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I do have to hand it to the Linux Mint team - they do a lot of good work overall and now they're expanding the XApp project.

The next main release of the KDE Plasma desktop is coming soon, and a first Beta is available for you to check it out and go hunting for bugs.

Adapted from Liu Cixin's The Wandering Earth, Studio Surgical Scalpels and publisher Starry Dome revealed The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon.

After their special Patron supporters voted, GOG have placed the classic Nox into their Preservation Program with a fresh set of fixes.

Orc Incremental is a fresh release from developer Nice Ride and publisher Playsaurus that sets you on a path of orcs versus humans with auto-battling.

The Crust is an automation-driven city builder and colony simulation set on the Moon.

I'm really going to need to set aside some time to play through lots more of Core Keeper - because they keep rolling out some excellent updates to it.

Active Matter from Gaijin Network Ltd looks like a lot of fun for fans of first-person shooters, but they soured it with a truly distasteful AI notice.

With a whole lot of new features, improvements and fixes - Valve rolled out SteamVR 2.17 and it's looking ready for the Steam Frame release.

Finally, another publisher has realised extra launchers on Steam are a pain in the ass, surprisingly this time it's Ubisoft doing something good.

MythicOwl and Pocketpair Publishing have announced that Truckful, their peaceful looking delivery sim with plenty of mystery releases October 9th.

Hello Games are truly expanding No Man's Sky into a forever space sandbox aren't they?

SNK recently announced the METAL SLUG ULTIMATE COLLECTION which will come to Steam sometime in 2027.

Valve went along to GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 to give a talk titled "Steam Platform 2026: How Valve is Helping Game Developers Succeed on PC Gaming".

If you love puzzle games that teach a little programming and automation - If Red Then Stop looks like your next visit.

Denshattack!

Spy Drops Gaiden is channelling some retro Metal Gear here with their upcoming old school 2D stealth action game that arrives in October.

PHYSINT, a new action-stealth game coming from Hideo Kojima has split from PlayStation and jumped over to XBOX.

Valve have been cooking on this one!

Released as part of their slightly less tested New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver 615.71.09 is out now for Linux.

After ~5 years in Early Access, the viking inspired open-world survival game Valheim has now officially launched with the new Deep North biome to finish it up.

In Control: Rocketry was revealed by Maximum Entertainment where you have to build and wire up control panels to control space rockets.

Developer Andrew Morrish (Kingsway) and publisher The Arcade Crew (Drop Duchy, Abyssus) announced Bad House, a genre-blending, auto-battling adventure.

Some jobs feel quite hellish right?

Giving me flashbacks to the scene in Aliens where the Android Bishop does a knife trick inbetween the fingers of Hudson - check out 500 FINGER FILLET.

Some big upgrades are coming in future to Civilization VII, with Firaxis Games outlining their upcoming content plans including free and paid expansions.

Time to give No More Room in Hell another spin?

The upcoming The Ur-Quan Masters (based on Star Control II) sequel Free Stars: Children of Infinity has a first Combat Demo now available.

Valve have rolled out Age Verification requirements on Steam in Australia for 18+ content, requiring users to keep a Credit Card on their account.

Making it easier than ever to backup your DRM-free downloads and make them look cool - the GOG Preservation Program has expanded with some fun stuff.

Wanderburg released into Early Access today and it's one I think you're going to love - with castles on wheels, legs and all sorts.

From developer caiys who made the excellent Boneraiser Minions, along with Voids Vigil and Xenosensory has another game out now with Deadzoned.

Face off against the dealer with your random rolls in Dealer's Dice, which blends together tower defense and incrementals.

For fans of cats and incremental games - Snap the Cat is a cute and fresh entry into the genre for fans of relaxing casual games.

If you enjoy puzzle games you'll want to keep an eye on puzzlez - a shapez game, a spin-off from the shapez series from tobspr Games.

A factory-building automation sim with a destructible world and simulated heat and fluids, FluxWerks sounds like it's going to stand out in the genre.

BLIGHTEN was covered here on GamingOnLinux back in April, and recently it had a new teaser that really badly made me want to see a lot more.

Rogue Blight recently released with Linux support - a great looking 2D action souls-inspired side-scroller that's getting some good user reviews.

After being in Beta for a while, Linux and macOS support has arrived for the clever Beam Eye Tracker app.

Something about cleverly done animated ASCII really hooks me in, and Third Bloc doesn't just look good it sounds really unique too.

Managing various types of coolers under Linux has never looked sleeker!

Asahi Linux is a project and community with the goal of porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs - and now it supports Macs with the M3 series SoC.

Continuing to make your hardware more your own and less like you rent it from Sony, the PlayStation 5 Linux project expands to support more firmware.

Ghostship is the impressive unofficial PC port of Super Mario 64 from the Harbour Masters crew, newly upgraded with a web player and Vulkan support.

Want some more interesting action RPGs in your life?

KDE Plasma 6.8 is due out in mid-October and it's coming with all sorts of new features, and one I'm particularly happy to see with autoscrolling.

Double Fine announced a brand new game - Thank You Bus Driver, their first since splitting off from XBOX.

The popular lsfg-vk project that brings Lossless Scaling's frame generation to Linux now has the big 2.0 release officially out.

The Bazzite Linux team continue powering through getting lots of updates since the recent major Bazzite 44 release for handhelds.

It seems the upcoming shooter WARDOGS will actually not have Linux support with Proton at launch.