Games: Trombone Champ, Steam Deck, Caesar III, 0 A.D., Blizzard
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Trombone Champ is my new favourite rhythm game
Released on Steam on September 16th, the developer says it's "the world's first trombone-based rhythm music game. Unlike most music games, you can freely play any note at any time. You're not just following along with the music, you're actually playing the music".
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Custom boot animations for the Steam Deck are pretty sweet
Did you know you can change the boot animation on the Steam Deck? Well you can and the community has naturally gone and done some pretty amazing things with it.
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Caesar III game engine Augustus has a new releases up
Augustus is a game engine reimplementation for the classic Caesar III, enabling you to play on modern platforms (like Linux / Steam Deck). It's a fork of another called Julius that focuses on accuracy, with Augustus aiming to improve the game with a number of changes.
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Free and open source RTS 0 A.D. Alpha 26 'Zhuangzi' is out now
0 A.D., an in-development free and open source real-time strategy game has a big new release out with Alpha 26. Easily one of the most impressive open source game projects!
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Blizzard don't officially support Steam Deck / Linux but they still fix issues for it
Recently, there were was an upgrade to the Battle.net client that caused it to break on Linux desktop / Steam Deck but it seems the issue is thankfully solved now.