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Classic Bethesda titles come to Steam, play them easily on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
With the Bethesda Launcher shutting down, they've begun the migration to Steam and now some of their classics have become available to download easily.

Dune: Spice Wars is out in Early Access, works on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The battle for Spice has begun on the sandy planet, with Dune: Spice Wars from Shiro Games and Funcom officially out on Steam in Early Access.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 reimplementation OpenRCT2 has a new save system

By Liam Dawe,
Work that has been ongoing for some time now, OpenRCT2 the free and open source reimplementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 version 0.4.0 is out now and it's big.

GE-Proton 7.15 is out, enables Fall Guys on Linux and Steam Deck easily

By Liam Dawe,
Do you want to play Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout on Linux or Steam Deck the easy way? Well, the community-built version of Proton named GE-Proton (formerly Proton-GE) has a new version out to do just that.

Discord Overlay for Linux v0.5.1 out with notifications, other improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get an easy to use on-screen Discord Overlay for Linux and Steam Deck? Discover Overlay v0.5.1 is out now, here's what's new.

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.

Terraformers, a relaxed game about turning the Red Planet green, out now

By Philadelphus,
Released into early access on April 21, Terraformers is a game about growing and developing a network of cities on Mars, with the eventual goal of (what else) terraforming it.

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.

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.

Valve updates Portal to improve Steam Deck performance

By Liam Dawe,
Valve sure do give a lot of love to their games (okay, most, I hear the rumbling of TF2 fans in the background) and a new update has rolled out for the original Portal to help the Steam Deck.

Google detail more on how Steam on Chrome OS works with Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get more info behind the scenes on how Steam for Chrome OS works? It uses Linux but it's a little bit complicated and Google has put out the first in a series of blog posts to talk more about it.

Arx Fatalis open source engine Arx Libertatis gets fixed up for Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Arx Fatalis is an Arkane Studios classic from 2002 that was officially open sourced. This update for Arx Libertatis should hopefully make it work even better on the Steam Deck, and Linux desktops using Mesa drivers.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection broke on Linux and Steam Deck, here's a quick fix

By Liam Dawe,
With a recent update to the Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Xbox Game Studios included the needed Easy Anti-Cheat file for Linux / Steam Deck to work online but they broke it in the process for some.

A developer made a ShadowPlay-like high-performance recording tool for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Find you get too much of a performance hit using other recording tools like OBS Studio? Maybe this new tool will help.

Wine 7.6 out now with more PE conversion work, Mono updated

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 development release is out now!

Linux Mint working on a new upgrade tool for major releases

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint, the distribution that tries to set itself apart for beginners (but not only) along with their own Cinnamon desktop environment, have some plans to help users upgrade.

How to give Valve feedback when Steam Deck (Proton) games have issues

By Liam Dawe,
While this may be something Linux users are used to, players new to the Steam Deck should be aware of how to catch issues for Valve to hopefully fix up Proton.

RimWorld now includes full Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Ludeon Studios have updated RimWorld, tweaking lots of areas to improve their support of the Steam Deck.

Open source XR runtime Monado adds initial 6DoF 'inside-out' tracking support

By Liam Dawe,
It's been a little while since we heard progress on Monado, the free and open source XR (VR / AR) runtime for Linux but it has been progressing nicely with a big new feature added.

GPD are getting quite desperate against the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Think GPD are a trustworthy company to buy devices from? Well, with the Steam Deck now here, they appear desperate.
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