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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.

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.

Valve improves the Steam Store on Steam Deck, plus more bug fixes in Beta

By Liam Dawe,
Two updates for the Steam Deck today as Valve has not only put out another Steam Deck Client Beta, they're also finally trying to make the actual Steam store better on Steam Deck.

Humble Bundle are bringing back popular limited bundles throughout this week

By Liam Dawe,
Humble Bundle have announced that throughout this week, they will be sticking up older popular bundles for a very limited time and limited amount of purchases so keep an eye for some fun hits to stock up on.

GOG are giving away Ghost of a Tale during their 2022 Winter Sale

By Liam Dawe,
Tis the season to buy more games to keep warm and all that. The GOG Winter Sale is live, and you can get a free copy of Ghost of a Tale.

Linux kernel 6.1 is out now

By Liam Dawe,
Linus Torvalds has officially released the Linux kernel 6.1, and as usual there's absolutely tons of new features and fixes.

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard hits a bump as FTC seeks to block it

By Liam Dawe,
Remember the big news back in January that Microsoft was acquiring Activision Blizzard? Well, the FTC aren't happy about it and are trying to block it.

The Tactician's Bundle is a great deal with Gears Tactics, Mechanicus, Hard West & more

By Liam Dawe,
Need some turn-based tactics for the weekend? The Tactician's Bundle is a really good deal and there's some great looking games included.

Windows compatibility layer Wine v8.0 has a first Release Candidate out

By Liam Dawe,
Another year is coming to a close and so the team behind Wine, the Windows compatibility layer, are readying up for another major stable release with version 8.0.

Get a whole lot of Company of Heroes in this new game bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Love strategy games and want some more? Humble Bundle is offering the Company of Heroes Complete Collection.

Desktop Steam and Steam Deck Client Beta updates with new launch options UI

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has replaced another old part of Steam in the latest Desktop and Steam Deck Client Beta, with a new UI for games that have launch options set.

Lots of good stuff announced at The Game Awards 2022 — roundup

By Liam Dawe,
The Game Awards 2022 is over and there was a surprising amount of big new announcements, so here's a little run over some of what's coming.

System76 give everything you need with the Launch Heavy keyboard

By Liam Dawe,
After releasing the Launch and the Launch Lite, System76 is back with the Launch Heavy keyboard which includes a NumPad. They sent over a unit and here’s my review.

EA open source Fonttik, helps devs check text size & contrast — plus patent pledges

By Liam Dawe,
As part of their original initiative about sharing patent pledge to not go after others on accessibility, EA have recently released Fonttik as open source to help game developers. Not only that, they've pledged more of their patents to this goal.

Polychromatic for managing Razer devices on Linux v0.8 out now

By Liam Dawe,
Polychromatic, powered by OpenRazer, is a front-end UI for users to easily manage their Razer devices and a new release is out now with version 0.8.0.

Linux Mint 21.1 now in Beta with full Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 21.1 is now available in Beta to get testing, based upon Ubuntu 22.04 with kernel 5.15 it's a long-term support release so you'll be able to continue using it until 2027 before needing a major update.

Intel using DXVK (part of Steam Proton) for their Windows Arc GPU DX 9 drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Intel recently announced a big driver update for their Arc GPUs on Windows, because their DirectX 9 performance wasn't as good as it could have been. Turns out, they're using code from the open source DXVK which is part of Steam Play Proton.

Blender 3.4 is out now with Wayland support on Linux, Intel's Open Path Guiding added

By Liam Dawe,
Blender, the absolute power-house free and open source 3D creation suite, has a big release out with Blender 3.4 and it's awesome.
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