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The Jingle Jam 2022 Games Collection is live and another awesome deal

By Liam Dawe,
Help spread a little cheer this holiday season, with The Jingle Jam 2022 Games Collection live now with lots of games and you can support charity with it.

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Back in 2020 I pointed out what were the best Linux distributions for gaming, so here's the current state and what you should go for in 2023.

Mesa 22.3 open source graphics drivers released

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 22.3 is the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer for graphics drivers, and it's now available with lots of improvements.

Godot Engine 4.0 is approaching release, future plans detailed

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine 4.0 is so close now, with an overhauled and powerful Vulkan rendering system and now their developers have a new blog post up detailing some plans.

Victoria 3 is another clear hit for Paradox hitting half a million sales

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive sure know their strategy games and their audience, as Victoria 3 has already sold over half a million in the space of a month.

Valve giving away tons of Steam Decks during The Game Awards 2022

By Liam Dawe,
Want to win a Steam Deck? Valve directly are giving you quite a few chances, with a whole bunch of them being given away during The Game Awards.

Top-down PvPvE Battle Royale game Gene Shift Auto now free to play on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
After many years of development and going through multiple different names like Subvein, Mutant Factions and Gene Shift — the online mode has gone free to play as Gene Shift Auto.

Two Point Campus: Space Academy announced for December 6th

By Liam Dawe,
Two Point Campus: Space Academy is the first expansion for the popular university building sim from the makers of Two Point Hospital.

Starcom: Unknown Space arrives in December, Linux support a 'high priority'

By Liam Dawe,
Starcom: Unknown Space is entering Early Access in December from Wx3 Labs, LLC set in the same universe as their previous game Starcom: Nexus.

OpenTTD adds variable interface scaling in a fresh Beta

By Liam Dawe,
A big release of the Transport Tycoon Deluxe inspired game OpenTTD is upcoming, with a second Beta available now with some great new features like variable interface scaling.

Steam Deck hits Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan on December 17th

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and Komodo have officially announced the Steam Deck will arrive in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan on December 17th.

Portal with RTX releases on December 8th

By Liam Dawe,
Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA have announced that the Portal with RTX free DLC will be release on December 8th.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.5.0 is out with Downloads Manager, App Sideloading

By Liam Dawe,
Heroic Games Launcher v2.5.0 is out now for managing GOG and Epic Games Store, this new release has some pretty exciting features like sideloading.

OpenRGB v0.8 adds support of a ton more devices to control RGB lights on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
OpenRGB is a stellar open source project that aims to allow you to deal with all the various RGB lights your hardware comes with, as most vendors don't have apps for Linux.

Stellaris 3.6 'Orion' is a big free update to many parts of the game

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox have put out the latest free update to their grand space strategy game Stellaris, the 3.6 "Orion" update is less about new content and more about improving the game.

Return to Monkey Island gets a GOG release

By Liam Dawe,
Fans of GOG and adventure games will be happy, as the new Return to Monkey Island is now available on GOG.

Valve fixes the on-screen keyboard not showing in new Steam Deck Client Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Another update is now available for the Steam Deck with a Client Beta, fixing up some annoying issues people keep finding and reporting to Valve.

Steam Client Beta update has a few more New Big Picture Mode fixes

By Liam Dawe,
While Valve continues working towards replacing the old Big Picture Mode with the UI from the Steam Deck, a few more fixes are in the new Steam Client Beta.

NVIDIA Linux driver 525.60.11 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has today rolled out the 525.60.11 driver, following on from the 525.53 Beta earlier this month.

Half-Life: Alyx LEVITATION mod adds four hours of new story - out now

By Liam Dawe,
Half-Life: Alyx LEVITATION is an incredibly ambitious mod for Valve's amazing VR FPS and it's out now!