Pick up Hell Let Loose, Thymesia and more in the Team17 Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
The Team 17: Chains of Command Humble Bundle is live with another pretty great set of games you can get for cheaps. Here's your usual expected run over compatibility across Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Check out the Steam Playtest for SWAPMEAT, a co-op body-part swapping third-person shooter

By Liam Dawe,
SWAPMEAT is an upcoming roguelite third-person shooter where you tear through alien worlds, harvesting body-parts to steal their powers.
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Valve refresh Steam's monthly top-releases charts, going all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2

By Liam Dawe,
The crazy coders at Valve had been making the monthly top lists manually this whole time, but no more. They've given their monthly top-releases charts a fresh makeover and you can scroll all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2.

Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 16th

By Liam Dawe,
Here's the fresh and up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for May 16th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection with these games coming as part of your Amazon Prime subscription.

Stellar Blade launches for PC on June 11, specifications and features revealed

By Liam Dawe,
SHIFT UP Corporation /PlayStation Publishing LLC today announced officially that Stellar Blade will be launching for PC on June 11.

Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them

By Liam Dawe,
In a future Minecraft release that's now in testing, you won't need to hunt or fish for a saddle, as it's finally going to be an item you can just craft.

Nubs! Arena is a chaotic multiplayer brawler by ex-Awesomenauts devs, free for the first 24 hours

By Liam Dawe,
Act fast if you want a brand new free game, as Nubs! Arena from ex-Awesomenauts developers has released and it's free for the first 24 hours. This is not a free trial, it's free to keep if you add it to your account within the time limit.

Shroom and Gloom is a first-person fungus-filled deck-builder with a demo you need to try

By Liam Dawe,
We're getting totally spoiled with unique deck-builders lately like Moonsigil Atlas that I really can't wait for. And now Devolver Digital announced they're publishing Shroom and Gloom with a demo up now and it's glorious.

Denuvo will lock you out of games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck if you keep changing Proton versions

By Liam Dawe,
Although for some of us this is a well-known problem, it has appeared again with the release of DOOM: The Dark Ages so it's worth a quick PSA to remind people about Denuvo activation limits with Proton on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

PartyDeck is a split-screen game launcher for Linux / SteamOS

By Liam Dawe,
Now this is some seriously cool software and I love to see it. PartyDeck is a new tool that can help you run various games in local split-screen, even if they don't actually support it.

Popular stress-testing app OCCT is coming to Steam and includes a special build for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
OCCT recently released a supported Native Linux version of their popular fully featured stress-testing application, and now they've announced it's coming to Steam as part of a wider expansion.

Frogspin is a chaotic platformer where you spin a slot machine for crazy level modifiers

By Liam Dawe,
Frogspin pulled my in by the colourful and inviting sweet visuals but reading more into it, the game sounds like it becomes pure hilarious chaos due to the slot machine modifier mechanics.

Here's a statement from Valve on the reported Steam data breach

By Liam Dawe,
There's been reports of a Steam data breach recently, and instead of jumping the gun I reached out to Valve first to see what was going on. Here's a statement from Valve.

Mesa 25.0.6 released with AMD GPU fixes for DOOM: The Dark Ages on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The open source Mesa 25.0.6 graphics drivers bug-fix release is out now, and thankfully this one comes with the updates needed to run DOOM: The Dark Ages on Linux with Proton when you have an AMD GPU.

Rogue Worlds is a free chaotic tactical roguelite platformer out now with Linux and Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Rogue Worlds is a new free chaotic tactical roguelite platformer that's a spin-off of Aura of Worlds, a paid bigger game from developer Cognitive Forge. It looks really good and can't argue with that price.

The fusion of deck-building and space-Tetris in the demo of Moonsigil Atlas has totally hooked me

By Liam Dawe,
Moonsigil Atlas has a demo out now and it's already shot right up to the top of my wishlist. The idea of fusing a Slay the Spire styled deck-builder with something sort-of Tetris-like is just incredibly slick.

Rescue Ops: Wildfire could be a good one for co-op fans where you fight raging infernos

By Liam Dawe,
Rescue Ops: Wildfire is an upcoming immersive firefighter simulation game where you (and friends, if you have any) get to attempt to put out dynamic, unpredictable mega-fires.

More Intel CPU security flaws revealed with Branch Privilege Injection

By Liam Dawe,
We only just had the reveal of Training Solo from VUSec for Intel and Arm, and now we have another security flaw in Intel CPUs with Branch Privilege Injection.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition announced with Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
GSC Game World have just announced S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition that will launch on May 20th with enhanced versions of Shadow of Chornobyl (2007), Clear Sky (2008), and Call of Prypiat (2009). They will be coming with various upgrades and Steam Deck support too.

Rift Riff is a beautifully designed tower defense game about pumping juice

By Liam Dawe,
Rift Riff is all about jumping through portals (okay Rifts, whatever) and extracting precious juice. Monsters don't like you doing that though but the juice must flow. It's out now with Native Linux support.