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Steam Racing Fest is now live until May 30th with a mini-trivia game

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has put up their latest little festival to grab some more games with the Steam Racing Fest. It also comes with a new Steam feature with a mini-trivia game.

The official iFixit launch for Steam Deck parts and repair guides is live

By Liam Dawe,
After a bit of an accidental early start that was taken down, iFixit have now actually properly launched their Steam Deck replacements parts and various guides for each part to fix or replace yourself.

Meg's Monster has you help a lost girl get home before she causes the apocalypse

By Liam Dawe,
Well, this is quite a story. Meg's Monster is the next and biggest game so far from developer Odencat, where you need to help a lost little girl get home. The problem is, she has some awesome power and might just cause some kind of monster apocalypse.

Bonfire Peaks - Lost Memories announced, plus Photo Mode update out

By Liam Dawe,
Bonfire Peaks, one of the nicest puzzle games released in 2021 is getting an expansion in Lost Memories plus an update is out now with new features.

An interview with Ken VanDine, Ubuntu desktop lead at Canonical

By Liam Dawe,
Another fresh interview for you today, this time with Ken VanDine who is responsible for leading the way for Ubuntu on the desktop at Canonical.

Linux kernel 5.18 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the latest Linux kernel version 5.18, bringing with it the usual masses of improvements and new hardware support.

NVIDIA reveal a list of issues with their driver and Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
While the situation has improved a little for NVIDIA and Wayland, they're not really there yet and so NVIDIA are now keeping a public list of the issues split between drivers and either protocol or compositor limitations.

AMD give more details on Ryzen 7000, Socket AM5 and 'Mendocino' APU

By Liam Dawe,
Computex 2022 is now in full swing and AMD have done their presentation giving off some details on the upcoming Ryzen 7000, Socket AM5 and 'Mendocino' APU.

Steam Deck hits over 3,000 games either Verified or Playable

By Liam Dawe,
There it is, the next big milestone for the Steam Deck has been hit with over 3,000 games now rated as either Verified or Playable.

APICO is a very relaxing beekeeping game out now

By Liam Dawe,
Available now with Native Linux support, APICO from TNgineers and Whitethorn Games might be one of my new favourite was just to chill-out.

HP teamed up with System76 for the HP Dev One laptop with Pop!_OS Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Pop!_OS Linux from System76 is expanding with more vendors, as HP now have a teaser up for the HP Dev One laptop.

Looks like iFixit have Steam Deck parts available now (Update: it's gone)

By Liam Dawe,
Have you already broken your shiny Steam Deck or want some spares to tinker with? You're in luck, as it seems parts have now appeared over on iFixit.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 7.9 is now available

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). It's a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck.

Project Zomboid version 41.71 out with Steam Deck and controller upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
Project Zomboid, a survival game from The Indie Stone that's currently in Early Access just had a big new stable release, and it should now work better on the Steam Deck and with controllers overall.

Steam Deck gets a quieter fan again, and louder volume in the latest updates

By Liam Dawe,
Another two big Steam Deck updates just dropped, one for the Stable channel and one for the Beta channel. Here's what's new.

Proton Experimental fixes Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has pushed out another update to Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton you can try that has more features before they roll out to the stable versions.

Old World from the Civilization IV designer releases on Steam along with Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
Old World is a new Native Linux historical strategy game from Soren Johnson, Lead Designer of Civilization IV and Offworld Trading Company and Mohawk Games.

KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta is out now for testing

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for even more improvements to come to the KDE Plasma desktop? I know I am and Plasma 5.25 Beta is now available.

Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse gets spruced up, works on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse from Revolution Software just had a big update to improve how it handles on modern systems and screen resolutions. It also works great on the Steam Deck.

The modular Framework Laptop gets a new model with 12th Gen Intel

By Liam Dawe,
Framework are doing some great things after the first model of the modular Framework Laptop, then the mainboard release and new an upgraded model with 12th Gen Intel.