Slay the Spire fan expansion Downfall flips the game and lets you be the monsters

By Liam Dawe,
Downfall - A Slay the Spire Fan Expansion (the full name), is a bit of a mouthful but it's also spilling over the side with features. So much so, that it got a Steam release outside the workshop.

Portal 2: Desolation is looking great in the graphics overhaul

By Liam Dawe,
Portal 2: Desolation is an upcoming community-made Portal game, created by fans in tribute to Valve's iconic series and it's going to look pretty fancy.

The Dota 2 'Spring Cleaning' update for 2022 makes muting and reporting easier

By Liam Dawe,
Dota 2 has a very lively community, and sadly often you will come across some attitudes that just aren't friendly and now Valve has made it simpler to deal with them in-game.

100% Orange Juice gets Steam Deck Verified thanks to supporting Steam Input

By Liam Dawe,
Here's another developer who upgraded their game ready for the Steam Deck, with the popular 100% Orange Juice.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Steam Next Fest returns in June to overload you with demos

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Next Fest: June Edition 2022 is confirmed to be launching on June 13, so time to make sure you have some space free to install all those demos.

Steam Deck closing in on 2,000 games rated Verified or Playable

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Deck is getting close to hitting a pretty big milestone, with nearly 2,000 games rated Verified or Playable.

DXVK 1.10.1 is out with initial support for shared resources

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK is the free and open source project that translates Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan for use with the Wine and Proton Windows translation layers.

Valve actually announced Steam for Chrome OS now too

By Liam Dawe,
After a bit of a false start with an announcement made too early, Google has now announced Steam for Chrome OS and Chromebooks and now Valve has done their own brief announcement. So it's all officially official now.

Syncthing is a great way to transfer files from PC to Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Recently I did a guide using the Warpinator tool to transfer files from PC to Steam Deck, here's another way using the wonderful tool Syncthing that you might prefer.

Wine 7.5 is out now with initial OCSP protocol support

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). A new development release is out with Wine 7.5.

Looks like Valve are adding a feedback system for Steam Deck Verified (update: it's live)

By Liam Dawe,
An eagle-eyed reader in the GamingOnLinux Discord pointed out that it appears Valve are working to bring out a feedback system for Steam Deck Verified. UPDATE: it's live now and there's more updates today.

Along the Edge gets some nice improvements to be Steam Deck ready

By Liam Dawe,
Along the Edge is a visual novel set in the European countryside, where your choices impact the main character's personality and appearance.

DEMON'S TILT gets updated for Steam Deck to solve graphical issues

By Liam Dawe,
DEMON'S TILT, a frantic pinball game from WIZNWAR / FLARB LLC currently has a Playable rating for Steam Deck but it may get bumped up to Verified.

Valve gathering a list of Deck Verified games that have problems

By Liam Dawe,
On Steam, one of the official Valve-picked moderators of the Steam Deck hub has a new post up they've pinned to gather information on problematic Steam Deck Verified titles.

NVIDIA working with Valve to get Gamescope working on their drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, as an NVIDIA developer has confirmed that work is in progress to get Gamescope working with their drivers.

AMD reveal more on FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 (FSR)

By Liam Dawe,
With GDC ongoing, there's lots of info flying out from developers and hardware vendors and now AMD has given talks and more detail on FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0.

Kickstart RT from NVIDIA makes Ray Tracing integration in games easier

By Liam Dawe,
At GDC the NVIDIA team had plenty of announcement, most of them not interesting to us but Kickstart RT definitely jumps out. A new SDK under the open source MIT license allowing game engine developers and games to integrate Ray Tracing a lot easier.

Fanatical put up their own Stand With Ukraine Charity Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Did you miss the itch.io bundle? Perhaps the Humble Bundle doing the same just isn't for you? Well, Fanatical have their own Stand With Ukraine Charity Bundle.

Sci-fi fantasy arena-styled FPS Viscerafest sees Chapter 2 released

By Liam Dawe,
Acid Man Games and Fire Plant Games continue building up their retro-styled fast-paced FPS with a major update available.