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News - No date yet for the Team Fortress 2 MvM update but Valve still working on it
By WorMzy, 13 Sep 2025 at 10:20 pm UTC

Apparently I last played TF2 in 2019. emoji

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By PaldinoX, 13 Sep 2025 at 8:06 pm UTC

Pyretic:(I recommend Propagation VR or Half Life: Alyx for now)
Woah, thanks for putting Propagation on my radar. Looks right up my alley and you can't beat the price of free!

News - The Spell Brigade is ending Native Linux support due to multiple issues
By oldnordic, 13 Sep 2025 at 8:06 pm UTC

Nvidia should be ignored at this point; they only care about the A.I. Their insistence on keeping the proprietary blob a secret is not because they have an amazing driver, but more likely because they are hiding the fact that their proprietary driver does some cheating in the sense that their hardware needs to deliver. In other words, they are hiding their own mess.

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By Bazirker, 13 Sep 2025 at 8:06 pm UTC

Does this mean that steam link VR might work on Steam deck? I have not personally tried to do this but I am aware of others who have gotten alvr working on the steam deck. Obviously I would not expect 60 FPS for most things, but it would be nice to fool around with.

News - DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined announced for February 2026, already rated Steam Deck Playable
By tmtvl, 13 Sep 2025 at 4:36 pm UTC

Remember to send your energy to Toriyama so he can quickly finish his training session with King Kai.

News - Fanatical Bundle Fest is back and they have lots of goodies for you
By Vigil, 13 Sep 2025 at 2:58 pm UTC

Both these replies involve the user doing extra work to figure out what's for sale:

1. Click next, click next, click next, click next…
2. Move mouse, read title; move mouse, read title; move mouse, read title…

I just want to load the page and see what's on offer:

* Resident Evil Foo
* Resident Evil Bar
* Monster Hunter This
* Capcom Whatever

Make it easy to see what's for sale = increase sales, because I sure can't be arsed to do some special action on twenty-one titles just to see what they are.

News - DRAGON QUEST VII Reimagined announced for February 2026, already rated Steam Deck Playable
By ToddL, 13 Sep 2025 at 1:41 pm UTC

I still remember to this day that Dragon Quest VII was the first game to be released outside of a Nintendo console and own a copy of the game, which is part of my collection. Despite not having the time to play the game back then, it was something I wanted to get back into and now, this announcement just reminded me about revisiting it again.

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By Pyretic, 13 Sep 2025 at 10:17 am UTC

andypiper: I'm clearly too much of a n00b (or, alternatively, far too old!) to make sense of things here. I have a Linux machine. I have a Quest 2 headset. What am I installing, exactly, on which device(s), to make this work? I'd be interested in seeing Half Life Alyx for example.
Don't worry about asking for help, that's how communities thrive!
  • Install Steam Link on your Quest via the Horizon Store

  • Install SteamVR on your PC, plus whatever VR game you want to play on your PC (I recommend Propagation VR or Half Life: Alyx for now)

  • Open SteamVR

  • Open Steam Link and connect to your PC when it shows up

  • You should now see the SteamVR Environment. Click the Menu Button to open your Steam Library and select the game you want to play.

  • Enjoy!


News - Fanatical Bundle Fest is back and they have lots of goodies for you
By tuubi, 13 Sep 2025 at 8:31 am UTC

@Vigil
I guess you might be using a mobile device to view these bundles, but hovering over one of the "cards" shows you the full name of the game, and clicking on the image or the "Product details" link opens a full description with thumbnails, system requirements, a Steam store link etc. A detailed list view would make the bundle contents clearer on a glance though, that's true.

News - Fanatical Bundle Fest is back and they have lots of goodies for you
By Liam Dawe, 13 Sep 2025 at 8:24 am UTC

If you scroll down on their bundle pages you can properly flick through each game.

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By andypiper, 13 Sep 2025 at 7:59 am UTC

I'm clearly too much of a n00b (or, alternatively, far too old!) to make sense of things here. I have a Linux machine. I have a Quest 2 headset. What am I installing, exactly, on which device(s), to make this work? I'd be interested in seeing Half Life Alyx for example.

