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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor hits Early Access on February 14th

By Liam Dawe,
What could be my next favourite horde survival game and an off-shoot of one of the best online co-op games around, Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is launching in Early Access on February 14th.

The top Steam Deck games for January 2024 have been revealed - Palworld hits 2nd place

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the latest most-played list for Steam Deck for January 2024 and as expected, Palworld has managed to jump right near the top.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.5.14 Preview - Persona 3 Reload improvements and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released SteamOS 3.5.14 Preview for Steam Deck, which comes with performance improvements for the new Persona 3 Reload amongst other things.

Get some Exceptional Indie Allies in this Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Some glorious indie games available to grab in the new Exceptional Indie Allies Humble Bundle, if you need to build up that collection.

Horde shooter Black Dragon Mage now has a demo, plus developer blog on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Black Dragon Mage is an upcoming dark fantasy, action-roguelite, top-down horde shooter (think like Vampire Survivors) and there's a demo out now. Plus the developer had some words to say on developing with the Steam Deck in mind.

They really did it - Valve added Dwarf as an official Steam tag

By Liam Dawe,
After a little mini-campaign from the likes of the crew behind Dwarf Fortress and Deep Rock Galactic, Valve added some new official Steam store tags for games.

Atmospheric narrative adventure A Void Hope launches February 29th

By Liam Dawe,
From the team that gave us Alwa's Awakening and Alwa's Legacy, Elden Pixels have announced the release date for their latest gorgeous looking adventure platformer with A Void Hope launching February 29th.

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 adds Video Capture Device (PipeWire) source, plus more AV1 support

By Liam Dawe,
A fresh Beta is available for the video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio, with OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 bringing various new features and fixes.

Linux remains above macOS on the Steam Survey for January 2024

By Liam Dawe,
The monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey is here for January 2024, and while there was a drop for both Linux and macOS we're still seeing Linux be firmly in second place on Steam now.

Earthbound & Undertale inspired action-adventure Dreamed Away hits Kickstarter

By Liam Dawe,
This isn't the first time I've covered Dreamed Away, as I genuinely think it looks like it will be a really interesting game and not only can you try it out with the demo but you can now support it on Kickstarter.

Recover your lost memory in the demo for Veil of Shadows

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to try another demo? Imponix Game Studio recently launched the demo for their roguelite action-adventure Veil of Shadows, and it has Native Linux support too.

The latest Humble Bundle is one for Steam Deck / Controller fans

By Liam Dawe,
Time to plug in. Humble have put up the Controller'd Chaos Bundle, with a pretty damn good selection of games, especially if you're a Steam Deck / Controller player.

Time to blow the dust off your VR headset - Metro Awakening is coming

By Liam Dawe,
Metro Awakening has been announced from Vertigo Games, and will be the first full VR entry into Metro. So clearly it's time to blow the dust off your VR headset and clean away the spider webs.

Sonic x Shadow Generations announced with a Sonic Generations remaster

By Liam Dawe,
Gotta go fast! Sonic x Shadow Generations was just announced by SEGA that is technically two games, so here's all you need to know for the upcoming PC release.

Palworld hits 19 million players in less than two weeks - beating the latest Pokémon

By Liam Dawe,
Palworld continues being an absolutely ridiculous success for developer Pocketpair, as they've announced it's hit 19 million players in less than two weeks.

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach has a new trailer but no indication of a PC release yet

By Liam Dawe,
Yes, that's the official title now. Death Stranding 2: On The Beach and a generously long new trailer was released during Sony's January State of Play.

Mesa 24.0 out now with AMD RADV ray-tracing improvements, more NVIDIA NVK improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Eric Engestrom announced the latest open source graphics drivers release with Mesa 24.0 bringing with it a great many improvements and new drivers.

Check out these freshly picked Steam Deck Verified games

By Liam Dawe,
January is almost, finally, over so here's some freshly picked and washed Steam Deck Verified games that might help you push through February.

Godot Engine 4.3 will have official Wayland support

By Liam Dawe,
2024 is clearly the year of Wayland on the desktop, and now Godot Engine will have official Wayland support with an upcoming new release.

Celeste gets a 3D makeover in Celeste 64 for the sixth anniversary

By Liam Dawe,
Celeste is easily one of the most popular indie platformers ever made, and it's still going strong six years later. To celebrate, the developers put up a 3D version with Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain.