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Minishoot' Adventures developers rebuilt their UI to get it Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

Well, SoulGame Studio certainly have my attention for their effort on getting Minishoot' Adventures up to Steam Deck Verified. Plus, the game looks really entertaining.

Battle Train could end up being my next favourite deck-builder

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

There's just something satisfying about laying down tracks, and then slamming a train into your enemy. Battle Train is an interesting spin on deck-builders and there's a demo out now.

Avoid a giant creepy boat stalking you in your kayak in this retro-horror game

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

For those readers who love the recent wave of retro-horror, Delta Kayak could be another good one to check out with a demo now live. Certainly wins points for some originality and total weirdness here.

Get a better look at S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl in the Developer Deep Dive

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

A proper Developer Deep Dive is now available for the delayed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl and it's looking and sounding really promising.

The NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx has a big Summer 2024 update out now

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

With the rumours swirling around a new Half-Life game coming, this is an excellent time to play the updated NoVR mod for Half-Life: Alyx if you don't own a VR kit. And there's a big Summer 2024 update out now.

The huge graphics overhaul for settlement survival sim Necesse is out now

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

Mixing together elements of RimWorld and Terraria, the open world survival crafting game Necesse has a huge graphics overhaul update out now.

Sand in a Box is a fresh modern 'falling sand' playground out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

Developer Patryk Zieliński of Tiliasoft just released Sand in a Box in Early Access on Steam, a fresh and new falling sand game with a lot of toys to play with.

I tried the demo of Super reaKtor and it really fried my brain

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

Super reaKtor is a unique bullet hell where you absorb various orbs using your laser beam, and while the idea is great it really did annihilate my brain.

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust from Analgesic Productions source code opened up

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

Analgesic Productions have opened up the full source code for their 2D-3D action-adventure game Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.

Minetest 5.9.0 brings performance improvements, a godrays shader and work towards SDL2

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

The latest release of Minetest with version 5.9.0 is out now, bringing new features and work towards using SDL2 for this free and open source voxel game engine.

Wine 9.15 brings more ODBC Windows drivers work and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

The Wine 9.15 development release is now available as there's continued work on ODBC Windows drivers and the usual assorted bug fixes.

Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi RUSH) lives again with KRAFTON

By Liam Dawe, Aug 12

At last, the good kind of industry news, and something worth celebrating. KRAFTON, the publisher of games like PUBG has acquired Tango Gameworks along with the Hi-Fi RUSH IP.