Steam Replay is Valve's new highlight page going over a bunch of fun stats about your gaming year, something made popular by the likes of Spotify Wrapped and similar events from numerous other places.
Some of you might have noticed over December our little friendly Penguin logo gained a fancy hat to keep warm, it's that time of the year again.
A nice little bonus before the holidays, Intel have made public work on their brand new Xe driver for the future of Intel graphics on Linux.
Valve has put up their huge Winter Sale 2022 with tens of thousands of games that are discounted, plus you can now vote for the winners of the Steam Awards.
Sail Forth looks like a wonderful ocean adventure on the more chilled side of things (in a way), and if it's anything like the earlier versions I tried a while back, it would be an easy recommendation.
Chinese accessory brand JSAUX have officially put up their transparent backplate for the Steam Deck.
Here's one missed from a week ago, Valve are testing another update to the stable version of Proton with Proton 7.0-6 needing some more eyes on it for testing.
New Super Lucky's Tale appears to be one that somewhat flew under the radar. Originally released in 2020, it looks quite wonderful and after an update it became Steam Deck Verified.
X-Plane 12 from Laminar Research is a realistic and powerful flight simulator with real-world physics, accurate aircraft systems / behaviour and an immersive simulation of the world.
Pulling in tons of improvements for desktop mode, along with a healthy dose of bug fixes elsewhere, the SteamOS 3.4 update for Steam Deck has been released.
Valve has updated Proton Experimental for Steam Deck and Linux desktop with a few quick fixes so here's the usual run over what's new.
fheroes2 is a free and open source game engine reimplementation of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II, and after many development releases they've finally hit the big 1.0.
Smelling fresh and ready to invite you in, Linux Mint 21.1 is officially out now so here's what's new and improved.
A new on-rails survival rogue-lite shooter? Sign me up. Whisker Squadron: Survivor is from the same team as Race the Sun, and the first in the Whisker Squadron series. There's also a demo right now.
Well, I have to admit I am surprised that the takeover of YoYo Games (who develop GameMaker) by Opera has been largely positive with them making more moves towards open source.
Game store itch.io has their own big Winter Sale now on, where you can save big and support one of the smaller stores along with plenty of indie games.
Valve and Komodo have given an update on the shipping of the Steam Deck through Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Selaco, an upcoming GZDoom-based shooter from Altered Orbit Studios has been featured before and I'm bringing it back again here because of the huge upgrade to the demo. It's simply fantastic.
You think I'm joking? I'm not. Okay, okay. It's not a game but I'll get to that in a moment. The Steam Deck has transformed everything about gaming for me.
Another chance for you to get a free game, and perhaps take a look at some tasty discounts too with the GOG Winter Sale 2022 now giving away Broken Sword: Director's Cut.
