Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime “soon”
Epic Games recently did an AMA (Ask me anything) in the community Discord server, confirming that a Linux / SteamOS version of the Epic Games Store is coming.
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Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers’ Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out
Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don’t want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch’s own product chief acknowledging that an opt-in system would likely … ⌘ Read more
Out in Early Access - Sandustry has you explore, mine and automate in fully destructible pixel worlds
Hooded Horse picked another good one to publish here from developer Lantto Games. Sandustry is a factory automation game where every pixel is a resource.
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PAYDAY 2 dropped the Native Linux version so you’ll need to use Proton
OVERKILL / Starbreeze Entertainment announced that PAYDAY 2 has dropped support for their Native Linux version with a big update to the game with 64bit support.
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Typomagical is a typing spell-building bullet heaven that will make you panic
Blending the very different worlds of typing games with survivor-like bullet heavens, Typomagical will make you sweat as you frantically type spells.
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GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta
At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA… ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming for Linux levels up and leaves Beta
Cloud gaming on Linux levels up officially today with the full release of the NVIDIA GeForce NOW app for Linux after being in Beta since January.
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV delayed until December
One game we have to wait a bit longer on is Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV, which has moved from September to December 3rd.
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Get some awesome indie adventures and some fun short games in two new Humble Bundles
Humble Bundle recently launched two great new bundles where you can stock up on some Awesome Indie Adventures and a Short Games Showcase. Here’s a round-up.
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US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers
The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus candidates are in the pipeline. CBS News reports: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said in a recent social media post that the federal agency’s recruitment campaign to recruit g … ⌘ Read more
Funny co-op climbing game PEAK has a final major update out now
One of the must-play online co-op games, PEAK from Team PEAK / Aggro Crab is officially finished now with the final free major update.
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Mining for that one single golden bit in ‘10 Million Pixels’ is going to consume me
Another interesting upcoming incremental game here for you called 10 Million Pixels, and it’s all about hunting for the golden pixel.
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Inspired by the Minecraft Redstone system, minimalist puzzler ‘Pight’ is a real gem
Minecraft Redstone tends to melt my brain in a frustrating way, but the minimalist puzzle game Pight makes me feel somewhat smart.
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Bottles game manager v66 brings UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games
Bottles v66 has some major changes for this game manager to make the experience a lot nicer, with UMU from Open Wine Components to help run games.
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Be more prepared for the Steam Frame with Digiphile’s new VR Games Showcase Bundle
Build up that collection of VR games ready to sweat your buttocks off when the Steam Frame releases with the Digiphile VR Games Showcase Bundle.
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The chilled co-op off-roading game ‘over the hill’ arrives October 14
Ready for a little off-roading with friends? Funselektor and Strelka Games revealed that over the hill will arrive on October 14th.
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Asobi: Remote Play is a new way to play PlayStation games on SteamOS / Linux
With testing being done on a SteamOS Steam Deck, Asobi: Remote Play is a new way to play PlayStation games on Linux systems including cloud-streaming.
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Reddit Bans 11-Year Account for GPL Game Post, Testing the EU’s DSA
Longtime Slashdot reader DF5JT writes: On July 26, I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit’s spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account – the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To t … ⌘ Read more
OptiScaler Client 1.0.6 adds Heroic Games Launcher support, experimental gamepad support, FSR 4.1.1 for older GPUs
OptiScaler Client is a modern, high-performance desktop utility designed to simplify the installation, management, and update of the OptiScaler mod.
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XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the ‘Xodus’ project
One big thing missing for Linux right now is support for XBOX PC and Game Pass, but we might not be waiting forever on that thanks to the ‘Xodus’ project.
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Valve Slowly Expands SteamOS Support On Non-Valve Hardware
Valve is continuing to broaden SteamOS support beyond its own hardware, with the latest beta adding “initial gamepad support” for a few recent gaming handhelds and improving compatibility for a few others. Ars Technica reports: Those newly supported handhelds include MSI’s Claw 8 EX AI+, the extremely expensive, extremely powerful handheld built around I … ⌘ Read more
Taiwan ‘Throttles’ Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games
Taiwan deliberately throttled mobile internet across the Taichung area during its annual Han Kuang war games, “simulating communication disruption in the event of a Chinese attack or natural disaster,” reports Reuters. The drill accompanied air-raid exercises and military rehearsals aimed at defending strategically important areas … ⌘ Read more
26 more games join GeForce NOW during August 2026
NVIDIA have announced the next set of games coming to their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW for August 2026.
