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Adventure game Nine Noir Lives seems to let you lick everything

By Liam Dawe,
Nine Noir Lives is an upcoming point and click adventure game that follows feline private investigator Cuddles Nutterbutter. A new brief trailer is out, showing off a very important game mechanic.

Steam Deck gets a performance fix available in Preview

By Liam Dawe,
After the recent SteamOS 3.3 release, it came with some unfortunate performance issues for the Steam Deck that Valve continues to address.

Steam Deck hits 4,500 games officially Verified or Playable

By Liam Dawe,
After only being available for a few months now officially and with Valve still going through the reservation queue, the Steam Deck has hit 4,500 titles officially marked Verified or Playable.

The Final Frontier Bundle has some fun space sci-fi available

By Liam Dawe,
Once again Humble Bundle have something that's quite interesting with a nice mixture of sci-fi stuff in the Final Frontier Bundle.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder releases September 15 (updated)

By Liam Dawe,
After currently being in Early Access for around 10 months, Despot’s Game: Dystopian Army Builder is set to fully release for all platforms on September 15. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Sandbox voxel game and game engine Minetest 5.6.0 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Want to play something somewhat resembling Minecraft with excellent modding support, that's also free and open source? Minetest is what you need and a big new release is out now.

Linux Mint 21 is out now and you can easily upgrade

By Liam Dawe,
In case you didn't already know Linux Mint 21 is officially out now with editions that come with the Cinnamon, MATE or Xfce desktop environments.

Proton Experimental gets Halo Infinite working plus Airborne Kingdom

By Liam Dawe,
Hot on the heels of Proton 7.0-4 getting a Release Candidate, Valve has put up a new build of Proton Experimental and it's quite an exciting one. This is the special version of Proton you can try, that often pulls in new features and fixes earlier to get more Windows games working on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Proton 7.0-4 is coming to bring more compatibility to Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are preparing to ship the next version of Proton, their compatibility layer that runs Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux desktop with Proton 7.0-4 having a Release Candidate ready to test.

Top quick Steam Deck tips and tricks

By Liam Dawe,
Since Valve are ramping up production and a ton more people than expected will get their Steam Deck this year, plus the expansion into Asia, it was a good time to get some basic quick tips and tricks sorted for you.

Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets Save States support

By Liam Dawe,
A huge advancement for the PlayStation 3 emulator project RPCS3 as it now has support for Save States, which is pretty awesome.

Valve spoke to IGN Japan about the Steam Deck, here's a few takeaway points

By Liam Dawe,
As Valve expands the Steam Deck into Asia, they've begun a series of interviews and one on video with IGN Japan was quite interesting so here's the main points.

Steam adds support for Nintendo Joy-Con controllers in Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Steam is ever-improving and constantly expanding what is supported by Steam Input. Just recently they added a new Steam Client Beta with support for the Nintendo Joy-Con controllers.

Crypt of the Necrodancer: SYNCHRONY DLC released into Early Access

By anewson,
A pleasant surprise for Crypt of the Necrodancer fans! SYNCHRONY, a new DLC for Necrodancer, released today into early access.

Claim the fun and challenging Frick, Inc. from Kenney FREE for 24 hours

By Liam Dawe,
Frick, Inc. is an amusing game with a name that's slightly silly because it's fricking frustrating too. The developer, Kenney, has made it free to grab on itch.io for 24 hours.

Nara: Facing Fire inspired by Hollow Knight is live on Kickstarter with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for another beautiful and engaging looking metroidvania? Loved Hollow Knight? You should keep an eye on Nara: Facing Fire that's live on Kickstarter.

Fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx adds diseases, makes you care for the elderly

By Liam Dawe,
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder that made a bit of a splash at release selling a few thousand copies pretty quickly, but as always many more games appear and some fall off the radar but Songs of Syx continues expanding.

Last Call BBS, the final game from Zachtronics has left Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Last Call BBS, the final game from the clever people at Zachtronics has left Early Access and is out now along with Native Linux support.

No more DLC for Oxygen Not Included, devs decide to do free updates instead

By Liam Dawe,
Oxygen Not Included is not getting any more DLC, Klei Entertainment has announced. Instead, they're going to keep pumping out free updates for all players.