No Man's Sky from Hello Games had a pretty iffy launch, with many not happy with it but Hello Games stuck at it and continued expanding it. They’ve announced more huge free updates coming and it works very well on Linux with Steam Play.
With Valve and Easy Anti-Cheat in talks to get EAC supported within Steam Play, many readers asked about BattlEye as it's another anti-cheat solution blocking games actually working with Steam Play on Linux. I now have an answer on that.
Just before the weekend appears, we have the brand new Proton 3.16-8 beta available for Valve's Steam Play. This release includes some mighty fine fixes and updates.
Ethan Lee's 'Proton Torpedo, the quest to bring every Steam game to Linux' is the title of a presentation Ethan Lee did at MAGFest 2019.
Valve just put out a new Steam Client Beta with some adjustments needed for Steam Play along with Vulkan pipeline dumping and more.
For those itching to play through another FPS, you might want to take a look at Deep Rock Galactic from Ghost Ship Games.
ProtonDB, the rather nice ratings website where you can go and give your thoughts on games played through Steam Play put out another data dump, here's a look inside.
IO Interactive are continuing to improve HITMAN 2 and to let people have a little taste, the first mission is now entirely free. Thanks to Steam Play, it works well on Linux.
Valve have pushed out a Steam Play beta update with Proton 3.16-7 now available for testing. Lots of fixes!
Treat this with a pinch of salt since we've been unable to confirm it, Valve and Easy Anti-Cheat are apparently working to get it supported with Steam Play.
CodeWeavers, the company that supports Wine development that's working with Valve on Steam Play are looking to recruit full-time developers to push it forwards.
Just like what happened with Darwin Project only recently, it seems Paladins is no longer playable on Linux with Steam Play.
Every now and then, the people behind ProtonDB release data dumps from user generated reports of games tested in Steam Play. Here's a look.
Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux (distr. Ubuntu 18.10), and decided to elaborate my experience a little better, and share my results and observations with you all.
For those curious about Steam Play and wanting to test it out a little, the free to play fantasy team-based shooter Paladins seems to work rather nicely.
For those brave enough to attempt to get more Windows games to run through Steam Play, Protontricks is a handy solution and it's been forked.
Valve are pushing out updates rather often to the Steam client lately, with the fourth this month now out.
Now that Steam has the ability officially to override a Linux game and run it through Steam Play instead, let's take a quick look at some differences in performance.
After spending a good few hours enjoying the Battle Royale game Darwin Project on Linux thanks to Steam Play, it has come to an abrupt end.
Here's a fun statistic for you today! Steam Play, Valve's fork of Wine which includes DXVK has recently hit 500 titles rated as "Platinum" when going by ProtonDB reports.
