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Valve adds the first community maps into Counter-Strike 2

By Liam Dawe,
While Valve didn't really do anything to mark the 25th anniversary of Counter-Strike 2, they have at least put out another small update that brings in the first community maps for CS2.

Infogrames (Atari) have acquired the Surgeon Simulator franchise

By Liam Dawe,
Atari continue their mini-spree of buying up games and studios, with their relaunched Infogrames label acquiring the Surgeon Simulator franchise.

Classic flash game Neon Rider returns on Steam with Neon Rider Classic

By Liam Dawe,
Neon Rider Classic is the new and improved definitive collection of classic Flash games, Neon Rider and Neon Rider World, which were played more than 15 million times and now it's on Steam.

SteamOS 3.6.7 Preview for Steam Deck released, plus more Steam Beta Client updates for all

By Liam Dawe,
A couple of smaller updates for both Steam Deck and Desktop Linux to go over today, as Valve keep pushing towards the next stable update.

GOG revives the original Resident Evil, plus Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 on the way

By Liam Dawe,
A nice little win for preserving the classics. GOG teamed up with Capcom to bring Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 to their store with a few improvements.

Archrebel Tactics is a wild sci-fi turn-based strategy game inspired by Rebelstar and X-COM

By Liam Dawe,
Inspired by the original Rebelstar from 1986 and in parts UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM: UFO Defense, you may want to take a look at Archrebel Tactics if you like your strategy games with a retro look and feel.

Battle Train is a deck-builder where you throw trains at your enemy

By Liam Dawe,
Battle Train sounds unique and hilarious! You've seen plenty of deck-builders, but instead of various creatures, here you throw trains at your enemy.

7 Days to Die gets an experimental Beta for the 1.0 release

By Liam Dawe,
If you're looking forward to 7 Days to Die finally hitting the big 1.0 release, now you can try it a little early with an experimental Beta release.

Victoria 3's first major expansion Sphere of Influence is out now

By Liam Dawe,
After a delay, Paradox Interactive have now launched the first proper major expansion for Victoria 3 with Sphere of Influence along with the free Update 1.7 "Kahwah".

Fanatical's Red Hot Sale has thousands of great games for cheap

By Liam Dawe,
A sale I missed that started last week you might want to jump in and find some big discounts in the Fanatical Red Hot Sale which goes on all this week too!

The Vita Nova update for Terra Nil is out now bringing an overhaul to animals

By Liam Dawe,
Terra Nil is a wonderful reverse-builder, where instead of building a city you're restoring the environment from a wasteland to a successful green ecosystem and the latest free update is a big one.

Cute farming life sim Everafter Falls is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Everafter Falls from SquareHusky and Akupara Games has now released on Steam, along with Native Linux support following a successful Kickstarter back in 2020.

Mix and match quirky weapons and gadgets to build your perfect fighter in Counterpick Labs

By Liam Dawe,
With a demo available on Steam and Native Linux support, Counterpick Labs looks like a fun addition to the platform fighter genre and it's going to be free too.

Steam Deck LCD 64GB and 512GB discounted until July 11

By Liam Dawe,
If you're still somehow on the fence about buying a Steam Deck, here's a good chance for you to get one cheaper as Valve given two models a discount.

Slow down a bit and go collecting in Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge

By Liam Dawe,
Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge is another wonderful game built with Godot Engine, for gamers who prefer things a whole lot more chilled.

Rig the game in Pip My Dice, a Yahtzee roguelike experience inspired by Balatro

By Liam Dawe,
A Yahtzee Roguelike experience? That's going to be a thing. FokazLabs recently revealed Pip My Dice and the idea does sound quite interesting.

Warzone 2100 version 4.5.0 Beta enhances support for campaign mods, improved multiplayer

By Liam Dawe,
One of my favourite RTS games, Warzone 2100, just keeps on getting better thanks to it being open source. A major new Beta has been released that has some really great improvements for both singleplayer and online play.

Flathub continues growing with over 2 billion downloads recorded

By Liam Dawe,
Flathub, the main front-end for Flatpak packages, which serves various applications and games to many different Linux distributions and Steam Deck has surpassed 2 billion downloads.

Mesa gets a nice performance boost for Proton games with various videos

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has another blog post up and Merge Request ready for Mesa, the set of open source graphics drivers, which gives a big boost to performance for Windows games with various videos.

NonSteamLaunchers adds support for EmuDeck, SteamRomManager and fixes Battle.net

By Liam Dawe,
NonSteamLaunchers is one of the simplest ways to get various other stores like Battle.net, Epic, GOG and more on Steam Deck / Linux has a fresh release adding some useful features.