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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor gets Steam Deck Verified after an update

By Liam Dawe,
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, one of the most popular recent Early Access releases that follows the trend set by Vampire Survivors has been marked Steam Deck Verified after a recent update.

Buy rude games on Steam without fear - Valve rolls out enhanced privacy

By Liam Dawe,
You! Yes you! You can now buy as many of those rude games as you like without fear of prying eyes, as Valve just rolled out some enhanced privacy features to Steam.

GNOME pulls in experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support for GNOME 46

By Liam Dawe,
After years of waiting, experimental support for variable refresh rate (VRR) has landed for GNOME, and thankfully it will be in the GNOME 46 release.

Humble has a great Games Done Quick bundle live

By Liam Dawe,
Games Done Quick is back again with the Frost Fatales 2024, and Humble Bundle have a nice bundle of games ready for the event.

AMDGPU driver for Linux 6.7 enforces lower power limits from vBIOS

By nwildner,
Starting with Linux kernel 6.7, users of the AMDGPU driver are not be able to set power limits below the recommended values advised by the AMD Engineering team on the hardware itself. The new low-power limits are intentionally enforced and set based on each card vBIOS specification.

EmuDeck removes Yuzu And Citra emulator support

By Smellbringer,
The news of the Yuzu team agreeing to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in damages and immediately shut down all operations sent shock waves through the emulation landscape. EmuDeck will now also be removing Yuzu and Citra.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 39: Beyond Heretic

By Hamish,
I stated before that neither of the contemporary HeXen ports, Linux Hexen and its fork HHexen, supported MIDI music playback through the /dev/sequencer device, but hiding on the venerable SunSITE network I found the only online trace of another early HeXen source port released in December 1999 by Russian programmer Stanislav Nesterov.

Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)

By Liam Dawe,
After Nintendo recently filed a lawsuit against the Yuzu team, it was pretty much inevitable this was going to happen wasn't it.

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Sunshine along with Moonlight are popular ways to run your own game streaming system (as say an alternative to Steam Remote Play), and the latest Sunshine release sounds great for Linux gamers.

Valve reveals schedule of sales events for the rest of 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Are you saving up for a particular game, or just want to know what sales events are coming up on Steam? Got you covered here, as Valve have now revealed all.

Wine pulls in code to eliminate a Vulkan performance issue for wow64

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is about to get just that little bit sweeter, with new code recently merged into the project that should work around a performance issue with Vulkan.

Steam smashes its peak players online record to over 34 million

By Liam Dawe,
Starting 2024 off strong, Valve has seen Steam smash the all-time record once again for users actually online showing that weekends are a busy time for gamers.

Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter

By Liam Dawe,
Another month down according to Statcounter at least, Linux on the desktop is doing better than ever. Take it with your usual little pinch of salt like any survey sampling though.

Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like once again we're seeing an Asia influx on Steam, as the February 2024 Steam Hardware & Software Survey showed a big +7.62% bump in Simplified Chinese.

Proton 9.0 for Steam Deck / Linux got a small Beta update, plus Proton Experimental too

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the second public Beta for Proton 9.0, what will become the next stable version of Proton for running Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

All older games being sold in Germany on Steam now require a content rating

By Liam Dawe,
For game developers that want to continue selling games in Germany, they'll need to ensure they actually have a content rating, including for older games.

Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess releases in June, inspired by classic Desert Strike

By Liam Dawe,
Anyone remember Desert Strike? Jungle Strike? Urban Strike? Well, Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is for you! Built like the classics, although it looks a lot more wild, like something out of a fever dream.

Here's the most played Steam Deck games for February 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has revealed the list of the most popular games that were played on Steam Deck throughout February 2024, so let's take a look.

Game over for Roblox on Linux / Steam Deck as it's now blocked

By Liam Dawe,
Well, there it is, the update for Roblox has arrived that now forcefully blocks it from working with Wine on Linux systems (like Steam Deck).

Steam had a bit of a scam problem with fakes of Helldivers 2 and Palworld

By Liam Dawe,
Not the first time it has happened, and likely won't be the last unless Valve implement some more security checks, but recently a few games tried scamming players by renaming into other popular games.