Confused on Steam Play and Proton? Be sure to check out our guide.

Proton Experimental fixes up Tekken 8, Cosmoteer, Call of Cthulhu, Warframe and more

By Liam Dawe,
After recently updating Proton Experimental to be based on the new Proton 9, Valve ended February 2024 with another bunch of bug fixes for Proton Experimental.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.17 brings lots of bug fixes, plus Persona 3 Reload improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the latest stable update to SteamOS for Steam Deck, and it includes quite a healthy dose of bug fixes and general improvements.

Vampire Survivors gets a new bonus stage, 2 new characters, 4 new weapons

By Liam Dawe,
Vampire Survivors continues to expand with more free content, and the latest update is out now that sees you battle it out in space with new characters.

Extraction horror shooter Level Zero: Extraction will get Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Level Zero: Extraction is an upcoming extraction horror game with high-stakes asymmetric PvPvPvE and FPS combat, and according to the developer they will add Steam Deck support.

Single-player extraction shooter ZERO Sievert adds controller support

By Liam Dawe,
ZERO Sievert is a top-down pixel-art single-player survival shooter from CABO Studio and Modern Wolf, and now it should be a lot nicer on Steam Deck or Desktop PCs with controllers.

Grab more great games in the Humble Creative Sandbox Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a pretty darn good selection of games that you can pick up in the Humble Creative Sandbox Bundle.

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

By Liam Dawe,
If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

By Liam Dawe,
The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.

Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
After recently releasing a big Stable Steam Client update for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs, I highlighted that Remote Play was broken on Steam Deck - and so Valve has now fixed it.

5 years later Valve finally gives Windows compatibility tool Proton a logo

By Liam Dawe,
Can you believe it? Proton, the compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Steam Deck / Linux PCs didn't actually have a proper logo for over 5 years.

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has revealed new GPU driver security issues in their latest bulletin, so here's what you need to know if you're using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.

Lots more content is coming to Last Epoch and controller support improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Last Epoch recently released on Steam with Native Linux support, an offline mode and controller support but the developers at Eleventh Hour Games plan to keep improving it all.

nullptr is an action puzzle hacking game where every second counts

By Liam Dawe,
Due to release sometime in Q3 2024, developer Jeferson Silva has recently put up a demo for their action puzzle hacking game nullptr.

Lots of exciting updates coming to the free & open source RPG Veloren

By nwildner,
Veloren, the free and open source action-adventure role-playing voxel game made in Rust keeps evolving. Since its last public v0.15 release in July 2023, much has changed and lots of improvements were made so far.

Remote Play broken on Steam Deck with the February stable update

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just recently launched a big stable update to the Steam Client for both Steam Deck and Desktop PCs, which has come with one big issue for Steam Deck.

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.

Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit

By Liam Dawe,
Well, here we go. Nintendo have formally filed a lawsuit against the creators of the popular open source Switch emulator yuzu.

Valve release big stable Steam Client update for Steam / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
After a little while of many Beta releases, Valve has today launched the latest stable update to the Steam Client for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs.

shapez 2 demo is sticking around for another month - you need to try this

By Liam Dawe,
shapez 2 is absolutely going to be a big success when it hits Early Access later this year, and you can try out the demo for a good while longer now so the developer can ensure they get it right.

Streets of Rogue 2 is going to be massive and I'm hyped

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Matt Dabrowski recently did a fresh developer video on the upcoming Streets of Rogue 2, and it's really going to be massive.