.1.3 rolls out supporting NVIDIA 495.44 with the GBM API
Another big tick in the box for switching over to Wayland from Xorg, with the release of XWayland 21.1.3.
Minigalaxy, a simple and open source GOG client for Linux version 1.1 is out
After many months a fresh release of the rather good Minigalaxy is out. It's a free and open source client for GOG, helping you manage your game library from the DRM-free store.
System76 creating their own desktop environment written in Rust
Do we need another desktop environment? There's already KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon and the list goes on for a while. System76 at least seem to think another is needed, one they control.
Time to update your Raspberry Pi with the new OS based on Debian 'bullseye'
It's that time! The Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian) has done a major upgrade moving the package base from Debian buster to Debian bullseye.
Fantastic retro-FPS DUSK gets The New and Old Update for Linux
A little later than expected but DUSK now has The New and Old Update available in the native Linux version.
Paradox continue attempting to make Surviving Mars: Below and Beyond worth it
Surviving Mars: Below and Beyond released back in early September, and to say the reviews have been poor would be quite the understatement but they're continuing to try and improve it.
Valheim gets another small release fixing up crashes, a little optimization too
Ahead of another week of survival, Iron Gate has updated their popular co-op survival game Valheim with a mixture of different improvements
Splitgate expands the options available for making Custom Games more unique
1047 Games recently released a big update to Splitgate, their free to play first-person shooter with portals to enable players to make more interesting Custom Games.
Heroes of Might and Magic II recreation fheroes2 v0.9.9 further improves the original
Another great sounding releasing for the game engine reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) is available right now to play on modern systems.
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed details Steam Deck support, shows a quick video
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is another developer who will be ensuring their games works nicely with the Valve Steam Deck.
Bohemia Interactive are 'looking into' DayZ for the Steam Deck
One tough uphill battle currently facing Steam Play Proton and the Steam Deck is still anti-cheat. While there has been improvements, it's still not an ideal situation but at least one more developer is looking into it with Bohemia Interactive for DayZ.
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