Yes, yes it's that time of year, every store is wanting your attention with various deals somewhat related to Halloween. Now the GOG Halloween Sale is live.

If you're somehow still stuck for games to grab this week, here's yet another option for you. Well, two, actually. There's the Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2024) and the Frightfest Sale on Fanatical.

Coming from Chaosmonger Studio who created ENCODYA, Clunky Hero, Three Minutes To Eight and other games is a new release with Speedollama.

Paradox have released Stellaris: Grand Archive, a pretty fun sounding story pack for their popular sci-fi grand strategy game. There's also a free update out now as well.

Hardware vendor Beelink have open-sourced their Multi-Functional EX Docking Station that you can use to extend their GTi Ultra Series mini PCs with a full GPU.

Valve rolled out another two Steam Client Beta updates recently, as they continue pushing the Game Recording system towards a stable release. The fixes are the same for Steam Deck and Desktop since it's a Steam Client update.

Fedora 41 is officially out now and brings with it plenty of upgrades for all users. Here's just some of what's new and improved.

Bazzite Linux has seen an upgrade to the just released Fedora 41, and with it comes lots of extra enhancements to their support of various PC gaming handhelds from AYANEO, ROG Ally and others.

If you appreciate the work from the KDE team on things like the Plasma desktop environment, maybe it's time to give them a little donation.

Developer Gator Shins and Hellforge Studios have released the first 10 blood-soaked levels of COVEN, a really fresh new retro FPS.

Luma Island looks pretty sweet from Feel Free Games, a game that combines together elements of adventuring and building together that you can play solo or with up to 4 people together.

Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages.

Following on from the huge SteamOS 3.6 update for Steam Deck, Valve has put up SteamOS 3.6.20 Beta with a few more improvements.

The Mesa team have released another bug-fix update with Mesa 24.2.6 available now, with a couple more bug-fix releases planned before they move onto Mesa 24.3 next month.

Some spooky treats available in the Halloween Horror Collection Humble Bundle, if you can handle it that is. You're not a scaredy-cat right?

Gearing up for the final 1.0 release on December 5, the sci-fi fantasy epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial released.

Time for another free game. GOG are giving away Return of the Phantom from MPS Labs / Ziggurat Interactive.

Escape From Castle Matsumoto looks like quite a unique one, and the developers give the Steam Deck some rather high praise.

The developers of Apex Legends have announced that they're going to be blocking the game completely on Linux platforms including Steam Deck.

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania DLC is out now and it's a rather large addition to an already great game.

Crowbar Collective have a fresh Beta available for Black Mesa, their fan-made reimagining of Valve Software's Half-Life. This brings with it some nice improvements all across the game, especially for Linux platforms like Steam Deck.