Heroic Games Launcher v2.22.2 brings fixes for Rockstar, Ubisoft and more
Heroic Games Launcher continues being an essential tool in the box for SteamOS / Linux gamers, with a fresh hotfix release out now.
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SteamOS 3.8.27 Beta and SteamOS 3.9.1 Preview released - Valve continue working on NVIDIA support
Valve released two new testing builds with SteamOS 3.8.27 Beta and the much bigger SteamOS 3.9.1 Preview.
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Steam Frame pricing and release date revealed by Valve - it’s a lottery again
Valve today finally announced the price of their new VR kit the Steam Frame with SteamOS Linux, and it’s actually not as bad as I expected.
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Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake”, Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today’s article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framewo … ⌘ Read more
Tempest Rising: The Veti’s Wrath arrives September 29 along with a free update
Some more RTS goodies are coming with Tempest Rising: The Veti’s Wrath DLC arriving September 29th, and everyone can play the Veti free in multiplayer.
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OpenRGB 1.0 released to help you control all your fancy gamer lights
A PC is never truly a gamer PC unless it has some fancy RGB lighting right? Now easier to control than ever with OpenRGB 1.0 released.
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Bazzite’s September 13 update adds Strix Halo TDP controls, restores desktop TDP controls and brings fixes
The September 13th update for the popular Bazzite Linux is out now, bringing with it some excellent sounding improvements for handheld and desktop gamers.
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Transport Fever 3 gets a brand new gameplay overview
Transport Fever 3 from Urban Games and Paradox Interactive has a new gameplay overview to check out ahead of the release this month.
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Respect The Horde combines top-down shooting, tower defense and extraction all in one
Respect The Horde is coming from GFX47 (No Plan B, GLADIABOTS) as a curious mixture of top-down zombie shooting, with tower defense and extraction mechanics.
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The classic Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball just got a major free upgrade
A blast from the not so distant past, Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball is a highly rated multiplayer game that just had a huge surprise update.
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The rather good The King is Watching adds Steam Deck & gamepad support
The King is Watching from Hypnohead and tinyBuild has a major new update out with Steam Deck and gamepad support.
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Goblin-crushing PvE brawler Fangstorm looks juicy with a playtest on Steam
Wave-based tower defence with juicy visceral combat - Fangstorm looks like a lot of fun. Getting some Orcs Must Die! vibes from this one.
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High-tech future survival city-builder XIRI: Oasis Cities announced
XIRI: Oasis Cities is a survival-driven city builder set in a high-tech future. You build up and defend your city from pretty much everything.
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StarCraft returns in 2030 - plus Diablo V, World of Warcraft: Forever and more from BlizzCon 2026
BlizzCon 2026 just happened and with it we got some big announcements - here’s your highlights of some of the big stuff coming.
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Flock Worker Calls Police On Reporter - For Filming Them in Public
“This is what happened when we tried to record Flock installing a new camera on public roads,” says Emmy award-winning reporter Brendan Keefe in a new video for InvestigateTV. In an accompanying article, InvestigateTV says their reporter “parked on the public street at a distance, donned a yellow safety vest and a hat emblazoned with the logo … ⌘ Read more
Proton Experimental updated with fixes for STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT, EA App, Borderlands 4
Valve released a small update for Proton Experimental - the compatibility layer to run Windows games on SteamOS / Linux for September 11th.
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Shroom and Gloom is a double deck-builder with some impeccable artwork
Shroom and Gloom from Team Lazerbeam and Devolver Digital has arrived in Early Access - one of the most interesting looking dungeon-crawling deck-builders ever.
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The XApp Project from Linux Mint gets a fancy new website - plus a new Calendar and EPUB reader
I do have to hand it to the Linux Mint team - they do a lot of good work overall and now they’re expanding the XApp project.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta released for testing
The next main release of the KDE Plasma desktop is coming soon, and a first Beta is available for you to check it out and go hunting for bugs.
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Story-driven third-person sci-fi shooter - The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon announced
Adapted from Liu Cixin’s The Wandering Earth, Studio Surgical Scalpels and publisher Starry Dome revealed The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon.
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The classic Westwood / EA game Nox joins the GOG Preservation Program with new fixes
After their special Patron supporters voted, GOG have placed the classic Nox into their Preservation Program with a fresh set of fixes.
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Orc Incremental review - an incremental auto battler inspired by classic Warcraft
Orc Incremental is a fresh release from developer Nice Ride and publisher Playsaurus that sets you on a path of orcs versus humans with auto-battling.
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Lunar colony-building automation sim The Crust 1.0 arrives with Linux and macOS support
The Crust is an automation-driven city builder and colony simulation set on the Moon. It just hit the big 1.0 release and now has Linux and macOS support too.
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Core Keeper - Riders of the Underground brings rideable mounts on September 21
I’m really going to need to set aside some time to play through lots more of Core Keeper - because they keep rolling out some excellent updates to it.
