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News - Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens
By rcrit, 5 Jan 2026 at 2:36 pm UTC

Quoting: scaine
Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out. It works great.
This looks superb, and I'll likely do the same. But one feature I'll miss is the big banner that Augmented Steam puts across any game that has Denuvo. I also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.
Agreed. Denuvo is an instant no-buy and I appreciate its visibility.

I've disabled AI in Augmented Steam for now but if SteamDB gets parity I'll switch to that in a heartbeat.

News - Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens
By scaine, 5 Jan 2026 at 2:01 pm UTC

Quoting: zerodoggI switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out. It works great.
This looks superb, and I'll likely do the same. But one feature I'll miss is the big banner that Augmented Steam puts across any game that has Denuvo. I also like the pop-up that overlays the entire game page if it uses AI.

News - Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025
By mr-victory, 5 Jan 2026 at 1:56 pm UTC

The bespoke maintainer is antheas I guess? They were pushing other members away to the point I feared the community / distro would dissolve itself.

News - Some releases to look forward to in 2026
By syylk, 5 Jan 2026 at 1:41 pm UTC

GTAVI.

(With very low hope to be shipped without kernel-level anticheat.)

News - Some releases to look forward to in 2026
By Stella, 5 Jan 2026 at 1:38 pm UTC

At first I was skeptical about Control: Resonant because it seems like a very different game from Control, but now I'm genuinely looking forward to it. I think it'll be very fun to play as Dylan

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By scaine, 5 Jan 2026 at 1:37 pm UTC

Yep, as others have said, this feels like a slightly disappointing awards. I'm not doubting that the games listed are good in various ways, but I don't feel particularly connected to nearly any of them! I played a bit of Clair Obscur and I think it probably deserved more than just Best Soundtrack, but otherwise, there's hardly a game on that list that interests me.

Is it me? No, it's the kids that are wrong.

EDIT: I'll take it one step further. Here's my version of the awards... all games I've played extensively, and no repeats (so each game can only win one award).

Do I play too many games? No. No, I don't.

Game of the Year - [Avowed](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457220/Avowed/?curator_clanid=4777282)
VR Game of the Year - (I didn't play any!)
Labor of Love - [Mortal Sin](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1494810/Mortal_Sin/)
Best Game on Steam Deck - [Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2321470/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Survivor/)
Better With Friends - [Deadzone: Rogue](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3228590/Deadzone_Rogue/?curator_clanid=4777282)
Outstanding Visual Style - [No Rest for the Wicked](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371980/No_Rest_for_the_Wicked/)
Most Innovative Gameplay - [Jump Space](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1757300/Jump_Space/?curator_clanid=4777282)
Best Game You Suck At - [Section 13](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2111870/Section_13/?curator_clanid=4777282)
Best Soundtrack - [Clair Obsur: Expedition 33](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1903340/Clair_Obscur_Expedition_33/?curator_clanid=4777282)
Outstanding Story-Rich Game - [Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466060/Tainted_Grail_The_Fall_of_Avalon/)
Sit Back and Relax - [Monster Train 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2742830/Monster_Train_2/)

News - One of the best puzzle games ever, Baba Is You gets a final big update
By Klaas, 5 Jan 2026 at 12:48 pm UTC

These kind of announcements are a mixed bag for me – more (optional) content is nice, but the final update wording is scary because there is such a high chance to break stuff, so unless there will be further minor updates if necessary I'd rather not risk it.

The first game I'm thinking of is Star Survivor – that one has been broken by the final update and is unplayable without rolling back to a previous release.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Klaas, 5 Jan 2026 at 12:43 pm UTC

I'm really disconnected from the games on the list – my recent purchases were Balatro and DLCs for games that I've previously had, i.e. all the 3rd party licensed ones for Vampire Survivors, Greece for ETS2, Arkansas and a cargo one for ATS.

News - Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens
By zerodogg, 5 Jan 2026 at 12:15 pm UTC

I switched to the SteamDB extension instead of Augmented Steam when this was first pushed out. It works great.

News - Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025
By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2026 at 11:56 am UTC

Quoting: chickenb00I've been idly thinking of buying a used Lenovo Legion Go as well as I really admire the removable joycons. I would also load Bazzite onto it. What's your impression Liam? I'd like to hear about it, but it might also make a compelling YouTube video!
An article will be up this week on it.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2026 at 11:33 am UTC

Quoting: Xpander
Quoting: vic-bayi can't agree with arc raiders victory in the innovations category, because there were zero innovations in the game. to be honest i doubt there can be significant innovations in video games in general. in the last 30-40 years almost every possible idea has been already tried. not every possible combination of ideas, but combining existing ideas is not innovation. everything else looks okay, at least people voted for it.
But there is. The innovation is the NPC AI. They adapt and learn how to get to you. They adapt if they have broken propellers etc. Now i'm sure there have been games trying to do that before, but in a multiplayer setting i think it’s the first in this area.
Not just that but there really is absolutely no other game that combines everything like ARC Raiders does for PvPvE.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Brokatt, 5 Jan 2026 at 8:44 am UTC

Quoting: Tethys84
Quoting: rea987
Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.
Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.
Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.
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News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Xpander, 5 Jan 2026 at 8:25 am UTC

Quoting: vic-bayi can't agree with arc raiders victory in the innovations category, because there were zero innovations in the game. to be honest i doubt there can be significant innovations in video games in general. in the last 30-40 years almost every possible idea has been already tried. not every possible combination of ideas, but combining existing ideas is not innovation. everything else looks okay, at least people voted for it.
But there is. The innovation is the NPC AI. They adapt and learn how to get to you. They adapt if they have broken propellers etc. Now i'm sure there have been games trying to do that before, but in a multiplayer setting i think its the first in this area.

News - Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025
By chickenb00, 5 Jan 2026 at 3:07 am UTC

I've been idly thinking of buying a used Lenovo Legion Go as well as I really admire the removable joycons. I would also load Bazzite onto it. What's your impression Liam? I'd like to hear about it, but it might also make a compelling YouTube video!

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By vic-bay, 4 Jan 2026 at 10:16 pm UTC

i can't agree with arc raiders victory in the innovations category, because there were zero innovations in the game. to be honest i doubt there can be significant innovations in video games in general. in the last 30-40 years almost every possible idea has been already tried. not every possible combination of ideas, but combining existing ideas is not innovation. everything else looks okay, at least people voted for it.

News - D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux
By Eduardo-Thiesen, 4 Jan 2026 at 9:02 pm UTC

I've always had this vague memory of playing a game with a lady dragonrider on my uncle's PC when I was a kid, but could never find the name of the game. I got so excited when I saw this article because of that screenshot.

Quoting: CaldathrasDrakan: Order of the Flame is my favorite dx6 game.
Thank you very much, I was beginning to think I had imagined this thing 😅.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By eggrole, 4 Jan 2026 at 8:27 pm UTC

Quoting: TevurYeah, you will get ignorant and stupid af, but at least you're happy
"If you don't read the papers, you're uninformed. If you do read the papers, you're misinformed." -Mark Twain

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 7:43 pm UTC

Quoting: TevurYeah, you will get ignorant and stupid af, but at least you're happy

Nah. Most of it is just propaganda and fear-porn anyway. Just find a less manipulative, unbiased source for your news instead, and accept that a lot of the so-called "news" is not actually stuff you need to know -- especially opinion pieces. And, yes, you will be much happier less stressed. (Being ignorant does not make you stupid, btw.)

And now, back to the topic of this thread ...

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Ehvis, 4 Jan 2026 at 7:20 pm UTC

Quoting: EikeThe best game of the year(*) is available natively for Linux!

(*) according to some voting
To be fair, Silksong was in "platinum" for revenue while the other game of the year (E33) was gold. With a 20 euro / 50 euro price for those two, that also means Silksong wildly outsold E33. And that is a pretty relevant kind of voting, so deserved among Steam users.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Tevur, 4 Jan 2026 at 7:20 pm UTC

Yeah, you will get ignorant and stupid af, but at least you're happy

Back to topic: SILKSONG! YEAH!

Guide - How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 7:16 pm UTC

This is for those looking for a solution that doesn't involve Flatpak. It is primarily intended for desktop Linux users. Although, I imagine with a little tweaking, It might work for Steam Deck as well.

Spoiler, click me
There are many ways to install OpenMW. There is even an unofficial AppImage available. The distro repositories almost always offer an out-of-date version. In the past, I used to install via the LaunchPad PPA (only works for Ubuntu derivatives). The problem with PPAs is that they have to be reinstalled with every major version upgrade of your distro. If you are slow to upgrade, the PPA will eventually update to a version of OpenMW that will not run on your outdated distro. Updating uninstalls the version that currently works and then fails on installing the new version.

Option 3) Direct Download

https://openmw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manuals/installation/install-openmw.html#direct-download

Recently, I discovered that OpenMW offers a Direct Download "installer" on their GitHub site. This archive acts just like the Windows installer, allowing you to keep multiple versions of OpenMW installed in Linux.

