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Railbound gets Steam Deck Verified with a new update

By Liam Dawe,
Railbound looks great, a relaxing puzzle game about fixing train connections and travelling the world and now it's Steam Deck Verified.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.13 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Over the weekend NVIDIA released a fresh small update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta driver.

Slick tactical space RPG 'Relic Space' is out in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Relic Space combines together smooth turn-based movement (think like Jupiter Hell) with tactical combat, RPG mechanics and 4X elements.

No true next-gen Steam Deck for 'a few years' Valve say

By Liam Dawe,
As expected really, Valve said they don't really expect to see a true next-gen Steam Deck for a few years yet.

The Humble Heroines Bundle is an awesome deal for Steam Deck and Linux Desktop

By Liam Dawe,
The Humble Heroines Bundle is an absolutely fantastic deal, with some great compatibility across Steam Deck and Linux Desktop with Proton. Here's what to expect from it.

Aethermancer is a new creature collector rogue-lite from the dev of Monster Sanctuary

By Liam Dawe,
Seems moi rai games are sticking to what they know, with them moving on from Monster Sanctuary (which is still being updated) to their new announcement with Aethermancer.

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.

Prepare to see a lot more of Epic Online Services, with Epic's new self-publishing

By Liam Dawe,
While the Epic Games Store doesn't support Linux or Steam Deck officially, this industry news is something we should all know about with Epic now opening up self-publishing along with some new rules for their store.

Transport Fever 2 has a big free upgrade, plus Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Transport Fever 2 is going strong since the release in 2019. They just launched a console version, and upgraded the PC release with some massive improvements too.

FOSS strategy game OpenHV gets a release two years in the making

By Liam Dawe,
Do any of you remember OpenHV? Back in 2020, it was announced as an OpenRA-based free and open source RTS, based on designs from Daniel Cook that never made it into a game planned to be called Hard Vacuum but now it's here and it has a massive upgrade.

Free and open source party game Starship Olympics hits Alpha

By Liam Dawe,
Need a fresh party game with simple controls and plenty of mini-games to play? Starship Olympics is free, open source and worth a go.

Atari's 1981 classic revamp Caverns of Mars: Recharged is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Atari teamed up with SneakyBox to revamp another classic, with Caverns of Mars: Recharged officially out now with Native Linux support.

Ship of Harkinian, a PC port of Ocarina of Time has a feature-filled upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love the classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time? Clearly a lot of people do, and the PC port Ship of Harkinian just recently had a great sounding upgrade.

Subnautica gets upgraded and now Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe,
Subnautica, the hugely popular watery open-world survival adventure has a fresh update out that notes it's now Steam Deck Verified.

Free and open source 6DOF flight racer Fly Dangerous has a huge second update

By Liam Dawe,
It's fast, it gives you six degrees of freedom (6DOF) and it's open source too! Fly Dangerous just had it's second big upgrade since entering Early Access.

Build magical colonies and manage resources with lasers in Scorchlands

By Liam Dawe,
Set in a fantasy world of magic and talking animals, Scorchlands is a peculiar city-builder now in Early Access.

Humble Choice for March has some fun picks like BIOMUTANT, Jurassic World Evolution 2

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh month and a new Humble Choice bundle has landed, here's what's inside and what compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and Linux Desktop.

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.

Vangers the open source classic from 1998 continues to be upgraded

By Liam Dawe,
Vangers is a thoroughly weird racing role-playing adventure originally released in 1998, and it's still being upgraded.

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania is a fresh content expansion for the popular rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer and it's available now.