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dbrand made a slick 'Teardown' skin for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the days where you could buy tech with clear casing? I loved my Game Boy Pocket that had it, and now you can sort-of get there thanks to dbrand with their Teardown skin for the Steam Deck.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a quick tip for you on the Steam Deck: how to find out where all that drive space is going with a sweet program called Filelight.

Wine 7.7 is out with more PE conversion work and theme additions

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.7.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder adds gamepad support, works on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder is a rogue-like tactics army battler that I was absolutely in love with when it first entered Early Access and now on the Steam Deck I love it all over again.

Lutris now has a Flatpak Beta available and updated for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
While it's not quite ready just yet to be a one-click install, the game manager Lutris is at least now available with various improvements as a Flatpak Beta.

Rocket Bot Royale is like a Worms styled Battle Royale with jumping tanks

By Liam Dawe,
Rocket Bot Royale is a brand new release from developer Winterpixel Games that seems to be what you get if you took Worms, turned it into a Battle Royale and turned everyone into a tank.

The upcoming Steam Deck Dock got an upgrade, now called a 'Docking Station'

By Liam Dawe,
At some point, Valve quietly tweaked the specifications for the upcoming official Steam Deck Dock and it's actually better than what they said originally.

Proton 7.0-2 out now with many more games playable on Steam Deck and Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now officially released the latest version of Proton, the Steam Play compatibility tool that allows Windows games to run on the Steam Deck and Linux desktops.

Proton Experimental updated, fixes Resident Evil Revelations 2 for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve recently put up a new version of Proton Experimental, the compatibility layer that runs Windows games on Linux and the Steam Deck handheld.

2013 classic Proteus gets an update for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Proteus, a relaxing casual exploration game from Ed Key and David Kanaga (with porting by Ethan Lee) was recently upgraded for Linux and the Steam Deck due to some graphical problems.

Grab a big load of the X Universe space games from Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Want to go exploring outer space this week? Humble have you covered with The X Universe Collection Bundle.

Minecraft launcher PolyMC 1.2.0 out now supporting the Quilt loader

By Liam Dawe,
PolyMC is easily one of the best Mineraft launchers available, enabling some easy modding on Linux and Steam Deck.

Wobbly Life looks like pure silly joy and it added Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Wobbly Life, an open world physics based sandbox that looks like a lot of fun recently had a huge update and with it comes Steam Deck support.

Introversion classic Darwinia gets remastered with better Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Darwinia was originally released back in 2005, and now Introversion Software has done a massive remaster.

Game manager Lutris continues Flatpak improvements

By Liam Dawe,
While it's not quite ready yet, proper support for Flatpak is coming for Lutris which will make it work easily on the Steam Deck and a new update is out now.

Steam Deck Client Update out, plus Valve dev clarifies a tweak for Gaming Mode (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Two bits of official Steam Deck news to cover this morning, as there's a new small Steam Deck Client Update out plus we now know what special performance tweak is done in Gaming Mode compared with Desktop Mode.

Looks like the Steam Deck will get Refresh Rate Switching

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue to cook up plans for more exciting upgrades to the Steam Deck, with Refresh Rate Switching looking like it's on the way.

Steam Deck was the Steam top seller for the week ending April 17

By Liam Dawe,
Even more supporting evidence towards the Steam Deck being a nice success for Valve, with SteamDB reporting that the Steam Deck was the #1 top seller last week.

Wine manager app Bottles adds a new Library mode, vkBasalt support

By Liam Dawe,
Bottles continues to mature as a way to manage installing applications and games with the compatibility layer Wine. A fresh release is out now showing off some UI improvements and new features.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.6.1 adds support for the Heroic Launcher Flatpak

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonUp-Qt gives you an incredibly easy way to install compatibility layers on Linux like GE-Proton (formerly Proton GE), Lutris-Wine, Luxtorpeda and more.
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