A fresh update is here for Proton Experimental to get even more Windows games working on SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Money talk, wealth shoots.
A new Baldurâs Gate 3 mod adds a huge detour between Act 2 and Act 3, with a new region and dozens of fiendish foes to defeat with your party.
Here's some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during August 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go!Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Remember when, a couple of weeks ago, the singer of American band Breaking Benjamin was filmed promoting a Fallout 4 first person he'd made via a mid-gig speech about modding community drama? Well, according to Benjamin Burnley, that wasn't some planned tirade, but rather an instance of ad-libbing to fill the dead air caused by a snare drum giving up the ghost. As for why it exists, the answer's largely just that the bloke loves him some VR wandering around Tamriel and The Commonwealth. Read m
Battlestate Games Publishing will spotlight "risky" hardcore games. I asked Escape from Tarkov icon and studio COO Nikita Buyanov about it.
I don't need to get out more.
Uncle Microsoft's efforts to keep inventing the Torment Nexus proceed apace with a patent application for an in-game advertising system that might use machine learning to read your activities, and work out when you'll be least apoplectic about being suddenly served a giant MacDonalds pop-up. Read more
Here's some of the highest-rated Native Linux games released on Steam during August 2026. Helping you find something interesting to go and play.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Before Embark Studios gives us a peak of the Frozen Trail, its reminding us that there are tasty Subway rewards up for grabs.
Making use of that juicy 40-quest limit.
I dug The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. It's a game about a fortune-telling witch on an asteroid who designs tarot cards and eventually gets sucked into politics. It also has its own special dildo. The devs behind it, Deconstructeam, are set to release their next game on October 27th. It's called Virtue and a Sledgehammer, and it's about revisiting your hometown to do a bit of trauma-laced DIY - if levelling the place counts as DIY. Read more
A herald of the end, dressed in yellow.
I loved 2024's Lorn's Lure, the megastructure exploration game with the handsome climbing axes, but it took me a while to get the better of the whole "repeatedly falling and dying" element. I imagine a few megastructure lovers were deterred by this. Fine, says developer Rubeki, here's The Hollowing - another megastructure game set in the same narrative universe, but this time, with an airplane. Read more
Not that the competition was steep.
An X post just highlighted to me that Amazon really does sell everything.
"We encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism."
Hideo Koijima and his studio Kojima Productions have offered a more in-depth version of their side of the story after action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox earlier this month. Kojima claimed PlayStation had tried to cancel the game, with a subsequent report from Bloomberg alleging that an exceeded budget, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding series sales not being as strong as Sony hoped were among the factors which led the console makers to get cold feet.
The GTA 6 release date has now been confirmed by Rockstar, and we've got the latest gameplay reveals, GTA trailers, and Rockstar news.
Ah, another thing to keep me awake at night.
Having launched though the same system of reservations and waitlists as the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame is still navigating that inscrutable void betixt "on sale" and "actually out." Nevertheless, it’s had its first software update, SteamOS 0.3.0, which brings – among other technical tidbits – a microphone bug fix, smoother controller tracking, and "substantially faster" charging to the VR headset. Yeah, nice one Valve. Would have been useful to have that last one when revi
