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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)

By Liam Dawe,
After Nintendo recently filed a lawsuit against the Yuzu team, it was pretty much inevitable this was going to happen wasn't it.

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Sunshine along with Moonlight are popular ways to run your own game streaming system (as say an alternative to Steam Remote Play), and the latest Sunshine release sounds great for Linux gamers.

Valve reveals schedule of sales events for the rest of 2024

By Liam Dawe,
Are you saving up for a particular game, or just want to know what sales events are coming up on Steam? Got you covered here, as Valve have now revealed all.

Wine pulls in code to eliminate a Vulkan performance issue for wow64

By Liam Dawe,
Wine is about to get just that little bit sweeter, with new code recently merged into the project that should work around a performance issue with Vulkan.

Steam smashes its peak players online record to over 34 million

By Liam Dawe,
Starting 2024 off strong, Valve has seen Steam smash the all-time record once again for users actually online showing that weekends are a busy time for gamers.

Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter

By Liam Dawe,
Another month down according to Statcounter at least, Linux on the desktop is doing better than ever. Take it with your usual little pinch of salt like any survey sampling though.

Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like once again we're seeing an Asia influx on Steam, as the February 2024 Steam Hardware & Software Survey showed a big +7.62% bump in Simplified Chinese.

Proton 9.0 for Steam Deck / Linux got a small Beta update, plus Proton Experimental too

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the second public Beta for Proton 9.0, what will become the next stable version of Proton for running Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

All older games being sold in Germany on Steam now require a content rating

By Liam Dawe,
For game developers that want to continue selling games in Germany, they'll need to ensure they actually have a content rating, including for older games.

Game over for Roblox on Linux / Steam Deck as it's now blocked

By Liam Dawe,
Well, there it is, the update for Roblox has arrived that now forcefully blocks it from working with Wine on Linux systems (like Steam Deck).

Steam had a bit of a scam problem with fakes of Helldivers 2 and Palworld

By Liam Dawe,
Not the first time it has happened, and likely won't be the last unless Valve implement some more security checks, but recently a few games tried scamming players by renaming into other popular games.

Proton Experimental fixes up Tekken 8, Cosmoteer, Call of Cthulhu, Warframe and more

By Liam Dawe,
After recently updating Proton Experimental to be based on the new Proton 9, Valve ended February 2024 with another bunch of bug fixes for Proton Experimental.

Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.17 brings lots of bug fixes, plus Persona 3 Reload improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has released the latest stable update to SteamOS for Steam Deck, and it includes quite a healthy dose of bug fixes and general improvements.

Grab more great games in the Humble Creative Sandbox Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Here's a pretty darn good selection of games that you can pick up in the Humble Creative Sandbox Bundle.

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

By Liam Dawe,
If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.

Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
After recently releasing a big Stable Steam Client update for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs, I highlighted that Remote Play was broken on Steam Deck - and so Valve has now fixed it.

5 years later Valve finally gives Windows compatibility tool Proton a logo

By Liam Dawe,
Can you believe it? Proton, the compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Steam Deck / Linux PCs didn't actually have a proper logo for over 5 years.

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA has revealed new GPU driver security issues in their latest bulletin, so here's what you need to know if you're using an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.

Remote Play broken on Steam Deck with the February stable update

By Liam Dawe,
Valve just recently launched a big stable update to the Steam Client for both Steam Deck and Desktop PCs, which has come with one big issue for Steam Deck.

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.
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