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The big Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution is out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Portal: Revolution is a new fan-made campaign for Valve's popular puzzle game Portal 2, and it's now available free on Steam for owners of the game to install and play through.

Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM finally hits Beta

By Liam Dawe,
You'll be forgiven for forgetting about the supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM, a game that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter way back in February of 2013 but it's really actually getting close to release now.

Ocean adventure game Sail Forth goes fully open-world, plus an expansion is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Ocean adventure game Sail Forth from Festive Vector and The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild released back in December 2022, and it just got a big free upgrade with more to come.

Festive Co-Op Games

By scaine,
Hopefully, like me, you’ll have booked a bit of time off around the festive period. And coincidentally, Valve’s Winter Steam Sale kicked off just a couple of days before Christmas. Since so many of us and our friends are off, this marks the perfect time of year to dip your toe into the wonderful world of co-operative games.

Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season

By Liam Dawe,
Need some fresh games for the holiday season? Got you covered here with some more games that have recently become fully Steam Deck Verified so you can click play and enjoy.

You can finally hide your naughty games on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a Steam Beta update to bring in some tweaks to the shopping cart, and finally allowing you to properly set certain games as private so no one can snoop on your gaming habits.

Vibrant fantasy retro magical FPS 'Wizordum' is a joy to blast through

By Liam Dawe,
Wizordum is a new retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. If you adored early first-person shooters, you're going to really enjoy this one.

Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting is the latest DLC available for the popular bullet-heaven horde survival game thingy from poncle and it's a lot of fun.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 37: Dashing Through the Snow

By Hamish,
A common refrain has always been that if developers would just provide access to their source code, then the Linux community would be happy to step in and do the heavy lifting for them; and when Slingshot Game Technology decided to call our bluff and released Soul Ride under the GNU General Public License in 2003, the Linux community did indeed rise to the challenge.

Escape Simulator gets a free Among Us DLC out now

By Liam Dawe,
Pine Studio are doing some great stuff with Escape Simulator. Not only did it get a Portal themed DLC earlier this year, it just got a free Among Us DLC out now.

Valve upgrades the Steam Workshop, plus various Steam Deck improvements in new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Desktop and Steam Deck have a fresh Beta release out that overhauls some parts of the Steam Workshop. Plus there's some fixes for Linux and Steam Deck too.

Open source evolution sim Thrive has a new physics engine and big performance upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Thrive is an in-development Early Access open source evolution sim, much like life itself it continues to evolve and a new release version 0.6.4 brings changes to ensure the foundation is solid.

The Garden Path, a quiet life sim about the joy of gardening releases Spring 2024

By Liam Dawe,
The Garden Path was originally due to release earlier this year, but the developer pushed it back to continue improving it and now you can again grab an early copy with a new full release window revealed.

Voxel Doom II gets updated with Parallax Textures

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing the day of DOOM announcements following the release of SIGIL II, we also have a big update to Voxel Doom II.

You absolutely need to try Mechabellum during the Steam Free Weekend

By Liam Dawe,
Mechabellum has sucked away more of my time than I would care to admit right now, and you too can see what all the fuss is about during the Steam Free Weekend.

Minetest 5.8.0 is out now with improved settings, Minetest Game no longer default

By Liam Dawe,
Minetest, the popular free and open source voxel game engine, one that can be used to play various different games (like a Minecraft clone) just released version 5.8.0.

A favourite and top Steam Deck game Brotato is expanding with new content

By Liam Dawe,
Brotato is a great game, absolutely one of my favourites, it's also one of the most played Steam Deck games and the good news is that it's set to expand!

Cyberpunk 2077 gets another big upgrade with a Metro System, new Accessibility options

By Liam Dawe,
One of the most popular single-player games on Steam, Cyberpunk 2077 has received another big free update for all players.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.8 now in Preview

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh SteamOS update into Preview for Steam Deck, with SteamOS 3.5.8 out now fixing up various problems since the big 3.5 update.

So what the heck is an 'indie game' nowadays anyway?

By Liam Dawe,
You'll have to forgive me, dear readers, because I am a little confused on what's going on at the moment. What the heck actually is an indie or independent game nowadays?
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