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GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts | GamingOnLinux
One of the bigger sale events of the year has arrived - the Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is now live.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Here's the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for September 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Another month has landed and so here's our usual run over what was popular amongst players on Valve's Steam Deck.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Ubisoft shuffle people around bringing The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell together | GamingOnLinux
Ubisoft expanded "Creative House 2" (now called Massive Entertainment) and will be responsible for The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and March of Giants.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ The excellent helicopter shooter Cleared Hot - Chapter 2 arrives October 15 | GamingOnLinux
Cleared Hot is one of my indie favourites from 2025, currently in Early Access this nostalgic helicopter shooter is about to get a big expansion in content. The developer has announced Chapter 2 is set to arrive on October 15th, and we're going to the Jungle!
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GamingOnLinux ☛ A Game About Digging A Hole Together announced | GamingOnLinux
The smash-hit A Game About Digging A Hole is getting a bigger and better sequel where you can dig a great big hole together with friends.
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Boiling Steam ☛ 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 physics-based brawler, very creative. Note that it has some performance problems on the Deck despite its Verified status. Thre’s also Dicevaders that build on the Balatro model, in a nice new package. Full list and details below! Here’s what we could find: [...]
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Get the Freedom Planet and River City Girls series plus more in the 2D Rewind Collection Bundle | GamingOnLinux
The 2D Rewind Collection Humble Bundle is a great set of games to add to your library, one not to be missed with a good price for everything.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Petal Crash 2 brings more retro-styled tile-matching excellence in Early Access | GamingOnLinux
Love tile-matching games and need something new to play that isn't full of micro-transactions? Petal Crash 2 is a safe bet here for you. Expanding on the much loved original while making it bigger and better - and it has Native Linux support too.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ SUPERHOT VR expands Steam Frame support with eye-tracked foveated rendering | GamingOnLinux
SUPERHOT VR has another update out now, and should be a good one for those of you lucky enough to have a Steam Frame strapped to your face.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ ALLFATHER is an upcoming brutal, first-person roguelike with precise, stamina-driven combat | GamingOnLinux
Coming from one of the devs of the excellent tower-defense game Gnomes, ALLFATHER is a new brutal, first-person roguelike with precise, stamina-driven combat. It will come with Native Linux support too!
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve's Deadlock gets a massive update - still a while away from a public release | GamingOnLinux
Valve's MOBA shooter Deadlock just had a massive upgrade with new visuals, new heroes, and lots more. Titled "City Never Sleeps", it makes the game feel quite a lot more complete but the developers have said there's still plenty more work to be done before it's actually ready.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ PS3 emulator devs warn of fake Blu-ray drives on Newegg and AliExpress
The developers of a leading PlayStation 3 emulator warn of 'a recent influx of fake Blu-ray drives.'
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Idiomdrottning ☛ The 95-card Cubelet
A cubelet is a shared deck for Magic where you can play any card facedown as a land.
Sometimes the advice for cubelets is to stick to three or four archetypes but here’s a template for a full ten-archetype cubelet.
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XDA ☛ Thanks to fans, the original Halo just got an unofficial Windows, Linux, PS5, and Android port
I recently covered the browser-based port of Halo: Combat Evolved, and now I'm back with more great Halo news. A community-powered effort has unofficially ported the original Halo: Combat Evolved to several platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, and PS5.
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EmuDeck 2.7 update improves Steam Machine support, introduces AutoMap for controllers, and much more
EmuDeck has received another major update, with version 2.7 now available across SteamOS, Linux, and Windows. The popular emulation tool already makes setting up and managing emulators much easier on the Steam Deck, but the latest release expands its focus to other devices, including Valve’s Steam Machine.
One of the biggest changes is improved Steam Machine support. EmuDeck can now automatically use higher-resolution configurations for selected emulators, including default 1080p and 4K setups. This should make the software better suited to Valve’s more powerful living-room PC.