GE-Proton 11-9 arrives with improvements for Video Playback, Wayland, Controllers and more
GE-Proton 11-9 (and GE-Proton 11-8 just before it) have been released to bring more improvements for Windows games on SteamOS / Linux.
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Epic Games’ New Vibe-Coded Launcher Is 46% Faster Than Steam
Epic has launched a preview of a new AI-generated Games Launcher that it says cold-starts 46% faster than Steam. Neowin reports: Epic commissioned a third-party company to benchmark this new launcher in its current Preview build versus the Steam client on Windows machines. The results reported that Epic’s client is 46% faster than Valve’s client during co … ⌘ Read more
Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF
In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game… ⌘ Read more
Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat
Epic Games have announced their brand new Epic Games Launcher refresh has a Preview available, along with Native Linux support and Fortnite is coming to Linux.
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Facepunch are rethinking s&box since it’s not doing well - it’s going free to play
The sandbox game creation and game playing platform s&box from Garry’s Mod and Rust developer Facepunch is going through a big rethink.
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GTA 6 Is Reportedly Coming to PC In Early 2027
GamesBeat reports that Rockstar plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI on PC in the first quarter of 2027, just a few months after its November 19, 2026 launch on consoles. The report follows Microsoft’s announcement last week that it had secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights to the game. Since Rockstar has yet to officially announce a PC version, “this deal will allow Xbox to mar … ⌘ Read more
Squadron 42 now has a Steam page and new trailer ahead of “Q2 2027” release
Cloud Imperium Games have put up a Steam page for Squadron 42, their cinematic single-player sci-fi adventure game set in the expansive Star Citizen universe.
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After a 10-Year Redemption Arc, No Man’s Sky Is Coming to the iPhone and iPad
No Man’s Sky is coming to iPhone and iPad on October 28, more than a decade after its rocky launch and long-running redemption arc. The title will cost $19.99, but a free trial will let users try it out before purchasing. Ars Technica reports: It will run on devices as far back as the iPhone 11 and the third-generation iP … ⌘ Read more
Clean up a bloody aftermath to grow a terribly weird garden in Goreticulture
Goreticulture is a game about growing a visceral garden as you clean up a bloody aftermath.
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One More Flight is an upcoming psychological horror set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a time loop
This looks like it could be an interesting on. A psychological horror game set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a relentless time loop.
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Pick up more games in the Cozy After Dark Showcase Humble Bundle
More cheap games to add to your collection? Yes! The Cozy After Dark Showcase Humble Bundle is live with 10 games available in it.
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RimWorld switching from Unity to their own Waylith Engine and a new game was teased
Ludeon Studios announced a major change the the popular game RimWorld, as they’re moving away from Unity to their own game engine - and a new game is coming.
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Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers To Use More AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game collaboration with Walt Disney and told its developers to use more artificial intelligence tools to finish the game, according to people familiar with the project. The title had been slated for release in March, but is now delayed with no … ⌘ Read more
Should We Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock?
NPR reports:
Police officers in cities across the U.S. are quick to extol the virtues of real-time crime centers as a game changer that helps them find missing children, monitor large events from the skies and scope out dangerous scenes before putting an officer in harm’s way. Hundreds of police departments have one of th … ⌘ Read more
SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands is an upcoming survival game about terraforming and restoring life
Developer Against All Odds revealed SEEDS - Echoes Beneath the Sands, a very interesting sounding sandbox survival game about terraforming and creating life.
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ScummVM 2026.4 brings nearly 200 newly supported retro games
ScummVM 2026.4.0 has released, bringing with it support for nearly 200 more retro games across 12 different game engines.
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Game Console Market Craters: Xbox and PS5 Sales Plummet Over 25%
“Video game console sales in the U.S. have cratered,” reports Tom’s Hardware, with sales through August far below where they’d been in 2025:
Mat Piscatella, the video game industry advisor at research firm Circana, shared the numbers on his Bluesky account — PlayStation 5 sales have dropped by 25%, putting it at its lowest point since 2013, whe … ⌘ Read more
Corsair Novablade Pro & 8BitDo Pro 2 Controllers To Be Supported With Linux 7.3-rc7
Sent out today as part of this week’s input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux… ⌘ Read more
AI Execs Game Out ‘Political Revolt’ after a Catastrophic AI Event
Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies “are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event,” reports Axios, one that turns “an already wary public further against the technology and its leaders…”
These AI company executives “anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyber … ⌘ Read more
I forgot to note it here, but last night I opened my first bug report for the Old School Essentials Online Rules Reference, a modern set of rules for playing classic D&D-like games (and one which helped inspire my own system).
Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4
Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more
Valve’s Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues
CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more
The Fanatical Build your own All Stars Bundle (Winter) has another nice selection of games
The Fanatical Build your own All Stars Bundle (Winter) has launched giving you the chance to save even more monies on various games together.
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Highlights from the Triple-I Initiative Showcase - October 2026 Edition
Another Triple-I Initiative Showcase came and went yesterday, here’s some of the really cool looking games featured in it.
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Get more top quality games for cheap in The Triple-i Initiative Showcase Bundle
The Triple-i Initiative Showcase Bundle has arrived and with it you can fill up your Steam Library with even more interesting games.
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DXVK-Sarek 1.14.0 released for gaming on older GPUs
DXVK-Sarek version 1.14.0 has arrived, keeping Wine / Proton gaming alive for those of you with older GPUs that don’t have modern Vulkan support.
