Prison Architect devs Introversion Software announce Arise Dark Lord
Arise Dark Lord is an action-strategy hybrid RTS that blends tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar.
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Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is a satisfying incremental-style tower defense with enemies flowing like waves
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem from developer Mumpitz Games released recently, and it is a thoroughly satisfying mixture of incremental-style tower defense.
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Half-Life 2: VR Mod gets a big upgrade ready for the Steam Frame
The community team behind the very highly rated Half-Life 2: VR Mod have pushed out a major upgrade to the game, with it now Steam Frame Verified.
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Humble Choice for August 2026 brings TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and more
Another rather good month for Humble Choice subscribers, with a fresh set of games for August 2026 bringing some fun experiences.
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Free to play football game Strikers Club adds Easy Anti-Cheat - works on SteamOS / Linux
Strikers Club is a free to play multiplayer football game where everyone controls a single player, and now it has Easy Anti-Cheat.
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dwproton-11.0-10 released with a fix for Honkai: Star Rail
If you want to play various Anime games on Linux like Honkai: Star Rail, dwproton is likely the best one to use with many tweaks to make them playable.
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Mini roguelike citybuilder ‘Combolands’ from Terra Nil designer launches August 24
Combolands is a mini citybuilding roguelike! Place buildings, stack combos, and master deep strategy in short bursts.
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Feed rubber ducks to a bottomless corporate void in Project P.I.T.T. on August 19
Throw ducks down a void, unlock helpful contraptions and keep on optimizing in the quirky Project P.I.T.T. with the release date announced for August 19th.
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Electronic Arts (EA) officially sold off to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Jared Kushner and others
Electronic Arts (EA) announced the big deal has been completed, and the company has now been sold off privately to a group of investors including Saudi Arabia.
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NVIDIA now supporting the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as a premier sponsor
Nice to see the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) continues to grow, with it pulling in NVIDIA as a brand new sponsor.
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Settlement building co-op action-adventure Necesse ‘Rust & Romance’ update is a big one
Out now is the Rust & Romance free update for Necesse, a game that is necessary to play if you love co-op games that mix completely different genres.
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Lighthouse, the Harbour Masters PC port of Banjo Kazooie is out now
While we already had one PC port of Banjo Kazooie with Banjo: Recompiled, we now have another from the Harbour Masters crew.
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Gears of War: E-Day gets a multiplayer deep dive and open Beta details
Gears of War: E-Day arrives October 6th and we’ve been recently given more information on how multiplayer works, along with open Beta details.
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Wordless prehistoric sci-fi adventure Theropods launches August 20
Theropods is a gorgeous looking pixel-art wordless prehistoric sci-fi adventure, and you’ll be able to go explore when it arrives on August 20th.
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Denuvo DRM has been removed from Atomic Heart
Add this to your list of games to grab if you skip over Denuvo DRM protected titles, as Atomic Heart has finally been set free from it.
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Mistfall Hunter is a new extraction ARPG that works on SteamOS / Linux
Mistfall Hunter is an extraction ARPG that blends together mechanics found in some other popular games, and it’s out now working well on SteamOS / Linux.
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NVIDIA stable driver 595.91.07 and new feature driver 610.57.04 released for Linux
Gaming on Linux with NVIDIA? Check out the latest two new driver releases that have been released together today.
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Keychron announced “ZGM”, open-source firmware for gaming mice
Coming sometime in Q1 2027, hardware vendor Keychron recently announced a new project to bring open-source firmwire to mice named ZGM — Zephyr Gaming Mouse.
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For your next group session - failure is truly deadly in the mini-game game filled Machine Party
Mario Party but for people who love high-stakes and brutal outcomes? Sign me up for Machine Party.
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TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age RTS arrives August 18
TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age is a very promising looking classic real-time strategy game that’s set now to arrive on August 18th.
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According to Statcounter, Linux on the desktop crossed over 7% globally
Take it with your usual pinch of salt, but Statcounter is showing some impressive growth for the Linux desktop overall globally.
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Get plenty of games by supporting the ‘Game industry hardship fund’
There’s a new bundle of games on itch.io ‘Game industry hardship fund’ that helps to support various game developers after losing jobs.
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Lepton and FEX get prepared for the Steam Frame release
It should be “soon” now right? The almost mythical Steam Frame from Valve may end up releasing this week, with lots of back-end work being done.
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Adventure game Thimbleweed Park 2 announced
While details on it are quite light as we’ve only got the first announcement of it coming, Thimbleweed Park 2 is real and coming sometime in 2028.
