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Sniper Elite 5 now rated Steam Deck Playable with an anti-cheat update

By Liam Dawe,
Today Sniper Elite 5 got updated and it seems they upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Online Services, including making sure it works on Linux and Steam Deck.

Major update for Valheim live now with world modifiers, new locations, new NPC

By Liam Dawe,
Valheim just had one of the best updates ever since being in Early Access, finally giving you a bit more control over how you play it with the world modifiers and much more.

NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and Half-Life 2 RTX announced

By Liam Dawe,
Today NVIDIA announced DLSS 3.5 further enhancing Ray Tracing and Half-Life 2 RTX was also announced. So let's go over the details.

Darkest Dungeon II added full Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe,
Want to jump into some Darkest Dungeon II? Well now it's easier than ever thanks to the addition of controller support and full Steam Deck support too. It's even now Steam Deck Verified.

SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck gets a screen colour temperature setting

By Liam Dawe,
A while ago I mentioned how the upcoming SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck added in a colour vibrance setting, and now Valve seems to have expanded it even further with a screen colour temperature setting as well.

JSAUX launch a Steam Deck Anti-Glare screen replacement

By Liam Dawe,
While we have DeckHD launching their higher-resolution Steam Deck screen replacement, we also now have JSAUX who have launched their own Steam Deck Anti-Glare screen replacement.

Roblox support is coming back to Wine on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Good news for Roblox fans, as the game will soon start working in Wine again as the developers have been working to update it since the big breakage with the new client.

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe,
Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the Steam Deck.

Open-world colony-building survival game 'Necesse' gets a HUGE expansion

By Liam Dawe,
Necesse is a very interesting genre-blending game that mixes in colony-building, adventuring, sandbox survival and a whole lot more. With the latest free update, it's also become a lot bigger.

The 'Into Games Bundle' from Fanatical helps get people into game development

By Liam Dawe,
Fanatical has a new charity Into Games Bundle live, with a fun selection of games and with all proceeds going towards the UK's leading national non-profit for skills and careers in games.

GE-Proton 8-13 and 8-12 released, FSR no longer default and many game fixes

By Liam Dawe,
The community maintained GE-Proton has two new releases available, so here's what's changed and improved with the latest versions.

Dwarf Fortress gets a Linux Beta on Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Ready to dig deep? Dwarf Fortress now has a Linux Beta available on Steam, so you can get testing and see what all the fuss is about with this new version.

Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new

By Liam Dawe,
The open source compatibility layer Wine has a brand new development release available. Here's what's new and changed in Wine 8.14.

Steam Deck recently had two Beta releases, here's what's changed

By Smellbringer,
Valve has rolled out two updates for the Beta Branch of the Steam Deck within two days, August 17th and August 19th. Here's what's changed.

ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON rated Steam Deck Playable ahead of release

By Liam Dawe,
ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON is a seriously exciting upcoming release from the ELDEN RING developer FromSoftware. Seems it will run well enough on Steam Deck at release!

Linux players getting banned on Apex Legends again

By Liam Dawe,
As a little PSA word of warning, it seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave or they've tweaked something in their anti-cheat that Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in for Apex Legends.

Proton Experimental updated for August 18 fixing up more regressions

By Liam Dawe,
Valve continue cleaning up regressions with a new Proton Experimental release put up on August 18th, so here's what's been sorted this time.

Get a bunch of building and management sims in this fresh Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe,
Another interesting looking set of games is live with the If You Build It - Cities & More Bundle. So here's your usual run over compatibility on desktop Linux and Steam Deck.

No Man’s Sky has a teaser for the 'Echoes' update to celebrate 7 years

By Liam Dawe,
Coming soon they say, a fresh big update to No Man's Sky is on the way and they're celebrating 7 years since the release with a new video.

No sound in War Thunder on Linux? Here's a potential solution

By Liam Dawe,
War Thunder is a game I enjoy playing with friends quite a lot, and after recently Linux distro hopping from Fedora to openSUSE and then back to the safety of Kubuntu - my sound in War Thunder wouldn't work. But I have a potential solution for you that worked for me.