Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 23.0.0 has been released today upgrading open source graphics drivers for Linux. As usual you should wait for the first point release for stability.

Valve reveals a whole bunch of upcoming Steam Sales

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has now revealed most of their upcoming big Steam Sales and Steam Fests, here's all the details.

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps

By Liam Dawe,
Canonical has announced a change in the packaging defaults for the various "flavours" like Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie and so on to exclude Flatpak and stick with Snap.

No Man's Sky Fractal gets a VR overhaul, new Expedition, Gyro update

By Liam Dawe,
No Man's Sky has another big update out now that includes an overhaul of quite a few features like much better VR support, and a new Expedition.

New Steam Desktop and Steam Deck Beta includes various controller fixes

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh Beta update is now available for Steam Deck and Steam Desktop, pulling in some good sounding fixes for various controllers.

Valve tricks Dota 2 cheaters and then bans 40,000 of them

By Liam Dawe,
In a new post titled "Cheaters Will Never Be Welcome in Dota", Valve mentioned how they managed to get a whole lot of cheaters to show themselves and then gave them a swift boot to the buttocks.

1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one from late last year that I missed, 1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings gained a Native Linux version.

Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER new trailer and release window announced

By Liam Dawe,
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER, a cyberpunk point and click adventure from developer MidBoss, LLC. has a new trailer and it's releasing this Summer.

Steam Mystery Fest live until February 27th

By Liam Dawe,
Another good chance to discover some new games is the Steam Mystery Fest, live now until February 27th with lots of discounts.

Environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases March 28th

By Liam Dawe,
A game idea I absolutely love and the early demos were impressive, the environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases on March 28th.

Wreckfest is a smashing good time on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Got the need for speed? You should check out Wreckfest! It's a lot of fun and it works amazingly well on Steam Deck.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 26: Coming to You Live

By Hamish,
It turns out it was Knoppix 3.4 released in May 2004 that obsessed me as a child, providing me with some of my earliest steps into a larger world. Not only that, but the CD-R disc it was burned on still reads even after all of these years. Considering the volatility of such media, this surprised me.

Dead Space got a small update for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
In case you missed it in my recent Steam Deck news video, Motive released an update for the new Dead Space to improve it even more on Steam Deck.

Open source evolution game Thrive adds part upgrades and a benchmark mode

By Liam Dawe,
Benchmark the cells! Evolve all the things! Thrive 0.6.1 is a fun sounding upgrade to this free and open source scientific evolution sim.

OpenRA has another test release improving Dune 2000, Red Alert and major bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRA is closing in on another big new release to improve the experience of playing Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.

Free 2D space exploration sim Endless Sky v0.10.0 adds new factions, gets better AI

By Liam Dawe,
If you love free and open source games keep an eye on the 2D space sim Endless Sky, which just got a new Beta release with version 0.10.0 giving some fresh gameplay improvements.

Linux kernel 6.2 is out now, here's a feature highlight

By Liam Dawe,
You can have a little Linux kernel update, as a treat. The Linux kernel 6.2 is officially out now so here's some notes on some of what's new.

Minecraft 1.20 adding Archaeology, Cherry Blossom Biome and a Sniffer mob

By Liam Dawe,
There's lots to be excited for in the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 update, with many previously announced features finally landing like Archaeology.

CryoUtilities 2.0 helps boost Steam Deck performance

By Liam Dawe,
CryoUtilities has a big new 2.0 release out now, with plenty of tweaks to help you get the most out of your Steam Deck.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive keeps breaking player records

By Liam Dawe,
One Valve game that is clearly unstoppable is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, their first-person shooter from 2012 just keeps growing.