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Epomaker Glyph Keyboard Review. Typewriters are Back!
During the Tokyo Games Show 2026 we went around quite a bit in the hardware section and this time we had a good look at keyboard and peripherals. EPOMAKER had a huge booth in the second hall and something caught my eye immediately when I went there: the Glyph keyboard. Most…
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Sulfur and Probably Stolen - 2026-10-31 Edition
Between 2026-10-24 and 2026-10-31 we selected 17 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The highlight for this week is Sulfur, a great extraction shooter that also brings a lot of gun…
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including the Mailroom - 2026-10-28 Edition
Between 2026-10-21 and 2026-10-28 there were 152 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 1241 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.2 % of total released titles. A lot of titles…
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Final Fantasy Resonance and Bruisers 2D Boxing - 2026-10-24 Edition
Between 2026-10-17 and 2026-10-24 we selected 8 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. The obvious pick for the past week is Final Fantasy Resonance which is not only a new Final…
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Thunder Hoop Collection - Review on Linux and Steam Deck
One of my earlier memories of video games was choosing an arcade machine that would make my coin last longer. If possible a game that was enjoyable to pass the time. That usually meant Metal Slug. I only finished that game years later when it came out for console with infinite…
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I get to rule Lisbon in Crown of Hispania: Review on Linux and Steam Deck
My full title for this review was: “I accidentally married my heir to the youngest daughter of the Badajoz’s king and now I get to rule Lisbon.” I always wanted to title something like those Korean novels. Now I can remove that from my bucket list thanks to Crown of Hispania, a…
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A Pretty Case for the OrangePi 6 Plus
We have already received and talked about the OrangePi 6 Plus several times. It’s an awesome ARM64 system with a lot of power under the hood, akin to what you find on modern laptops in terms of performance, it can even run some fairly demanding X86_64 games with Box64! I was…
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Enshrouded, Over the Hill, and Warhammer 40k: Boltgun 2 - 2026-10-17 Edition
Between 2026-10-10 and 2026-10-17 we selected 16 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. This week quite a few good titles, with Enshrouded reaching 1.0 and being widely recognized as…
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Did Nintendo Kill Switch Emulation? The State of Yuzu, Ryujinx, and Their Forks in 2026
We have been covering the Nintendo Switch emulation for years, because it’s a cool topic on the technical side, and has interesting legal ramifications as well. Emulation has pretty much always been considered legal as long as it’s done in a clean room fashion, but that did not…
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Car Park Capital and Hungry Horrors - 2026-10-14 Edition
Between 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-14 there were 105 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 768 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 13.7 % of total released titles. The highlight is a…
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Iron Nest: Review on Linux and Steam Deck
In Iron Nest, you have a job: you are in charge of a huge mobile cannon, and you have to precisely shoot enemies of the state on demand. Everything is in first person mode. You live inside the Iron Nest cannon, you even have a cat, and some music (vinyl) and a coffee machine to…
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Radxa Linkr - Reviewed on Linux: An affordable and featureful IP KVM Device
So this time this is going to be a different kind of hardware review. Not a keyboard. Not gaming handheld. Not a powerful ARM64 SBC that can game. Today, it’s about the Radxa Linkr, which appears just like a regular HDMI adapter, with a few usb-c ports, one on the side and one…
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Active Matter: Review on Linux and Steam Deck
Gaijin Entertainment is a famous publisher and developer that you probably know if you have ever played stuff like War Thunder, Enlisted or Crossout. So, Gaijin has just launched their new title, Active Matter in September 2026, and it’s a “multiverse extraction shooter”. Yes,…
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Stuntboost and Deified - 2026-09-23 Edition
This one was sitting in the backlog for a while. Now we have time to get to it! Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-23 there were 70 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 667 games released for Windows on Steam, so the…
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Order of the Sinking Star and Silver Pines - 2026-10-10 Edition
Between 2026-10-03 and 2026-10-10 we selected 9 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. A lot of good stuff in this week, with the latest game from Jonathan Blow (known for Braid and…
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Toy Shire and Train Station Tycoon - 2026-10-07 Edition
Between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-07 there were 107 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 735 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 14.6 % of total released titles. This week our…
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Older AMD GPUs Get a Second Life in Linux's amdgpu Driver
Timur Kristof is a open-source graphics developer and electrical engineer working as a subcontractor for Valve. He used to work on SailfishOS (Jolla), before starting his work on several parts of Mesa, the open graphics drivers stack on Linux. He used his XDC 2026 talk, streamed…
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Brigador Killers: Review on Linux and Steam Deck
Brigador Killers is a Sci-Fi top-down isometric insurgent (or terrorist depending on whom you ask) simulator, made and published by Stellar Jockeys. It works great with Proton for Linux PCs and the Steam Deck.
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New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Radiotext and The Great Release - 2026-09-30 Edition
Between 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-30 there were 128 New Steam games released with Native Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 1022 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.5 % of total released titles. Nothing super…
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Stick it to the Stickman and Dicevaders - 2026-09-30 Edition
Between 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-30 we selected 19 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. A lot of games, and in there you have the excellent Stick it to the Stickman which is a…