Spoiler, click me
NOTE: By default, all installations share the same saves and configuration. There is a feature that was introduced with version 0.48 that allows you to set up a "portable install", which allows you to isolate a particular version with its own configuration and save files.

https://modding-openmw.com/tips/portable-install/

The problem is that the installation instructions from the online guide are written very poorly. All they say is "run the install package once downloaded. It’s now installed!". It is not that easy. For one, the "installer" is an archive, not an executable. For two, they assume that you know what file to run once the archive is extracted. Here are my expanded instructions:

1) Download the latest Direct Download archive from the GitHub Releases page.

2) Extract the archive to the folder/location of your choice.

Spoiler, click me
NOTE: If you want to maintain multiple versions, keep in mind that only one of them can be in your default PATH. In fact, it would probably be better to keep the lot of them out of your PATH altogether. Instead of treating the executable/script like a system command, you will just have to provide the entire folder address to launch the game.

This, however, also makes the installation somewhat portable since you can place folder wherever you want. Combined with the "portable install" feature described above, this means you won't even have to have the game installed in your File System partition at all.

3) Launch the "openmw-launcher" script from within the folder.
.... a) If you are simply upgrading, it will use your existing configuration. You are good to go.
.... b) If this is a fresh installation, the launcher will offer to run the OpenMW Wizard to help you set everything up (see Option 1 of Liam's guide above for the rest of the steps).

4) If the launcher script will not start, then you have very likely encountered the rather infamous glibc issue (you can verify this by trying to launching the script in a terminal).

Spoiler, click me

GLIBC Compatibility Issues

One of the big concerns that I have with the OpenMW project is that they don't clearly notify Linux users of a change in system requirements (which they could include with the text for each release on GitHub). The OpenMW Team occasionally increases the version of the glibc library required without clearly advising their Linux users of this change.

For example, the latest version of OpenMW (0.50.0) requires glibc 2.38. This is only available on Ubuntu 24.04 (Mint 22) or higher. (Still running an earlier distro version? Surprise!)

The solution is quite simple. You need to integrate the game into the Steam Client and set the compatibility to Steam Linux Runtime 4, which is based on Debian 13.2 Trixie (and supports glibc 2.38).

5) Make sure to download the latest version of the Steam Linux Runtime (currently Steam Linux Runtime 4).

6) To add OpenMW to the Steam client, choose the option "Add a Non-Steam Game ...". You may have to manually point Steam at the location of the openmw-launcher script (I did).

7) Go to the Properties menu for openmw-launcher and select "Install Compatibility Tool". Choose the latest Steam Linux Runtime, which you downloaded in Step 5.

8) Update and customize the Steam Library entry to your preferences. You should now be good to go.

News - Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19%
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 6:44 pm UTC

The thing I don't get is why does it have to be a 100% switchover? Such binary thinking -- either all-in or all-out. Why not set up a dual-boot first? Then the new Linux user could gradually shift over as they learn to work with Linux and/or find alternatives that do work for them in Linux. All they have to do is persevere.

There are always going to be one or two pieces of Windows software that won't work solidly in Linux. That is what dual-boots or virtual machines are for...

News - D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 6:34 pm UTC

Drakan: Order of the Flame is my favorite dx6 game. Has anyone tested this with D7VK yet?

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 6:30 pm UTC

Quoting: Tethys84I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

The first step to recovery would be to stop watching the news (especially mainstream media). If you're still doing television, cancel that too. Removing the news and advertising from your daily life will help immensely. You'd be surprised by how much it reduces your stress levels.
😊

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By such, 4 Jan 2026 at 5:35 pm UTC

Larian is deserved regardless. They really do seem to want to do good, they listen, and just overall they're largely customer-facing. As long as they're profitable and Swen is calling the shots we're probably safe to assume that won't be changing.

Hello Games sort of got pushed into... needing to be that if they were to continue as a studio, the studio head's reputation and literal face was riding on this mess of a launch, and then they established a successful business model based on all this, i.e. full price game discounted on content updates, but never past roughly half off, and we did get a regional price bump to Valve suggested pricing - which is not the Good Guy thing to do. That loyal fanbase surely won't mind, though. Eh, Sean?

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Eike, 4 Jan 2026 at 5:15 pm UTC

Quoting: Tethys84Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.
I do get that (later) mood.

But it's not the right mood to post in a gaming forum.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By tfk, 4 Jan 2026 at 4:51 pm UTC

Can't really connect the first part of last response to the last part. But as for the last part, we are all in the same leaky boat.

So keep paddling.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Tethys84, 4 Jan 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC

Quoting: rea987
Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.
Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.
Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By rea987, 4 Jan 2026 at 3:51 pm UTC

Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.
Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.

News - 2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed
By Eike, 4 Jan 2026 at 3:40 pm UTC

Quoting: Tethys84I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.
Well, they did release a native version for Steam Deck. And I guess it won't make them lots of money... (I'm not saying this is the reason for the people to vote for it though.)