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Active Matter developers put up an incredibly distasteful AI notice on Steam
Active Matter from Gaijin Network Ltd looks like a lot of fun for fans of first-person shooters, but they soured it with a truly distasteful AI notice.
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SteamVR 2.17 arrives - ready to go for the Steam Frame
With a whole lot of new features, improvements and fixes - Valve rolled out SteamVR 2.17 and it’s looking ready for the Steam Frame release.
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Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services
Finally, another publisher has realised extra launchers on Steam are a pain in the ass, surprisingly this time it’s Ubisoft doing something good.
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Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 “Granite Rapids WS” series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated … ⌘ Read more
The deeply mysterious delivery adventure Truckful arrives in October
MythicOwl and Pocketpair Publishing have announced that Truckful, their peaceful looking delivery sim with plenty of mystery releases October 9th.
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No Man’s Sky Cosmos preps for Steam Frame plus - orbital construction, alliances, colossal shipwrecks and tons more
Hello Games are truly expanding No Man’s Sky into a forever space sandbox aren’t they? The new Cosmos update is out and it’s another massive one.
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METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION announced for Steam
SNK recently announced the METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION which will come to Steam sometime in 2027.
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Watch - Valve’s GDC 2026 talk on how they’re helping developers succeed on PC
Valve went along to GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 to give a talk titled “Steam Platform 2026: How Valve is Helping Game Developers Succeed on PC Gaming”.
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Try the new demo for If Red Then Stop - a traffic coding automation puzzler
If you love puzzle games that teach a little programming and automation - If Red Then Stop looks like your next visit.
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Denshattack! review
Denshattack! is about becoming the greatest acrobatic train driver in Japan by competing in over-the-top battles by flipping trains like they’re skateboards.
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Spy Drops Gaiden looks like a fun retro stealth-action throwback
Spy Drops Gaiden is channelling some retro Metal Gear here with their upcoming old school 2D stealth action game that arrives in October.
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PHYSINT from Hideo Kojima moves from PlayStation to XBOX
PHYSINT, a new action-stealth game coming from Hideo Kojima has split from PlayStation and jumped over to XBOX.
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Steam Beta for Sept 9th has huge changes - Big Art Mode, Screensaver, Proton option changes, Desktop Mode toggle for SteamOS
Valve have been cooking on this one! A new Steam Beta update for September 9th brings some big additions for Desktop gamers and SteamOS systems.
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NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 released for Linux with Vulkan / Proton improvements with NVIDIA Reflex
Released as part of their slightly less tested New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 is out now for Linux.
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Viking afterlife open-world survival game Valheim 1.0 is finally here
After ~5 years in Early Access, the viking inspired open-world survival game Valheim has now officially launched with the new Deep North biome to finish it up.
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I love the chunky control panels in the spaceflight simulator In Control: Rocketry
In Control: Rocketry was revealed by Maximum Entertainment where you have to build and wire up control panels to control space rockets.
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Bad House fuses together auto-battling and dungeon-crawling beneath your new house
Developer Andrew Morrish (Kingsway) and publisher The Arcade Crew (Drop Duchy, Abyssus) announced Bad House, a genre-blending, auto-battling adventure.
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Check out ‘I.T. Never Ends’, a dark-comedy workplace horror game
Some jobs feel quite hellish right? But I.T. Never Ends makes it literal in a darkly comedic blend of office grind and indie horror.
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In the horror roguelite 500 FINGER FILLET you have to save your fingers
Giving me flashbacks to the scene in Aliens where the Android Bishop does a knife trick inbetween the fingers of Hudson - check out 500 FINGER FILLET.
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Civilization VII charts a course to the future with the free Arc of Tomorrow update and Earthrise DLC
Some big upgrades are coming in future to Civilization VII, with Firaxis Games outlining their upcoming content plans including free and paid expansions.
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The classic free No More Room in Hell gets a massive update with 64-bit, Vulkan, Steam Networking and more
Time to give No More Room in Hell another spin? This classic free first person survival horror just levelled up with a major upgrade.
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Age Verification for Steam rolls out in Australia requiring a Credit Card
Valve have rolled out Age Verification requirements on Steam in Australia, requiring users to keep a Credit Card on their account.
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GOG expand their Preservation Program with more games and now 3D scans of box art too
Making it easier than ever to backup your DRM-free downloads and make them look cool - the GOG Preservation Program has expanded with some fun stuff.
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Castles on wheels (and legs) built for destruction - Wanderburg is explosive fun
Wanderburg released into Early Access today and it’s one I think you’re going to love - with castles on wheels, legs and all sorts.
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Sci-fi action roguelike Deadzoned is another fab game from caiys
From developer caiys who made the excellent Boneraiser Minions, along with Voids Vigil and Xenosensory has another game out now with Deadzoned.
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Dealer’s Dice blends tower defense and incrementals together into a quirky game
Face off against the dealer with your random rolls in Dealer’s Dice, which blends together tower defense and incrementals.
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