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Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter
18 Jun 2025 at 8:18 am UTC Likes: 6

Why not just plug the whole of MangoHud into Steam for Linux and call it a day ?

Sony remove purchase restrictions for multiple major PC games
16 Jun 2025 at 11:00 am UTC Likes: 4

I hope Stellar Blade makes them come to their senses in other areas as well :wink:

ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds announced, the first real Steam Deck competition
9 Jun 2025 at 8:30 pm UTC Likes: 2

I think the problem with Microsoft entering the ring is that you know for a fact they won't play nice at all, and they will resort to more monopolizing practices which they have the power to, if they must.

Khronos Group announce the Vulkan Video Decode VP9 Extension
9 Jun 2025 at 4:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

They'll never change.
They'll never change... they'll never change ! ever since they were 95, always the same ! couldn't keep their hands off the monopolistic practices... and they get to be a leading PC publisher ?! What a sick joke !

Team Cherry clarify Hollow Knight: Silksong will be out before the 2025 holiday season
9 Jun 2025 at 4:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Not to pretend I know how schedules and game releasing work. But if they're sure it's at most *checks calendar* 5 months away from release, how are they not comfortable with making an official date now ? Feels rather strange.

ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds announced, the first real Steam Deck competition
9 Jun 2025 at 12:12 pm UTC Likes: 2

So the super hyped up "third party store integration into Xbox" is just allowing users to go into Desktop, install Steam, Epic etc, download the games there, then the games .exe's will show up in the Xbox interface ? Meaning it's the same as SteamOS ? Are these 'fans' and website 'journalists' just Microsoft employees spreading FUD or something ? or are they that ignorant ?

Highlight announcements from the 2025 summer showcases
9 Jun 2025 at 8:34 am UTC

Appreciate the roundup, as I missed the fact a new Plague Tale game is announced.

I guess you're not encompassing all the showcases though ? From the top of my head, the 007 game and the game 'ILL' are not mentioned here.

Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam
6 Jun 2025 at 11:59 am UTC Likes: 3

About the screenshot: The real reason why we're so deep into this bad state for the industry, is because you have people excusing that shit. Unreal.

CRSED: Cuisine Royale devs confirm end of Linux / Steam Deck support
30 May 2025 at 2:00 pm UTC Likes: 13

Never heard of this one, ignore list updated.
Need one of those Steam curator lists but for "Anti-Linux" or "refuse to flip the Linux toggle".

Escape Simulator drops the Linux build to focus on supporting Proton
30 May 2025 at 11:09 am UTC Likes: 8

Instead of asking for pure Native builds, I wish the push was more towards open source cross platform tools like Vulkan over DirectX etc etc.