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Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams
8 Feb 2024 at 2:22 pm UTC Likes: 2

Tried out #DRIVE Rally [External Link]

Pros: Linux native. Super cute graphics. Arnold Schwarzenegger is your co-driver!
Cons: Quite lackluster sound effects. Gameplay is too Sega Rally arcade for my taste.

Steam surprise launches Lunar New Year Sale 2024 - after previously stopping it
7 Feb 2024 at 8:19 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: ArehandoroPS: I got The Case of the Golden Idol this morning after hearing really good things about it, but had the discount prior the sale I believe.
Thanks for the suggestion! This is right up my alley. Demo available too!

The top Steam Deck games for January 2024 have been revealed - Palworld hits 2nd place
4 Feb 2024 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: CatKillerand then it's been a whole lot of Art Of Rally.
Quoting: StoneColdSpiderart of rally (2020 Funselektor Labs) - Steam - Sports (Racing)
Get a room you two! Or at least a parking space!

What to Expect From Wine on Wayland in 2024
31 Jan 2024 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Lots of fun stuff to look forward to! Thanks for the article pleasereadthemanual!

I'll probably try it every once in a while until it becomes the default. The nice thing about running separate prefixes is that you can turn the Wayland driver on for specific things, where it starts working sooner, and keep using the X11 driver for the rest.

Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
30 Jan 2024 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: dirkdierickxyeah, you missed what made the game worth playing, the shooter action parts are not that special at all, the story is. completely marketed wrong. action junkies will wonder what all the fuss is about, and gamers that like a good story will skip it because it looks like an action game.
Sorry! Guess I should have planted a smiley at the end. It was a joke :tongue:

But I'm sure there are people who did skip the story and robbed themselves of a fantastic experince.

Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
30 Jan 2024 at 5:58 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeOn the bright side of that, this would be ran via Wine, which itself is sort of sanboxed in ways where you'd still have a separate folder structure that particular install is only aware of. So the most that would be trashed is the install directory of that particular game.
I think Proton still maps Z: to / for game prefixes. I would assume Windows malware would happily make a target of that.

Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
30 Jan 2024 at 12:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

It was a bit overrated i felt. Then again, I skipped all the cut scenes and had the audio muted - maybe I missed something?

Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development
28 Jan 2024 at 7:38 pm UTC Likes: 4

I'm mostly interested in seeing the improvements made in 9.0 continue to mature. E.g. Wayland support and the new WoW64 support.

For WoW64 specifically I'm hoping we'll see new prefixes created faster and maybe taking up less space?

I'm also hoping for continued support and improvement for the old timers. DirectX 7 and backwards. The kind of games even modern Windows struggle to support.

Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements
24 Jan 2024 at 10:56 am UTC Likes: 11

Essentially this is the long awaited replacement/improvement for esync and fsync.