From Impact Gameworks who made the excellent Tangledeep, their next game Flowstone Saga is officially out now with Linux support.
There's been a few attempts to update Pinball into something new, and Pinball Spire is the latest that's out now. It's Steam Deck Verified and works great on desktop Linux with Valve's Proton.
Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher (UMU) from Thomas "GloriousEggroll" Crider version 1.1.1 is out now as the first official release to help improve Linux desktop and Steam Deck gaming.
Game development is a complicated beast, a constant challenge to get funding and for Studio Black Flag who were building the promising looking Orphan Age it's all over.
Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 24.2.4 open source graphics drivers, coming with multiple bug fixes for this stable release.
Caves of Qud is easily (and I keep saying this) one of the best roguelikes ever made, and with the latest Beta it's a lot easier to get into. You might also want to buy it soon before the price rises.
After a bigger Steam Beta Client recently that had some nice improvements for Game Recording, and various Linux fixes along with another SteamOS Beta - we have yet another tiny SteamOS update.
Firaxis Games and 2K have released the system requirements for Sid Meier's Civilization VII on Windows, but the Linux and macOS requirements will be coming later.
Paradox Interactive have announced that Hearts of Iron IV is getting a big new expansion in Götterdämmerung on November 14th, and they're bringing the whole Expansion Pass idea from other games to Hearts of Iron IV as well.
Have a Warhammer Day Humble Bundle is live and you might need to give thanks to the Emperor for this one.
Solo developer Joe Richardson is bringing on another brilliantly funny fusion of Monty Pythonesque humour with artwork styled like moving Renaissance paintings in Death of the Reprobate.
Recently we had the big news that Valve (Steam) began a collaboration with Arch Linux, to help fund two very specific parts of the Linux distribution. Now, we have a bit more info on what it means.
This is probably one of the best months for Humble Choice in some time, with some really great games to claim if you're a monthly subscriber.
Common Colors and Application Systems Heidelberg have announced that the creepy-but-cute point’n’click adventure game full of dark humour will release on October 24th.
Developer Wayne Heaney has been working to make XR glasses on Linux / Steam Deck a much better experience, and their latest release of the XR Gaming Plugin sounds awesome.
Whatever will they do with DOOM next? A developer at AMD decided to port over classic DOOM to run almost entirely on the GPU.
Valve released the latest major update to Counter-Strike 2 that brings with it more than 100 new items including weapon charms.
What could quite easily end up being the next big indie hit just like Balatro, you're going to want to check out the new demo for Pip My Dice.
Valve released a fresh Steam Client Beta for all platforms with some big Game Recording improvements, plus there's also another small Steam Deck SteamOS Beta update.
Earlier in 2024, Valve announced that games being sold in Germany were going to require an Age Rating to continue to be sold, and now there's a deadline.