Intel did something of a surprise this weekend, especially on a Saturday: they announced their first Xe-based discrete GPU with the Iris Xe MAX Graphics.

As promised by the team at Crowbar Collective around the 1.0 release, a Definitive Edition of Black Mesa is coming and there's now a Beta.

The folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have done it again, they've managed to launch a product I really don't need but absolutely want with the Raspberry Pi 400.

Become one with death in the Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack, the latest smaller expansion to the grand space strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios.

The dark work-horror comedy Yuppie Psycho from 2019 got a nice surprise upgrade for everyone with Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition available now as a free upgrade.

Consider this your weekly quick tip! Humble Store are currently doing a free game giveaway with Kingdom: Classic, you will need to act fast on this one.

As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, today a press mail from Valve Software entered our inbox because Gabe Newell, president of Valve, is getting a garden gnome sent into space. No this is not Kerbal Space Program.

Steam Linux user share statistics over time

NVIDIA have now updated their super special Vulkan Beta Driver branch adding in support for the latest GPU release with the GeForce RTX 3070.

After a new VR game that's supported on Linux? There's not a lot to pick from but you can now add Groove Gunner to your collection.

Feel the need to run some classic PlayStation 2 games? It's set to get a lot easier, as the RetroArch team have reported on their work with PCSX2.

There's another interesting talk coming up this month that you might want to check out, with open source consulting firm Collabora chatting about their work with Valve.

Quite a huge milestone for the in-development open source OpenXR runtime Monado, as Collabora have announced a fresh milestone in its life.

Love ASUS hardware and their ASUS ROG tech? Well it seems Linux Kernel 5.11 will be pulling in some better support for their keyboards.

RageSquid and No More Robots recently gave the extreme sports game Descenders quite a big free content upgrade, which includes plenty of fancy new extras.

The continuing battle to have open source Linux graphics drivers support everything possible continues, with the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs hitting more milestones.

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius is set for another race expansion, as the Craftworld Aeldari are coming in a fresh DLC a little later this month.

Related is a dark episodic point and click adventure that originally had a first episode release back in May 2020, with the team looking for funding to make more episodes.

GOverlay is the super useful user interface for managing overlays like MangoHud and the vulkan post processing layer vkBasalt. Now though, it's been extended to be even more useful.

Need to get your mind off the world for a bit and perhaps create your own ideal society? Well, Valve are here to help with that with a new Steam sale.

Avorion - Black Market is the first full paid expansion to the excellent open-world space exploration and building sim and it looks great.