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Nearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for June 2023, and it shows just how much the Linux share is now influenced by the Steam Deck.

Fanatical's latest Trinity Bundle has some quality indie hits

By Liam Dawe,
You somehow need even MORE games? Okay well here's the newest Fanatical Trinity Bundle with some indie gems.

Evolution sim Thrive v0.6.3 gives a glimpse of the future

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and scientific! Thrive is an in-development evolution sim, with a new release out now adding in some more big prototypes for later-life stages.

BattleBit Remastered is good fun but anti-cheat for Steam Deck & Linux is concerning

By Liam Dawe,
BattleBit Remastered is the current game climbing the ranks on Steam, made by a tiny team of only 3 people it has regularly seen tens of thousands of players. It works on Steam Deck and desktop Linux but the anti-cheat may turn into a big problem.

Multiplayer voxel RPG 'Veloren' v0.15 is out adding the first world boss

By Liam Dawe,
Free, open source and continuing to expand! Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG inspired by Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft. Version 0.15 is out now and sounds fun.

GE-Proton 8-6 is out now fixing up more games for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton has another release available (two actually) so here's a run over what's new for this community-maintained translation layer.

Reminder: Update your PC info for our statistics page

By gamingonlinux,
This is the public once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated around the start of each month. Also a good reminder of our stats system for people who don't know about it.

Here's the top Steam Deck games for June 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Another month down and Valve has announced what's been popular over the last month, so let's take a look at the top Steam Deck list for June 2023.

The final free game in the GOG Summer Sale 2023 is Beholder 2

By Liam Dawe,
One final free game is here for you during the GOG Summer Sale 2023! You can now get Beholder 2 from Warm Lamp Games and Alawar Premium.

Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
With the Steam Summer Sale 2023 now in full swing, and with a big discount on the Steam Deck, it has risen back up the Steam charts.

Part 4 of the Wine work for Wayland is now merged

By Liam Dawe,
The fourth part of an ongoing series of submission to Wine to get full Wayland support has been merged in.

Valve appear to be banning games with AI art on Steam (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
Here's an interesting one on Steam publishing for you. Valve appear to be clamping down on AI art used in games due to the murky legal waters. UPDATE: Valve gave a statement.

AMD RADV gets feature to help emulation and translation layers

By Liam Dawe,
Some fun news for AMD GPU owners with the open source RADV (Vulkan) Mesa driver, as it recently gained support for fragment shader interlock. This will be useful for emulation and translation layers.

Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live with the Steam Deck up to 20% off

By Liam Dawe,
Today the Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live once again, where a great many developers put up big discounts for their games. You know the drill right? Your wallet is already hiding from you.

System76 reveal the 'Nebula' a new PC case for everyone

By Liam Dawe,
After building up their in-house manufacturing capabilities with their custom Thelio desktop and their Launch keyboards, System76 are now expanding into PC cases for everyone.

The SHARGE Disk could be a useful Steam Deck storage sidekick

By Liam Dawe,
I'm currently keeping an eye on the SHARGE Disk, a really small M.2 NVMe SSD enclosure that can plug directly into the Steam Deck (and many other devices).

Cassette Beasts adds new monsters, plus multiplayer and DLC coming

By Liam Dawe,
Cassette Beasts is easily one of the best releases this year, and possibly one of the best creature / monster collecting games in modern times too. It's also about to get bigger!

ckb-next for configuring Corsair keyboards and mice v0.6 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Do you own a Corsair keyboard or mouse? Well you should take a look at ckb-next, which just had a new release bringing support for even more new hardware.

Dwarf Fortress getting close to a Linux release on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Dwarf Fortress from Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games just had a big tech upgrade, and it sounds like their Native Linux release is coming quite soon.

A round-up of recent Steam Deck news for you

By Liam Dawe,
Have little time? Always on the go? Need a refresher of recent Steam Deck news? Got you covered here, come get your little fix.