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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated, more tweaking for Steam Deck + Vulkan
Valve continues to tweak more of their games ahead of the Steam Deck release in February and their focus now appears to be on CS:GO with a fresh update out.
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox gets improvements ready for the Steam Deck
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox from developers Nihon Falcom, PH3 GmbH, Engine Software and publisher NIS America, Inc. has released an update to get the game ready for the Steam Deck.
Wii U emulator Cemu plans to go open source and support Linux
Most emulators nowadays have their source code nicely open, and the vast majority of them fully support Linux too but Cemu has been a bit of a holdout. Not for long though.
Steam Deck on track for the end of February
Good news, following the previous delay and even with the pandemic and global shortages Valve has announced that the Steam Deck is still on track to ship by the end of February.
Proton Experimental fixes up Sea of Thieves voice chat
Today a small bug-fix update went out for Proton Experimental, as Valve continues readying it up ahead of the launch of their handheld Steam Deck.
Looks like Monster Hunter Rise runs well on Linux with Proton
Monster Hunter Rise has just released on Steam today from Capcom and the good news is - it appears to run very nicely out of the box with Steam Play Proton on Linux.
Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu gets big graphical improvements, Flatpak fixes
Yuzu is another incredibly promising open source project, emulating the Nintendo Switch which is not exactly a small job (not that emulation ever is) and it's improving at a rapid pace.
Slay the Spire testing Steam Input ready for the Steam Deck
Slay the Spire, one of the games that helped to really push the popularity of deck-builders is back with a fresh Beta build, this time getting ready for the Steam Deck.
Looks like Portal 2 is the first Steam Deck Verified title
As we come closer to the February launch date of the Steam Deck, it appears Valve are now starting to actually go through and tick titles for their Deck Verified program.
The latest Humble Bundle brings a few scary looking treats, plus an indie hits sale
Need a few new games to add to your collection? Perhaps readying up for the Steam Deck that should be launching next month? The Humble Dead of Winter Bundle is live - as is a nice sale on indie games.
Linux Kernel 5.16 is out now bringing the futex2 work to help Linux Gaming
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux Kernel 5.16, bringing with it the usual assortment of new hardware support and improvements everywhere. Plus, there's something big for Linux gaming fans.
There it is - Steam breaks 28 million users online
Well, that didn't take long now did it? After hitting a new high on January 2 that was very close to the big milestone, just today Steam officially passed 28 million users online.
Easy Anti-Cheat not as simple as expected for Proton and Steam Deck
Even though Epic Games announced recently how they expanded support for Easy Anti-Cheat to have full support of native Linux, plus Wine / Proton (and so the Steam Deck), it seems it's not as easy as we hoped.
KDE finally gets root operations in Dolphin, big 2022 plans for Wayland
KDE developer Nate Graham continues blogging about how KDE and Plasma are evolving and there's been some great improvements recently, along with some huge plans for 2022.
A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition
To begin 2022, let's take a fresh look at the current top 100 Steam games and see how well (or not) the run on Linux.
Steam hit a new all-time user count close to 28M to start 2022
It seems there continues to be no stopping Steam's growth, with it only just recently hitting a brand new all-time high for concurrent users online.
Steam ended 2021 with a slightly lower Linux user share ending the recent growth
After 7 months of seeing the Linux user share on Steam continue to grow, December saw 2021 end with it dropping slightly.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GamingOnLinux
It's that time of the year again. 2021 is nearly over after what feels like the longest year ever so let's all hope for a better 2022 shall we?
Manjaro 21.2.0 'Qonos' is out, the Linux distro Valve suggests for Steam Deck testing
A fresh new release of Manjaro Linux is out now bringing with it tons of enhancements. Manjaro 21.2.0 Qonos comes in multiple editions with KDE Plasma, GNOME and Xfce desktops available.
The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live
The moment I'm sure plenty of our readers have been waiting for: the Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live.
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