We have another fresh Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2023 and the results show that Simplified Chinese as a language on Steam has another sharp jump resulting in some odd results.
Valve has rolled out a fresh Steam Client Beta for desktop which includes some really good sounding improvements for controller support, so here's what's new.
This is a huge surprise but a very welcome one. I've not seen any official announcement, and they seemingly did it very quietly but Gaijin Entertainment has open sourced their Dagor Engine used by War Thunder.
Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continued to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.
Finally. All the pieces are coming together for Wayland to truly be the actual future for Linux, even Linux Mint are now moving forward with it in their Cinnamon desktop.
Vintage Story is a challenging open-world survival game inspired by eldritch horror themes, certainly quite different to a lot of survival games out there with some really impressive depth to the mechanics and it's about to get much more impressive.
While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there's a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.
Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!
While most people will be using a normal package for Steam on Linux or the Flatpak, Canonical continue pushing their own Snap packages and one that's needed a lot of work is Steam.
The Outlast Trials from Red Barrels recently had a big upgrade with some big new content additions, but it broke the game on Steam Deck. Thankfully the developers have solved the issue so it keeps its Steam Deck Verified status.
Well, here we go again. Apex Legends just launched the Ignite Update, and with it sadly it seems they messed up Easy Anti-Cheat for Steam Deck / Linux.
NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.
The work modders are doing to make Half-Life: Alyx not just playable but actually fun on traditional screens continues to impress, with the Half-Life: Alyx NoVR mod's latest animation upgrade out now.
Death of a Wish from the developer of Lucah: Born of a Dream looks seriously wild and there's now a demo available for you to try for a while.
GE-Proton 8-22 has been released to give you some quick improvements for gaming on Steam Deck and desktop Linux with some recent releases.
Atari seems to be on a bit of a spree recently to make something of a big gaming comeback and they recently announced even more acquisitions.
Here's a chance for you to support Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) while also getting a little reward from the Games For Gaza Bundle on itch.io.
After I installed the Flash Player plugin my first thoughts were of Garfield.com, an award winning website which, while a bear to navigate back in the day, was home to a wide array of Flash based games and amusements based around the titular comic cat created by Jim Davis. Caches of the old Garfield.com content can still be found hosted on the Internet Archive.
The little machine that just keeps on giving. The Steam Deck from Valve has now hit over 12,000 games that are rated Playable or Verified.
Discord, the massively popular messaging platform for text, voice and video has now been fully Verified on Flathub and so it's now official from the developers.
