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Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring
Ouch. We're only just into week 2 of 2024 and Unity Software are cutting away a huge amount of their staff, as things aren't looking great for the Unity game engine.
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GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux
GE-Proton has received two new versions with GE-Proton 8-26 and GE-Proton 8-27 shortly after, mostly focusing on fixing up issues in some games and pulling in new versions of various parts of Proton like Wine and DXVK.
Celebrate Economic Strategy with the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest
Economy simulation and city management may not be the first thing most people think of when they think about video games. But it is one of the most longstanding genres in gaming, going all the way back to the 1980's.
NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs
Much like AMD did today for CES 2024, much of NVIDIA's event was also all about AI but there's a few bits in there for normal consumers like the announcement of Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs.
AMD announces Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs
Amongst a whole lot of technobabble about AI AI and more AI, AMD today announced the Radeon RX 7600 XT, Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs.
Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments
Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.
ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck
ProtonUp-Qt is an essential tool to help you install and manage GE-Proton, Luxtorpeda, Wine-GE and more for Steam, Heroic and Lutris for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
JSAUX revealed an upgraded transparent RGB Docking Station
If you've got a Steam Deck, an ROG Ally, a Lenovo Legion Go or whatever else is going from the likes of AYANEO and GPD you may want to look into the new upgraded transparent RGB Docking Station from JSAUX.
Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now
Valve have finally done it, they've actually gone and made Boomer Shooter an official category on Steam. Since there's quite a lot of them now, and more releasing every day, it makes a lot of sense.
Steam hits new user record for 2024 and a record for games released last year
Yesterday, January 7th, Steam hit a new all-time record for concurrent users online showing that nothing can stop Valve's growth here thanks to the popularity of video games.
Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever
Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux kernel 6.7 on Sunday, 7th January 2024 and as it turns out it's one of the largest releases ever.
Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.13 Preview improves WiFi, brings LED brightness controls
One missed from yesterday Friday, January 5th is that Valve released another Preview update of SteamOS for Steam Deck with a couple more useful changes.
The big Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution is out now on Steam
Portal: Revolution is a new fan-made campaign for Valve's popular puzzle game Portal 2, and it's now available free on Steam for owners of the game to install and play through.
GOG has a Classic Winter Sale live to build up your retro library
Need some more games that won't destroy your bank balance and will work across a lot of lower-end PCs too? GOG have what you need with the Classic Winter Sale now on.
Ray-Tracing performance uplift coming to the AMD RADV Linux graphics driver
The open source AMD RADV Vulkan driver is set to get some nice looking performance improvements for Ray-Tracing, which should release along with Mesa 24.0.
Get a bunch of great digital board games in this Humble Bundle
If you love board game adaptions for the digital age, you're going to want to check out the Play Pink With Twin Sails Humble Bundle for a whole lot of it.
As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck
Here's an up to date look at the current state of the most played games on Steam, and how many of they run on Steam Deck and Linux as a whole.
Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM finally hits Beta
You'll be forgiven for forgetting about the supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM, a game that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter way back in February of 2013 but it's really actually getting close to release now.
Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
Not too long after hitting 12,000 games, the Steam Deck now officially has over 13,000 games rated either Verified or Playable. There must be a little something for every type of gamer now right? My backlog is terrifying.
The Caribbean Sail adds Steamboat Willie as a playable character
With Steamboat Willie now being in the public domain, no doubt we're about to see a lot more of it. One of the first is Victorian Clambake's game The Caribbean Sail which added Steamboat Willie as a playable character.
- Proton 10.0-2 gets a Release Candidate for gaming on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck
- Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released [updated]
- Nexus Mods is under new ownership [updated]
- GOG now ask for donations when you buy games
- REMATCH gets rated Steam Deck and SteamOS playable ahead of release
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How to get GeForce NOW on Steam Deck, SteamOS
How to install, update and see what graphics driver you have on Linux and SteamOS