Valve now sell refurbished Steam Deck OLED models
Valve announced today that they've added the Steam Deck OLED 512GB and 1TB models into their Valve Certified Refurbished program, so you can grab one a bit cheaper.
PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 released for arm64 works on Raspberry Pi 5 and Apple Silicon
The PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 team have been busy as they've announced the release of RPCS3 for arm64 that includes like likes of the Raspberry Pi 5 and Apple Silicon (M1, M2 etc).
Comedy adventure Elroy and the Aliens will launch April 2025
Developer Motiviti have announced that the colourful comedy adventure Elroy and the Aliens is going to launch on April 2nd, 2025. There's a new trailer and demo available.
Escape Simulator 2 the 'ultimate first person escape room experience' announced by Pine Studio
Pine Studio have announced a follow-up to their massively successful Escape Simulator, with Escape Simulator 2 that they plan to be the "ultimate first person escape room experience".
Space Marine 2 adds DLSS3, FSR3 and Frame Generation - more playable on Steam Deck, needs launch option for Desktop Linux
A huge Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 patch has landed improving many parts of the game, along with helping performance with an upgrade to NVIDIA DLSS3, AMD FSR3.1 and Frame Generation plus some improvements to their anti-cheat (Easy Anti-Cheat).
Proton Experimental adds initial speech synthesis support, lots of game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux and easier modding
Proton Experimental has been updated from Valve with some new features like initial speech synthesis support, along with the usual assortment of fixes for specific games running on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. Plus, much easier modding!
Humble bring back the excellent Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Bundle for a limited time
Humble continue bringing back some popular game bundles for a limited time that I wrote about recently, and now you can get another chance to pick up the Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Bundle which really is a good deal.
Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) gets funding from Sovereign Tech Agency
Seems like Arch Linux is going from strength to strength lately. Not only have Valve begun funding parts of the Linux distribution but now the Sovereign Tech Agency are as well.
Funko issue a statement about the itch.io take-down, while also apparently calling itch founder's mom
Recently I wrote about how the much loved itch.io store got taken down by Funko (as in Funko Pop figures). The situation seems thankfully sorted with itch back up, but things got a little weird.
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are available now
Just in time for the holiday season, Raspberry Pi have launched two new bits of hardware for you to tinker with the Raspberry Pi 500 and an official Raspberry Pi Monitor.
OBS Studio 31 released with first-party YouTube Chat features, new NVIDIA filters and Linux improvements
OBS Studio has a brand new stable release available! The awesome free and open source video capture tool OBS Studio 31.0.0 is out now.
EA pledge another 23 accessibility patents for public royalty-free use
EA did another actually genuinely great thing here. They've expanded their previous patent pledge for game developers to use without problems.
Steam sets a new record with 39 million concurrent users online
Over the weekend the Steam store from Valve managed to smash another record, something it has done repeatedly this year and it shows no sign of slowing down.
Minimalist mini-game filled survival city-builder Dawnfolk gets a release date and new demo
Dawnfolk from developer Darenn Keller is absolutely lovely, a minimalist survival city-builder with each tile having a little mini-game. Really unique and one you need to keep an eye on.
itch.io store was taken down by Funko due to "trash AI Powered" phishing report
This was an interesting one to come back to today. Game store itch.io was taken offline recently, due to a "bogus Phishing report to our registrar".
Path of Exile 2 now in Early Access and it works on Steam Deck / Linux
Path of Exile 2 from Grinding Gear Games has officially arrived, although it's not quite finished yet as it's in Early Access.
Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 gets a first Release Candidate
The next major version bump is coming for the Windows compatibility layer Wine, which forms a big part of Valve's Proton, with Wine 10.0 having a first Release Candidate.
Humble Bundle are bringing back 11 popular game bundles for a limited time
Humble Bundle have announced they're bringing back a whole bunch of popular game bundles over the next 11 days. So it's a good chance to grab something you may have missed.
Pizza-delivery bullet heaven Pest Apocalypse is hilarious chaos - out now
Pest Apocalypse from Kikimora Games is out now, a fresh Bullet Heaven blending together the worlds of Vampire Survivors with something like Crazy Taxi and it's thoroughly chaotic.
MMO interplanetary crafting adventure SpaceCraft from Shiro Games (Northgard, Wartales) announced
Shiro Games developer of Northgard, Wartales and Dune: Spice Wars have announced SpaceCraft, and my space-nerd brain is now very excited.
- Direct3D 12 to Vulkan project VKD3D-Proton v2.14 out now with various performance improvements
- GE-Proton 9-21 released for Linux / Steam Deck bringing more game fixes
- The Witcher IV revealed with Ciri as the protagonist
- Core Keeper developer announced KYORA that looks suspiciously like Terraria where "every pixel is yours to shape"
- KDE Plasma 6.3 will have much better fractional scaling
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