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Oceaneers is a survival-crafting adventure set in a flooded world of sinking islands

By Liam Dawe,
Arriving later in 2026, Oceaneers has a really fun sounding idea. It's a survival-crafting adventure in a flooded world of sinking islands.

Fanatical's Steam Deck friendly Play on the Go Elite Collection is back

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical have a fresh Steam Deck friendly Play on the Go Elite Collection Bundle release, where you can grab some great games.
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Space Dingus is a spiritual sequel to Death Road to Canada

By Liam Dawe,
Death Road to Canada is a lot of fun and so I have great expectations for the next game from Rocketcat Games, which is a spiritual sequel named Space Dingus.

Splitgate 2 is "going back to beta" with the original shutting down as 1047 Games have layoffs

By Liam Dawe,
1047 Games have announced that Splitgate 2 is going to be reworked, and they're shutting down the original Splitgate.

Extreme sports game Descenders Next has released into Early Access

By Liam Dawe,
Descenders Next is a fresh extreme sports game from RageSquid / No More Robots and it shadow-dropped on Steam in Early Access.

Hellraiser game announced with Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival

By Liam Dawe,
The first proper Hellraiser game has just been revealed with Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival.

Co-op climbing game PEAK is a truly great time with friends

By Liam Dawe,
PEAK is another in the list of quality co-op chaos games to add to your collection.

Whimsical exploration-trading adventure Townseek gets a big demo refresh

By Liam Dawe,
Townseek is a colourful casual exploration and trading adventure game from developer Whales And Games, with a brand new big upgrade for the demo available.

Dwarf Fortress gets much more powerful modding in the latest update

By Liam Dawe,
I can't wait to see what the community cooks up for Dwarf Fortress, with the latest update bringing much more advanced modding capabilities to the game.

Valve restores the Steam page for Old School Rally after it got hit with a DMCA

By Liam Dawe,
After recently receiving a DMCA takedown notice, Old School Rally had its Steam store page removed. Valve have now restored it and work on it continues.

Build up a shop and make potions in the cute Penny for Your Potion

By Liam Dawe,
Penny for Your Potion looks like a nice one for fans of casual crafting and management, with you running your own shop and brewing potions for customers.

Fallout: Bakersfield looks like an awesome Doom total conversion with a new trailer

By Liam Dawe,
Made with GZDoom, a fresh teaser for Fallout: Bakersfield has been released and now I'm excited all over again for it.

Mycopunk is a seriously bizarre co-op shooter and a new favourite

By Liam Dawe,
Pure chaos, that's what Mycopunk is. It's exceptionally bizarre and now my new favourite first-person shooter because it's so wildly unique.

Xenopurge has a great concept and a good start for a tense tactical auto-battler

By Liam Dawe,
Xenopurge puts you in the command chair overseeing marines running around various buildings, as you take down the alien threat.

Space Drilling Station looks fun for building and automation fans - with a new Steam Deck compatible demo

By Liam Dawe,
Space Drilling Station has you manage and automate a drilling station on a distant planet. The developer detailed their Steam Deck work with a new demo.

Don't have time for Total War and Crusader Kings? Try the new Bellfortis

By Liam Dawe,
Bellfortis is a medieval turn-based strategy game for players who love the genre, but don't have as much time to commit their lives to it.

There's now an unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Keeping up with the excitement about Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux with the lsfg-vk project, there's now an extra unofficial GUI app.

GeForce Infinity is a new app for GeForce NOW on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
GeForce Infinity was announced recently as another option for running GeForce NOW on Desktop Linux, since NVIDIA haven't put out an official app.

Steam Beta upgrades the in-game performance monitor for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Back in June, Valve revealed the new performance monitor for the in-game Steam overlay, and now the Linux version has been upgraded.

According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share

By Liam Dawe,
Depending on where you look, Linux on the desktop has somewhere between 4-6% user share on the desktop. Showing it's growing slowly but steadily overall.