Steam Dinos vs. Robots Fest is live with more demos and discounts
Dinosaurs and Robots, what more could you want? Valve has put up the Steam Dinos vs. Robots Fest which runs until March 4th with plenty more demos and game discounts.
Category: Misc
Proton Experimental updated with Proton 9 - adds fixes for Helldivers 2 and more
Now that the testing is open for Proton 9, Valve have now updated Proton Experimental to move over to Proton 9 along with a bunch of extra game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux.
We can probably say a final goodbye to Roblox on Linux with Wine soon
After Roblox recently introduced Hyperion anti-tamper, there were some issues running it on Linux, but there's been workarounds and some of the Roblox staff made it to work on Linux with Wine again, but it seems not for much longer.
Wine 9.3 out now with Internet Proxy support improvements, New HID pointer device driver
Wine 9.3 has landed as another early development release of the Windows compatibility layer on the road to Wine 10 next year. Here's the highlights of what's changed.
Proton 9.0 now in Beta with improved game compatibility for Steam Deck / Linux
Valve announced that Proton 9.0 is now available for testing, with lots of game compatibility improvements for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to it now being based on the recent Wine 9.0 release.
Discord Overlay for Linux v0.7.0 should improve idling and on battery power
Discover, not to be confused with the KDE Discover software store, is a Discord overlay for Linux and the first update in a while is out now with version 0.7.0.
Palworld has now sold over 15 million copies on Steam
Palworld continues to be an insane success, as Pocketpair just revealed it has now seen over 25 million players for their Early Access game.
NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable
NVIDIA today launched the 550.54.14 Linux driver as stable coming with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements, so here's all that's changed.
NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs
A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.
Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app
Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.
Fanatical Bundle Fest launched with a new Steam Deck game bundle
Fanatical has recently launched Bundle Fest again, where a new bundle has been launched each day and there's some good stuff you can grab for cheap like the latest Play on the Go Bundle with all Steam Deck Verified games.
Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API
With development work ongoing for SDL3, some recent exciting improvements include a Vulkan Render backend and a camera API.
CrossOver 24 released with Wine 9.0 - plus CodeWeavers still hiring developers
CodeWeavers have announced the release of CrossOver 24, their application for managing games and applications designed for Windows installed with Wine on Linux and macOS.
Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook
For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops, Slimbook have delivered with the brand new Excalibur which also has a KDE Slimbook counterpart.
Steam users redeemed over $80 million in physical wallet cards in December 2023
Valve continues to pretty much print money, and they've released their latest yearly review and 2023 seems to be another great year for Steam.
System76 are giving their Linux laptops a big refresh
System76 makers of Pop!_OS, various laptops and the stylish Thelio desktop line have announced a big refresh for their line of laptops.
Humble Bundle IGN Fan Fest 24 has some good stuff like Loop Hero and Tinykin
IGN Fan Fest is kicking off so there's a new Humble Bundle IGN Fan Fest 24 with some sweet treats you can pick up for cheaps.
Valve open sourced Steam Audio including the SDK and Plugins
Steam Audio is a full-featured audio solution for game developers, and now anyone can pretty much do anything with it as Valve has made it entirely open source.
There's a new Godot Engine addon to simplify testing on Steam Deck
For game developers using or looking at using Godot Engine, you may want to check out the Godot 4 DeployToSteamOS addon which gives you a one-click method to test your games on Steam Deck.
Need more games? Check out my February Steam Deck Verified picks
As we approach 14,000 games rated either Playable or Verified for Steam Deck, here's a look over some recently Steam Deck Verified titles if you're in the mood for something new.
- Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed [updated]
- Old School Rally gets hit with a DMCA and taken down from Steam
- The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat
- felix86 emulator for Linux for x86 and x86-64 apps on RISC-V can now run Steam and major games
- Lost Ark from Amazon Games appears to have enabled the anti-cheat for Linux / SteamOS
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