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Plane-crash island survival game Stranded Deep gets online multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
Being alone on a desert island after a plane crash? No thanks. Bringing along a friend? Yes please. Stranded Deep now has online multiplayer for two people.

'Deckard' is apparently the codename for a possible standalone Valve VR headset

By Liam Dawe,
Back in June we reported on a patent from Valve that indicated work progressing towards their next VR headset and it appears the codename is Deckard.

New Steam Client Beta adjusts the Vulkan pre-caching system and PipeWire for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Another day another Steam Client Beta release and this time Valve has done some adjustments to the Vulkan pre-caching system for Linux.

Night School Studio creator of Oxenfree joins Netflix

By Liam Dawe,
Netflix announced recently their plan to get into gaming and the first set are mobile-focused games but it won't be long until it's bigger and now Night School Studio creator of Oxenfree has been acquired by Netflix.

Free and open source racer SuperTuxKart 1.3 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
SuperTuxKart, one of the golden oldies when it comes to free and open source gaming has a new release out with SuperTuxKart 1.3 improving lots.

16-bit inspired explosive action-platformer Steel Assault is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to run gun and explode some pixels? Zenovia Interactive and publisher Tribute Games have launched Steel Assault, a fresh retro inspired 16-bit 2D action platformer.

OBS Studio 27.1 is out with YouTube integration and lots of improvements

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio is the free and open source recording and livestreaming app used by many content creators and a big new release is now available with YouTube integration.

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 developer responds on Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux with Proton

By Liam Dawe,
One developer that has actually properly released a statement on updating Easy Anti-Cheat to support Linux and Proton for the Steam Deck is Fatshark for Warhammer: Vermintide 2.

Splitgate update out adding mantling, optimizations, a Quick Play option and more

By Liam Dawe,
Splitgate is the popular and free to play first-person shooter with portals from 1047 Games and a fresh upgrade is out to hopefully make the experience even better.

Wobbly party game A Gummy's Life gets cross-play, new maps and more

By Liam Dawe,
A Gummy's Life might not be as well known as say Gang Beasts but it's a great wobbly-physics party game that really is a lot of fun to play and it just got a lot bigger.

Cute puzzle-solving adventure that mixes in a life sim Lonesome Village delayed until 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Lonesome Village is an upcoming puzzle-solving adventure that also blends in a few life sim features from developer Ogre Pixel has been delayed until 2022.

The absolutely ace deck-builder Dicey Dungeons is now on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
If you prefer GOG to buy your games from you can now pick up the absolute gem that is Dicey Dungeons.

Humble has some co-op treats in the Dream Teams Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Need more games to start your week? Humble recently put up the Dream Teams Bundle and all the games should work reasonably well on Linux too.

Looks like Valve sent out quite a lot of Steam Deck developer kits

By Liam Dawe,
You probably heard recently that Valve was readying up Steam Deck developer kits and now we can see that quite a lot of developers have received one.

Card-collecting action RPG with tile-based combat Hero.EXE plans Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Blending together what seems like quite a few genres Hero.EXE caught my attention recently from Mystery Egg Games and publisher Top Hat.

MultiMC, the open source Minecraft launcher adds Microsoft account support

By Liam Dawe,
With Minecraft gradually being moved over from Mojang to Minecraft accounts, the open source MultiMC launcher has a new release out adding Microsoft account support.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Trouble is brewing over on GOG due to the HITMAN release needing online for some features

By Liam Dawe,
GOG.com, the store that prides itself on offering "DRM FREE" builds of games has recently released Hitman - Game of The Year Edition from IO Interactive and GOG fans are not happy.

Wine 6.18 is out now with HID joystick enabled by default

By Liam Dawe,
The latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux is out now with Wine 6.18.

BattlEye confirms Linux support for Steam Deck, will be opt-in like Easy Anti-Cheat

By Liam Dawe,
Just recently we had Epic Games announce that Easy Anti-Cheat now offers proper native Linux support and in addition support for Wine and Steam Play Proton - now we have BattlEye also confirming the same readying up for the Steam Deck.