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Games: New Steam Games, Godot Engine, D7VK, and More
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Servant of the Lake and Sandustry - 2026-08-15 Edition
Between 2026-08-08 and 2026-08-15 we selected 6 newly released games that are rated as Verified or Playable on the Steam Deck, and meeting specific criteria in terms of user ratings. No huge release but a lot of nice smaller games that make it for the end of the summer. I’d like to highlight Servant of the Lake, a new entry in the Rusty Lake series, with great puzzles and packing a good story and upgraded visuals. And there’s also Sandustry that takes the concept of Noita with pixel-based physics and adds automation on top of it.
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Godot Engine ☛ Submissions open for Godot 2026 showreel
Showcase your Godot creations in 2026! We're inviting submissions of short videos featuring your published or in-progress Godot games or tools. Don't miss this chance to be a part of it!
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GamingOnLinux ☛ D7VK version 2.1 brings improvements to retro game loading time | GamingOnLinux
D7VK continues to mature its Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 to Vulkan translation, to bring improvements for retro Windows games with Wine / Proton on Linux.
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Elias Farhan ☛ Soup Raiders Goes Native: What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine
Those games still accounted for 43% of units sold in 20241. Even if most were AAA games built with custom engines, the figure shows that developing your own engine can still make business sense. So this blog post is about why you should make a game engine.
However, before answering this question, we need to define what a game engine is. The term is broad enough that Claude Code has even been compared to a small game engine2: [...]