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Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest a remake of the original classic is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Little Big Adventure – Twinsen's Quest from [2.21] and Microids is out now. It's a remake of the original classic with a graphical makeover and modernized gameplay.

Train finally returns to Counter-Strike 2 in the latest big update

By Liam Dawe,
Train! It's back! A fan favourite map returns that was annoyingly missing from the release of Counter-Strike 2. But it's now back and looking better than ever in the latest update to Valve's FPS.

Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected

By Liam Dawe,
The latest update for the open source graphics drivers is here with Mesa 24.2.7 out now. Plus we might see Mesa 24.3 a bit sooner than expected.

Yawnoc is chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata

By Liam Dawe,
With the source code available along with the game, Yawnoc is a chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata that's out now.

GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with a hundred classics being 're-released'

By Liam Dawe,
GOG going back to their roots a little here with the announcement of the GOG Preservation Program, with an aim to ensure various games get to live on forever.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition gets updated, needs a fix on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Rockstar Games decided to update the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition which includes Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto III but it seems you'll need this quick fix to run it now on Steam Deck.

Chrono is a puzzler about time-controlling objects in the world

By Liam Dawe,
For fans of Portal and other first-person puzzle games, the indie game Chrono from Portuguese developer David Simoes is all about time-controlling objects across various rooms to progress.

Stellar Blade should come to PC in 2025, dev expects sales to exceed console

By Liam Dawe,
Stellar Blade, the story-driven action adventure that's currently a PlayStation exclusive, looks like it's coming to PC sometime in 2025.

Get 3+ games for £1 each from the Fanatical Build your own Triple Pack bundle

By Liam Dawe,
If you're on a budget, here's an easy chance for you to get some new games. Fanatical's Build your own Triple Pack Bundle offers 3 or more for £1 each.

Check out the demo for Into The Grid that blends dungeon-crawling hacking, deck-building and combat

By Liam Dawe,
Into The Grid is coming next year and this award-winning mixture of dungeon-crawling, deck-building and turn-based combat now has a demo available.

Face off against mutated snacks as a Banana in Bronana which aims to be the next Brotato

By Liam Dawe,
Bronana aims to be the next Brotato but you're a Banana, with clear inspiration from the potato wave-survival game along with all the survivor-likes.

Vehicle combat in Scaravan 66 looks nuts and I want it now

By Liam Dawe,
Lithic Entertainment just revealed Scaravan 66, and I smashed that wishlist button faster than ever because it looks so damn delicious.

Stable Steam Client update has fixes for Linux, VR, Steam Deck and more

By Liam Dawe,
After another short Beta round, Valve released a fresh Steam Client update to the stable channel for Desktop and Steam Deck.

Proton Experimental adds DLSS 3 Frame Generation support, plus fixes for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Rivals of Aether II and more

By Liam Dawe,
Valve once again updated Proton Experimental giving you a good few fixes for various games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux when running the Windows versions.

Karate Survivor will have you kicking, punching, rolling over tables and throwing chairs at people

By Liam Dawe,
Continuing my quest to play every survivor-like there is, Karate Survivor is the latest I've been kicking and punching through and it's great and surprisingly different to the rest of the crop.

Claw machine deckbuilder Dungeon Clawler arrives November 21 and it's going to grab you

By Liam Dawe,
Dungeon Clawler from Stray Fawn Studio who also made The Wandering Village is a claw machine deckbuilder that's now planned to hit Early Access on November 21st.

Fan-made Half-Life 2 Episode 3 demo arrives with Project Borealis: Prologue now on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
We may never get Half-Life 2: Episode 3 (basically Half-Life 3), but at least we have the first taster of Project Borealis out now with Project Borealis: Prologue.

Supernatural comedy point-and-click adventure A Vampyre Story: A Bat's Tale announced

By Liam Dawe,
The original A Vampyre Story released back in 2008 and now there's finally going to be a new one with A Vampyre Story: A Bat's Tale.

Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5 released with rewritten memory management

By Liam Dawe,
Another big release of the Direct3D 8/9/10/11 to Vulkan translation layer (used by Proton) has been released. With DXVK v2.5 bringing rewritten resource and memory management.

Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable

By Liam Dawe,
Steam Game Recording was recently released, which came as part of a big Stable Steam Client update that noted it had fixes for "miscellaneous common crashes" on Linux. Now we know a little more on what's happening behind the scenes.
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