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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 10

Fantastic news for Like a Dragon fans as the latest in the series Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has been checked over and confirmed Steam Deck Verified by Valve ahead of the release.

Check out the demo for the relaxing exploration-trading game Townseek

By Liam Dawe, Jan 10

Available for a limited time during the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest, you can try out a new demo for Townseek, a casual and relaxing exploration-trading game that looks real sweet.

Valve announces new rules for games with AI Content on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jan 10

Valve have now confirmed their rules for game developers using AI generated content on Steam, and while they're not banning AI they are going to ensure it's clearly stated for players.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game engine OpenXRay gets taken down on GitHub

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

OpenXRay is an improved cross-platform version of the X-Ray Engine, which is the original game engine used in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. However, it seems a bad actor got it taken down from GitHub. NOTE: ARTICLE UPDATED.

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Pillars of Eternity from Obsidian has a new patch coming nearly 9 years after release

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

Well this is quite a surprise isn't it? Obsidian Entertainment have announced a new patch is coming and now in Beta on Steam for their 2015 RPG the Pillars of Eternity.

MSI officially announced the Claw A1M handheld with Intel

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

Well there it is! MSI Claw A1M is the official name of the next big vendor to jump into the handheld gaming space to take on the likes of the Steam Deck, ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion Go.

Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

Well, 2024 should be interesting for Linux packaging! While many distributions use different packaging formats like deb, rpm and others there's also Flatpak for cross-distro support. But we also have Canonical's Snap - which is going to get improved cross-distro support.

OpenAI say it would be 'impossible' to train AI without pinching copyrighted works

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

I really fear for the internet and what it will become in even just another year, with the rise of AI writing and AI art being used in place of real people. And now OpenAI openly state they need to use copyrighted works for training material.

Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

Ouch. We're only just into week 2 of 2024 and Unity Software are cutting away a huge amount of their staff, as things aren't looking great for the Unity game engine.

GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, Jan 9

GE-Proton has received two new versions with GE-Proton 8-26 and GE-Proton 8-27 shortly after, mostly focusing on fixing up issues in some games and pulling in new versions of various parts of Proton like Wine and DXVK.

NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.

AMD announces Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Amongst a whole lot of technobabble about AI AI and more AI, AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

JSAUX revealed an upgraded transparent RGB Docking Station

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

If you've got a Steam Deck, an ROG Ally, a Lenovo Legion Go or whatever else is going from the likes of AYANEO and GPD you may want to look into the new upgraded transparent RGB Docking Station from JSAUX.

Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Valve have finally done it, they've actually gone and made Boomer Shooter an official category on Steam. Since there's quite a lot of them now, and more releasing every day, it makes a lot of sense.

Steam hits new user record for 2024 and a record for games released last year

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Yesterday, January 7th, Steam hit a new all-time record for concurrent users online showing that nothing can stop Valve's growth here thanks to the popularity of video games.

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Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever

By Liam Dawe, Jan 8

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.7 on Sunday, 7th January 2024 and as it turns out it's one of the largest releases ever.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.13 Preview improves WiFi, brings LED brightness controls

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6

One missed from yesterday Friday, January 5th is that Valve released another Preview update of SteamOS for Steam Deck with a couple more useful changes.

The big Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution is out now on Steam

By Liam Dawe, Jan 6

Portal: Revolution is a new fan-made campaign for Valve's popular puzzle game Portal 2, and it's now available free on Steam for owners of the game to install and play through.

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