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Heroic Games Launcher 2.22.1 brings Proton-CachyOS, controller improvements and more to come
The Heroic Games Launcher just launched a small hotfix with some new features while they work on some bigger stuff still to come.
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Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
To celebrate Quake’s 30th anniversary, Bethesda released “a brutal new episode” — a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine “delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognition…”
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Went 0-for-3 tonight, first time in a while. I was doing well both of the first two games, but the 3rd game… Well, the less said the better.
For next week, I guess it’s time for the return of Chatterfang and another Night of 1000 Squirrels.
Just remember, they brought it on themselves…
Proton Experimental gets fixes for Far Cry 5, Nightingale, Lords of The Fallen, various Command & Conquer games
Valve just updated Proton Experimental again bringing more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux to get as many working as possible.
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Wine 11.15 brings improvements for Wayland, more format conversions in WindowsCodecs
The Wine 11.15 development release is out for the Windows to Linux compatibility layer to help run more applications and games.
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Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug
Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller
The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different gaming controllers… ⌘ Read more
Just printed and sleeved some proxies for tomorrow night’s #Magic games, including this one from my Guardians of the Multiverse deck:
He’s Spider-Man Supreme, from Clash of the Champions - a Spider-Man from a universe where Peter Parker is also the Sorcerer Supreme of his Earth. He’s one of my favorite characters in the game, and I thought he’d be an appropriate proxy for Cosmic Spider-Man (the best card from the Spider-Man set, but only really useful for a tribal Spiders deck).
HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone’s Mute Status
A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It’s not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nifty features but rather mundane in nature due to the poor behavior of a high-end HyperX USB gaming microphone… ⌘ Read more
The No More Robots Humble Bundle is a great deal with Let’s Build a Zoo, Yes, Your Grace and more
Another really good chance for you to build up your collection of quality indie games in the No More Robots Humble Bundle.
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GOG have a great sale on shooters going on
Love shooters and DRM-free gaming? GOG have a big sale on action shooters with some really good deals going.
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Ready up for the Steam Frame with the In Your World VR Bundle
Need to grab some VR games ready for the release of the Valve Steam Frame? There’s the In Your World VR Humble Bundle live now with some good stuff.
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SteelSeries’ Latest Arctis Nova 5X & Nova 7 Headsets To Be Supported By Linux 7.3
If you happen to have a gaming headset from the latest SteelSeries Nova 5X or Nova 7 series, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel will begin properly supporting those headsets… ⌘ Read more
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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FEX 2608 Released With More Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2608 is now available as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source emulator sponsored by Valve for running x86_64 binaries on ARM64, including Steam and Windows games with Steam Play (Proton)… ⌘ Read more
EA Is Now Officially Privately Owned
Longtime Slashdot reader neoRUR shares a report from Game Developer: EA Sports FC and Battlefield publisher EA has been taken private by an investor consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign Public Investment Fund (PIF). The move means the U.S. juggernaut is no longer a publicly-traded entity and is now majority owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its PIF investment arm. Other investors incl … ⌘ Read more
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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Linux 7.3 To Fix MSI Claw M-Center Keys For Ryzen Z2 Extreme Powered Handheld
For those with a MSI Claw A8 BZ2EM handheld gaming system, the model powered by the latest AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, an important addition is coming to the Linux 7.3 kernel so that the M-Center keys will be properly supported… ⌘ Read more
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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Gonna recreate the classic [Break out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout(videogame) game this weekend for the Mills Games Cabinet -- Anyone else got any ideas, requests? 🤔 #games #ebitengine
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@prologic@twtxt.net Nice choice!
I was always partial to those 194x-style “bullet hell” games. 🛩️
Gonna recreate the classic [Break out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game) game this weekend for the Mills Games Cabinet – Anyone else got any ideas, requests? 🤔 #games #ebitengine
Microsoft Is Bringing Xbox 360 Games to PC
Microsoft reportedly plans to let developers bring Xbox 360 games to PC and next-generation Xbox devices, with a gradual rollout expected between 2027 and 2028. A separate disc-to-digital program would also give players transferable digital licenses tied to their physical Xbox discs, preserving the ability to resell or trade them. The Verge reports: With 360 games, developers can opt into … ⌘ Read more
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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