These were the most popular Steam Deck games for October 2022
Valve has revealed two fresh lists of popular games for the Steam Deck through October, sorted by both daily average player count and time played.
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Missile Command: Recharged gets a revamp and relaunch on Steam
Atari and Adamvision Studios have taken down the original Missile Command: Recharged, and replaced it with another Missile Command: Recharged of the same name but it has been upgraded.
Open source kart racer SuperTuxKart 1.4 is out now with Vulkan in Beta
The free and open source kart racing game, SuperTuxKart, has released a major new version with lots of fresh goodies to play with.
Windows compatibility layer Wine 7.20 is out
The Wine hackers have put out a new development build of the Windows compatibility layer in Wine 7.20.
Video recording app OBS Studio v28.1 out with NVENC changes
OBS Studio has a new release out now, and it comes with some changes for NVIDIA GPU owners who use NVENC.
Heroic Games Launcher 2.5 Beta adds Download Manager, external game / launcher installs
The Heroic Games Launcher is growing with the 2.5.0 Beta version out now, putting it in competition with the likes of Lutris and Bottles a little more with the new features.
Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover, Nextcloud to ship their own social network app
Just a bit of big industry news to cover today, as an update to the previous article talking about Elon Musk and Twitter — as the sale has completed. Plus a reminder on Mastodon and Nextcloud doing some fun social stuff too.
Get a free copy of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in the GOG Halloween Sale
GOG are back with another game giveaway for you, this time it's the classic Jazz Jackrabbit 2 along with plenty in their ongoing Halloween Sale.
Decky Loader for Steam Deck (plugin loader) gets fixed up for newer SteamOS
It seems each time Valve do a big update to the Steam Deck with SteamOS, it ends up breaking the Decky Loader plugin system but a fresh update is out now fixing it again.
Better Linux support for OneXPlayer coming, likely for SteamOS like Steam Deck
We already know that OneXPlayer have it in their plans to put SteamOS on their devices, and perhaps this Linux kernel work is a step towards it.
Classic Unreal Tournament lives on with a new OldUnreal upgrade, 64bit now on Linux
Unreal Tournament 99 is one of the all-time great first-person shooters, and it is being kept alive by the OldUnreal team and contributors with a fresh release out now.
Great smaller and casual games for the Steam Deck
While the Steam Deck is a great device for the bigger lot (AAA / AA), what about some quality choices for smaller and more casual experiences? Here's my current favourites, good for a cosy Sunday afternoon.
Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
This is the public once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month. Also a good reminder of our stats system for people who don't know about it.
Sackboy: A Big Adventure is another Sony port working well on Steam Deck / Linux
Sony and Sumo Digital recently put out another port, this time it's Sackboy: A Big Adventure an offshoot of the LittleBigPlanet series.
VRR (external screens) and Allow Tearing options coming to Steam Deck
Seems that both options for Variable Refresh Rate and Allow Tearing are coming to the Steam Deck in a future update, here's what that means.
Proton Experimental fixes up Persona 5 Royal, UNCHARTED and quite a few more
Valve has released a fresh update to Proton Experimental, and it fixes up quite a few games not working correctly or at all for both Linux and Steam Deck.
Them's Fightin' Herds gets cross-play between Steam and Consoles
One of the more unique fighting games available on PC (Native Linux + Steam Deck Verified), Them's Fightin' Herds has launched on consoles and it now has cross-play.
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip is out now
The third game in the popular Monster Prom series recently landed (that I missed) and this time, it's not a dating sim, instead it's all about survival in Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip.
Check out the new trailer for monster-collecting game Cassette Beasts
Cassette Beasts is an upcoming monster-collecting RPG from Bytten Studio and publisher Raw Fury. The recent Steam Next Fest demo was pretty great and a new trailer is live now for The MIX event.
Valheim gets an important bug-fix for Linux players
Seems that the survival game Valheim had quite an unfortunate bug for Linux players, which has now been solved.
- ProtonPlus makes managing Proton versions on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck simple
- Happy Birthday, GamingOnLinux - 16 years today
- Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn
- SteamOS 3.7.13 update gets fixes for more handhelds, fixes WiFi regression on Steam Deck OLED
- GE-Proton 10-7 out now with fixes for Wuthering Waves, Anno 1800, Wine Wayland
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