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Safe in Our World Charity Bundle 2023

Check out the Safe in Our World Charity Bundle 2023

By Liam Dawe,
1
Mental health charity, Safe In Our World, which focuses on the video game industry has teamed up with Fanatical for a full charity bundle full of games.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

Totally Accurate Battlegrounds now works on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
7
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds got upgraded recently due to needing to implement new anti-cheat, and thanks to that this free to play game now works on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.
Stellaris: First Contact

Stellaris: First Contact releasing March 14th with a free update

By Liam Dawe,
3
Paradox have announced that the Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack will be releasing on March 14th, along with the Canis Minor free update for all players.
ChimeraOS

ChimeraOS 39 released switching to the new Steam Big Picture Mode

By Liam Dawe,
10
ChimeraOS, the Linux distribution designed for couch gaming much like SteamOS, has version 39 out now. This is the first release since Valve swapped to the New Big Picture Mode from the Steam Deck.
Mesa

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
21
Mesa 23.0.0 has been released today upgrading open source graphics drivers for Linux. As usual you should wait for the first point release for stability.
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Valve reveals a whole bunch of upcoming Steam Sales

By Liam Dawe,
9
Valve has now revealed most of their upcoming big Steam Sales and Steam Fests, here's all the details.
Ubuntu

Ubuntu flavours to drop Flatpak by default and stick to Snaps

By Liam Dawe,
72
Canonical has announced a change in the packaging defaults for the various "flavours" like Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie and so on to exclude Flatpak and stick with Snap.
No Man's Sky

No Man's Sky Fractal gets a VR overhaul, new Expedition, Gyro update

By Liam Dawe,
3
No Man's Sky has another big update out now that includes an overhaul of quite a few features like much better VR support, and a new Expedition.
Steam Big Picture

New Steam Desktop and Steam Deck Beta includes various controller fixes

By Liam Dawe,
4
Another fresh Beta update is now available for Steam Deck and Steam Desktop, pulling in some good sounding fixes for various controllers.
Dota 2 ban hammer

Valve tricks Dota 2 cheaters and then bans 40,000 of them

By Liam Dawe,
29
In a new post titled "Cheaters Will Never Be Welcome in Dota", Valve mentioned how they managed to get a whole lot of cheaters to show themselves and then gave them a swift boot to the buttocks.
Unusual Findings

1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings added Linux support

By Liam Dawe,
5
Here's one from late last year that I missed, 1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings gained a Native Linux version.
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER

Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER new trailer and release window announced

By Liam Dawe,
1
Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER, a cyberpunk point and click adventure from developer MidBoss, LLC. has a new trailer and it's releasing this Summer.
Steam Mystery Fest

Steam Mystery Fest live until February 27th

By Liam Dawe,
4
Another good chance to discover some new games is the Steam Mystery Fest, live now until February 27th with lots of discounts.
Terra Nil

Environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases March 28th

By Liam Dawe,
4
A game idea I absolutely love and the early demos were impressive, the environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases on March 28th.
Wreckfest

Wreckfest is a smashing good time on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
13
Got the need for speed? You should check out Wreckfest! It's a lot of fun and it works amazingly well on Steam Deck.
Dead Space

Dead Space got a small update for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
1
In case you missed it in my recent Steam Deck news video, Motive released an update for the new Dead Space to improve it even more on Steam Deck.
Thrive

Open source evolution game Thrive adds part upgrades and a benchmark mode

By Liam Dawe,
0
Benchmark the cells! Evolve all the things! Thrive 0.6.1 is a fun sounding upgrade to this free and open source scientific evolution sim.
OpenRA - Red Alert

OpenRA has another test release improving Dune 2000, Red Alert and major bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
0
OpenRA is closing in on another big new release to improve the experience of playing Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Dune 2000.
Endless Sky

Free 2D space exploration sim Endless Sky v0.10.0 adds new factions, gets better AI

By Liam Dawe,
2
If you love free and open source games keep an eye on the 2D space sim Endless Sky, which just got a new Beta release with version 0.10.0 giving some fresh gameplay improvements.
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Linux kernel 6.2 is out now, here's a feature highlight

By Liam Dawe,
10
You can have a little Linux kernel update, as a treat. The Linux kernel 6.2 is officially out now so here's some notes on some of what's new.
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