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News - AMD confirm the Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch date and pricing
By rhavenn, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:55 pm UTC

Cool. Wake me when DDR5 prices come back down out of the stratosphere. Until then this is just performance art.

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By Johnologue, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:53 pm UTC

The legacy games industry is just wretched...
But hey, the layoffs will continue until productivity improves!
Maybe they'll eventually drive themselves into bankruptcy or irrelevance with all their "streamlining". I can dream.

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By Jarmer, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:49 pm UTC

I swear I thought I had a fever dream the other night! Right you guys? YES! It's official!

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By Kimyrielle, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:47 pm UTC

Gesh, Ubisoft, go bankrupt already and sell the IPs to someone who doesn't produce uninspired corporate slop every single time.

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By vic-bay, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:46 pm UTC

They say this new model for how Ubisoft works will be centred on "Open World Adventures and *GaaS-native experiences
Ah yes the new model, totally not the one that they followed since 2014.

News - AMD confirm the Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch date and pricing
By Drakker, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:45 pm UTC

My really cheap 9600x bought on sale is doing fine. I'll wait for the next iteration, or the one after that if it still supports am5 to get a x3d chip.

News - Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:10 pm UTC

Switch has native support for vulkan afaik, them working on vk extensions makes sense

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:04 pm UTC

Quoting: mr-victoryMaybe they contacted the recently expelled team member? They worked on hardware & handheld support.
Going by further comments, nope, they used a shared mailbox.

Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC

Proton will also do however the default wine is ancient and does not work. I had to give this info in universal blue discord so many times I started to meme about "days since last Battle.net install failure on Lutris: 0". It is a pet peeve of mine😅

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:59 pm UTC

Maybe they contacted the recently expelled team member? They worked on hardware & handheld support.

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By msmafra, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:53 pm UTC

Sounds like: "Let's flood Bazzite with issues about GPD Win5 so they solve them for us"

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By artwork, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:51 pm UTC

The page of the device states the following:

The advantages of Bazzite Desktop Edition include: being developed by technical experts from renowned companies such as Microsoft, Ubuntu, Intel, Amazon, and Red Hat. It supports not only AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards but also Intel ARC+. With its Cloud Native architecture, even if updates cause software package corruption, users can roll back to any Bazzite version released within the past 90 days.
[Source](https://archive.is/c3R6K)
After that, the website presents a screenshot (not HTML) of Bazzite Linux distribution contributors, though the first expression it raised is that these contributors are of this device and not the distribution ^^"

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By GustyGhost, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:43 pm UTC

Valve: Thoroughly supports Linux

Ubisoft: Openly hostile to Linux

I know where I'll be spending my money

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By dpanter, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:37 pm UTC

Worthless scum company unable to produce anything positive. Just fold already. 😡

News - Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux
By Grishnakh, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:33 pm UTC

A number of years ago one of the chief Vortex devs, when asked whether they'd support Linux, said no way, no how -- Vortex was built using Windows tooling. Better to make a clean-sheet manager, which there were no plans to do.

A year later, a cross-platform, clean-sheet mod manager is announced. New devs hired to work on it, community built around it, active engagement with user base helped shape the product. Despite being clean, good, actively developed, no technical debt, and actively desired by the market segment, it's canceled.

To appease the peasants Nexus asserts they are "supporting" Linux by suckering remora-like onto Valve's compatibility work. The Vortex update will only be supported on Steam hardware; the rest of you Linux losers are on your own.

Did I get the timeline right? Sure wouldn't want to, I dunno, look like an _idiot_ or something....

News - Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux
By Liam Dawe, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:23 pm UTC

We have a link to the documentation in the article where you can see them all, yes Nintendo are listed too.

News - Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux
By taosecurity, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:22 pm UTC

This is awesome news. It happened faster than anyone expected!

News - Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux
By msmafra, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:22 pm UTC

Phoronix listed some companies that worked on the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, and Nintendo is listed. Am I tripping?

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By Szkodnix, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:20 pm UTC

Someone's trying to save on an actual technical support, huh? 😂

News - GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise
By Thibug, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:18 pm UTC

GPD lying? No that can't be! They are such a trust worthy company with a perfect track record /s

News - Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux
By Jarmer, 23 Jan 2026 at 3:01 pm UTC

what exactly is going on over at nexus mods....? Sheesh. Seems to be just random thrashing about of ideas and decisions that make no sense...?

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By Jarmer, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:59 pm UTC

Yves Guillemot must have some serious dirt on someone somewhere to still remain in charge of this "company" if you can even call it that at this point. "Stinking rotting carcass that long ago resembled a function entity" ... maybe that's more apt?

Is his nepo baby son still in charge of any number of their subsidiaries? Probably.

News - Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux
By theinsanegamer23, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:59 pm UTC

Quoting: AsciiWolfSo, they care only about SteamOS?
Unfortunately they're not the only ones. Thankfully, unlike anti-cheat that does hardware check, this should work on basically any distro as the Steam path and Steam library system are more or less the same.

The only downside of this is that it'll seemingly only work with Steam since they're relying on Steam for launching, detection, and prefix management. Sounds like if you use the GOG version, you'll probably be better off using something like Limo. It'd be nice if they added some basic functionality to set up non-steam games manually though.

Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By tuubi, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:55 pm UTC

Quoting: mr-victoryI forgot this guide existed lol. Option 1 (Lutris) does not work and hasn't for months unless the default Wine version is changed from Wine GE 8.26 to something newer. Other wine versions can be installed by clicking a tiny button that looks like an open box in the main page of Lutris, next to "Wine" button.
For most games you'll want to select "GE-Proton (Latest)" instead. No need to download anything manually. Lutris (UMU) will automatically download and manage the latest Proton version for you.

Lutris really needs to cut a new release at some point and make this the default.

News - Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux
By eev, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:53 pm UTC

Better than nothing but you'd still be better off using dedicated managers than Vortex... Hope they can improve Vortex itself but I would give it a few years.

News - Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux
By AsciiWolf, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:52 pm UTC

So, they care only about SteamOS? Will they at least distribute Vortex as Flatpak?

News - Ubisoft implementing cost-reduction restructuring, cancelling various games and closing studios
By geckofish52, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:52 pm UTC

I've got a weak spot for Far Cry -esque ubislop, keep it coming.

Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 12:44 pm UTC

I forgot this guide existed lol. Option 1 (Lutris) does not work and hasn't for months unless the default Wine version is changed from Wine GE 8.26 to something newer. Other wine versions can be installed by clicking a tiny button that looks like an open box in the main page of Lutris, next to "Wine" button.

News - Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex
By blindcoder, 23 Jan 2026 at 9:55 am UTC

Quoting: Wolfgang RoseVery shortsighted, but there is an alternative already.. Steam! I've never understood why more games that support modding, don't use the steam workshop. Perfect it isn't, but it could be used in a far better way. Nexus lost my business as a result of their lack of Linux support. I guess I won't be returning anytime soon.
Because it ties you in to Steam and when you release outside of it, you will not have Mod support. It's a decision you can make, but it preempts devs from complaining about other stores then (IMO).