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Games: Mindustry, Half-Life 2, Steam Deck, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 16, 2022

Mixing factory management, Tower Defense and RTS - Mindustry 7.0 is out now

Easily one of the best open source games around, Mindustry from AnukenDev just had a MASSIVE new release out that took quite some time to make. This update was in development for over a year!

Popular Half-Life 2 mod Entropy : Zero 2 is getting full Linux support for Steam Deck

Entropy : Zero 2 is a very popular and well reviewed Half-Life 2 mod, and the developer has recently announced the public testing of Native Linux support and Steam Input gamepad support. Available now in the "deck-testing" opt-in Beta, you can try it for yourself!

Steam Deck Client update out fixing up more Big Picture Mode issues

Valve has rolled out a small stable Steam Deck Client update, mainly focused on fixing up the New Big Picture Mode. This is where you actually run it in desktop mode, with the "-gamepadui" launch setting.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales gets Steam Deck Verified ahead of release

Hello web slingers! Good news for you, as Spider-Man: Miles Morales has been formally Steam Deck Verified ahead of the release later this week. Yes, it's releasing this week (November 18th), and I didn't realise it was that close either. Going to say goodbye to my backlog for a while again I think.

Of Blades & Tails is a fresh turn-based action-RPG now in Early Access

Looking for your next action RPG with turn-based combat? Inspired by the classic Point & Click Adventure Inherit the Earth, Of Blades & Tails is out in Early Access.

YoYo Games open source the GameMaker HTML5 runtime

Here's a fun one for open source fans and game developers, as YoYo Games have open sourced their HTML5 runtime.