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Valve puts two Steam Deck LCD models on sale for Steam's birthday

By Liam Dawe,
It's Steam's birthday? Wow, I forgot, did you? To celebrate a little bit, Valve are giving you the chance to give them even more money by picking up a cheap Steam Deck.

Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee

By Liam Dawe,
After a complete disaster a while ago that saw many developers jump-ship, and cause a huge PR problem, Unity have now cancelled the Runtime Fee.

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor gets Denuvo DRM removed, plus performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for DRM haters. STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor has been liberated as of the latest update which also thankfully continues improving the performance too.

Wizard of Legend 2 comes to Early Access on October 3

By Liam Dawe,
The original Wizard of Legend was absolutely brilliant when it came out, fun solo and great fun in co-op with the spell combinations and great action. So I expect good things from Wizard of Legend 2.

With some really intense fights, action-adventure Veil of Shadows is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Veil of Shadows from Imponix Game Studio is out today, bringing with it an action-adventure with some gorgeous pixel-art.

Wine team now hosting Mono, looking to adopt the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

By Liam Dawe,
After the news recently that Microsoft gave the Mono Project over to the Wine team, it has now been moved over to the Wine GitLab. Plus, some changes for Wine contributors may be coming with a new Code of Conduct.

JRPG-inspired adventure with a puzzle-battle system 'Flowstone Saga' launches September 17

By Liam Dawe,
Impact Gameworks, developer of the popular and rather fantastic Tangledeep, have announced recently that their brand new game Flowstone Saga launches on September 17th.

Looking to upgrade your Steam Deck? How about some fancy metal buttons

By Liam Dawe,
Deck Buttons have released a fresh set of fancy button upgrades for your Steam Deck, this time blending together real metal and high-quality resin for a really unique look.

Hive Jump 2: Survivors is an addictive blend of Vampire Survivors and Brotato with a Jetpack

By Liam Dawe,
There may come a day where I get tired of survivor-like bullet hell shooters, but it's clearly not today. Hive Jump 2: Survivors just released and I've had a real blast with it.

Decky Loader 3.0 is out now for Steam Deck plugins on the latest Steam update

By Liam Dawe,
Many months in the making, the Decky Loader developers have released version 3.0 of their Steam Deck plugin system, which works with the big Steam Families update.

Steam Families has officially launched with a big Steam Client Update

By Liam Dawe,
Available now for Steam Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve has officially launched the new Steam Families system in a stable Steam Client Update.

Fanatical Bundle Fest brings a new Play on the Go Bundle for Steam Deck + lots more

By Liam Dawe,
Time for some more cheap games. Fanatical Bundle Fest is back again, with a new bundle of games arriving each day this week. And today there's a nice new one for Steam Deck fans.

CATO: Buttered Cat is a truly charming puzzle platformer based on the buttered-cat paradox

By Liam Dawe,
Memes, jokes and games don't always blend together well or age well in video games, but CATO: Buttered Cat does it very playfully with the right idea and it's just wonderful.

Occult library builder BOOK OF HOURS: HOUSE OF LIGHT DLC launches September 26

By Liam Dawe,
Weather Factory (who made Cultist Simulator) are set to release BOOK OF HOURS: HOUSE OF LIGHT, an expansion to their occult library restoration building RPG on September 26.

Tower of Babel: Survivors Of Chaos could by my next favourite hack-and-slash survivor-like

By Liam Dawe,
Tower of Babel: Survivors Of Chaos is coming to Steam and at least based on the very short teaser trailer, it looks like it could be one I'll sink a lot of hours into.

Horror point and click adventure Devil's Hideout is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Cosmic Void developers of Twilight Oracle, Blood Nova and The Corruption Within have released their latest point and click adventure with Devil's Hideout.

The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest are getting offline modes

By Liam Dawe,
In news that might hopefully be good for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux players with Proton, both The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest are getting offline modes.

Stellaris: Cosmic Storms and the free 3.13 'Vela' update out now

By Liam Dawe,
Developed in collaboration with Behaviour Interactive, the new Stellaris: Cosmic Storms expansion and free 3.13 'Vela' update are out now.

Steam Beta has a fix for exiting non-Steam games causing input issues

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh small Steam Beta was released, and for those of you on Steam Deck who play non-Steam games and emulators it's going to be a useful one.

Terrorformer TD is a seriously good tower defense game where you shape the battlefield

By Liam Dawe,
It's hard to pull me away from Bloons TD 6, but Terrorformer TD has managed to do it. A tower defense game where you constantly tweak the battlefield as time goes on.