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Proton Experimental fixes up Call of Duty: Black Ops III videos

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh small update to Proton Experimental has landed on March 22nd, here's what's new and changed for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.

Counter-Strike 2 from Valve releasing Summer 2023, Limited Test starts today

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has today announced Counter-Strike 2, which will be arriving in Summer 2023 and they've released some details on what's changed.

GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker

By Liam Dawe,
One thing I genuinely hated about GNOME has finally been solved with the GNOME 44 release. It includes some big improvements and new features.

Amazon Luna cloud gaming launches in Canada, Germany and the UK

By Liam Dawe,
Amazon Luna, the cloud gaming service has finally expanded into more territories. They're also no longer blocking Linux.

Warside is a pixel-art turn-based tactics game much like Advance Wars

By Liam Dawe,
Love turn-based tactics and classics like Advance Wars? You should keep an eye on Warside, as it's firmly channelling that same energy.

Colourful retro platformer Frogun Encore announced for Summer 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Frogun Encore is the follow-up to Frogun from Molegato and Top Hat Studios, Inc. that was released in 2022, giving more family-friendly retro inspired 3D platforming.

Upcoming city-builder HexLands sounds like a relaxing time

By Liam Dawe,
HexLands from Portgate Studios has been announced with a new Steam page live, taking inspiration from the likes of Islanders, Dorf Romantik and Sid Meier's Civilization.

EmulationStation Desktop Edition 2.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a great front-end open source app for managing various emulators. A big 2.0 release went up recently too!

Mask of the Rose set to release on June 8th

By Liam Dawe,
Mask of the Rose, the incredibly stylish upcoming dating sim visual novel from Sunless Skies creator Failbetter Games is set to now release on June 8th.

Big Ambitions drops Native Linux support shortly after the Steam release

By Liam Dawe,
After being in Beta for a while for pre-orders, Big Ambitions, a role-playing business sim from Hovgaard Games (who previously developed Startup Company) launched in Early Access on Steam and then dropped Native Linux support.

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.

Developer of Deadnaut: Signal Lost requests Linux testers

By Liam Dawe,
Deadnaut: Signal Lost from Screwfly Studios is an upcoming fast-paced sci-fi roguelike with a pretty unique style. The developer got in touch, as they want plenty more Linux testing.

GOG Spring Sale is live with more free games

By Liam Dawe,
GOG are doing their own Spring Sale live now, and during it they will be giving away four free games.

MiLE HiGH TAXi out now blending Crazy Taxi with The Fifth Element

By Liam Dawe,
The Fifth Element and Crazy Taxi are both classics, so one developer decided to try and combine them together into a game.

Striving for Light: Survival blends popular horde survivor games with a big skill tree

By Liam Dawe,
Do you enjoy games like Vampire Survivors, Brotato and the other horde survival games? You may want to look at Striving for Light: Survival.

Here's how to run Diablo 4 on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Diablo 4 is currently in Beta and due to launch soon, so here's how to get it working on Steam Deck. The same steps can be used to get it working on Linux desktop too.

Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack and the free 3.7 update are out now

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox have released the latest DLC for Stellaris with the First Contact Story Pack, along with a free update for all players.

Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 8.4 development release is out now for this Windows translation layer, part of what makes Steam Play Proton tick.

Canonical want help testing their Steam snap package for Ubuntu

By Liam Dawe,
Do you game on Ubuntu or one of their flavours like Kubuntu or Xubuntu? Canonical want your help in further testing of the Steam snap.

It's itch.io Creator Day where they take no cut of sales

By Liam Dawe,
The game store itch.io is having another Creator Day where they take no cut from sales. They also have a sitewide sale for the whole weekend.