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News - The new Steam Controller from Valve is out now - some early thoughts
By Renzatic Gear, 12 May 2026 at 4:59 pm UTC

Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.
I just got mine. I decided to use the old Steam controller while waiting for the new one to arrive as a sort of last hurrah for it. Now, because of that, I've gotta get used to the lower trackpad positioning. I kinda screwed myself on that front.

Other than that, I'm liking it. It's great at Brotato!

News - Valve fix Steam Controller double inputs with the Puck - Steam Deck gets configurable Track Pad Locking
By benstor214, 12 May 2026 at 4:38 pm UTC

Quoting: tmtvllet's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch
Actually it was 200! But 150 went to TikTokYouTube-‘reviewers'/influencers, 30 went to actual reviewers who know what they’re doing (Hi @Liam 👋🏻) and the rest got bought up by scalpers and their botnets.

News - Don't forget to claim your Amazon Prime games for May via Amazon Luna
By Caldathras, 12 May 2026 at 4:36 pm UTC

How does that work now? Do you have to play the games through the Luna service or are the codes/keys still independent of Amazon, as they were before?

News - The most wishlisted game on Steam - Subnautica 2 gets an Early Access trailer, pre-purchase and pre-loads
By CanadianBlueBeer, 12 May 2026 at 3:56 pm UTC

I broke down and bought it.

Discount if you have the other 2 games.

(I saved a whopping 4 bucks)
:P

News - PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 devs battling "AI slop code pull requests"
By awfulsauce, 12 May 2026 at 2:08 pm UTC

It appears one of my worst fears when it comes to FOSS and AI is coming into fruition.

News - Further expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux now with FRL and DSC
By ToddL, 12 May 2026 at 2:04 pm UTC

Quoting: tpauIt is incredible that this development still relies on files exchanged over e-mail.
Even worse is that these mailinglists are publicly archived with full names and e-mail-adresses.
Why not keep that to those that subscribed and not let harvesters access them?
Where are the gitlabs and githubs and modern infrastructure? ;)
If a process has been working for this long, why change it? Besides, emails are still a good way to leave paper trails in case anyone wants to go back to see what conversations have been going on during the development process. Using modern infrastructure doesn't guarantee that every conversation will be available forever because all of it can go away if no backup (or the backup got deleted) was done to preserve it in the event the repository or other modern tools ceased to exist.

News - PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 devs battling "AI slop code pull requests"
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 12 May 2026 at 2:00 pm UTC

That idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

News - Path of Exile 2 should hopefully be Steam Deck Verified with the next major update
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 12 May 2026 at 1:51 pm UTC

Quoting: Jarmeroh man. GIVE THIS A TRY. It's got a very unique skill system I've never seen in any other arpg ever.
Someone in Steam Family is fan of such games and will buy it sooner or later. So I will gain gratis access to test it before buying. To me it is still a huge difference if something is isometric or third person.

It is indeed cool to have true offline singleplayer functions in Dragonkin. I also highly value "no planned game destruction".

News - Further expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux now with FRL and DSC
By tpau, 12 May 2026 at 1:13 pm UTC

It is incredible that this development still relies on files exchanged over e-mail.
Even worse is that these mailinglists are publicly archived with full names and e-mail-adresses.
Why not keep that to those that subscribed and not let harvesters access them?
Where are the gitlabs and githubs and modern infrastructure? ;)

News - Valve fix Steam Controller double inputs with the Puck - Steam Deck gets configurable Track Pad Locking
By melkemind, 12 May 2026 at 12:51 pm UTC

Quoting: tmtvlThat's nice, let's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch. Saltiness aside, I hope SC Controller gets support for the SC2, would be nice to be able to use it without Steam.
20 controllers 😂

News - Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC
By neolith, 12 May 2026 at 12:00 pm UTC

Huh... never heard of it before. Guess it's time to dig out RTCW again. I think I still have the DVD version somewhere.

News - Valve fix Steam Controller double inputs with the Puck - Steam Deck gets configurable Track Pad Locking
By tmtvl, 12 May 2026 at 10:51 am UTC

That's nice, let's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch. Saltiness aside, I hope SC Controller gets support for the SC2, would be nice to be able to use it without Steam.

News - Bazzite Linux gets some major upgrades for the April 2026 Update
By KrejsyLainen, 12 May 2026 at 10:00 am UTC

Quoting: Phlebiac
Quoting: KrejsyLainenHow legacy are we talking? Nouveau is getting quite nice these days :)
The open source stuff is now focused on GTX 1600 and later (newer firmware). So not legacy.
When I used nouveau on any hardware years ago everything was superbroken.
In the last months I tried it on a 330m(old macbook), a 450, a 660, a quadro k600 and the mx550 in my laptop, on every card I had little to no issues (though nvk was broken on kepler), just a manual reclock with a oneliner and everything I tried just worked.
So much so that I just ignored the proprietary driver, on older cards the legacy proprietary driver is super finicky and there are so many problems, with nouveau everything including wayland worked.

News - PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 devs battling "AI slop code pull requests"
By jeisom, 12 May 2026 at 9:58 am UTC

I agree with @pb with the added that submissions could be used to increase social engineering attempt success rates. The code “looks right” and the AI verifier says it is “safe”. “I’ll merge it”. That on top of people “writing code” that they don’t understand in the first place.

News - PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 devs battling "AI slop code pull requests"
By pb, 12 May 2026 at 9:45 am UTC

I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need three-strike system for accounts contributing to open source projects. First slop submitted to any project = warning, second = red flag, third = ban from opening any pull requests. Project maintainers would be able to opt in/out to allowing these accounts to contribute to their projects. Of course I realise that it's trivial to create a new account, but the main motivation behind such contributions are building "reputation" and filling these green squares, so that system should act perfectly fine as a deterrent.

News - Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, EFF and others release statement urging UK policymakers to keep the web open
By grigi, 12 May 2026 at 8:59 am UTC

South Africa does too. UK does too. New Zeeland does too.

It's a honking good idea to add a few small guards to lower almost your entire population stress levels by a noticeably amount.

News - Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC
By lqe5433, 12 May 2026 at 6:33 am UTC

Do you know that https://github.com/iortcw/iortcw will be updated to support this new extension? Or is that project dead?

News - Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
By ToddL, 12 May 2026 at 5:43 am UTC

It's great that this decompilation project is able to make Twilight Princess work natively on PC and Nintendo doesn't have any legal means to sue or take down the project because they're not distributing any copyright material other than the tools to make it work, provided that you have your own copy of the game.

News - Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC
By compholio, 12 May 2026 at 2:32 am UTC

Wow, I played a _lot_ of RtCW back in the day. I even won this unique stein from a contest:
External Media: You need to be logged in to view this.

But because I played on PC, I never even knew there was a prologue...

News - Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, EFF and others release statement urging UK policymakers to keep the web open
By LoudTechie, 11 May 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC

Quoting: tohur
Quoting: LoudTechie
Quoting: Caldathras
Quoting: LoudTechieYour boss can't fire you any moment he likes, yet you still fear his power.
The same is true for politicians.
Actually, here in Canada, your boss CAN fire you any moment he likes. I know as I used to be a business owner and employer. There is a whole list of government-proscribed reasons why you cannot be fired (race, gender, theft without proof, layoff if he rehires, etc.) but your boss can still fire you without providing any reason at all.

Where politicians are concerned, unless they commit a crime, they are safe until the next election which gives them a safety net that relies on the voter's notoriously short memory. The party system doesn't help, because voters sometimes overlook individual foibles in favor of their preferred political party. So politicians have a lot less to fear from their "employers" (the voters).

Myself, where politicians are concerned, I don't have a short memory.
Okay, my boss can't fire me any moment he likes and I still fear his power(since firing someone after their introduction period, without a government whitelisted reason and proof is illegal).
That's crazy.
I don't know where you live but in most places your boss CAN fire you anytime they please
The only places I was able to find that don't have an approved cause requirement are the USA and Canada.

Australia requires approved reasons for firing, Brazil does too, South-Korea does, the entire EU and its candidate states do, Japan does, the DRC does, Mexico does, Russia does and China does(for non-slave or minority workers).

News - Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC
By plain_text, 11 May 2026 at 5:21 pm UTC

good game. afer i played it through there is one Q in my head:
are there more customer campaigns worth playing?

News - Crazy action game Killer Bean confirmed for launch on June 8
By WMan22, 11 May 2026 at 4:59 pm UTC

I've been waiting what feels like 2 years for this one, so happy to see it has a release date.

News - Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
By GustyGhost, 11 May 2026 at 4:00 pm UTC

Another title liberated from the Nintendo hardware prison.

News - Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 revealed to arrive this "Summer"
By Geppeto35, 11 May 2026 at 3:24 pm UTC

Quoting: scorp10n2000Meh... We NEED a singel player Alien action game!(and a good Alien movie) Not more pvp garbage!
it could have been humains versus aliens (and robots) in PvP like in Left for Dead 2.

I spent something like 20h on it, not more, it was fun (alone with computer pal and real friends) and a bit weird with unknown real guys seeking to play with humans. So very short game (but okay for the price I payed with discount). After that you can do again the same map, but it becomes repetitive and predictable fast.

News - Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC
By mindedie, 11 May 2026 at 3:15 pm UTC

Quoting: PaldinoX
AI Voice Generation is used for some of the NPCs
OK but like, why though? RtCW and the prolouge episode are fully voiced, what would they have had to use AI voices for?
Decades old raster/bitmap filters are "AI" for years now... someone trying to sell equalizers, audio filters, voice synthesizers as "AI" to get that sweet sweet VC investment...?

News - Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, EFF and others release statement urging UK policymakers to keep the web open
By LoudTechie, 11 May 2026 at 2:45 pm UTC

Quoting: LoudTechie
Quoting: tohur
Quoting: LoudTechie
Quoting: Caldathras
Quoting: LoudTechieYour boss can't fire you any moment he likes, yet you still fear his power.
The same is true for politicians.
Actually, here in Canada, your boss CAN fire you any moment he likes. I know as I used to be a business owner and employer. There is a whole list of government-proscribed reasons why you cannot be fired (race, gender, theft without proof, layoff if he rehires, etc.) but your boss can still fire you without providing any reason at all.

Where politicians are concerned, unless they commit a crime, they are safe until the next election which gives them a safety net that relies on the voter's notoriously short memory. The party system doesn't help, because voters sometimes overlook individual foibles in favor of their preferred political party. So politicians have a lot less to fear from their "employers" (the voters).

Myself, where politicians are concerned, I don't have a short memory.
Okay, my boss can't fire me any moment he likes and I still fear his power(since firing someone after their introduction period, without a government whitelisted reason and proof is illegal).
That's crazy.
I don't know where you live but in most places your boss CAN fire you anytime they please
I'm uncomfortable revealing on a public forum my exact nation, but I will point out that according to Article 30 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European union every worker has the right to protection against unjustified dismissal.
This is enforced through a mix of collective bargaining agreements, national law, local rules, subsidized rights groups and EU law.

Edit:
Clarification The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.
Is kind of an upgraded version of the Universal Declaration of Human rights signed by all EU nations.
Its highest court is the ECJ.
Signing and adhering to it's a minimum requirement for EU membership.
This's not some Nordic or rich nation luxury in the EU a poor Romanian or Italian has those rights too.
Even most EU Candidates follow these rules.

The exact implementation differs, due to the EU principle of subsidiary, but it's not something you can just take from an EU citizen.
Currently even the United Kingdom, which left the EU to weaken worker protections abides by this principle.
Warning sovereign pride:
Spoiler, click me
The nations European union will not bow to capital like the USA.
They don't need to squirrel to please foreign powers like Mayanmar.
Nor do those nations bend the knee to violence like Sudan.
Neither do our proud nations follow a single strongman like El Salvador.
Nor does the Union bow to feudalistic nobles like China.
Their allegiance is to their people and to justice.
If capital is used to the betterment of these.
The Union's members welcomes it with open arms, as their WTO track record will show.
If foreign influence shows itself worthy by bringing those further.
These nations aren't too proud to let it in as their diplomatic record will show.
Those who wield violence will find a warm bed in the EU when they protect those things.
As our soldiers will tell you.
Yes, they'll even gladly grant unparalleled power to any strongman willing to improve these things.
As the EU-prosecutor can personally attest to.
The Merits of feudalism and federation aren't lost to the EU memberstates.
As their unwavering commitment to the principle of subsidiary shows in each of their actions.

They just do this together, because together we are strong, divided we fall.

News - Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
By voytrekk, 11 May 2026 at 2:36 pm UTC

Quoting: Cley_FayeI love these. They're working on Wii image compatibility, so I'll be able to use my own soon, hopefully.

I know "it's complicated", but it baffles me that there isn't a way for big business to have a small team doing just that with their own IP. If Nintendo released these, even if not as polished, but under some "ok, you get this" term (that I'm sure everyone will complain about), that'd be awesome.

Thankfully, people are doing it. And from what I've seen, there's a lot of care in this.
It would be profitable for them too. With these decomps, most people are likely pirating the game or purchasing a used copy.

News - Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC
By PaldinoX, 11 May 2026 at 2:33 pm UTC

AI Voice Generation is used for some of the NPCs
OK but like, why though? RtCW and the prolouge episode are fully voiced, what would they have had to use AI voices for?

News - SteamOS 3.7.24 released along with a stable Steam Client update with more Steam Controller fixes
By voytrekk, 11 May 2026 at 2:33 pm UTC

Hopefully they can fix the controller not supporting Wake on USB. Kind of disappointing that I have to get off my ass to turn my PC on when I was able to do so with my DualSense controller.