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Game store itch.io has their own big Winter Sale now on, where you can save big and support one of the smaller stores along with plenty of indie games.

Klei continuing to do great work here to expand the excellent Oxygen Not Included, along with a fancy new animated short that I always enjoy from them.

The Verge managed to speak to a couple of developers at Valve on the Steam Deck, and while most of it was already known there's a couple of interesting bits to pick out.

What an absolutely exceptional first year Valve had with the Steam Deck, and it continues to be my main way to play games now.

Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have launched a new mini-expansion with Cities: Skylines - Financial Districts, along with another free update for all players.

In the latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop released December 13th, Valve has now fixed the New Big Picture Mode not working for those with NVIDIA GPUs along with plenty of other fixes.

Three different bits of news to cover for Steam Deck updates today, as Valve pushed out three different upgrades. Here's all that's new.

Thrive just continues to impress. It's a free and open source evolution sim built with Godot Engine and version 0.6 is out now with big new helpful features.

I am rarely this enthusiastic about games, especially retro-styled games because so many miss the mark in numerous ways but thankfully Chained Echoes is just brilliant.

Naev is a reasonably well known free and open source 2D space sim, one that's about to get a whole lot bigger with the v0.10 release now in Beta (specifically, it's on its second Beta).

Another year is coming to a close and so the team behind Wine, the Windows compatibility layer, are readying up for another major stable release with version 8.0.

The Game Awards 2022 is over and there was a surprising amount of big new announcements, so here's a little run over some of what's coming.

Dwarf Fortress has now finally arrived on Steam, with all the shiny new bits including the new graphical tiles and audio included in Early Access. The good news is that even though it doesn't have Native Linux support yet, it does work on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton.

Not only has Team Fortress 2 been updated but it seems like quite a huge one thanks to the addition of VScript, and you can now run Linux inside it. That's right, TF2 came to Linux back in 2013 and now TF2 itself can run Linux. What a time to be alive.

After many years of development and going through multiple different names like Subvein, Mutant Factions and Gene Shift — the online mode has gone free to play as Gene Shift Auto.

Lumencraft is a really interesting game that blends together elements of tower-defense, base-building, mining and a little Deep Rock Galactic in a top-down view. A big new release is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified with Native Linux support.

Proton Next has been announced by Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter, as an easier way to check out and test the upcoming stable releases of new Proton versions for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

I just finished watching all of Black Sails (which was fantastic) and was in the mood for some pirating fun, so the Early Access release of Arcane Waters makes for good timing.

TailQuest Defense looks like one to pop on your wishlist. After 5 years in development from a two-person team in Godot Engine, a demo is up now.

APICO is a wonderful little gem about keeping the bees safe, and they just launched a massive 2.0 update with more planned to come.