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GNOME gets €1M funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund

By Liam Dawe,
GNOME has received recognition as a Public Interest Infrastructure, and so they've been awarded €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund.

Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR get lots of visual tweaks in new Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh Beta update across Steam Deck, Steam Big Picture and SteamVR that includes lots of subtle visual tweaks to the UI to make it look a bit fancier.

Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED for November 16th

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has today announced the brand new Steam Deck OLED model with some great sounding upgrades inside so here's the details.

Inspired by Doom and Deus Ex, Beyond Sunset enters Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for more retro-styled carnage? Another GZDoom powered game has launched on Steam with Beyond Sunset now in Early Access.

Humble Bundle has a stack of great platformers in this new bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Love your sweet platformers? Humble has launched the Adventures in the 2nd Dimension: Positively Playful Platformers Bundle and it looks like a good one.

Modders already improving the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection

By Liam Dawe,
With the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 out now on Steam and in many ways disappointing, so modders are already working to improve it.

Valve refines new Steam Deck Unified Frame Limit slider to show Refresh Rate

By Liam Dawe,
Available currently in the Steam Deck Preview that I recently covered, there's a new Unified Frame Rate and Refresh Rate slider but Valve has done a useful tweak in the latest update.

WWI FPS 'Isonzo' free White War expansion is live, free weekend and big discount coming

By Liam Dawe,
Get ready to try out the brutal WWI FPS Isonzo, as they've just recently released a free new expansion and it's set for a Steam Free Weekend and big discount.

Prism Launcher 8.0 for Minecraft modding out now

By Liam Dawe,
Prism Launcher for easy Minecraft Java modding has launched the big Prism Launcher 8.0 upgrade with plenty of new features and enhancements.

SteamOS-like Linux package Bazzite 2.0 is out now for Steam Deck and desktop

By Liam Dawe,
If you want an alternative to SteamOS (or Steam Deck OS as Valve sometimes decides to call it) for your Steam Deck, desktop PC or living room gaming machine - Bazzite is an interesting pick.

KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release

By Liam Dawe,
Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.

Humble Choice for November has Prodeus, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Friends vs Friends

By Liam Dawe,
A pretty nice month for those of you subscribing to Humble Choice, with November's bundle out now and here's a run over the Steam Deck and desktop Linux compatibility.

Night in the Woods follow-up Revenant Hill cancelled due to developer health issues

By Liam Dawe,
Sad news for anyone excited for Revenant Hill, which would have been the follow-up game to the exceptionally well reviewed indie game Night in the Woods as it has been cancelled.

Steam Deck Verified highlights for November 8th, 2023

By Liam Dawe,
Need some more games for your Steam Deck? Here's your mid-week listicle to highlight some interesting looking titles that have gained the full Steam Deck Verified certification from Valve.

Over a week later Apex Legends is still broken on Linux / Steam Deck (update: fixed)

By Liam Dawe,
One of the most popular titles on Steam, Apex Legends, has been left broken on Linux / Steam Deck for over a week now after the Ignite Update. You can fix it yourself though, if you want to risk it. ARTICLE UPDATED.

Fedora Linux 39 is out now with GNOME 45, Linux kernel 6.5

By Liam Dawe,
The Fedora team announced the release of Fedora Linux 39 yesterday November 7th, bringing with it GNOME 45 and a ton of other improvements for one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions.

GE-Proton 8-23 fixes VRChat and reworks GStreamer plugin

By Liam Dawe,
The community-maintained GE-Proton compatibility layer has another small release out for Linux desktop / Steam Deck with GE-Proton 8-23 being released November 8th.

Proton Experimental fixes up multiple Final Fantasy issues & Metal Gear Solid 3

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a fresh Proton Experimental update for Linux desktop / Steam Deck after a few weeks break that brings the usual assorted game fixes.

Nexus Mods App is an in-development replacement for Vortex that will support Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Here's something promising for the future of cross-platform mod support, as it seems the Nexus team are working on a new Nexus Mods App. It's in the very early stages (pre-alpha they say), but eventually they plan to have it replace the popular Vortex but it's quite a long time away from that just yet.

Steam Deck Preview update has a Unified Refresh Rate and Framerate Limit slider

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released a fresh Beta and Preview update for the Steam Deck, which tweaks some existing features like the refresh rate and frame limit sliders to merge them into one slider to rule them all.