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Valve gives the Discovery Queue a makeover to help you find your next game

By Liam Dawe,
The Discovery Queue is a feature that many people probably miss or just don't use. I use it from time to time but it was a little basic. Valve has put live the next Steam Labs experiment to overhaul Discovery Queue.

Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game arrives for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Veil of Dust: A Homesteading Game is a story-driven historically-grounded homesteading game about finding your way after loss inspired by games like Don't Starve and Stardew Valley with a healthy sprinkle of fantasy elements too.

Season of Pride 2022 Steam Event is live now

By Liam Dawe,
Season of Pride is going live for 2022, with the event and sale hosted by MidBoss. Not only is there a big Steam sale along with upcoming games features but there will also be a ton of livestreams.

Among Us modding on Steam Deck is quite easy here's a quick guide

By Liam Dawe,
Among Us works quite nicely on the Steam Deck but what about if you want to get some mods going? It's actually surprisingly easy to do so here's how to do it.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands out on Steam, appears to work well on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands from Gearbox has now launched on Steam with its Epic Exclusive period now over and it's looking pretty good on Steam Deck and Linux desktops.

Inspired by Hollow Knight the grim fantasy game Crowsworn has a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Crowsworn is an upcoming grim fantasy action-platformer metroidvania inspired by the likes of Hollow Knight, Bloodborne, and Devil May Cry. It's been in development for a while and a fresh trailer has arrived.

TUXEDO announce the Pulse 15 second-gen laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U 35W

By Liam Dawe,
The second-generation TUXEDO Pulse 15 is up for pre-order with shipping expected in late July, which comes with the powerful AMD Ryzen 7 5700U that TUXEDO have pushed up to 35w.

Half-Life 2 mod FIREFIGHT RELOADED gets a Native Linux version

By Liam Dawe,
FIREFIGHT RELOADED is a Half-Life 2 mod that gives you fast-paced horde-mode FPS gameplay with a ton of customizations and features inspired by other Source Engine mods.

Stray is the most wishlisted Steam game and it's Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Ahead of the release of Stray on July 19th, Stray has become the most wishlisted game on Steam and it has been fully Steam Deck Verified.

Point and lick adventure Nine Noir Lives releases September 7

By Liam Dawe,
Cat lovers and adventure game aficionados alike may want to keep an eye on this one, as the point and lick (get it?) game Nine Noir Lives releases September 7 along with Native Linux support.

ARK: Survival Evolved switches away from Linux Native to use Proton

By Liam Dawe,
You wouldn't know this looking at the Steam page for ARK: Survival Evolved but Studio Wildcard have now put their Native Linux version behind a Beta on Steam as they now prefer Linux users to play with the Proton compatibility layer.

The Humble 'Play with Pride' bundle has a few nice looking gems available

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one I somehow completely missed from last week. Humble Bundle has a Play with Pride bundle available with another set of great looking games.

LEGO: At the Movies Bundle has some great picks for you

By Liam Dawe,
Love your LEGO games? There's plenty of them available in the LEGO: At the Movies Bundle from Humble Bundle and plenty will work fine on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Dicey Dungeons 'Reunion' is a huge free update out now

By Liam Dawe,
Dicey Dungeons Reunion is a big free update for the brilliant dice-rolling dungeon crawler and it's out now.

Team Fortress 2 gets a big update with Valve back in action

By Liam Dawe,
Looks like Valve are really back in action on updating Team Fortress 2, with a fresh update out now and it's quite big compared to previous patches. Here's what's new.

Void Scrappers is an upcoming space horde shooter inspired by Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe,
Vampire Survivors has basically reignited the horde shooter genre now right? Developer 8BitSkull (Fates of Ort) has announced their next game with Void Scrappers.

Steam Deck Beta gets scaling for external displays, new "Preview" testing branch

By Liam Dawe,
Lots of goodies have arrived in a fresh Steam Deck Client Beta, along with a small update to SteamOS 3.3 Beta too.

Proton Experimental fixes up Disgaea 5, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released another fresh update to Proton Experimental, the opt-in version of Proton you can try that often pulls in new features and fixes. This new update landed on July 7th.

Expansive open world country-life sim The Ranchers gets funded in less than a day

By Liam Dawe,
The Ranchers from French developer RedPilz Studio is a very promising looking open world country-life sim, which will be coming with Native Linux support and optimized for the Steam Deck.

Slimbook ready up their AMD Ryzen 5700U powered KDE Slimbook 4 laptop

By Liam Dawe,
In the market for some new hardware? Hardware vendor Slimbook has announced the KDE Slimbook 4 with a powerful new AMD Ryzen processor.