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Gearbits is a fast-paced mecha combat indie game now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Love mecha combat? Gearbits is a new indie release on Steam from Quackpond Games, following on from their early builds on itch.io.

Blender enables Vulkan as an experimental option

By Liam Dawe,
Some fun news for Blender fans, as their work to bring up Vulkan support in the project has hit a big new milestone with support now enabled but it's still experimental for now.

Begin your industrial revolution in the latest Minecraft Snapshot

By Liam Dawe,
Now that Minecraft Live is over the developers have begun pushing out preview builds ahead of the upcoming release of Minecraft 1.21. A fresh Snapshot was just released with new features like the Crafter block.

Act quick to claim these free games like CRYPTARK and The Evil Within

By Liam Dawe,
Need some free games for the weekend? Got you covered with a list here of some games you can claim to keep so you'll have no excuse for a boring time.

Lutris game manager v0.5.14 adds EA App integration, expanded Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe,
The game manager Lutris has a brand new release out with some sweet new features, so time to take another look at one of the best ways to run games from pretty much anywhere on Linux and Steam Deck.

Grab more Steam Deck games with Fanatical's Premium Play on the Go Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical have another Play on the Go Bundle live, this time a "Premium Edition" with some games they thought deserved that status. All games are Steam Deck Verified too.

Stellaris goes into uncharted territory with the Astral Planes expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Stellaris Astral Planes is the latest main expansion announced today for Paradox Interactive's popular space strategy game, and this one sound delightfully different to their previous additions and quite exciting.

Vampire Survivors v1.7 is out now with new free content

By Liam Dawe,
The game that spawned a great many clones, Vampire Survivors is back with a brand new free content update for all players.

Humble Bundle has a load of simulators ready in this bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Enter the simulation! With the Living in a Simulation Humble Bundle, you can live out your wild fantasies of farming, building and more because you love these jobs as a game right?

Planetary Annihilation devs reveal Industrial Annihilation

By Liam Dawe,
The developers of Planetary Annihilation (well, some of them at least) have announced Industrial Annihilation, a full sequel that blends in factory building with the RTS elements.

Relaxing minimalist building strategy game Tiny Atolls fixed up for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Tiny Atolls was released at the end of September and while I enjoy it a lot, it did come with a rather broken Linux version, which has now been fixed up.

Sweet Dreams Alex is a wholesome puzzle and construction game

By Liam Dawe,
Mixing together puzzles and room building, Sweet Dreams Alex is a rather wholesome idea for a game about keeping away nightmares and it's out now with Native Linux support.

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Parabole just released Kona II: Brume, a follow-up to their chilly adventure from 2017 that has you step back into your role as Detective Carl Faubert.

KDE Plasma 6.0 now scheduled for release 28th February 2024

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team are hard at work to make the next major release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, my current favourite desktop and the one used on the Steam Deck. Now, we actually have something of a proper roadmap to Plasma 6.0.

Check out the XDC 2023 talks on HDR + Color Management for Steam Deck / Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe,
The X.Org Developer's Conference - XDC 2023 has been going on for the last few days, and there's some good talks happening including a nice overview across two talks going over the state of HDR and Color Management.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 adds offline support for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Activision have released an update for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on Steam. Patch 1.1 is for Steam Deck players so here's what's changed.

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint from Trese Brothers is now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
After pushing out some great games like Star Traders: Frontiers and Templar Battleforce, Trese Brothers have really turned up the production values for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint that could end up being the next big turn-based tactics game.

Moonlight and Sunshine game and desktop streaming updates out now

By Liam Dawe,
Moonlight and Sunshine are projects that allow you to stream your entire PC over your network, useful if Steam Remote Play doesn't work well and as an alternative to NVIDIA GameStream. Both projects recently had major upgrades.

Steering wheel manager Oversteer v0.8.0 adds new hardware support

By Liam Dawe,
Got a steering wheel and want to manage it on Linux for all your racing and trucking games? Oversteer is what you need and a new release went out recently.

Mudborne is an upcoming laid-back nature sim about breeding & collecting Frogs

By Liam Dawe,
You've seen APICO where you collect and breed Bees but what about Frogs? Well that's exactly what Mudborne from the same developer will have.