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Steam Next Fest - February 2023 edition brings lots of demos

By Liam Dawe,
Running until February 13th, you've again got a while to cram in trying out as many demos as possible in Steam Next Fest - February 2023 edition.

Steam and Steam Deck Beta fixes pages not rendering, plus GE-Proton 7-49 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put out another small Beta update for Steam Desktop and Steam Deck that fixes some more annoying bugs.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 24: Mother Knows Best

By Hamish,
My mother's favourite game on Linux is without a doubt Frozen Bubble. It is a casual game in all of the best ways; one you can dive into and learn at your own pace thanks to its simple but repeatable formula. Consider this to be a snapshot in time back to 2002, from right before the game was to take the world by storm.

Get some laid-back life sims and builders in this latest game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
The Sim-ple Life Bundle from Humble Bundle is another that has a few good looking indie gems you might want to relax with.

Superhero strategy game Capes now being published by Daedalic Entertainment

By Liam Dawe,
Daedalic Entertainment have now teamed up with Spitfire Interactive to help their work on the superhero strategy game Capes.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 supports extension to help VKD3D-Proton DXR

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like a future update of VKD3D-Proton that translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for Proton, for Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck, will make use of a newer extension available in the new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 525.47.07 release.

Gorgeous puzzler Bonfire Peaks getting a 3-part DLC starting March 2nd

By Liam Dawe,
Easily one of the best puzzle games to release back in 2021 and frankly it's criminally overlooked, is set to get a whole lot bigger with the Lost Memories 3-part DLC.

Zero Wing, Twin Cobra and other Toaplan classics get upgraded for PC

By Liam Dawe,
All your base are belong to us. Toaplan are having some absolute classics revived including Zero Wing, Out Zone, Twin Cobra and Truxton with a PC release and enhancements. Oh, and Native Linux support to ensure they're great on Steam Deck too.

Superfluous Returnz is an unnecessary video game of a useless superhero

By Liam Dawe,
French comedy point and click adventure Superfluous Returnz is all about a useless superhero and it's releasing on May 15th.

touchHLE is a new emulator for iPhone OS apps

By Liam Dawe,
Want a way to emulate old Apple iOS apps and games? Well, touchHLE just had its first release to prevent some more things being lost to time.

Open source Transport Tycoon Deluxe remake OpenTTD v13.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Another classic free and open source game continues getting better, with the Transport Tycoon Deluxe remake OpenTTD version 13.0 out now.

Proton 7.0-6 out now fixing EA App, Ubisoft Connect and games on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
More weekend goodies from Valve have arrived! Proton 7.0-6 is officially out now, fixing up many bugs like with the EA App and Ubisoft Connect.

Handshakes is a free sokoban puzzler about two hands meeting

By Liam Dawe,
Sometimes a good firm handshake is what's needed and someone decided to turn that idea into a free puzzle game with Handshakes.

Prison Architect: Jungle Pack releases soon with another free update

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox continue the DLC train here with Prison Architect: Jungle Pack announced for release on February 7th along with a free update for all players.

Inspired by the classic SimTower, build up high with Property Pro

By Liam Dawe,
Property Pro is an upcoming game from SimDevs, with an aim to capture the classic feel of SimTower from the 90s.

Going to live my dream of Fifth Element flying cars in MiLE HiGH TAXi

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the classic sci-fi movie Fifth Element? I sure do and I only watched it again recently, where memories came flowing back of how I used to want those flying cars. Well, one game developer clearly loved it too and they're soon releasing MiLE HiGH TAXi.

Wine 8.1 released starting another year of Windows to Linux translation work

By Liam Dawe,
The Wine 8.1 development release is now available, starting off another year of new features landing usually bi-weekly for the Windows translation layer used in Proton.

OBS Studio 29.0.1 rolls out with many bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio 29.0.1 is out now and a worthwhile upgrade for any of you doing video content on Linux, as it fixes many problems from the previous release.

Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok is a Norse inspired horde survival rogue-lite

By Liam Dawe,
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok is yet another survivor game in the spirit of Vampire Survivors, except this has a Nordic theme to it and it's now on Steam with Native Linux support. It's also Steam Deck Verified.

Sports management / visual novel mash-up Roller Drama is out now

By Liam Dawe,
I don't play many visual novels (mostly a whole zero) but I do love when games sprinkle it in with other things like the sports management game Roller Drama.