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Banjo-Kazooie gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support
28 Jan 2026 at 6:16 am UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: PhlebiacBoth this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?
If you want to deep dive, strace would probably tell you what they're trying to load there.
Good call, but I'm not sure it tells me much: it looks like it's reading every file under /usr/share/applications (*.desktop files), then looking in /usr/share/cloud-providers (doesn't exist), then getting the pid and reading /etc/localtime to dump out this error message:
(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:01:17.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Then getting a SIGSEGV and crashing out:

ioctl(2, TCGETS, {c_iflag=ICRNL|IXON|IUTF8, c_oflag=NL0|CR0|TAB0|BS0|VT0|FF0|OPOST|ONLCR, c_cflag=B38400|CS8|CREAD, c_lflag=ISIG|ICANON|ECHO|ECHOE|ECHOK|IEXTEN|ECHOCTL|ECHOKE, ...}) = 0
getpid() = 22645
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2852, ...}, 0) = 0
write(2, "\n(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-G"..., 128) = 128
write(2, "ject)' failed\n", 14) = 14
--- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=0x18} ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++

Tried Zelda64, and that one worked today. Brought up the file picker, I selected the ROM, and it all works now, even though it was failing the same as Banjo before...

The full VR mode for KDE Plasma continues getting more advanced
27 Jan 2026 at 8:10 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CaldathrasNot sure about the other effects, but the first one is available on GNOME
Window animations of many kinds, supporting both GNOME and KDE:
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows [External Link]

Desktop cube for GNOME (same author):
https://github.com/Schneegans/Desktop-Cube [External Link]

Banjo-Kazooie gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support
27 Jan 2026 at 7:49 am UTC

Both this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

Marathon from Bungie is out March 5th - likely unplayable on SteamOS Linux
22 Jan 2026 at 8:02 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: emphyOn the upside, one can play the original trilogy, including multiplayer, via the native aleph one open source engine.
And even conveniently available on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Aleph%20One%20Developers [External Link]

Masters of Albion from Peter Molyneux / 22cans arrives in April
17 Jan 2026 at 7:14 am UTC

Is that Princess Fiona from Shrek in the first Steam screenshot? Sure looks like it...

Check out the great enhancement patch for the original Splinter Cell
15 Jan 2026 at 6:48 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: 0ttmanpatch works perfectly using Luxtorpeda.
I wish there was some way to flag games in the Steam client and/or the Steam website to indicate Luxtorpeda support.

Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex
15 Jan 2026 at 6:31 am UTC

The seemingly glacial development pace was probably an indicator it wasn't going to last. That's fine for a hobby project, but not for something that people are being paid to work on...

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date
14 Jan 2026 at 7:53 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain Manseason three of Picard was enjoyable since it's essentially DLC for The Next Generation
Seems fitting! Any TNG fans who haven't seen it are missing out.

Medieval kingdom builder Earth of Oryn finally arrives in Early Access on January 19
14 Jan 2026 at 7:37 am UTC

Can't decide if the trailer voice is bad AI, or someone who barely knows English...