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DOOM: The Dark Ages gets a major performance upgrade for handhelds - now Steam Deck Verified

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id Software just released a major performance update for DOOM: The Dark Ages, making it run a whole lot better on handhelds like the Steam Deck.

BALL x PIT is out now and it's a brick-breaking ball-smashing great time

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BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun / Devolver Digital is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified plus it works to perfection on Desktop Linux PCs.

Valve add an easy way to see all the bundles a Steam game is in

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Lots of developers like to team up for their games to put them in bundles, so Valve made it easier to see all bundles for each game on Steam.

Uncle Lee’s Cookbook will bring five episodes of point and click adventuring while you save the universe

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Uncle Lee's Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster was recently announced that will bring five interesting point and click adventures to Linux / Steam Deck.

Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom

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Drama in open source land, as a major conflict has caused many developers to leave GZDoom behind to fork it into UZDoom.

Grab the new demo for Tiny Auto Knights, a pretty chill and fun looking PvP auto battler

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Tiny Auto Knights is an upcoming release from Mumpitz Games with a demo now available that now has Native Linux support for it.

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

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KDE, the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser.

Heroes of Hammerwatch II gets new content and Steam Deck improvements

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Heroes of Hammerwatch II from Crackshell / Team17 just released the first free major update to the rogue-lite action-rpg, along with improving it on Steam Deck.

NVIDIA DLSS support in progress for NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs

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This is pretty big and exciting, the open source NVK driver for NVIDIA GPUs is on a path towards getting NVIDIA DLSS support.

SpaceCraft from Shiro Games has been delayed but a playtest is coming

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SpaceCraft from Shiro Games is easily one of the most exciting looking upcoming games, but we're going to have to wait a bit longer to see it release.

Improved Steam Deck support is coming to Satisfactory

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Satisfactory recently had a fresh experimental Beta for testing, which includes improvements to how it works on Valve's Steam Deck.

Inspired by 80s and 90s trash-horror cinema, 3rd person action game HandFoot looks hilarious

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HandFoot is an upcoming chaotic 3rd person action game where every gun is also a melee weapon. Inspired by 80s and 90s trash-horror cinema it could be great.

BattleBit Remastered is surprisingly alive - a huge Operation Overhaul update test arrives in November

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Dropping the first bit of proper news on Steam since early 2024 after the release of Battlefield 6 is certainly a choice - BattleBit Remastered is still alive.

Supernatural adventure Shadows of the Afterland gets a fully voiced demo upgrade

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If you love your adventure games be sure to check out Shadows of the Afterland, with a new fully voiced demo available to try in Steam Next Fest.

That didn't last long - Blue Protocol: Star Resonance anti-cheat causing problems on Linux

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Blue Protocol: Star Resonance was just updated, as it seems the initial build did not actually have any anti-cheat enabled but now it does.

Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox releases October 28

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MicroProse and Terrible Toybox have revealed an October 28th release date for Death by Scrolling which is all about fighting, dying and trying again.

LMDE 7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) released

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LMDE 7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is out now as the latest from the Mint team based directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu.

Valve bring more essential bug fixes in the latest Steam Beta for Desktop / SteamOS and Steam Deck

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The October 13th Steam Beta comes with a number of bug fixes for annoying issues, along with a couple of feature tweaks for all platforms.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow gets a Steam release

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Quite a surprise to see, Ubisoft have revived Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow with a Steam release now available.

Hollow Knight: Silksong patch 3 (1.0.28891) brings a lot of fixes and Dualsense Edge support

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The most popular Steam Deck game over the last month continues to improve, with the third major patch now available for Hollow Knight: Silksong.