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Get a free copy of Hotshot Racing during the Fanatical May Madness Sale

By Liam Dawe,
Game store Fanatical are offering up a free copy of Hotshot Racing if you join their newsletter, during their big May Madness Sale.

Humble Store's Spring Sale 2023 has tons of great deals

By Liam Dawe,
Here's your next chance to pick up some absolute bargains, as Humble Store are running their Spring Sale for 2023 which is live until May 23rd.

Humble Store has a sale on Steam Deck Verified and Playable games

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one for Steam Deck fans, and everyone else also looking for some good deals, as Humble Store just recently put up a Games on the Go Sale.

Here's the top Steam Deck games for March 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now revealed their latest list of the most popular games on Steam Deck through March 2023.

Stories from the Outbreak, a zombie roguelike RPG out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Stories from the Outbreak from Coldwild Games, an indie game development company from Latvia, creators of "Merchant of the Skies", "Luna's Fishing Garden" and the "Lazy Galaxy" series hits Early Access.

Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne has a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Rain Games, developer of the Teslagrad series, World to the West and others are still working away on Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne and it finally has a new trailer.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 out now with DOOM Eternal Ray Tracing

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now promoted the recent Steam Deck OS Preview to Stable, giving all Steam Deck owners an updated graphics driver that brings Ray Tracing for DOOM Eternal.

Proton Hotfix updated for Resident Evil 4 remake, Steam Deck needs SteamOS 3.4.6 Preview

By Liam Dawe,
Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned that they've updated Proton Hotfix, which should allow the new Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Demo of the remake to run on Linux and Steam Deck.

Starfield from Bethesda launching September 6

By Liam Dawe,
While we have no idea how well it will work on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton just yet, we at least now have a date. Starfield from Bethesda is releasing September 6th.

An early March round-up of Steam Deck news

By Liam Dawe,
Do you feel like you're falling behind on all the Steam Deck news? Here's a round-up of a few things to keep you going.

Get a free copy of Figment, plus lots of other deals going on right now

By Liam Dawe,
In the mood for a free game? How about a whole bunch of cheap games on sale? Come and have a look at what's going on.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 Beta adds DOOM Eternal Ray Tracing, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has updated the Steam Deck Preview update branch to bring with it Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 Beta and it's quite an exciting one.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 27: Lost Souls

By Hamish,
I have mentioned before how I was unable to get Dave Taylor's original port of Doom to work as it was built as an outdated a.out binary rather than ELF. Since then, I stumbled on an article by Jason Heiss that describes how to load the binfmt_aout kernel module to attain a.out binary support, as well as installing packages from earlier Red Hat Linux releases to provide the necessary libraries.

Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan gets a 10x performance boost for DOOM 2016

By Liam Dawe,
A really small change to the Zink driver, that gives OpenGL support on top of Vulkan, has given an ~10x speed boost for DOOM (2016).

Pick up some sweet deals during the We Love Games Sale on GOG

By Liam Dawe,
You just love games right? Need some more? Check out the big We Love Games Sale over on GOG to continue building up that collection. GOG are also giving away the Alien Breed Trilogy.

Fanatical's Bundle Fest is back with a 25 game bundle to start

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical are back with another Bundle Fest, where each day a new game bundle will appear so here's what to expect from it.

Humble Choice for January 2023 has DOOM Eternal, a good month for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Up for a fresh set of games? The Humble Choice subscription is back for January 2023 and the highlight game for some here will likely be DOOM Eternal. Here's a run over the compatibility expected on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

AMD Ray Tracing on Linux gets closer with Mesa enabling specific games

By Liam Dawe,
The work going into the open source Mesa graphics drivers continues on, with AMD Ray Tracing picking up speed and they're going to enable Quake II RTX and Doom Eternal support by default now.

Xbox Game Studios talk more of their titles on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
For the third time, Xbox Game Studios have talked up about their games on the Steam Deck and what compatibility to expect for it.

Retro fuelled FPS 'Selaco' has easily one of the best demos I've ever played

By Liam Dawe,
Selaco, an upcoming GZDoom-based shooter from Altered Orbit Studios has been featured before and I'm bringing it back again here because of the huge upgrade to the demo. It's simply fantastic.
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