Category: Misc

The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for August 2024, so let's go over the details on where Linux stands right now.

Recently, Valve put some new rules in place for Steam pages, because they were getting a bit messy with some publishers using them like pure advertising boards for other games. Now though, Valve have announced more changes.

Bazzite, the Fedora-based version of Linux that's designed for the "next generation of Linux gaming" has a fresh release out with some great improvements, especially for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck OLED, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally and others.

A recent change was proposed last month to implement an on-by-default KDED (KDE Daemon) module that will gently ask you to donate to KDE as a pop-up on your notification system inside the KDE Plasma desktop, planned for version 6.2.

The team behind EmuDeck, a project that started off to provide easy emulation on Steam Deck / SteamOS have announced their own hardware with the Bazzite Linux powered EmuDeck Machines.

Another Beta release is out now for the Steam Client on both Desktop and Steam Deck. Here's the latest and what you need to know.

The Wine team have just release vkd3d version 1.13, an update for their own Direct3D to Vulkan translation library.

Another great milestone for the popular Steam Deck from Valve, which in the last day or so managed to hit over 16,000 games that have been rated as Playable and Verified.

Well, this is surprising isn't it? Microsoft are handing over the Mono Project to the Wine developers with a thank you note.

Valve don't exactly like to give out sales numbers, so we often have to make educated guesses but sometimes with huge hits like Black Myth: Wukong, it gives us a slightly clearer idea on how the Steam Deck is actually selling.

The Humble Detectives Bundle is live with some great stuff like The Darkside Detective, and there's a big Summer Sale on too.

Emulation fans might like this! The GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin, is going to finally get an official package for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.

Time for another free game, and a chance to get some nice discounts while you're at it too, as GOG are giving away Tropico 4 during their Back To School Sale.

Only a few months after Steam first hit 36 million, the record has been broken again this year with Steam remaining the champion for PC gamers.

Just recently I reported on Valve adding a new feature to Steam user reviews, showing off who played mostly on Steam Deck and now they've made this even easier.

Valve released a couple more Steam Beta Client releases recently for both Steam Deck and Desktop so here's all you need to know.

The Wine 9.16 development release is now available for this compatibility layer to run Windows apps and games on Linux. Here's all that's changed.

NVIDIA is currently investigating a bug where their drivers are crashing on modern kernels (6.10+). This appears to happen across drivers 550, 555 and even the latest 560.

Valve did a rather useful new tweak to the user review system on Steam to show who primarily played on Steam Deck.

Valve have begun the next round of testing for a new main version of Proton, the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.