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Valve just gave away another bunch of Steam Decks so check your email

By Liam Dawe,
During The Game Awards 2022, Valve were giving away a Steam Deck every minute and it seems they loved throwing hardware at people so much they just did it again.

Immortals Fenyx Rising now on Steam but quite messy on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Immortals Fenyx Rising is another from Ubisoft as they continue putting their games back on Steam, and sadly this release seems a bit messy on Steam Deck.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translator VKD3D-Proton version 2.8 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Valve and their open source contractors sure are a busy bunch. VKD3D-Proton, which translates Direct3D 12 to Vulkan version 2.8 is out now.

Xfce 4.18 desktop is finally here

By Liam Dawe,
Just shy of two years since Xfce 4.16 the latest release has landed with Xfce 4.18 that comes with tons of new features and a "gazillion" bug fixes.

We may get a Steam Controller 2, plus fun updates coming to Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
The Verge managed to speak to a couple of developers at Valve on the Steam Deck, and while most of it was already known there's a couple of interesting bits to pick out.

Proton Hotfix from Valve gets The Witcher 3 next-gen DX12 working on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Well, that certainly didn't take long did it? Valve have already put up an update to Proton Hotfix, that works around the crashing issue in DirectX 12 in The Witcher 3 next-gen on Steam Deck.

Valve hit a home run with the first year of Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
What an absolutely exceptional first year Valve had with the Steam Deck, and it continues to be my main way to play games now.

Epic Games are killing off a bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament

By Liam Dawe,
Epic Games announced today they're killing off a bunch of classic games removing them from stores and turning off their online services for retro delights like Unreal Tournament.

Cities: Skylines - Financial Districts DLC is out now along with a free update

By Liam Dawe,
Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order have launched a new mini-expansion with Cities: Skylines - Financial Districts, along with another free update for all players.

Heroic Games Launcher gets another Hotfix to clean up more issues with v2.5.2

By Liam Dawe,
Heroic Games Launcher continues to get cleaned up after the last major update, with v2.5.2 HOTFIX #2 now available.

Steam with Linux now available in Tesla cars (Beta)

By Liam Dawe,
Here come a bunch more gamers using Linux, as Tesla have rolled out a software update that enables Steam in Beta.

Valve fix the New Big Picture Mode on NVIDIA for Linux gamers

By Liam Dawe,
In the latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop released December 13th, Valve has now fixed the New Big Picture Mode not working for those with NVIDIA GPUs along with plenty of other fixes.

Steam Deck OS 3.4 gets a Death Stranding fix, plus new Client Beta and Firmware update

By Liam Dawe,
Three different bits of news to cover for Steam Deck updates today, as Valve pushed out three different upgrades. Here's all that's new.

Here's how to get The Witcher 3 working on Steam Deck after the next-gen update

By Liam Dawe,
The massive free next-gen update for The Witcher 3 is here, and out of the box now on Steam Deck it will just crash when you try to load into the game. Here's how to sort it out.

Wine on Wayland sounds like it's coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe,
Collabora have given an end of year update on how the work towards running the Windows compatibility layer on Wayland is coming along and it sounds good.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 launched today for the select few able to beat the crowds

By Liam Dawe,
AMD has today released the Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs starting with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT.

Valve has finally fixed the Steam Remote Play audio loss bug on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Finally, after years of waiting, Valve has now fixed the Steam Remote Play bug that basically made the feature useless for a Linux host.

Open source evolution sim Thrive v0.6 out with a day and night cycle

By Liam Dawe,
Thrive just continues to impress. It's a free and open source evolution sim built with Godot Engine and version 0.6 is out now with big new helpful features.

Core Devourer is another for fans of Vampire Survivors and Soulstone Survivors

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love over-the top repeatable action horde games like Soulstone Survivors, Vampire Survivors and all the others? You'll never guess what, another developer is making one that sounds and looks quite good.

The rather great LEGO Bricktales switches to Vulkan on Linux, adds UI scaling options

By Liam Dawe,
LEGO Bricktales was already a lot of fun and now perhaps it's even better with some new options and improvements for their Native Linux version too.