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OCTOPATH TRAVELER, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, and NEO: The World Ends With You arrive on GOG
Three more Square Enix games have today landed on DRM-free store GOG.com, and they’re part of the GOG Preservation Program too.
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Dig to find your missing crew in the underground indie horror GRINDWORM
GRINDWORM is a horror game built around isolation, dread, and the slow erosion of reality as you dig underground to find your missing crew.
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Unity lean heavily into AI prompting games into existence with Unity Spark
Unity were already moving forwards with Unity AI that we covered back in May, and now that make game button becomes closer to reality with Unity Spark.
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Find your fighting spirit with the Humble Indie Fighters Bundle
Love fighting games? Now you can grab a whole bunch of them for cheaps in the Humble Indie Fighters Bundle.
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Be more ready for the Steam Frame with the Humble Beyond Reality VR Bundle
Got the Steam Frame or any other VR kit? There’s a new Humble Beyond Reality VR Bundle with an interesting set of sci-fi games to grab.
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Windows apps and games added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux now use Proton by default
Valve updated the Steam Client Beta with a useful change to external Windows apps / games getting added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, @david@daiwei.me is correct - it is a website with (most) everything one would need to run a fantasy tabletop role-playing game, either in-person or online. I use a service called Roll20 which provides a “shared” tabletop with virtual maps, dice, and character sheets that all the players can see (and I can control). It’s really alot of fun - it’s basically adult make-believe, but with a shared set of rules and a “game master” to keep the story moving. 😁
Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet’s Google and gaming tools developer Unity Software announced a new platform that will allow people to create video games from simple text prompts, marking the latest incursion of generative artificial intelligence into artistic and creative industries. The initiative, called Playground, … ⌘ Read more
FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements
FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for ARM64 Linux systems, including most notably by Valve’s Steam Frame headset… ⌘ Read more
Xbox Secures Exclusive GTA 6 Streaming Rights
Microsoft has reportedly secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights for Grand Theft Auto VI, meaning Xbox Cloud Gaming will be the only service able to stream the game at launch. “Rockstar Games still hasn’t announced a PC version of Grand Theft Auto VI, so this deal will allow Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud Gaming service to PC players who would otherwise need an Xbox Series X / S or … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton
NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes… ⌘ Read more
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@david@daiwei.me Ahh, I’m only confused then because I’ve never seen anything quite like this, nor have I played and role playing games on a table-top either.
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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I think so, what I was mostly confused about is the website itself. It has a lot of content and verbiage. Can the game be played on the website? Or is it table-top played? 🤔
Humble Choice for October 2026 has Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and more
A fresh Humble Choice Bundle for October 2026 has arrived and it’s a really good set of games overall for this month to claim.
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@prologic@twtxt.net It depends on which part you’re asking about…
First some quick context: I’ve been into tabletop role-playing games (ex: Dungeons & Dragons) since I was a teenager, and I’ve been playing and/or running games for most of the last decade (mostly on Discord for the past few years, as my players are scattered around the country).
The Planar Vagabond’s Guide to the Multiverse is a website where I’ve collected much of the material I’ve written or adapted into my custom RPG ruleset, HOSR (Heroic Old-School Roleplaying), and I just published some new stuff there. 🤩
While most RPGs are played as “campaigns” (over multiple gaming sessions), a one-shot is an adventure that can (theoretically) be finished in a single-night (3-5 hours of gameplay). I’ve done horror-themed one-shots around Halloween for years, typically based on the classic gothic adventure, Ravenloft. But this year, I’m running something new(-er) called Escape the O.V.T.!, and I’m being intentionally cagey about it because I want it to be a surprise for my players.
Does that explain it? I’m happy to go deeper on any of it. 🙂
Meta Engineer’s Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance
Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. That work was done by David Vernet who is a Linux kernel engineer/hacker at Mesa. This week Vernet presented on the topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference happening in Prague… ⌘ Read more
The Importance Of Intel’s LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency
Intel’s LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency. Here are some of Intel’s own findings on the importance of LPMD for Linux gaming.. ⌘ Read more
There’s now over 200 Steam Frame Verified games
Valve’s new VR kit the Steam Frame has managed to cross over 200 games that are rated Steam Frame Verified.
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Humble’s Akupara Games 10th Anniversary Bundle is filled with goodies
Humble Bundle is celebrating 10 years of Akupara Games with a fresh collection of indie gems for you to grab for cheaps.
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Destroy every little pixel in the superhero destruction sandbox MOLTYN
Imagine the destructive pixel simulation from games like Noita but you’re a superhero in MOLTYN - it looks like some truly over-the-top glorious chaos.
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Become the hivemind of thousands of rats in I Am Plague
Another great looking Incremental game for you here with I Am Plague, that sees you become the hivemind of thousands of rats as you explore dungeons.
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Surreal corporate horror deckbuilder Mr Magpie’s Harmless Card Game gets a demo
Ready to try out more spooky looking games? The surreal corporate horror deckbuilder Mr Magpie’s Harmless Card Game now has a demo available.
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Victorian era point and click comedy Heir of the Dog launches October 29
UK indie developer and publisher Tall Story Games’ pixel art point-and-click adventure Heir of the Dog is landing on October 29th.
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Some of the best spooky Linux games to get in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026
The Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is here, and we’re getting in the spooky-season spirit going over some of the best rated horror-like Native Linux games.
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