News - Fanatical Bundle Fest is back and they have lots of goodies for you
By Vigil, 12 Sep 2025 at 5:30 pm UTC

I wish shops would default to listing their wares as opposed to showing a picture of the game front sleeve. I can't make out a good number of stuff that's on sale because the name of the game in the picture is too obscure. Like [here](https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-capcom-all-stars-bundle), the first game is called "VILLAGE"; there's one a couple of rows below that's just some scribbles; Mega Man is too small, and I've no idea what that Phoenix Wright game picture says.

Don't make me have to discover what you're trying to sell!

News - Catch bugs and fight both sides of the battles in Dicey Bugs - out now
By Purple Library Guy, 12 Sep 2025 at 5:02 pm UTC

There's something off about the "control both sides" thing. I mean, it seems like one side IS yours, and you're trying to defeat and in some cases capture the bugs on the other side. So I mean, if you get to decide how they play, it's like, you get to make them sabotage themselves . . . it doesn't seem fair.

News - You have to try the demo for Berserker's Domain if you love boomer shooters
By R Daneel Olivaw, 12 Sep 2025 at 2:36 pm UTC

ARGH!!! damnation, you got me sucked in and so excited Liam ........ but WHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY does it have to be roguewhatever. Damn damn damn.

News - Digimon Story Time Stranger rated Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible ahead of release
By cameronbosch, 12 Sep 2025 at 1:41 pm UTC

Update: My Steam Deck OLED did work, while I was able to get the Demo working on my laptop once I used Proton CachyOS and the latest update to the game demo, which appears to have been released in the last 12 hours. No other arguments were needed. It does seem to be a PC port locked at 144 fps and my PC could easily go past this with everything maxed out (it has an RTX 5090 laptop GPU after all).

News - Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite
By TheRiddick, 12 Sep 2025 at 1:14 pm UTC

I hope this kernel level anticheat stuff goes away overtime and we get something that uses LLMs instead, which can be done mostly server-side too.

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By posthum4n, 12 Sep 2025 at 1:11 pm UTC

My Bigscreen Beyond 1 finally started working last week running Linux after 2 years of waiting for NVidia to fix it (in 580 driver).

Something else will probably break when I'm going to try VR again this weekend, I think Smooth Motion is not supported, so probably it will still be a terrible experience. Did see other people complain on Nvidia forums about frame drops with NVidia + Linux + VR.

News - Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite
By hardpenguin, 12 Sep 2025 at 11:51 am UTC

Disappointing... Just let us play multiplayer shooters ffs

News - GeForce NOW's Blackwell RTX upgrade arrives September 10 and more games arrive soon
By hardpenguin, 12 Sep 2025 at 10:43 am UTC

This is a new cool feature making many new titles eligible for playing in GFN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhR52Nwuc7k

Unfortunately still no PUBG...

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By Pyretic, 12 Sep 2025 at 10:28 am UTC

although it's clearly still a work in progress with game support being limited as some don't work at all yet
It is very much a work in progress, since on my Bazzite machine, it requires command line arguments to work properly, and even then, it only seems to work with 2 games (Half Life: Alyx and Propogation VR). Everything else just crashes.

News - THE FINALS gets a huge upgrade for Season 8, plus anti-cheat changes confirmed
By Lumbercrack, 12 Sep 2025 at 10:25 am UTC

Big respect to the developers for keeping up Linux and SteamOS compatibility which is rare to see with competitive shooters.

News - Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite
By RickTheMelon, 12 Sep 2025 at 10:13 am UTC

Yea, its not going to make me want to install Windows any time soon.
There's plenty more games in the Sea of Gabe.

News - Acclaim returns with the Acclaim Showcase - here's what was announced
By walther von stolzing, 12 Sep 2025 at 9:00 am UTC

That logo brings back memories: https://youtu.be/yrjq6aNYVFk

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By Mikey242, 12 Sep 2025 at 9:00 am UTC

This is great news! Going to have to wait for Fedora to update Mesa to 25.2.1, I suspect that will arrive in Fedora 43 later this year.

News - Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
By Corben, 12 Sep 2025 at 8:45 am UTC

After I disabled wlx-overlay in the autostart options of Steam VR, games started to work via Steam Link VR.
Just now I can only play like one game, after quitting the game, either Steam VR, Steam or something else locks up emoji
Yet, it's so cool to see this progressing and starting to work.

News - Get a whole lot of Capcom classics in the Retro Revival Pack Humble Bundle
By mi1stormilst, 12 Sep 2025 at 7:08 am UTC

I just picked up the Lego games bundle!!! What a great deal!