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THE FINALS will be adding a new “Elytra” anti-cheat
Embark have given an update in the ongoing fight against cheaters, with a new anti-cheat named Elytra to begin rolling out that’s home-grown.
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Arch Linux AUR hit with another wave of malware
After previously dealing with a big wave of malware in the Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository), another wave happened while I was off touching grass.
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Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for July 2026 is out now and going by the current data, Linux has managed to jump back just over 4%.
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MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July… ⌘ Read more
Steam Beta adds HDR streaming on Steam Deck OLED
Valve just released the latest Steam Beta for all supported platforms, bringing with it some important fixes and improvements to Steam Deck OLED streaming.
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The massive Project Zomboid Build 42 is out now
Project Zomboid just had a big free upgrade with Build 42 now out in the stable branch, bringing with it an overhaul to various parts of the game.
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I love my Steam Machine but there’s lots of work Valve need to do
The Steam Machine has released and as Valve go through the list more people will get it, but it was pushed out clearly a bit too early.
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Dreamsend: Wintersong is a 2.5D cyberpunk fantasy strategy RPG worth keeping an eye on
Recently announced by developer Anthony Nguyen, Dreamsend: Wintersong is an indie 2.5D cyberpunk fantasy strategy RPG that looks real interesting.
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Co-op group climbing game Sunset Summit from the devs of DEVOUR arrives August
Brothers Joe and Andrew Fender, the devs behind the indie mega hit DEVOUR, have revealed that Sunset Summit will arrive on August 21st.
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Double Fine get layoffs after split from Microsoft
Double Fine have announced that 23 members of their team have been let go, as they need to cut down on expenses to keep the studio alive.
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Valve make it clear no one is skipping ahead in the list for a Steam Machine
A fair amount of people don’t quite understand how the Steam Machine reservation and waitlist works - so Valve reminded people no one is skipping the line.
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STAR OCEAN series arrives on GOG
Love a good RPG and DRM-free? Head over to GOG as they’ve added some STAR OCEAN titles to their catalogue today along with a sale.
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Proton 10 and Proton 11 get Steamworks SDK 1.65 for Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck
Not only do we have an update for Proton Experimental with plenty of improvements, but Valve also gave Proton 10 and Proton 11 updates too.
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GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux
GOG previously said they planned to Linux closer at Linux, and that it was the next major frontier - and they’re now working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux.
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There’s now over 40 games ready for the Steam Frame
We still don’t know when the Steam Frame from Valve will arrive, but we do know the list of games ready for it continues to build up and there’s now over 40.
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Proton Experimental brings fixes for Far Cry New Dawn, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, controller hotplugging and more
Valve pushed out a brand new update for Proton Experimental on July 28th - making more Windows games run well on SteamOS / Linux systems.
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Mission Center is a slick app to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, GPU and more on Linux
An app I haven’t covered he before is Mission Center - giving you a tidy interface to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU and more.
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Allogloom is a gorgeous looking point and click adventure launching in October
If you’re a fan of point and click adventures, Allogloom needs to be not just on your radar but right at the top of your wishlist too.
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007 First Light is now Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified
007 First Light recently had Denvuo DRM removed, and it’s now fully Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified.
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NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cloudflare, The Linux Foundation and more launch the “Open Secure AI Alliance”
Some big names are coming together to form the “Open Secure AI Alliance”, with a plan to “share open tools that promote responsible use of and trust in AI”.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC releases in August along with a big free upgrade
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope is the first major expansion for the open-world shooter, with a release date now set for August 20th.
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Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings native rendering to the PC port of the Xbox classic Skate 3
Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings the classic Xbox 360 version of Skate 3 to modern platforms, and now with a modern renderer using Vulkan (or Direct3D on Windows).
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Crack open planets in the idle incremental game Swarmslam
I’ve grown to love a few idle incremental games recently and started discovering more - like Swarmslam, which has a fun idea about smashing through planets.
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EmuDeck announce they are now ready for the Steam Machine
For those of you who want to do some emulation on the Steam Machine, EmuDeck is likely a good option and it should work better now.
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Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve’s Steam Frame
Valve don’t seem to be able to catch a break with their hardware releases - as Qualcomm reportedly plan to raise prices a lot.
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The awesome crime noir FPS ‘Fallen Aces’ has episode 2 out now
From publisher New Blood Interactive, the wonderful retro crime noir FPS ‘Fallen Aces’ has episode 2 out now.
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