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SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck gets a screen colour temperature setting

By Liam Dawe,
A while ago I mentioned how the upcoming SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck added in a colour vibrance setting, and now Valve seems to have expanded it even further with a screen colour temperature setting as well.

JSAUX launch a Steam Deck Anti-Glare screen replacement

By Liam Dawe,
While we have DeckHD launching their higher-resolution Steam Deck screen replacement, we also now have JSAUX who have launched their own Steam Deck Anti-Glare screen replacement.

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the Steam Deck.

The 'Into Games Bundle' from Fanatical helps get people into game development

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical has a new charity Into Games Bundle live, with a fun selection of games and with all proceeds going towards the UK's leading national non-profit for skills and careers in games.

GE-Proton 8-13 and 8-12 released, FSR no longer default and many game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The community maintained GE-Proton has two new releases available, so here's what's changed and improved with the latest versions.

Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new

By Liam Dawe,
The open source compatibility layer Wine has a brand new development release available. Here's what's new and changed in Wine 8.14.

Steam Deck recently had two Beta releases, here's what's changed

By Smellbringer,
Valve has rolled out two updates for the Beta Branch of the Steam Deck within two days, August 17th and August 19th. Here's what's changed.

Linux players getting banned on Apex Legends again

By Liam Dawe,
As a little PSA word of warning, it seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave or they've tweaked something in their anti-cheat that Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in for Apex Legends.

Proton Experimental updated for August 18 fixing up more regressions

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue cleaning up regressions with a new Proton Experimental release put up on August 18th, so here's what's been sorted this time.

Get a bunch of building and management sims in this fresh Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another interesting looking set of games is live with the If You Build It - Cities & More Bundle. So here's your usual run over compatibility on desktop Linux and Steam Deck.

No sound in War Thunder on Linux? Here's a potential solution

By Liam Dawe,
War Thunder is a game I enjoy playing with friends quite a lot, and after recently Linux distro hopping from Fedora to openSUSE and then back to the safety of Kubuntu - my sound in War Thunder wouldn't work. But I have a potential solution for you that worked for me.

SteamVR Beta gets some improvements for Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has pushed out a fresh SteamVR Beta, and it seems they've begun cleaning up the Linux side of it that's had some issues plaguing it recently.

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition gets a GOG release and 75% off

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for fans of DRM free gaming and GOG store users, as Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition is now available although it doesn't support Creation Club.

OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 released supporting Intel QSV on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
The free and open source video recording and livestreaming app OBS Studio is readying up another release, with OBS Studio 30.0 Beta 1 now available for testing.

Star Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tablet

By Liam Dawe,
In the market for a new laptop or perhaps a Microsoft Surface-like tablet style system? Well, Star Labs have turned their StarLite laptop into a tablet.

Recent NVIDIA drivers are causing issues for Proton

By Liam Dawe,
Have you been seeing some problems with the NVIDIA 535 driver series when trying to run Steam games on Linux with Proton? Well, you're not alone but investigations are under way. Here's what's happening.

CrossOver 23 released for Windows apps and games on Linux, ChromeOS and macOS

By Liam Dawe,
CodeWeavers, the company that works in partnership with Valve on Proton, has released CrossOver 23 - the latest version of their app to help run Windows apps and games on other platforms like Linux, ChromeOS and macOS.

Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets lots of optimizations, fixes for Pikmin 4

By Liam Dawe,
The team working on the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have another progress report up, and as usual it's looking mighty fine so here's a little run over what they've done recently.

High On Life, The Outer Worlds, Journey To The Savage Planet and more in this bundle

By Liam Dawe,
You can get a whole lot of crazy space sci-fi in this Spaced Out Humble Bundle and there's some really good picks. So here's what you can get and what compatibility to expect on Steam Deck and desktop Linux.

ProtonDB now has filters for PC and Steam Deck reports

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonDB is the go-to for a lot of people to see how games run on Linux desktop and Steam Deck, and while its rating system is far from perfect it's nice to have. A recent upgrade also makes it a lot nicer to browse.
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