Category: Misc

Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for January 2025, showing both Linux and macOS having a dip with a rise of Windows 10.

MangoHud is a performance overlay you can use on Desktop Linux, and it's what powers the built-in overlay on Steam Deck. A new release candidate is now available for testing for an upcoming stable release with version 0.8.0-rc1.

NVIDIA today released the 570.86.16 Beta driver for Linux which includes various new features, and a few good bug fixes too.

With the NTSYNC driver landing ready for the Linux kernel 6.14 release, there's now an open Merge Request to actually hook up support for it in Wine.

You can get a free game from Fanatical, plus a bunch of great discounts during the Lunar New Year Sale and there's also the new Fanatical Favorites Bundle.

Collabora have announced they've taken over development of libsurvive, an open source lighthouse tracking system for VR.

Sony have announced that their PC game releases will no longer force a PlayStation Network Account requirement. Instead it will be optional and give you certain in-game rewards.

Hardware vendor and Pop!_OS Linux distribution developer System76 have revealed the brand new upgraded Meerkat Mini PC. This new fancy refresh gives you up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor with Intel ARC graphics.

Some great news for game preservation here, as GOG have managed to revive both Dino Crisis and Dino Crisis 2 and they've also revamped their voting feature for future games with the new GOG Dreamlist.

Valve released another smaller Steam Client Beta update for Desktop / Steam Deck, with a little tweak for in-game notifications amongst some other bug fixes.

Seems like the upcoming Linux kernel 6.14 release is going to be a nice one for gamers on Linux / Steam Deck, as the NTSYNC code has now been properly merged in ready.

One modder took it upon themselves to turn their Steam Deck into a Steam Brick, a tiny little console that makes me really want a proper Steam Machine.

The Nexus team continue building up their newer cross-platform open source Nexus Mods App that will eventually replace Vortex. Version 0.7.2 was released recently further expanding what you can do with it.

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for January 24th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.

The latest Game Developers Conference (GDC) survey has been released, and it gives a rather glowing overview of how great things are for PC gamers with lots of developers working on games.

Palworld developer Pocketpair are not slowing down, as they just launched their own video game publisher with Pocketpair Publishing.

Here's how to install and setup GE-Proton (formerly Proton-GE). An extra compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux platforms like SteamOS / Steam Deck.

One missed earlier this week while I was running around Wales, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.13.

Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS has been consistently in the top sales charts on Steam since release, but recently it dropped down rather hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement.

Extremely OK Games, creators of the popular platformer Celeste, have announced that their follow-up game Earthblade has now been cancelled.