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Former dev on Stardew Valley reveals their life-sim Sunkissed City

By Liam Dawe,
From developer Mr. Podunkian, who previously worked on Stardew Valley, a new life-sim is coming named Sunkissed City and it looks rather colourful and inviting.

Flathub now has over one million active users

By Liam Dawe,
Ah, Linux, you gotta love it right? There's numerous different ways to do the same thing. One of those that people like to argue about is packaging and how to install things on Linux. Flathub with Flatpaks at least seem to be popular and it keeps growing.

THE FINALS freezing on Linux? Here's ways you can fix it

By Liam Dawe,
THE FINALS has been working on Linux and Steam Deck for a couple of weeks now, and personally I've been having a fantastic time with it. It can crash a fair bit though but luckily here's some possible solutions I've tested working.

Grab Mordheim: City of the Damned free during the GOG New Year Sale 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Here's another chance to grab a free game and lots of discounts as GOG have launched the New Year Sale 2024.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition launches on PC on March 21st

By Liam Dawe,
We finally have a confirmed date for Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition which will release on March 21st for PC gamers. Thankfully it includes plenty of graphics options to tweak it to your liking, that might also help Steam Deck performance.

Beginner-friendly factory sim shapez 2 now has a demo

By Liam Dawe,
shapez 2 is a huge expansion over the original 2D shape-cutting factory sim, now in full 3D with a lot more features and there's now a demo available to try it out.

Enshrouded is the latest open-world hit on Steam - how it runs on Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Enshrouded is another big Early Access open-world game to arrive on Steam, and it's already doing some big numbers. So how does it run on Steam Deck / Linux? Here's an initial starting report for you.

Roblox now helping fund Blender development

By Liam Dawe,
Blender continues to be a true massive success story for open source, pulling in funding from all sorts of big names and now even Roblox is helping to fund it.

Earl vs. the Mutants is basically Vampire Survivors with vehicles and it's hilarious

By Liam Dawe,
If you love quick-fire action and the randomised upgrade mechanics made popular by Vampire Survivors, you might want to try out the demo for Earl vs. the Mutants.

AdventureQuest 8-Bit: Dungeons & DoomKnights an actual NES game now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
AdventureQuest 8-Bit: Dungeons & DoomKnights is a really properly retro adventure, funded on Kickstarter for the NES back in 2019 it now has a fancy PC release too.

Steam Remote Play gets VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released another Steam Beta for both the Steam Deck and for Desktop Steam, containing various fixes and a nice improvement for Linux Remote Play users.

AYANEO NEXT LITE no longer ships with SteamOS-like HoloISO Linux - Windows 11 instead

By Liam Dawe,
We were so close to seeing another gaming handheld ship with Linux out of the box that isn't the Steam Deck, but it seems AYANEO with the AYANEO NEXT LITE weren't convinced enough and so they've changed their minds.

The Pokémon Company confirm investigation into Palworld

By Liam Dawe,
Well this could be about to get interesting, as The Pokémon Company have actually released a statement in regards to all the speculation about Palworld amid many claims of copying Pokémon's homework.

This new Humble Bundle has some great Soulslikes

By Liam Dawe,
Need a challenge? Like Soulslike games? Check out the latest Humble Bundle that has some quality picks in it.

NVIDIA 550.40.07 Beta driver released with fixes for VRR and Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has today launched the 550.40.07 Beta driver for Linux which includes numerous important fixes, so you might want to jump in and give this one a thorough gaming test.

Team Fortress 2 has a 64bit and Vulkan update for Linux in testing

By Liam Dawe,
Valve are still updating Team Fortress 2 (TF2), and a bigger technical update is currently in the works that will bring 64bit and Vulkan support to the Linux version.

Palworld hits 7 million sales, smashes Counter-Strike 2's all-time peak and gets a roadmap

By Liam Dawe,
Palworld has continued to smash records, and it has now become the number 2 on Steam for the record of peak-players as it crosses 7 million sales. There's also now a fancy roadmap.

Core Keeper getting a new event, plus various new features on January 31st

By Liam Dawe,
Core Keeper is a rather wonderful game about underground mining, crafting and exploration and it's about to get a big new Lunar New Year event along with some new permanent features to improve the game.

Godot Engine gets a free Nintendo Switch port for game devs

By Liam Dawe,
Here's one less reason for game developers to skip over using the free and open source Godot Engine, as it now has a free port available to bring games over to the Nintendo Switch.

Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Zeb Figura of CodeWeavers has proposed a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver to help performance of running games and applications designed for Windows on Linux with Wine / Proton.